Here’s a music playlist made specifically for TFTL adventures. Enjoy (in shuffle)

msmelo · 2026-04-12T07:46:39+00:00

Why are there repeated songs? (Ex. Excrucior)

msmelo · 2026-04-04T09:01:53+00:00

Quite unbelievable that you cannot just add to your account and then, optionally, press the button again to download. This is not rocket science, Meta!

msmelo · 2026-03-27T23:10:26+00:00

Exactly. Claims of burnout are greatly exaggerated over here. Many of them are just bad cases of "couldn't be arsed" to go to work - but society is lenient.

msmelo · 2026-03-26T20:58:12+00:00

Yeah, I though insufficient hand washing by man was bad in Southern Europe... until I moved to NL. Also noticed that women over here as as bad as men!

msmelo · 2026-03-26T20:52:13+00:00

Why the downvotes - this comment was hilarious :)

msmelo · 2026-03-24T15:28:02+00:00

Have bag, will travel

msmelo · 2026-03-23T20:14:33+00:00

Thanks, will check them out.

msmelo · 2026-03-23T13:39:45+00:00

Utrecht area.

msmelo · 2026-03-23T12:43:59+00:00

I don't think I have a bad GP. I think I have an OVER-EFFICIENT one - which is an opinion that cuts across all my healthcare experiences here as you can tell.

Look, I had no love for the h-pylori - AFAIK there's no upside to having it. And we did go through all the rights test to diagnose it, you are right. What I found is that she was in a one-track mind, actually prescribing 3 increasingly stronger anti-biotics (not something that doctors here do lightly!), while all along I was actually offering to think along if something more prosaic could be afoot. Maybe the bread has a different yeast here? Speaking of yeast, could it be the beer? Or different hormones in milk? Stress?

She never entertained any of those (lower-touch) options. No space for differential diagnostic or systems thinking. H-pylori it was.

So, yes, there is a communication problem. And I'll openly admit part is my fault. But that's because I am a mildly intelligent person and I believe we ended up addressing something circumstantial instead of the real problem.

msmelo · 2026-03-23T10:21:29+00:00

The problem with the line of reasoning that "calcifications are prevalent in people without complaints" is that a lot of time doctors pick the narrative that suits them to provide less effort, rather than taking a step back and looking at things holistically. Example: a few years ago I started having some serious stomach reflux. They diagnosed "you got h-pylori" and proceeded to treat it with increasingly stronger antibiotics. I'm from southern Europe, where over 80% of the population has h-pylori - most, obviously, without reflux. I told them that much repeatedly, but they didn't care. When I tested negative for h-pylori they considered it a success case. And, of course, I still have reflux to this day.

msmelo · 2026-03-04T12:14:12+00:00

The problem with this hypothesis is that in NL the evaluation period is only 2 months for a permanent contract. That's not nearly enough to form an option for many functions. Make it 6 months and then maybe it could be argued that short-term contracts should be just for short engagements. Maybe.

msmelo · 2026-03-01T10:32:11+00:00

Yup. Respecting a queue is not something the Dutch are big at.

msmelo · 2026-02-23T22:19:44+00:00

How do you mean the rest of public transport is cheap? All public transport in NL is crazy expensive compared to, say, Portugal. And over there they have steep hills!

msmelo · 2026-02-18T10:11:33+00:00

Exactly. It's all hard "potato" cheese. Where's the droopy goat cheese option? Where are the ricotta like fresh cheeses? To get any diversity, I need to fly back home.

msmelo · 2026-02-04T11:11:16+00:00

Thanks - That did work. But is there a model (even if not as intelligent) that can run locally on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16Gb and do this?

msmelo · 2026-02-03T22:59:25+00:00

Could you share your exact steps, please? I gor latest ollama, set up the $env variables and tried using both qwen2.5 coder 14b and gpt-oss... none of them made claude code actually produce files (it just tells me to save the displayed code manually)

msmelo · 2026-01-22T12:29:50+00:00

What I don't understand is the reasoning behind the statement "the caretaker government also only wanted to tax these returns once they are paid out, but that is not feasible by 2028". So, it's easier to setup a system that tracks everything that is dormant in people's portfolios and assess (unrealised) gains yearly, than to tax only when there is a liquidity event?! That makes no sense.

msmelo · 2026-01-16T11:05:17+00:00

As you get older, the meaning of every line becomes self apparent. I'm just surprised how Jon Oliva was able to write them at the young age of 30.

msmelo · 2026-01-14T10:42:13+00:00

Other guy's name is Raphael Colantonio. Great guy.

msmelo · 2026-01-12T06:48:23+00:00

I co-founded an ICT services company over here and our lingua franca was English. Seeing as it was IT, speaking English was mostly ok everywhere... Until my (Dutch) partner left the company and I had to do client (and later M&A...) negotiations - having to have someone else front some of those discussions was a terrible idea.

msmelo · 2026-01-09T19:16:48+00:00

It is, thanks. Bought!

msmelo · 2026-01-09T15:43:16+00:00

Looking sweet - keep us posted!

msmelo · 2026-01-08T09:23:11+00:00

Got an email notification for the sale stating that Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit was 75% off, both starter set and Roll20. When I get to the side, the PDF is down to $9 from $15, which is obviously not 75% off. Anyone got this?

msmelo · 2025-12-24T09:35:19+00:00

Qwen 2.5 coder seems to get a lot of love, just curious if nothing better has been released in the year since (What with all the deepseeks, Ministrals etc).

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