luis_cho

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by luis_cho 3mo ago
EU should mandate open alternatives to Siri on Apple
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by luis_cho 4mo ago
Here in Portugal, tax comes pre calculated from the government on a free web application. It works very well! I just need to do very small adjustments every year before deliver the taxes.
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by luis_cho 6mo ago
I am about to test this one http://docs.getmoto.org/en/latest/index.html
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by luis_cho 7mo ago
And most of their carbon dioxide production is due to “developed countries” consumption
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by luis_cho 7mo ago
Electronic debit card was invented in…. Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort
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by luis_cho 9mo ago
Since when Accenture is European? It’s this because these companies are not Palantir?
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by luis_cho 9mo ago
If American companies don’t respect Europe regulation it’s time to Europe invest in dedicated software competing with office 365, social networks, even android/apple/windows os.
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by luis_cho 11mo ago
This reminds me o sharp knifes argument. In programming you may want to provide tools that can shoot you in the foot, if the alternative is not as powerful. here is a conversation with DHH about it [0]. For instance, you may consider dynami
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by luis_cho 11mo ago
Couldn’t we try to rely more in other topologies other than client server. I see technologies like wireguard and Tailscale could reduce the dependence on data centers now that we have considerable compute on our homes.
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by luis_cho 11mo ago
I was working in ASP.NET when projects like Backbone.js, Knockout, and Angular started to pop up. They were trying to address issues on mainstream tech at that moment (compilation times vs. hot reload, avoid full-page reloads). There was a
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by luis_cho 11mo ago
> Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production. Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that
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by luis_cho 1y ago
I once worked at a place where we all called each other “NERD.” One time a person outside the IT circle turned to us in the cafeteria and shouted, “What's up, NERDS?” There was complete silence in the room. I guess only a nerd can call
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by luis_cho 1y ago
Meta is the second last company I trust to put an wearable on my face.
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by luis_cho 1y ago
This casio model offers a step counter and pairs with the phone. You can for instance find your phone with the watch https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/
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by luis_cho 1y ago
Fir a long time, I don’t think full self driving makes economic sense. Would this hurt car sells at long term?
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by luis_cho 1y ago
There is this post about a experiment on google where they reduced the page weight and the traffic went up instead of down. That was because it open the site to countries with low internet bandwidth https://blog.chriszacharias.co
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by luis_cho 1y ago
The author states that MPA are not a solution for everything. Sure google maps don’t fit the MPA model but I’ve seen a lot of projects that would be much better using current browser features instead of react.
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by luis_cho 1y ago
For me the privacy part of site not knowing we’re I live would be great. I could also black list entities from delivering spam.
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by luis_cho 2y ago
Mixing payments gateways and vibe coding. What can go wrong?
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by luis_cho 2y ago
One time set-up: 1- Plug Pila in :D
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by luis_cho 2y ago
Even inside Java, projects like quarkus don’t receive fast adoption because Spring is the “professional” way to work. Spring developer experience is awful, I miss hot reload.
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by luis_cho 2y ago
Take a look at .http files. They are a file based alternative to postman. I don’t think it has the assertion feature.
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by luis_cho 2y ago
I haven't finished the reading of the post
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Many thanks to Nolan Lawson for his work on PouchDB. Really enjoy his blog and the posts he did on the PouchDB website.
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by luis_cho 3y ago
I would say that the main objective of the current system is to grow. We measure this with the GDP. This growth is necessary for the current system to survive, to pay our debts or keep our jobs, but is also incompatible with reducing carbon
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by luis_cho 3y ago
From Donella Meadows [1]: PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness) 9. Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards). 8. Regulating negative feedback loops. 7. Driving positive feedback loops. 6.
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Consider a graph in which one side shows how easy it is to achieve a goal, and the other side shows how useful it is, At the beginning of industrialisation we were solving easy and useful problems. For example, sanitation, refrigeration, et
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Portugal is the country from OECD with more houses per family (almost 2 houses per family), and we still have a housing crisis
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by luis_cho 3y ago
I love this. I would like to see a mod that turn the ipod into a easy to open device live the nokia's from the 2000
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by luis_cho 3y ago
The objective is not to increase renewables but to reduce non-renewables.

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