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by abricq 4y ago
This french company sells 'Bob', a miniature restaurant-like dishwasher: https://daan.tech/ch/discover-bob-mini-dishwasher/
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by abricq 4y ago
Can you think how much less 'new bikes' could be required if students in schools (10 to 14 years old maybe ?) were to learn some basic bike fixing skills and bike maintenance ? I feel like I have so many friends who have no idea h
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by abricq 4y ago
> For my usage weight savings is secondary to overall durability. I completely agree with that ! Even when bike touring, weight is so much less important than reliability of your gear... It's particularly surprising and sad to notic
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Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
47 points by abricq 4y ago|81 comments
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by abricq 4y ago
In times such as now where there are strong forces acting to push for more production and consumption, for less thinking about the quality & sustainability or impact of our consumption, I applaud their efforts ! This kind of act is simp
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Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (1997)(folk.ntnu.no)
73 points by abricq 4y ago|102 comments
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by abricq 4y ago
I rather see functions as transformations, in the mathematical sense. A function receives an input and produces an output, according to some logic that only the function is responsible for. A small logical block that can be reused into some
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by abricq 4y ago
Or how to apply communism to software engineering. I like that. More seriously, the risk that a few companies become even more powerful thanks to their restricted access to such NN is very frightening. The worth is, without legal restrict
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Why your first FizzBuzz implementation may not work(chrismorgan.info)
2 points by abricq 4y ago|0 comments
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Non-recognized British WWII hero who 'hacked' the German radios in France(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by abricq 4y ago|1 comments
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by abricq 4y ago
"The Allies were able to learn a great deal about the location and density of German radar stations along the channel coast thanks to this one single act, which helped to convince Allied commanders of the importance of developing radar
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by abricq 4y ago
I wish this was true but unfortunately, I must disagree with saying that it is different in Europe. In France, 10 years ago, high-school was a constant lookout for who's the 'popular' kids (literally called like that). And re
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by abricq 4y ago
I personally enjoy a lot more when things are manually customizable, but honestly I also don't think that I represent the majority of users ! So yeah, I think that the option to trigger a full manual ordering of the columns would be an
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by abricq 4y ago
- The possibility to select which column is present - The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com` - the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed Thanks a lot for t
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by abricq 4y ago
I understand your point, I also enjoy a lot interactions with my colleagues ! I am quite surprised to hear that in the Berlin startup scene, home office is becoming the norm. I have been working (and still am) in startups in Lausanne (Switz
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by abricq 4y ago
If OP implements these changes, I might actually start using this for real ! It is true that it is brilliant.
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Extraction of chemistry grammar from unsupervised learning of chemical reactions(rxnmapper.ai)
2 points by abricq 4y ago|0 comments
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by abricq 4y ago
For the curious ones, this is a cool page that presents the basics of lambda calculus: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lambda-calculus/ Absolutely impressive project !
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by abricq 4y ago
I really like your views on this problem. Never thought about it that way. I had some experiences where what you described was perfectly illustrated. It seems to me that the agile framework allows for each level within an organization (that
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The deserts of Saudi Arabia will soon be a playground for winter sports(lemonde.fr)
1 points by abricq 4y ago|0 comments
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The Broken Window Theory(blog.codinghorror.com)
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by abricq 4y ago
It seems a little optimistic, if not misleading, to say about Bitcoin "Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many disruptive applications [...] that have positive impact in numerous sectors, including [...] environment [...] to name a few". You
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by abricq 4y ago
On iOS, the word "Siri" can be detected at any time (if set so). Maybe ( just an hypothesis ) there could be a set of other keywords also listened for, that once detected could start another more complex routine. Like that, you
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by abricq 4y ago
I would be SUPER interested to see this same methodology applied to an iPhone or an Android phone resting in a room. I've already had the feeling that discussions that I had, later had an impact on my ads, but never knew if it was rand
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by abricq 5y ago
I was surprised to see that there is no language support for C++, C, Rust, etc... I saw that there are community plugins. But still, it does make me a little sad to see this shifting away from compiled languages to more scripted or web-base
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First sustainable floating city prototype in Korea, as sea levels rise(unhabitat.org)
2 points by abricq 5y ago|0 comments
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by abricq 5y ago
Love to read this one: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ Often time it presents great pieces of engineering work, with a "low-tech" approach that usually blows my mind !