That probably depends on where you are. Here in Amsterdam, our triple glazing is made out of all actual glass. In our house it’s made out of four 6-mm sheets of glass actually. So one double sheet that’s a sandwich with a glued layer of foil in between (like a windshield), used as a security component either on the outside (anti break-in) or on the upper floors on the inside as a way to prevent falling through the window.
For the nearly eight years that my wife and I lived in Brussels, Belgium, we lived in an old house (rented) that was built around 1910, and so we didn't have even double glazing, although we did have French Doors, and we had custom-made screens that had to be manually placed into the windows and then pinned in place with a nail instead of always attached to the outside. So, I don't have much knowledge of what current European building standards are in this space.
I do prefer the German-style double-opening windows that I saw in the house my sister-in-law was renting near Spangdalem AFB, along with the Rolladen that they had installed. But again, that was a rental in an older home.
I have been watching Laura Kampf and her "Haus Lise Lotte" project on YouTube, but again that's a 120 year old house, and they haven't gotten to replacing the windows yet.
Any suggestions for an English language channel where I could learn more about current European building standards, maybe something like Matt Risinger's "Build Show" for US building standards that I've been watching on YouTube?
Yjs author here. Yjs ships a flexible selective undo-redo manager. You can define one (or several) undo managers that listen to changes that you want to be able to undo&redo.
Yes, in Holland students know they can simply fail an exam and usually know that’s on them.
In the US, students can literally complain to the dean who then puts pressure on the professor. And they do, so professors know to err on the lenient side.
In fact: the average grade at Harvard has been an A- for some years now. So grades from Harvard are basically meaningless.
> the average grade at Harvard has been an A- for some years now. So grades from Harvard are basically meaningless.
I won't deny grade inflation, but Harvard allows students to drop classes very late in the semester. For "hard" classes, it wasn't uncommon for less than 25% of the students present in the second week of class to still be around to take the final. I never saw anything like that at the public university I went to as an undergrad.
Some amount of the high average grade is because the students not doing so well in the course drop with little to no penalty.
Why do you think that hosted cochroachdb would be cheaper then hosted spanner? Google has been optimizing spanner performance for years so I would expect that it will be cheaper to run for quite a while. Of course the markup can be different but I wouldn't expect it to make a huge difference.
That’s not true. You’re within their scope if you process and/or target EU citizens.
It might of course be difficult to execute the judgment but they can still sue you in the EU. In the US that happens also, for example when some stakeholder sues a foreign website that infringes on their rights. If the sued entity doesn’t show up in court, they just issue a default judgment (meaning the plaintiff wins by default). You can even sue a John Doe in court (at least in the US).
In practice, the EU is also resource constrained like any other government entity, so you probably won’t have much to fear. I mean they’re not going to sue millions of companies all over the world, it just means they have created themselves a new stick that they can choose to use.
I hear that they’ll likely first go after entities that have a big impact on the public (i.e., the most blatant cases).
Paris, Barcelona, Rome (maybe Munich too):
You'd have to learn French, Spanish or Italian in order to live a normal life there. In Amsterdam, all the locals speak English, so it's pretty easy to stay here for several years without having to learn Dutch.
I have several foreign friends who've been living here in Amsterdam for years without having learnt Dutch. Of course it's always better to know the local language wherever you live, but in Amsterdam you really don't have to.
Ok, the logo's definitely quite a deviation from the super-"friendly" previous version. It feels a lot more "corporate" to me. I really liked the friendly feel of the previous logo, but it does tell me something interesting...
The fact that it looks more "corporate"/"professional", may indicate that Canonical is going to pursue corporate deploys more aggressively than before. They're still not making a profit as a company. If we want Ubuntu to continue its prosper for a long time, it's good to keep having Canonical as its backer.
Of course you can argue whether making a logo more "corporate" will help in selling it as a "serious" product, but that's not the point here. If Canonical feels this will help them, it will.
