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New comment by netule in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

netule — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:22:36 +0000

Right, I assumed the same argument. I've spent over half my life here, so it's obviously not that important to me, nor was it a factor in my decision to move here. Yet it's an observation I can make, having two distinct perspectives to compare, not a judgment on America. Ugh. It's the whole "yet you participate in society" meme, or the "well, if you don't like it, why not go home?" argument, which could well both be logical fallacies I don't know the names of.

Anyway, more public transit for the people and all that.

New comment by netule in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

netule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:03:45 +0000

And? What's the gotcha you're implying?

New comment by netule in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

netule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:56:35 +0000

I moved here from The Netherlands in 2004, and have now lived in Florida, California, and Mississippi and stayed for prolonged periods in many US cities for my job. I wouldn’t feel safe riding a bicycle anywhere here considering the speed of traffic, the size of the vehicles, and lack of dedicated biking infrastructure. It’s a completely different world when you share the road with angry F150 drivers blasting past you at 80 MPH. No, thank you.

New comment by netule in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

netule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:41:10 +0000

For sure. I currently live in the US (fairly rural) and I would kill to have my transportation-related costs reduced to about $150/mo. But where I live, I simply need to have a car to do any basic thing since the moment I step off my driveway, there aren’t even footpaths.

New comment by netule in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

netule — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:22:05 +0000

That’s the introductory price. It’ll be €127,95 after that period is over. Kids travel for free, though, so that’s pretty nice.

In hindsight, I think I underestimated the value of my OV card while I was a student: travel whenever, using all types of public transport, for free.

New comment by netule in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

netule — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:34:52 +0000

Better keep her away from any suspicious black puddles.

New comment by netule in "The Future of Email"

netule — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:31:41 +0000

Unless you’re a Gmail user.

New comment by netule in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

netule — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:46:31 +0000

Kes is not a TNG character. Maybe Deanna?

New comment by netule in "The real cost of owning a home"

netule — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:14:59 +0000

To add to the list: Replacing bad wood, pest service, aging appliances, fence maintenance, septic emptying (depending on your location), flooring wear and replacement, grouting and caulking, pest control, exterior cleaning, etc.

It can occasionally feel like an endless stream of tasks.

New comment by netule in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

netule — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:55:00 +0000

Oof, that’s rough, especially considering that GitHub used to be a Linux shop. I wonder what happened to all the Rails folks who built the OG platform.

New comment by netule in "Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages"

netule — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:49:17 +0000

So freaking weird. Is it normal at MS for Product Managers to push code? wtf

Original PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

New comment by netule in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

netule — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:07:38 +0000

They also love to be tread upon if the boot is just right.

New comment by netule in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

netule — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:09:43 +0000

If you find out, please let me know!

New comment by netule in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

netule — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:24:12 +0000

I pay for Copilot annually, and mostly for its code auto completion features. I use CC if I want to do anything agentic. Not sure if I want to pay more for occasionally-good-intellisense at this point.

New comment by netule in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

netule — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:37:54 +0000

But they both used C++, a rare and obscure language rarely used in cryptography! /s

New comment by netule in "Protect your shed"

netule — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:26:12 +0000

This post really resonated with me. Through the daily drudgery, I lost that spark that drove me to programming in the first place as a kid and became disgruntled with it for a while. It wasn't until I pushed myself to get back to hobby (or shed) programming that I rekindled my old passion and, as a result, find my day job much more bearable.