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Seems like ChatGPT and Claude are also affected. (CLI Codex still seems to work).

RIP to the engineers fixing this without any AI help.

What's your Genelec setup, and do you use it in a living room/home theatre room, or as a PC speaker setup?

I recently bought a pair of Genelec monitors (8330) and a sub (7350), and am interested in replacing my Sonos arc soundbar, sub, and satellite ones with a proper Genelec-based 5.1 based setup. But my only concerns are price (it'd be at least 5k), and the distance to the monitors - my sofa is ~4.2m away from the television, and the maximum distance where direct sounds dominate (green in this image from https://www.genelec.com/correct-monitors: https://images.ctfassets.net/4zjnzn055a4v/3SiwbzysMQkGR6oN47...) is 3m for all but the most expensive monitors. So I'm curious if it works well for you.

The cultural reasons are not relevant, this is simply normal English being used naturally as it has been for centuries.

For example, consider the following. "I saw someone get hit by a bus this morning." "Oh, were they okay afterwards?".

"They" is clearly a singular pronoun here.

This is quite transparently FUD. Clearly many people have a vested interest in commercial real estate occupancy being high and are pushing this narrative to inflate the value of their currently declining investments.

You can't deny that residential communities here in NL are quite different to those even in other European countries, let alone the main Anglosphere countries (US/UK/Canada/AU/NZ). The bikes help a lot sure, but there's more things here than the bikes that contribute to the sense of community, and it does work. (It's obviously not perfect)

*socialism for the rich. The poor get the privilege of underwriting the rich's losses.

On the one hand this is very stupid, but on the other hand it is also very funny to watch idiots burn their money.

If you mean the Betuwelijn, that is apparently still not at full capacity - only 70-80 trains per day instead of the planned 150 or so. Which I guess is still fairly busy by American standards (3-4 TPH now, planned for 6 TPH, averaged across the whole day)

In Rotterdam, PostNL delivers the mail or packages that fit through the letterbox using someone on a bike (they're usually walking their bike, but that's beside the point I guess).

Packages are delivered by a PostNL guy driving a white van (or, more accurately, a subcontractor using their own rented non-PostNL branded van, but wearing a PostNL uniform)

There are a decent amount of big tech jobs here. Uber/Meta/Amazon have a local presence, there are many other non-FAANG tech companies HQ'd here (Booking.com, Adyen), and some household names that also hire remotely or have some presence here.

What's orwellian or horrific about a cashless society? Sure, there are valid arguments against it, but that doesn't make it orwellian or horrific, this is just hyperbole.

Maestro debit cards are common in NL and you can use them with Apple Pay.

(Online shopping is a bit different, instead of Maestro cards we use an NL-specific system called iDEAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL, basically direct bank transfers)

The guy worked there for 9 years. That's a really long time, longer than many posters here's entire careers (mine included), and longer than most of us will ever work at a given job. Of course he's going to be emotionally invested, and knocking him for this is a bit cruel.

Not so long ago, your kids _would_ know you as someone who drives buses for the local bus company, delivers the post, or works down the mine.

might be a better idea to have a system where you don't need to go into debt to stay alive

it would be nicer if they made economically optimal decisions in the first place, instead of making a bad decision in 2022, firing a shitload of people in 2023, and going "ah whoops our bad".

competent operators wouldn't get into this problem in the first place

(or, alternatively, these layoffs are also an incompetent decision and the C-levels are simply following the herd)

how have you spent $3k on Spotify? the company is 17 years old and if you were subscribing from day 1 for $10/month that would only be 2k.

>Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender?

Yes, since Shakespearean times.

For example: "I saw someone walking down the street the other day, they were carrying a guitar" -> a normal use of they as the 3rd person singular pronoun.

US law is neither a universal law nor an international one.

Accessing computer systems owned by a US company based in the US might constitute a violation of US law, but the hacker is based in Switzerland - where US law does not apply.

As you can see in the linked Wikipedia article, accessing these systems is probably not illegal in Switzerland, thus, for all intents and purposes, no crime was committed.

So, Europe?

I'm in NL, and it seems to be solved here. I'm not sure _how_ it was solved (or they avoided it becoming a problem in the first place), mind you.

Ireland is also in the EU :)

Here in NL, however, it does seem like scammers are occasionally taking advantage of the comparatively high English proficiency and are trying to scam people in English - this one was doing the rounds for a while: https://www.fraudehelpdesk.nl/alert/engels-telefoontje-namen...

It's mind-boggling that the United States allows this kind of thing to happen.

In the EU I get maybe one spam call every couple of months. From the stories you hear from Americans on HN, Americans get multiple spam/scam calls a day, and the vast majority of their inbound calls are spam/scams.

What is going wrong in the US that isn't going wrong in the EU? Language barrier? Regulatory capture?

My experience is the complete opposite of what you describe.

The cookie popups are caused by lazy companies who choose not to comply with the law. It's not caused by the EU.

It's definitely a viable option, and probably the simplest/easiest password manager to use if you're only using Apple devices (of course, that is by design).

I got my keys stuck in the lock of an old bike and had to angle grind a similar lock off too - massive pain indeed!

>Swapfiets rental bikes have become popular in Berlin Same here in NL where they originated, in many cities a good 1/3rd if all the bikes you see (and that’s a lot of bikes) are a Swapfiets. Not too expensive, reliable, and less likely to get stolen than an average bike (good luck selling a Swapfiets inside NL, whereas other stolen bikes are much easier to offload for a few euros to drunk people late at night)

Still, if I had one of those I wouldn’t leave it just on the street!

I thought about buying one but figured it was a bit much money for something I didn’t particularly need and would be fairly vulnerable to getting nicked, even with the security features. And I think the Bike Hunters thing where they retrieve a stolen bike for you is only for up to 3 years now, which is not really great, since you want to own the bike for much longer at that price.

For most bike "racks" here in NL it seems like the primary purpose is not security, but just having somewhere to lean bikes against and give people a sensible place to park their bikes (as opposed to "in a huge pile")

Most people don't bother physically locking their regular city bikes to anything (only using a ring lock on the bike itself), primarily cheap beater bikes but also there's a guy in my street with a €2000 Van Moof e-bike that I think is just leaning against his front wall.

>It does bring up an interesting idea, how many people use unique emails for each company to track spam

Probably not a lot, but Apple's "Hide my Email" feature is now native to iOS and should in theory make this fairly easy to do. I do this _occasionally_ when signing up for new sites.

Sadly many companies do the same thing, violating the GDPR, even EU-based companies who know better.

I wonder if engineers who built and have knowledge of these systems could anonymously disclose/leak details of violations to a site pairing them with other engineers. The other engineers could submit a GDPR forget-me request, which the company wouldn't be able to fulfil, and then people could complain to the national regulators with specific instructions on how to find said not-actually-deleted information. Obviously it would violate non-disclosure agreements, but I'd imagine that would get companies to clean up their act fairly quickly, or at least it would if the national regulators had more teeth.