woutgaze

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by woutgaze 2mo ago
Maybe the future generations will need to pay otherwise.
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by woutgaze 3mo ago
I have the feeling that the author is really onto something: the explicit boundary between symbolic intent and real-world execution. Type systems don’t cut it always, you sometimes need something in-between imperative code - which is hard t
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by woutgaze 4mo ago
(and The Netherlands)
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by woutgaze 6mo ago
If your air purifier sucks from and dumps into the same room it will do nothing for CO2 levels. Only for dust particulates.
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by woutgaze 6mo ago
Is it also self-hosting as a sort of meta-quine?
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Which Knot Is Stronger?(scientificamerican.com)
10 points by woutgaze 2y ago|0 comments
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by woutgaze 3y ago
Nice setup although I remember that the efficiency of air tools is very low like around 1%. That’s also why they get replaced a lot.
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by woutgaze 4y ago
What if the plant grows?
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by woutgaze 4y ago
Does anyone know something similar for Europeans (I live in The Netherlands)? Common units used here are all metric; for heating I've seen Natural Gas Usage (in m3) used and GigaJoules. Also almost no-one here seems to use air conditio
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by woutgaze 5y ago
In the Amsterdam area there is ftth available. I have 500/500 for € 55.
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by woutgaze 5y ago
> a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs Isn’t that called a duck?
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by woutgaze 5y ago
Can you recommend a book or course for improving ones ability to write good technical documentation?
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Yo mama's so fat, we had to set her column type to BLOB.
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by woutgaze 6y ago
I had one here in The Netherlands on my Volvo. I also remember setting it off accidentally many times.
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by woutgaze 6y ago
For a very good writeup by the organization Bellona, which is also in the video see https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-an...
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by woutgaze 6y ago
We're not talking about sterilizing earth but a runaway greenhouse effect. For example Venus seems not to have survived: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2475/nasa-climate-modeling-sug...
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by woutgaze 6y ago
How do you know nature will survive? Records of previous climate changes indicate the change occurred more gradually in tens of thousands of years, not within 200 years. So nature may not have time to adapt. Also the living earth may have j
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Most Smalltalk IDE's use a variable width font by default.
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Quick summary: Gilad Bracha introduces a new programming language called ShapeRank. It seems to be based on APL but introduces the concept of streams which are [vectors | tensors | arrays] of unbounded length.
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Why will it again? I suspect survivorship bias here.
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Check out our (web based) product at https://ag5.com . We’ve built it with VisualWorks Smalltalk among other tools. Every year we ask ourselves if we should be using such an niche tool but somehow almost every new employee at ou
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by woutgaze 6y ago
Something like this will do the job in PostgreSQL: CREATE TABLE reservations ( item_id uuid, duration tsrange, EXCLUDE USING GIST (item_id WITH =, duration WITH &&) );
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by woutgaze 6y ago
> Lots of people don't go to ICUs - only 10% of the deaths happened in an ICU. Do you perhaps have a citation for this?
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by woutgaze 7y ago
I recognize your situation. Reading the book Factfulness nu Hans Rosling helped me somewhat.
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Worst-case scenario for emissions of CO2 this century is no longer plausible(bbc.com)
2 points by woutgaze 7y ago|0 comments
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Daimler Ends Gas Engine Development: Full Focus on Electric Cars(insideevs.com)
16 points by woutgaze 7y ago|0 comments
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Land Is a Critical Resource, IPCC Report Says(ipcc.ch)
2 points by woutgaze 7y ago|0 comments
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by woutgaze 7y ago
Also, https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/donate-trees quotes several projects with a low price of EUR 0.10 per tree.
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The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees(edition.cnn.com)
253 points by woutgaze 7y ago|190 comments
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Soft, multi-functional robots get really small(techxplore.com)
2 points by woutgaze 8y ago|0 comments

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