Joeri

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by Joeri 4y ago
There’s actually a philosophy called “housing first” that says you cannot solve those other problems without housing those people. 99 percent invisible did a podcast series on the reality and nuance of homelessness. It is the best take I’ve
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by Joeri 4y ago
It’s weird that the insurance industry hasn’t capitalized on this. Make people pay for covering the risk that their house will drop in value, and make money on the fact that the vast majority of houses will rise in value.
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by Joeri 4y ago
Rulers who conquer tend not to be wise or virtuous, because if they were they wouldn’t conquer. I can’t think of an example of a benevolent autocratic ruler that outperformed the average democracy when it came to the well-being of all their
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by Joeri 4y ago
A possible explanation for that situation is that some utility below the pavement needs urgent work, so the pavement is broken open by a utility contractor to do that work, and then they don’t repave it properly … because they’re not allowe
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by Joeri 4y ago
It is telling that ChatGPT by training on online discussions hasn’t learned to say “I don’t know”.
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by Joeri 4y ago
The WYSIWYG GUI builder that VB provided, I have never encountered afterwards again in quite that manner. At the time I think delphi did that concept in a better way, and I definitely switched from VB to Delphi as soon as I learned about
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by Joeri 4y ago
I think a mass market version of the young lady’s illustrated primer from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age would so deeply transform society as to make it unrecognizable, and the way things are going that product is a few years away. I’m real
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by Joeri 4y ago
I had a neurologist prescribe me medications which I didn’t need and which permanently damaged my side vision. Doctors are people too, and all people make mistakes sometimes. It has taught me to always ask a second opinion when it matters.
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by Joeri 4y ago
You’d be surprised how widespread support for newer javascript functionality is now that all browsers are evergreen.
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by Joeri 4y ago
By using reactive programming techniques the program can be approached as a set of data streams mapping input to output, and conditional behavior becomes the application of different filters and combiners on the streams. This dovetails nice
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by Joeri 4y ago
That doesn’t matter to buyers. If the housing stock is too expensive for the population there can be many causes, and higher quality or larger size housing is just another cause. The causes of the high prices don’t matter to buyers, all the
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by Joeri 4y ago
I spent hours watching that guy, always hoping I would see him do something new.
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by Joeri 4y ago
I would argue there are zero options in x86 land that will give you the mac studio form factor (tiny, stylish, quiet) with that level of performance. PC workstations in that class are noisy big beasts. For some people how it looks is part o
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by Joeri 4y ago
Lenovo’s battery life numbers are consistent generation to generation, but wildly unrealistic. My 2015 thinkpad (since replaced by m1 air) was rated as 12 hours but could do at most half in practice doing very light tasks and typically ran
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by Joeri 4y ago
Yeah that paid hosting + dns services combination is complete overkill when going for static html. I host a bunch of files and static html on my domain and I’ve moved it to github pages. The dns services bundled with the domain at gandi are
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by Joeri 4y ago
The genie is more or less out of the bottle on that one. If it is a lab leak there is no stopping it from happening again and China is not doing anything special. There are hundreds of these labs all over the world, they have containment br
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by Joeri 4y ago
It may just be the raw performance. Delphi VCL programs are very fast, because they’re running native non-interpreted right on top of the base windows api. Delphi itself was also a very speedy IDE, at least back in the borland and codegear
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by Joeri 4y ago
Having just been put through the switch from google apps + slack to the full ms365 suite including teams I have to agree and disagree. On paper microsoft absolutely has the best offering. The ms365 suite has everything anyone could ever nee
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by Joeri 4y ago
Under the npm model you are trusting the authors of your direct dependencies with judicious choice of transitive dependencies, and then those authors in turn trust the authors of their dependencies. In essence npm is a system that relies on
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by Joeri 4y ago
Towards the latter days of the roman republic having gangs of people paid by different politicians battle it out in the street was a common occurrence. Dueling requires all parties involved to remain honorable at all times and today’s crop
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by Joeri 4y ago
I would very much prefer to live in a world with a single state, provided it is a democracy. The current international system is clearly inferior as a means of providing universal well-being than a world government would be. In fact, i don’
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by Joeri 4y ago
Facebook gets about 50 billion usd / year of ad revenue in the U.S. for 226 million mau. That boils down to about $18 / month / user of ad revenue. Is it worth $20 / month to get no ads and a chronological feed?
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by Joeri 4y ago
You jest, but I think a kosher refrigerator that somehow prevented dairy from finding its way into the meat section would find customers.
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by Joeri 4y ago
It is really great to finally see no build web development gaining traction. Ever since the death of IE there has been an opportunity for dramatic simplification of the web dev stack that is unserved by the major frameworks. I did a talk ab
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If the browser is smart enough to discover all the files it needs to request over the http/2 connection upfront there’s no real difference between downloading one big file and 100 little ones. Where you get into trouble is resources pu
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Not if you will genuinely think about it. The assumption that it means no is often wrong. I’m cautious and say this often to things I then afterwards say yes to.
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On top of that, medium just isn’t a site that matters much to me. I am not interested in exploring medium to find the interesting articles they are boosting . For me medium is just a place that hosts articles that I find through reddit o
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by Joeri 4y ago
It is because of alan turing. The turing test has arbitrarily put the bar at “must successfully emulate a human being to be labeled general intelligence”. I don’t find the turing test useful at all as a benchmark. We don’t need something to
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by Joeri 4y ago
But I have a theory as to why the idea of a touchscreen Mac makes me shrug — I’m a longtime Mac user This is the truth. Someone who hasn’t used a touchscreen laptop extensively can’t really opine on the use of such a device. I’ve spent a
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Similar backgrounds and worldviews are not necessary for a solid friendship, as long as you have shared interests and mutual respect.

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