roelschroeven

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by roelschroeven 14d ago
In all the decades before Greta Thunberg, all the scientists who warned the world about climate change were largely ignored. Almost nothing happened to fight climate change. Greta has been in the spotlights for less than a decade. And yet i
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by roelschroeven 17d ago
This is a take I often see recently, and it such a weird one. Greta Thunberg and her "crazed lunatics" have caused massive damage? By that do you mean that in a world without them, there would be much more efforts to fight climate
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by roelschroeven 17d ago
I'm in the same boat as kmoser. I don't like narrow text lines either. In my experience, books are mostly OK, as long as they don't split up the text in columns. Magazines and newspapers often do have columns that are much na
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by roelschroeven 17d ago
Surely between the browser window too wide (where the text lines are too long) and the browser window too narrow (where side bars are hidden) there exists a width that is exactly to your liking.
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by roelschroeven 20d ago
Chances are that ambient are doesn't provide enough cooling. Maybe you can open only window, or all windows on the same side of your home, meaning there's no draft. Maybe you're in an urban environment, with a micro climate e
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by roelschroeven 20d ago
A couple of years ago that would have been correct, but circumstances have changed. We've had a series of heat waves this summer, and temperatures have gotten very high inside. Much depends on the location of course, and the type of bu
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by roelschroeven 25d ago
"The book targets Python 3.15 and later" That's a bit weird, Python 3.15 isn't even fully released yet.
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by roelschroeven 29d ago
> P.S. The stack overflow question for splitting commits discusses the old and cumbersome approach. The 20th answer discusses the right approach but has a meagre 2 upvotes as of today, compared to 2656 for the older top answer with the c
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by roelschroeven 2mo ago
It is illegal, but compliance is not enforced to the degree that it should. Companies get away with a lot of GDPR infractions, unfortunately.
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by roelschroeven 2mo ago
Kinda looks like a low-quality executive summary of a longer text. I agree, it's garbage.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
Much like https://ciechanow.ski/
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
Both far-right and far-left are bad, and often in many ways actually quite close to each other.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
How? Looks like a bog standard corporate website to me, and it would surprise me if they would let their highly skilled programmers spend time on creating the website.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
60% efficiency? How do these power plants manage to circumvent the limit set by Carnot efficiency?
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
The only basis they have is the low chance of enforcement. It is absolutely contrary not only to the spirit but also the letter of the law.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
> and rarely if ever on a train or a plane I experience motion sickness more easily on planes than on trains or buses. Boats are a problem too, in heavy seas. In a large plane with no or very light turbulence the motion sickness doesn&#x
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
And once you have created such a straight line, you can fold the paper again such that the first crease lines up on both sides of the new crease, and then you have a right angle.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
In addition to sibling replies, function keys are very useful in debuggers (to step in/over, set breakpoints, ...). And lots of other things that don't immediately come to mind. I'm old enough to remember WordPerfect on DOS,
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
It's poorly worded. There aren't three motors per axle, there are three motors total: one on the front axle and two on the rear axle.
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by roelschroeven 3mo ago
> I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing) The Compose window by default uses Paragraph style. Change it to Text instead, that wor
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
Aha, that's what I missed. That explains it all. Thanks.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
I probably should have said Toyota-like hybrid system, to include manufacturers that either licensed Toyota's system or developed something similar themselves.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
What surprised me in the video is that Alec was telling how his engine can charge his battery while in the car wash. I had a 2016 Auris which I had to put it in neutral in the car wash, and in neutral the engine couldn't charge the bat
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
Yes, but specifically about the Toyota's hybrid system. Other systems are more complex, they have a traditional engine and transmission and an electrical system on top.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/hantavirus-compla... An interesting view on this. No need to panic, but we should take this outbreak, and others like it, more seriously and not leave things to
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
For scrolling large distances in large documents, that's an important use case to me. As an indication of progress is another important use case, but also as an indication to show the size of the document relative to the viewport.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
Absolutely, but there are many programs that don't use that accent color, making it less useful than it should be.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
Also some, or even many, people think that intercontintental communications use satellites rather than cables.
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by roelschroeven 4mo ago
I don't really think so. Already in the first stages of this outbreak we're not doing any quarantine, instead we're infecting airline passengers and personnel and let them spread the virus uncontrolled. That doesn't indi
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by roelschroeven 5mo ago
"If there were air". Air at which temperature though? Th sound of speed, and hence what Mach numbers mean, depends on the temperature of the air. The temperature air would have at the moon's surface? By day or by night? Or th

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