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I'm not the parent comment, but their username suggests they're in The Netherlands or Flemish Belgium.

Small bars and cafes around the corner are _very_ common here. Even the smallest villages have at least one or two local watering holes. It's incredibly easy to sit down at the bar, strike up a small conversation with the bartender, and have a beer or two. You make friends in no time. Most of them shallow, but a few of them turn out to be lifelong "true" friends.

For instance, I just drove a friend of mine and his sister-in-law to Schiphol Airport this morning, because I had a meeting in Amsterdam today so I had to drive out there anyway (we're on the other side of the country). I've known this man for the better part of ten years. Met him at my local bar, or "stamkroeg" as we call it.


I fully agree, this would be pretty much impossible to demo with just plain text: https://asciinema.org/a/659042


I'm no physicist, but I've worked as a software engineer on energy (and drinking water, which EPANET simulates) infrastructure network design tooling for the last six or so years. It has been my understanding that simulating and validating multimodal network designs, which take into account electricity, gas consumption, district heating, is extremely difficult.

Municipalities definitely have systems that document where everything already is under the ground (though especially in Europe there are many older cities where the data of old pipes is lacking), but for designing new energy networks, an "everything" simulation and solving model is very, very complex.


Isn't this essentially a wrapper around pandoc?


Hey, never heard of pandoc.... but I can see the similarities


Typography is a huge part of communication, and by extension, brand identity. Companies value their brand. This is like saying: "why do companies create a whole unique logo for their brand?"

Bear in mind that most quality fonts aren't actually freely available, typography licensing is a complicated maze and for large for-profit companies often wildly expensive. Creating a custom typeface is expensive, sure, but it helps in establishing an identity and it also alleviates huge licensing fees.


Whipped up a quick little map: https://imgur.com/iMvuYz3

The purple/blue areas are drinking water (ground water) protection areas, the grey areas are protected wetlands.

One of those drinking water areas is less than 1,500 meters away from the plant.


I have to assume drinking water isn’t pumped into the system without monitoring safe levels of all detectable substances.


"Lumps" being a nice euphemism for bugs.


I wonder if there's also a preference in the mind to stay on a particular street as long as possible, because the street architecture, street furniture and amount of traffic stays roughly the same, and therefore predictable and easy to walk on.


Like the example given in the article, I also take different routes from and to work regularly, with my bicycle. This habit developed naturally, I didn't really plan it. I was reflecting on why I do this, and your explanation of street continuation seems to be a better fit.

When I start in either direction, I do not have a clear heading of the destination, as there is no line of sight, so the pointiness from the article makes less sense. I guess continuing forward on the same street feels getting there faster, as making a turn feels slow.


Angular does not use decorators to manage state. It uses decorators to create compile-time instructions for the dependency injection system to wire components, services, and directives together (I'm simplifying a bit here). Should TypeScript ever drop their decorator implementation, this could all be fairly easily changed to do it with functions instead:

  export class AppComponent { }
  
  export const appComponent = Component(AppComponent, {
    template: '<h1>Hello World!>/h1>
    // other compile-time instructions
  });
How you want to approach runtime state has nothing to do with decorators.


I believe Office will warn you when saving as .xls (or .doc instead of .docx, or .ppt instead of .pptx for that matter) that some data loss may occur. Problem is that nobody reads those warnings and just hits the OK button.


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