Joeri

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by Joeri 5y ago
From what I’ve read it has to do with the way the plant has to cope with water. Water needs to flow through the plant, which means you cannot put it just anywhere. At the same time the plant cannot be prone to flooding and its design must b
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by Joeri 5y ago
We would need to build thousands of nuclear plants, adapting each plant for its location (so you can’t mass-produce a single design), and we don’t have the skilled people to do that. In addition, they will take decades to build, we lack eno
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by Joeri 5y ago
There is a fair argument to be made that whenever you see a company taking the lion’s share of a market, whether in customers or profit, you’re witnessing a form of market failure. A textbook healthy free market has enough competition that
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by Joeri 5y ago
Well, at least a toddler would ask “why” every once in a while. I went long stretches where the only “why” asked with regards to the requirements passing my desk was the silent scream inside my head.
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by Joeri 5y ago
Price transparency will only help by putting pressure on providers for PR purposes, but it will not cause free market dynamics because much of the health care sector is not a real market. Take stitches, who would actually shop around before
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by Joeri 5y ago
The games also need to be ported to metal and optimized for apple hardware, which just isn’t worth it. This was especially true when only high end macs had decent gpu’s. Now that even the mini and air have a gpu that can actually play a mod
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by Joeri 5y ago
But that fast inverse square root example is particularly interesting because it is also a derivative work. Carmack did not invent it, and several variations of it had been passed around over time. Algorithms should not be subject to copyri
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by Joeri 5y ago
Instead of looking for a removable SSD consider setting up some kind of syncing and backup solution. A removable ssd doesn’t protect you from theft or ransomware. I use a combination of time machine, backblaze and syncthing to make sure all
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by Joeri 5y ago
DDoS is the least of it. The US regularly commits cyber warfare against NATO allies, because they know they can without major consequences. They injected malware into belgium’s core telecommunication infrastructure: https://thein
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by Joeri 5y ago
Well, who doesn’t want to be seen as the hero in their own story? What I suspect is that it’s a case of “all of the above”. Yes, gates got lucky, but he was also talented, and he worked hard. To be an outlier you have to defy the odds, and
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by Joeri 5y ago
Automation has always produced an increase in jobs so far, although sometimes in a disruptive way. I consider this like the switch from instruction-level programming to compiled languages, a level of abstraction added that buys a large incr
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by Joeri 5y ago
Maybe stablecoins are just digital currencies with binary exchange rates. It seems to me that when you declare a digital coin exactly tracks the value of the dollar, you basically are not allowing its dollar exchange rate to have any values
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by Joeri 5y ago
Both are stage 1 proposals that I hope get in there some day. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-slice-notation https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching
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by Joeri 5y ago
It used to be that everyone wrote all of their own code and applications were tiny. Now it’s easy to pull in dozens of libraries and their hundreds or thousands of transitive dependencies. The resulting app bloat becomes a ticket on the pil
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by Joeri 5y ago
You could pair devices to each other instead of to an account. There is no reason an account needs to sit at the core of the find my experience.
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by Joeri 5y ago
I think the problem is the lack of deprecation on the web. New API’s get added and over time it becomes effectively impossible to build a browser that supports all the API’s. For a while you could do it if you were a big enough corporation,
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by Joeri 5y ago
The ecosystem was never uniform. In the 95/2000 days there was a lot of 3.11 UI everywhere, in the 7/8 days a lot of XP UI. Office always had its own UI conventions, often being the playground where new ideas were tested. It'
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by Joeri 5y ago
For me a perfect use case is sensor data processing. I've been involved with two independent sensor data platforms that used kafka as the backbone. Sensor data is persisted unprocessed to raw kafka topics, and then gradually deduplicat
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by Joeri 5y ago
It used to indeed be the case that in Belgium to fire someone the notice period could be quite literally years. However, Belgium changed its laws in 2014. For firing someone it's now 1 week the first 3 months, and then it goes up more
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by Joeri 5y ago
The rumors say they’re going to have a high end of 128 gpu cores by using 4 32 gpu core chiplets.
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by Joeri 5y ago
In our modern economic system wealth accrues more wealth. If you don’t actively redistribute the wealth, not just the income, then you end up with wildly unequal societies, in essence what we have today. Wildly unequal not just in terms of
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by Joeri 5y ago
I have a friend who maintains the gui components of a 25 year old windows application suite continuously developed using delphi. The stories he has told me of the epic battles to achieve multimonitor, high dpi, font scaling, theme and dark
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by Joeri 5y ago
There are two narratives. One is the 99% narrative, how the rich have captured not just the wealth but also the government and have turned most of society into what amounts to feudal serfs. The other narrative is the chicago school triumph
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by Joeri 5y ago
Windows 2000 was bloatware compared to NT4, which ran comfortably in 32 MB of RAM and had basically no limits on 128 MB. (All of office, photoshop and visual basic multi tasking at the same time smoothly.) I don’t understand why modern OS’s
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by Joeri 5y ago
If UX isn’t much of a moat, why do most of the streaming platforms get it wrong? Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime have terrible UX for example. You might argue people don’t care about UX and that’s why it’s not a moat, and maybe they don’t, but p
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by Joeri 5y ago
To be honest, outlook for mac isn’t particularly great either. It is not much of a step up from outlook web access, which is what I ended up using on linux after trying all the mail clients. Evolution with the ews plugin came close, but req
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by Joeri 5y ago
Google should commit to donating all funds received from ads that are later detected as scams to charity.
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by Joeri 5y ago
You're looking at teams like a chat app, but teams is more like a platform that happens to offer a chat feature. Yes, it does chat, but it also does audio/video conferencing, and document sharing, and contact management, and meeti
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by Joeri 6y ago
Ok, so why do we accept that companies are run like autocracies, but we expect that societies are run like democracies? If we say that employees should be smart enough to autonomously do their jobs well, wouldn't their collective intel
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by Joeri 6y ago
Not everyone working there can be promoted, because there aren’t enough of the good jobs to go around. Saying it boils down to personal responsibility ignores the fact that in many ways it is a game of musical chairs and there aren’t enough

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