de_huit

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by de_huit 1y ago
Right. The government facilitates the commercial apps to communicate using the ETSI ITS standards with the traffic lights. For these protocols, lots of privacy discussions have taken place, like using different IDs at every intersection, an
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by de_huit 1y ago
Predict the exact traffic situation 32 minutes in the future? Where would the information come from? The actual system in Flanders predicts about 1 minute, and that only for the main arteries. And the system barely uses the info from the ve
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by de_huit 4y ago
I really miss poring over big sheets of paper to find nice routes to cycle over... Especially in France, the Michelin 200.000 maps are unrivaled to not only find your way, but also have a good feel how the road and the landscape looks like.
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by de_huit 4y ago
Nice project, and nice map! I did not know the Ferraris map, it is gorgeous. It would love to see a tile server of this map, preferably with a switch between the old and the new map. There is a 'time travel app' for Belgium [1] th
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by de_huit 4y ago
The version from Hacker's delight is fun and does not branch: int popcount32(unsigned i) { i = i - ((i >> 1) & 0x55555555); i = (i & 0x33333333) + ((i >> 2) & 0x33333333); i = ((i + (i >> 4
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by de_huit 4y ago
An interesting answer to your question from Tailscale a few weeks ago [1]: sqlite as the main database, many readers read a copy, the copies synced using litestream. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30883015&p=2
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by de_huit 4y ago
The oldest source [1] seems to be in Sanskrit, a left-to-right language, so they were big-endian numbers. This still does not rule out an even older origin in a right-to-left language, but as it stands I'm afraid I was just wrong with
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by de_huit 4y ago
> Hard disagree, big-endian is right and little-endian is wrong. At least, unless you think this year is 2202 Our numbers originate from people using a right-to-left script...
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by de_huit 4y ago
There is extra risk of course. Good ventilation is required through a counter-flow heat-exchange. This typically gives you the problem of too low humidity, as you remove humid air and get condensation in the heat exchange. There is risk of