It was studied in the Netherlands a few years ago, and it turns out that for people from the same social economic background in the same city, the neighbourhood you grew up in made all the difference. Oeople who grew up in the “right” neighbourhood made on average 50% more pay.

Also in the Netherlands.

Reading “the stainless steel rat’s revenge” by Harry Harrison. I like this one better than the first book in the series. I’m about 80% through, so I’ll have to take look which is the next title.

They are, but not mildly.

Isn’t this a known dark pattern? Not so mildly infuriating for me.

It’s called synesthesia.

I guess it depends on where you live. Here in the Netherlands those kind of membranes are rather new techniques, if I want something like that I wouldn’t even know where to get it. I would probably need to buy it in Germany. As a consequence, nobody knows how to use the stuff properly. On the other hand, these days we have composite floor trays in any color which lay on the same height as the rest of the floor, and they’re pretty nice.

Good call, looks like OSB subflooring? I would only do a floor drain on a concrete subfloor to avoid leakage. And probably not even then.

Infinite sex glitch!

Wierd, it was for me. I tried to edit it.

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/02/berlin-polizei-werbe-lineale-messen-ungenau.html

It’s not that lazy, the answer seems to be 15, but then the final 7 would be wrong. Turns out you have to use a totally different function. Both functions are very simple.

Yes

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I don’t agree with your take on evolution, I don’t see a natural selection mechanism that prevents reproduction if you don’t adapt to new technologies. Some will even claim it’s the opposite. I think maybe modern medicine has pretty much halted human evolution.

I agree. Just yesterday I was talking with my wife about this regarding the switch to ms teams our employers have made. Ever since, everything that could be done with one action now takes at least two. So I showed her the link where you can add shortcuts from teams to your onedrive, so you can at least work with explorer like a decent caveman.

Some (religious) people would say that Keith Haring has a short line with the creator of earth these days.

Looks like something Keith Haring would have painted.

This is actually a good tip! An uncle of mine always used scalpels for wood carving.

I’ve read “the stainless steel rat” by Harry Harrison last week. I didn’t find it quite as good as the previous books I’ve read from Harrison, but I started the second book in the series “the stainless steel rat’s revenge” anyway. I have some hopes it gets better since the first one was also one of Harrison’s first books. If not, it was still okay-ish.