I think this a housing bubble:
But maybe that's just me being ESL.
Best posts made by robo2
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RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
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RE: Care to explain your avatar?
@Tsaukpaetra my avatar is carefully chosen to capture the essence of the first letter of my name. I think it works rather well, considering the effort I put into it.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@BernieTheBernie Well, makes sense: have ChatGPT generate your homework into perfect English, and have it google-translated into broken German so that it still resembles a legitimate homeworking assignment. win-win.
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RE: We shouldn't let people get used to the idea that software fails
@ben_lubar did you try to prove a point about tech is crap? If so, I couldn't hear it, but I can clearly see it.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@acrow said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
MCU SDKs
Marvel Cinematic Universe has SDKs? Awesome! Can you build your own superhero?
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@remi years ago when you bought a car you had to go to the post office to transfer ownership. Either party could do that, as long as you had the ownership papers and the proper form with a signature of "the other party".
If you ended up at the post office without the signature they would tell you the equivalent of "the computer says no". All you had to do was turn around, find a pen, sign the form, get back in the queue, and everything was OK.
No, you were not allowed to sign at the counter. Yes, apparently it was fine if they could see you sign it at the other side of the post office. -
RE: Windows calculator can only count to 999
@Tsaukpaetra I had the reverse with a banking app. When transfering money it used 2 fields to enter the amount, one for euros, one for cents. Of course it concatenated the two using a comma (it being Dutch), and subsequently parsed it using the system setting (for which I had set the decimal separator to a dot, to keep me sane), and thus it tried to have me transfer the amount I wanted x100. Luckily I caught it on the verification screen.
Made a bug report at the bank, got a call from the app developer, and in the end they put the blame on me "Yes, but you use non default windows settings.". Yes, I applied the virtual clue-bat at that remark.
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RE: Joinphobia
@robo2 said in Joinphobia:
If the can be overcome I may even test if ["] are valid identifiers.
They are
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RE: โ๐โฏฌโฌโดโ๐โ๐๐
@loopback0 said in โ๐โฏฌโฌโดโ๐โ๐๐:
Apparently macOS doesn't have LEFTWARDS TWO-HEADED ARROW WITH TRIANGLE ARROWHEADS
Blame @Gribnit
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RE: I think I'm creating an WTF of my own
@sockpuppet7 have you considered universal packages? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/universal-packages?view=azure-devops
After all, why bother with the well known wtf-ery of npm, when you can use the universally unknown wtf-ery of universal packages. -
RE: I, ChatGPT
@DogsB ahh, good, so it is now at an aggregated 100% right. Awesome!
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RE: Netherlands protests?
For once it seems Twitter is correct. I didn't read the whole thread, but his account of the facts and the sentiment are correct.
The statement "the army was deployed" sounds worse than it was: all they did was preventing the farmers from reaching the parliament square, probably the only place in were protesting is not allowed, and the army is the only government body with vehicles big enough to prevent a tractor from getting where it wants to be. -
RE: Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?
@Gustav said in Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?:
There's no coercion when you confess your sins at the church, is there.
you could argue that threatening with eternal damnation in the firey circles of hell could be perceived as a form of coercion. But that argument would require me to know if the venn diagram of "churches that threaten with hell" and "churches that know the concept of confession" overlap, and I don't know, so you won't hear that argument from me...
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RE: What's an image file?
@dcon said in What's an image file?:
@Arantor said in What's an image file?:
Mine says F12
Prt Scrand in a fancy edgy tech font because it's an MSI laptop. And naturally it has the LED lightup thing, so when I press FN, the text goes orange.
Well, actually, my MS keyboard is PrtScr
SysRqThe Lenovo has a snipping image under the PrtSc.
Standards. Yup. One for every
manufacturercomputer and keyboard model!My Logitech keyboard dumbed it down even more:
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RE: Use? Don't use? Just pay.
@LaoC said in Use? Don't use? Just pay.:
Only people using it have to pay.
The new license statement disagrees with you: "The quantity of the licenses required is determined by the number of Employees and not just the actual
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RE: Fun with maps
@loopback0 said in Fun with maps:
Nice try, but the map is wrong. "Geog" doesn't exist irl, within those contours there is only "Gog"...
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RE: Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?
@Tsaukpaetra said in Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?:
Should I try it and document how insane it becomes?
We expect nothing less, obviously.
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RE: ownCloud: "An error occurred"
@PJH well, at least the detailed logs doesn't contradict the summary. That's at least something, right?
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RE: VS Code Autoerase
@slapout1 said in VS Code Autoerase:
@HardwareGeek said in VS Code Autoerase:
@boomzilla said in VS Code Autoerase:
VS code has issues
editing angular html files.
Sounds like a bad idea.
The angular or the html?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@dkf said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Hope you didn't encounter an OOM.
It was more common to encounter an OOP.
We used to get OOC
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RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@Benjamin-Hall
I guess my ESL claim was too convincing this time Well, OK, my ESL claim is true, but even in Dutch, the stock, housing, and crypto overpricing are called "bubbels", so maybe I was just pretending to be ignorant.
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RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@Benjamin-Hall ahh, yes, much clearer now
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RE: Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?
@Unperverted-Vixen or they will create a "polyfill" that decodes the renaming algorithm...
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RE: Fun with maps
@Bulb said in Fun with maps:
rare half-hour offset.
Not that rare. I was more surprised by the 45min offset in some parts of the world (e.g. Nepal, Australia, New Zealand) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_time_offsets
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RE: Raw Veganism
@JBert in the Netherlands a mother got a court order to stop forcing her son (12yrs old) to follow a raw veg diet. The son had reduced physical and mental development which was attributed to it. So apparently according to Dutch law the Raw Veg diet is a hazard to kids.
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RE: MAKE THE MOST SHITTY WEBSITE EVER AND MAKE EVERYONE USE IT COUNTRYWIDE!!!!!
@stillwater said in MAKE THE MOST SHITTY WEBSITE EVER AND MAKE EVERYONE USE IT COUNTRYWIDE!!!!!:
for the ones who think "oh they must not be that bad", read on till the en
Having read to the end I'm none the wiser on why the government office is worse than suffering through a goverment website. Me wants to know
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RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@loopback0 Or like Amsterdam 78m2 (840ft2) for 1.3M. Under offer.
https://www.funda.nl/koop/amsterdam/appartement-42860208-van-breestraat-159-c/?navigateSource=resultlist -
RE: Miscellaneous Tweets
@BernieTheBernie the list is wrong anyway, we don't get paid in $ in ...
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RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@BernieTheBernie said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
@Zerosquare said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
Chaรขteau
French is strange. Why do you call those chicque houses cat (chat) with water (eau)?
Probably because that's what defines a posh house for the French: a cat to keep the mice out, and running water so you do not have to walk with your bucket to the pump on the village square?
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RE: Required reading for everyone!
an audio book so you know how character names are pronounced
This can backfire, badly. I was listening to a series, and they switched the reader/voice after book five. And suddenly character names were pronounced differently.
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RE: Turning a flat file into a PDF
You forgot to put more xml into it: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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RE: Joinphobia
@Zecc said in Joinphobia:
You missed the part
I didn't miss it, more like ignored it...
I've had the misfortune to work with sql server databases that had dots and spaces in their name. And with the db set to use case sensitive identifiers combined with inconsistent casing for the same things in different tablesยนIf the can be overcome I may even test if ["] are valid identifiers. Don't hold your breath though...
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RE: AMD Hype!
@Gฤ ska I so hope that milkenials don't know.
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RE: Unreal claims concerning purple
@kazitor not sure which subcultures you are in, but I never heard about this particular idea before. Sounds stupid though.
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RE: Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?
@Gribnit said in Replika - upload your worst self to the Internet?:
They do, go ahead.
you could argue that threatening with eternal damnation in the firey circles of hell could be perceived as a form of coercion.
So, happy now?
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RE: Scandals in Communist Frenchystan
@Arantor I think the main reason that this isn't in the garage is probably because it is (mostly) about , and somehow that fact might be enough to prevent heated debates?
And you've got to let @remi have at least one topic for his walls-ofs-texts.When we start commenting on similarities in not- I worry that this might turn into the garage after all, lets not do that.
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RE: Do I understand C# constructors?
@Zenith you'll have call : base(zstruct) from zwindow2
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RE: GE fridge defrost cycle not terminating soon enough
Filed under: Yes, you care more about this than me, but nice to see your problem resolved anyway.
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RE: CodeSOD collection
@BernieTheBernie c# (.Net framework) used to round after a 16 or so digits (on doubles), but they changed that in dotnet core 3+ so that it now roundtrips: parsing the ToString of a double results the same bytes.
Lots of fun, fixing unittests that compared the ToString value of a double, when suddenly 0.999999999999999997 is not printed as "1" anymore -
RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@HardwareGeek said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
he's very resistant to advice he doesn't like.
Oh, so he is human after all?
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RE: We need to decide who our streets are for: cars, or walkers and cyclists?
@Dragoon some of his arguments are idiotic indeed. I must say that I do agree with his goal though. I once had an English colleague that always drove his kids to school. It actually took longer to start the car than it took the kid to walk the 300m (no crossings, wide pavement, quiet suburb).
I never understood that (part of that) colleague. This article reminds me of him. -
RE: New lab PC
@Captain I've had a beast like that for years (Z820 with 15k rpm scsi drives). Switching to a laptop (i5 with 1TB SSD) was actually an improvement on all levels. OK, one disadvantage is that I lost the office heater...
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@Arantor finally a twitter frontpage worth visiting!
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@Luhmann actually : I heard that voters abroad could choose to mail or fax. As millenials don't know what either is these days, apparently it was ok to use a fax app on your iPhone (which goes back full circle to @Polygeekery 's point)
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
Also, I read today in a newspaper that Greek government just this weeks abolished the fax, and now finally officially/legally accepts email.
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RE: Apple launches new products so minimally different from previous generation that their biggest innovation was removing the charger from the box
@TimeBandit I... think over time I have used most of those adapters/connectors at some point in my computing life
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RE: So yeah. CentOS? Dead. You now get the beta version of RHEL!
@hungrier said in So yeah. CentOS? Dead. You now get the beta version of RHEL!:
There is no ETA for a release.
Ohhkayyy, that sounds promising...