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birger··on One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024
Still they are quite popular here in The Netherlands. Dec 2024 almost 10.000 5-year lease contracts expired. There are lots of 2nd hand M3 for sale now, for about EUR 20.000 which is quite a good deal.
birger··on Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
Just for one city.
birger··on Iranian man who didn't wash for half a century dies at 94
I shower at most once a week, without or just a little soap and/or shampoo. Everything is fine, what's in the article is true.
birger··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
I have a different experience. 5-10 calls/day on Windows or iPhone. Seamless transition if I want to switch the conversation to another device. Use multiple webcams and headsets. Screen-share a lot. Both Teams App and browser version. Never had any problems with it.

I really like Teams and what it brings to my team. But reading the comments here I'm the minority.

birger··on Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
That is GitHub. This is about GitLab.
birger··on Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto
So is there an actual picture of the building and workspaces? I was hoping to see what a modern office looks like according to Microsoft.
birger··on Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
Yes. The web is not the holy grail to user applications.
birger··on Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
If I create a team and share requests, do I also share passwords and other credentials? If so, where are they stored and how secure is that?

I work for a company with many different project. Is there a workflow where I can save a workspace as one file and save/load it with my project from Git (or any local folder on my computer)?

birger··on Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places
Thanks for creating this. A friend of mine has been looking for this. Great that it seems like a global initiative and not just something local.
birger··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
First step is Refuse. Refuse to buy anything that has unnecessary packaging. Otherwise Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

I started bringing my own containers when shopping for groceries. Reduce my trash to 4-5 kilo per week.

birger··on New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers
For desktop, where one would use this, it is 8%
birger··on Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]
10/10 would buy it as a screensaver! It has been years since I saw a cool screensaver that is just fun to watch when I am not doing stuff.

[edit] There is a screensaver and it works! http://code.google.com/p/pixelcity/

birger··on Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
I'm one of the 'didn't pay for newspapers before' and right now spend a couple of euro's a month on Blendle.

Articles cost between € 0,10, and € 0,50. If you buy so much articles from one paper / magazine that it is cheaper to get the whole edition, you get the whole edition. Refund work perfect. You don't like the article -> click -> money back. No questions asked.

birger··on Cascaded Displays: Spatiotemporal Superresolution using Offset Pixel Layers
If I understand correctly the idea is that you get a high-resolution display by putting two low-resolution displays in fromt of each other?
birger··on Gravity Powered Engine
What were they thinking? 'Our small model didn't work but that was because of the relative large friction force, so we just need to build a larger prototype?'

I don't see how this should work!

birger··on LG TV logging filenames from network folders
The dutch website tweakers.net contacted LG and confronted them with this behaviour. They replied that it was a left over from some functionality that was never fully implemented and it will be removed in an update.

Most of the commenters there don't buy that story, just like here. Full story (dutch): http://tweakers.net/nieuws/92747/lg-erkent-versturen-privacy...

birger··on UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
Isn't this information used as an extra security layer when using your mobile phone for payments or bank transactions? Here in The Netherlands when I want to use my mobile phone to log in to my bank account and do transactions, I first need to confirm my phone number and a special code. I can imagine that then they need the phone number in the header to verify it is my phone.

And how is this information different then an IP adress that they also have with each request?

birger··on Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes
so... they actually allow personel to make a copy for personal use from a not-jet released movie? And then they wonder how these things come up on various download sites?
birger··on C++: A language for next generation web apps
Interesting to see that you used FreePascal! We are also experimenting with FreePascal and (fast)CGI. My collegue put up some sample pages: http://services.cnoc.nl/lazarus/index/fclweb
birger··on Ask HN: Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes
I prefer it the other way around: Live every day as if it is your first. http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-You-Live-Every-Day-As-If-it-Wa...
birger··on HN Meet-up Netherlands
I think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.
birger··on HN Meet-up Netherlands
What should a meet-up be like? Should there be presentations, workshops or just share drinks and ideas? Please comment with suggestions!
birger··on HN Meet-up Netherlands
That would be www.hetmeisjeshuis.nl. Here we have out monthly drinks and other activities with the ICT-Kring Delft (society with about 140 ICT entrepreneurs).
birger··on HN Meet-up Netherlands
Living in Delft, Netherlands. I would be interested. I can also arrange a meeting place here for (almost) free.