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Re:Git hosting that never leaves Europe on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:51AM (#49574613)
Love your tech stack! Elixir and Phoenix will bring you lots of joy, it sure does for us ;)
And not taking care of the source of the problem? It’s like only pumping the water out of your flooded basement but not willing to fix the leak.
You might not see the benefit directly, but the idea is that we must do this for future generations. If everybody keeps looking at the others, nothing happens. The ones that can lead must lead.
Re:Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:31PM (#43070894)
A great alternative is Traefik. We have been using v1 and v2 for several years now in a setup that uses the docker labels for configuration of services.
It's called breaking up walled gardens, (quasi) monopolies and protecting consumer rights. It's outright wrong to call this 'annoying'.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @02:18AM (#42583350)
How out of touch that you think 60 million would not do any good. You could change so many lives for the better.
We are 2024 and it stands at 110 laps, by a belgian team!
Re:All the electricity you'll need for 40 years on Sunday October 27, 2024 @04:55PM (#41965599)
Yes, prices can go negative if you have a dynamic energy contract.
Re:I Went from Reading 40 Books a Year to Reading 0 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:26AM (#41870543)
Please read more fiction. Why should everything be about becoming a 'better' person? Why not enjoy a good story? Unconsciously you will learn something, even from fiction.
Re:Tesla Virtual Power Plant on Thursday August 18, 2022 @07:37AM (#32508101)
Do you have any documentation on that? I have a hard time finding the relevant details on this.
Re:Ask HN: Why is home ownership linked with gardening? on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:46PM (#32441034)
Let your garden go wild. Better for nature (insects), hardly any maintenance and helps keep the temperature down in summer.
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:37AM (#32438429)
Not at all. People coming from different industries or stepping into a new type of function description in a different company.
Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:06AM (#32437982)
Lots of companies perform rigorous assessment tests for high profile or high paying jobs. IT is not the exception.
Re:Eating horsemeat in France on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:01AM (#32117224)
We ate horse steak in the 80-90’s at Home, in Belgium. Almost every butcher still sells it nowadays. “100gr van ‘t perdje” (100 gram of horse ham)
Re:How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:29AM (#29977257)
> Speaking of electrification, ..

Probably because the housing stock in continental Europe is older and therefor much more often retrofitted with modern electricity. Newly build houses won't have that problem. Although I'm not aware of fire regulations having an effect on the number of outlets in a room, in my region (Belgium).

Re:An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:09PM (#29970441)
Real estate, employee talent, brand value, business knowledge, .. You could do a whole lot with that.
Re:Onboarding to Elixir on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:10AM (#27592646)
Mail me at pieter[at]jackjoe.be
We host our own gitlab runners. It gives us more punch for less € and it was relatively easy to set up and is easy to maintain/upgrade.
Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:49AM (#25567960)
Just ‘tandpasta’ :)
Re:Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015) on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:18PM (#25422687)
This is one of those articles I regularly revisit. It is so fascinating to see that progress is not necessarily a straight and always forward moving process.
Re:New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:55PM (#25240468)
Oh, but you can see those from time to time Belgium. Largely adopted? No, not at all.
Re:Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself? on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:57AM (#24331480)
I use my mailbox as a first-line todo-list, next to just e-mailing with people. So yes, I do send myself e-mails, very often.
Thanks for the tip!
I have, along with What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. It can be an inspiration to start running or start running longer distances. But beware of the pseudo scientific narrative, don’t take it too seriously :)
This is almost exactly like in Belgium. We do have similar word for på leg which is ‘beleg’ or ‘toespijs’. And we also pack it in the morning, 3 or 4 slices. It is not as beautifully wrapped in paper with in-between papers, though.

Moreover, we have decent bread in Belgium. And it doesn’t come in a plastic bag. It’s more similar to the bread described in the article about bread in the UK seen on HN frontpage some days ago.

I’ve seen people stating in the comments that this is heavy on calories. But that’s entirely not true. The butter is probably soja based, the cheese and meat are thinly spread.

Would be interesting to have a running / walking option where you could fill in your approximate min/km and have that plotted.
Re:Leo Hendrick Baekeland and the Invention of Bakelite (1993) on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:22AM (#15747161)
He was from Belgium, so the use of Celcius is very logical.

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