Credit cards have good protections against fraudulent webshops and often provide free insurance against damage and theft. This makes it worthwhile for buying a new laptop.

My card is automatically fully paid off at the end of the month, so mhe debt is very temporary

If a driveway directly leads into a high flow road, you have a stroad problem, not a roundabout problem.

although English officially isn’t a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.

Do you have a source for this? I’m Dutch native too, and have never heard of this.

The majority of Dutch people speak English at a decent level, but there are no non-immigrant native English speakers.

This is a Dutch artist, and a Dutch landscape. The Netherlands is a right-side driving country.

I guess your comment is true for car drivers sticking their arm out of a window, but for cyclists it really doesn’t matter. You can use both arms to indicate direction.

The fumes are from the flux, if you’re evaporating lead your iron is a few thousand degrees too high.

Still shouldn’t breathe that, but that’s also true for lead-free solder

Is this true? Is this unique to the Dutch flag, or do most tricolor flags not really specify this?

Yeah, but that’s hundreds of years ago and they’re a staple food now. Unlike Jicamas, where I had to Google what that even is.

So, linguistically not really comparable

But these aren’t found in Western Europe

I know you can get it at Albert Heijn

Edit: I just learned that Aldi chocolate is sourced through Tony’s supply lines, so they should be the same level of slave-free

It isn’t American, and it doesn’t taste like shit.

The founder, Teun van der Keuken, is a Dutch guy. He started this journey with sueing himself before a Dutch judge, on account of participating in slave labour (by buying chocolate in a supermarket, knowing that it’s likely produced by slave labour)

Would people just lie on the internet?

IR bottom heaters are usually not strong enough for reballing. They’re for boards that are hard to solder, because there’s a lot of copper or a heatsink for example.

The bottom heater preheats the whole board, not to soldering temperatures but enough to make soldering a lot easier.

Or a dead dog. Why shoot a live one?

Cool!

Are their taller lighthouses that are not land-based? Are they floating?

The ID.4 doesn’t just have capacitive buttons, it has swipe controls on the steering wheel.

And of the most frustrating cars I have ever driven.

but self driving cars are immensely dangerous, and there’s no evidence that self driving cars will make roads safer.

This is a horrible take, and absolutely not true. Maybe for the current state of technology, but not as an always-true statement.

Humans are horrible at driving. It’s not hard to be better at driving than the average human. Perfect doesn’t exist, and computer-driven cars will always make some mistakes, but so do humans (and media will report on self-driving cars much more than on the thousands of vehicle deaths caused by human error). AEB and other technologies have already made cars much safer over the previous decades.

On top of this, I have no confidence that the odds of an error in the system (eg: a dirty sensor, software getting confused) is not higher than the odds of a system correctly braking when it needs to.

Tell me you’ve never used or tested AEB without telling me.

Dirty sensors trigger a “dirty sensor warning”, not a full emergency brake. There’s more than one sensor, and it doesn’t emergency brake on one bad sensor reading. Again, perfect doesn’t exist, but it isn’t close to the 50/50 you’re trying to portray here.

• Car brakes hard (even at 90mph), perhaps losing traction depending on road conditions

Any car with AEB will also have ABS and traction control, so losing traction is unlikely. Being rear-ended is never on the liability of the front car.

Yes, cars are dangerous, yes we need to make them safer, but we should use better policies like slower speeds, safer roads, and transitioning to smaller lighter weight cars,

Absolutely agree on all of this. Slower speeds and safer roads make accidents less likely and less lethal, for human and computer drivers both.

As such, legislation should be pushing very hard to stop self driving cars.

Legislation should push hard for setting clear boundaries on when self-driving is good enough to be allowed on the road, and where the legal responsibilities are in case of problems. Just completely stopping it would be wasted potential for safer roads for everyone in the long run.

I agree, I just really want to insert my non-relevant ideas into the discussion

Yeah, but that’s a whole 'nother topic.

I live in a country with proper driving tests, but most drivers (myself included) are still shit at driving. Even professional bus drivers are limited humans.

A car nudging you towards an accident is dangerous, even if it’s not forcing you into an accident.

An unnecessary distraction that needs active attention in a chaotic situation is a bad thing, bad driver or not. And yeah, there are many bad drivers out there. Cars should be designed to be driven by bad drivers, not armchair experts.

The emails were mass reported, up to the point there was an internal message sent around to stop reporting them because they are legitimate. Of course, no action was taken to make them look less suspicious.

If I’d ever want to phish someone at my company, I’d know exactly what to do. Make the email look exactly like the training ones.