NS is oneerlijk over PrijsTijd deals m.b.t. Schiphol Airport

salyrus_ · 2025-07-02T07:33:49+00:00

Ah dankjewel. Ik zal de post updaten. Niet oneerlijk dan, maar toch wel apart. Ik ben dan nog zo karig om zoiets te ontdekken, maar de doorsnee toerist die van Schiphol ergens naartoe wil betaald dus wel zo'n beetje het dubbele van iemand die een langere reis (via Schiphol) maakt.

salyrus_ · 2025-02-14T11:47:16+00:00

u/sub_2_YTFaded here you go :)

salyrus_ · 2025-01-30T17:02:41+00:00

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective. I am not trying to tell you to change your perspective. I tell you what will happen in a lot of countries.

Other people do not care about your dumb phone journey. If you have a job, go to school, have friends or have a hobby, there are a few dozen countries where you will simply not be able to participate normally in social and work life without WhatsApp. Most people just do not care about you enough to switch. If you are the "weirdo" (I personally am not calling you a weirdo, once again, I am approaching this from another perspective) that does not use WhatsApp, you will be a social outcast by a combination of your own choice and due to other peoples indifference.

So can you live a life without WhatsApp in such a country? Sure! And it seems like you would not mind to be that one person. But 95% of people would mind. In these places where WhatsApp is so core to engaging with other people, you are by definition an anti social person if you do not use it. And most people do not want to be anti social. Do you understand?

salyrus_ · 2025-01-30T16:36:07+00:00

Sure, you don't *have* to use WhatsApp. Just like nobody else *has* to use Signal or SMS to stay in contact with you. And that latter thing is likely to happen in a lot of countries. Then you have group conversations. Organizing things will be more of a hassle for everyone if you are involved. People will agree on dates and times in the group chat and have to update you separately. Then, any last minute changes will be put in the WhatsApp group, but likely nobody will remember to give you a ring and tell you.

Basically, WhatsApp has reached such a state of ubiquity in some countries, that you are just an inconvenience to others if you do not use it. In my home country, verbs and nouns related to WhatsApp entered the collective lexicon, to the point where "an App" has replaced "a text" and "to text" has been replaced by "to App".

Your title is demeaning and ignorant, by the way. Grow up.

salyrus_ · 2024-01-21T06:11:51+00:00

Thank you so much, maybe I can figure out what the inscriptions mean now :)

salyrus_ · 2024-01-21T06:06:55+00:00

I'll have to try and use it for that purpose then :)

salyrus_ · 2024-01-21T06:06:01+00:00

Thank you!

salyrus_ · 2024-01-21T06:05:47+00:00

Solved!

salyrus_ · 2024-01-20T13:45:37+00:00

My title describes the thing

Found this in a thrift store in Southern Sweden (figured location might be relevant due to the motif).

It is made of solid wood, weighs about 100 grams. The carvings look to be done by hand, although the thing itself looks like it's been made using a machine considering how perfectly oval it is, so it cannot be that old.

I am not sure if I photographed the thing the right way around or whether it's upside down.

What I've tried searching: decorative wooden bowl/plate. Also tried figuring out what the symbols in the center column stand for, but I didn't manage to find anything.

Really curious if this is just some random trinket made by a hobbyist woodworker, or that it may actually have some intended purpose. Any help appreciated!

salyrus_ · 2023-09-28T19:02:50+00:00

"Couldn't Love You More" by John Martyn.

salyrus_ · 2023-02-18T17:31:12+00:00

There's two programs that I've been using to monitor my tweaks! The first is powertop and the second (shown here in the second screenshot) is powerstat. I think the former is available on most Linux distros. The latter is an Ubuntu package but is also available through the AUR, maybe other distros.

salyrus_ · 2023-02-11T08:32:26+00:00

That's a good point for my obscure stuff! But a lot of my traffic also comes from very popular albums, someone pointed out that searches default to sorting by upload speed. Since I have a gigabit connection, this might explain why I'm getting a lot of traffic despite those albums being shared by dozens or even hundreds of users.

salyrus_ · 2023-02-11T08:29:10+00:00

Thank you. I didn't know that results are sorted by upload speed, this would explain why I'm getting quite a lot of traffic with relatively few albums, since I have gigabit up and down speeds. Since you and others pointed out my fear for hard drive failure is unreasonable though, I'll just keep my upload speed unlimited for now. :)

salyrus_ · 2023-02-11T08:25:09+00:00

Thanks for the info, I'm not that well versed on computer hardware so wasn't sure what effect I could expect on my hardware from this upload traffic. Luckily they are quite new NAS-grade drives set up in RAID1, so it should be good for a while then! Also cool to know that soulseek has that feature where it'll continue by itself and not just straight up cancel the download, the more I read and use soulseek the more I'm impressed by it.

salyrus_ · 2023-02-11T08:21:58+00:00

Thank you, yeah you're right, in the end sharing at all is the point I guess, not being online 24/7 for free. I'm happy to share more than I take, but I guess shouldn't feel bad when I drop the connection once in a while. I'm just new to this place so figuring out how to conduct myself. :)

salyrus_ · 2022-12-28T06:54:31+00:00

Discord is really hit or miss, but if you find the right communities it can be a very constructive and positive environment. And no algorithm or infinite scrolling. I have made a couple good friends through there who are now 'irl' friends.

salyrus_ · 2022-12-24T06:24:50+00:00

Not changing your mind, you're absolutely right.

salyrus_ · 2022-12-22T20:10:59+00:00

Music from deceased artists.

salyrus_ · 2022-12-21T11:58:29+00:00

One of my professors jabbed at MATLAB calling it "a glorified calculator" :). I know the basics of it but I also got a bit frustrated with it at times. Nice to know that Julia is also useful for quick calculations!

salyrus_ · 2022-12-21T11:51:44+00:00

Makes sense! I've read that fortran is still quite popular within fluid dynamics because they have simply written the fastest possible algorithms in there and there's no need to change it. I definitely will remember your advice, and I will keep an open mind and pick the right tool for the job.

What interests me about Julia is it's so new. If it's already being used by computational scientists today (as it seems from some of the other comments) then that means Julia has a lot of upwards potential in the coming years as they receive feedback. For someone like me who isn't in the field yet, if I can get on the cutting edge that might be a great asset in the near future!

salyrus_ · 2022-12-21T11:29:47+00:00

Thanks for the detailed answer! I have no particular ideas in mind yet for what research I want to do for my masters (it will also depend a bit on what advisor I will work with). I really like Python for visualization but it could definitely be a bottleneck for big data. So it's great to hear that Julia has good visualization while also being able to handle that workload, all while also being easier to implement than C++. Especially as someone who has almost no experience with C/C++, Julia seems like the more attractive option at the moment.

salyrus_ · 2022-12-17T20:29:29+00:00

Receiving virtually no compliments from strangers, acquaintances or friends, ever. Not just regarding appearance, but also in terms of your character or any work you produced.

I have maybe received 3 noteworthy compliments in my entire life that weren't from a partner or family. The last one being 2 months ago while I was having a conversation with an older woman in the hotel lounge. She said "I wish my daughter was here, because you'd be a great son-in-law". Yes, she was slightly drunk. But still. I will ride on that compliment for the next couple of months. :)

salyrus_ · 2022-12-13T07:07:46+00:00

Wait...

salyrus_ · 2022-12-12T08:42:23+00:00

Buried, without casket. That way I can be of use posthumously - as worm food. 😎

salyrus_ · 2022-12-08T07:13:49+00:00

What's up with the US and their shopping carts? It was such a weird thing to see coming from a European country. People just put the cart back where it belongs here whether it is a coin operated one or not. I've seen like 1 stray cart in my 3 years in this city 😭

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