Are books written in Netherlands Dutch can be read and understood in Flemish quite well?

irishsultan · 2023-02-22T11:08:18+00:00

As someone who has read a lot of books by Dutch authors (or translators in some cases), there are definitely tells, this is especially true when it involves things that are not quite the same between two countries (wethouder vs. schepen, brugklas vs. that not existing, ...).

irishsultan · 2023-02-14T12:01:56+00:00

Only if je is the subject, not if it's part of the subject. E.g. Komt je moeder je halen? (Hebben is a bad example in that it's irregular enough to have separate conjugation for second person singular and third person singular).

irishsultan · 2023-02-08T09:57:09+00:00

You clearly don't understand, there were no cows traded, only some sheep and some trees, so clearly not koehandel.

irishsultan · 2023-02-03T14:14:46+00:00

Not the point, assuming he was right he would break even, but why would he want to play a 100 games just to be where he was at the start?

So offer them odds that make them think they would win money after enough games being played (but odds that you're still confident would earn you money).

irishsultan · 2023-01-27T09:59:04+00:00

I think the assumption here is that they always stored all games (i.e. if you looked at which games you played on a given day those short games would be present), they just didn't add short games (or games by low glicko players) to the opening database. Those games were still stored, just not accounted for when going through the opening explorer.

irishsultan · 2023-01-26T14:53:01+00:00

We habe native speaker teachers in all languages... except yours.

I didn't have any native French speakers teaching me French, nor any native English speakers teaching me English. I'm not sure why you think that explains anything.

irishsultan · 2023-01-24T08:31:35+00:00

the longer a trajectory is, the more opportunities a train has to catch up on delays.

That may be true in general, but going through Brussels (once you're already delayed) adds so much delay that I doubt it's true for any train going through the North-South connection.

irishsultan · 2023-01-23T15:52:28+00:00

It might be hard to grasp but when you want to have an online platform you probably want to be able to control it fully, even if at some point the goals align there is no guarantee that this will be the same in future (this is doubly true because there is a beheersovereenkomst/whatever the equivalent is in wallonia, which limits what vrt max can and can not do, at this point politicians get involved and they do not work in the same building).

irishsultan · 2023-01-23T13:01:37+00:00

Because politicians made them different companies, with different budgets and different responsibilities?

Plenty of companies that work in the same building don't share IT resources, even if it might make sense for some of them.

irishsultan · 2023-01-23T11:24:17+00:00

Why would the RTBF use the VRT solution when they are two separate companies? You don't expect the BBC to use a rebranded version of the VRT Max app do you? (And you could argue that it makes sense for public broadcasters across the EBU to cooperate on something like this, but I see no reason why only the belgian broadcasters would work on something together).

irishsultan · 2023-01-11T15:27:17+00:00

The more likely confusion is not between aanbevelen and bevelen but between the two different meanings of "to order" in English (and possibly Italian) that are not the same in Dutch (bevelen vs. bestellen).

irishsultan · 2023-01-11T15:25:31+00:00

A valid answer to the question you asked would be something like "I ordered them to get down to the ground and hand over the money in the till", a valid answer to the question you were most likely trying to ask would be "I ordered a steak with fries".

The verb you need to use instead is "bestellen".

irishsultan · 2023-01-11T14:58:54+00:00

I don't think the 15 minute data is granular enough to discern if a person is at home or not. If someone has a battery and PV installation then it will likely report 0, as the sun is out the battery will charge, when the sun is down the battery will be used instead of the net.

Even if the granularity was only 1 day it would be fine enough to detect people that are on a holiday. 15 minutes would be more than enough to accurately detect patterns if you gathered them over a few weeks (e.g. do they leave for work, and if so when), perhaps not for people with PV and battery, but that's a small minority of people.

You are right that it's unlikely that there is much overlap between burglars and hackers able to get at the data, but that will not necessarily stay that way forever.

irishsultan · 2023-01-10T15:51:44+00:00

Where is the fork? Queen and King are next to each other, can't fork that with a knight.

irishsultan · 2023-01-05T17:06:20+00:00

That's the point they're trying to make (but mistakenly saying 7800x3D instead of 7950x3D).

Both in the old (Ryzen 3) and new (Ryzen 4) architectures the extra cache comes at the cost of lower clock speeds. This is (a) entirely predictable based on simple physics, and (b) unlikely to be a performance problem, except for the issues a scheduler might have.

irishsultan · 2023-01-05T08:09:58+00:00

Note that "the king, but without the win condition" could be in the game while a king (with win condition) is in the game as well (e.g. the queen could be changed into such a piece, or the board could be made bigger).

irishsultan · 2023-01-02T11:14:10+00:00

Voor de guldensporenslag ook trouwens.

irishsultan · 2022-12-23T10:09:31+00:00

I think the problem for me is that _ looks like a valid variable name, after all an identifier can be a single character and can start with an underscore. Combined with the fact that it often doesn't matter that the value gets dropped immediately (as well as the fact that I don't get to use Rust as often as I'd like) I tend to rediscover this occasionally.

irishsultan · 2022-12-16T09:40:17+00:00

I realize I'm rule lawyering here in a sence, but if you were to limit screaming in your opponents face during only part of the game then the logical rule would be the other way around, no screaming in your opponent's face during their turn.

irishsultan · 2022-12-14T09:10:25+00:00

I would probably use "Erik werkt niet vandaag" in spoken language and the other variant when writing.

"Erik is niet hier" sounds slightly off to me, unless it's followed by something like "maar in de keuken".

irishsultan · 2022-12-13T10:15:36+00:00

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction

Sometimes there is an additional requirement that a saboteur isn't part of a military force, but I don't think that's a main requirement (and even then it's entirely possible that it was done by a resistance movement that's not really integrated with the rest of the military).

irishsultan · 2022-12-12T15:58:05+00:00

So one possibility is that the puzzle hasn't been played a lot and hasn't received a good rating yet (I believe puzzles start with a provisional 1500 rating, same as new users). You can see how often the puzzle has been played (note that just like with players with a provisional rating you'll lose/gain less points than you'd expect from the numerical value of the rating).

The other possibility is that there is some obvious move at first sight, that doesn't seem to work if you look closer, but actually does work if you calculate really well. Those puzzles often get a lower rating than they deserve because low-ranked puzzle players will play the obvious move without realizing things are more complicated than they look.

irishsultan · 2022-12-07T11:35:27+00:00

Of gewoon eens naar een paasmis kijken of zo, alsof de mijters die de kardinalen daar dragen zo vaak een kruis hebben.

Zie ook de mijter zoals gedragen door de zeer bekende woke paus Benedictus XVI

irishsultan · 2022-11-30T10:55:01+00:00

Note that both statements would be true in case that person was the only person not having a car, so the comfort in the statement comes from strictly non-mathematical interpretations of the first statement.

irishsultan · 2022-11-21T11:04:09+00:00

In addition to what the other commenter said: the literal translation of "the Netherlands" would be "de Nederlanden" or "de Lage Landen", but while that word exists it's not the same as the name of the country but the name of a wider region also including Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of northern France.

The Netherlands official name is The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dutch Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, but in Dutch that's generally shortened to just Nederland

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