fho

15 ms·

151.
by fho 3y ago
The chance is high that you are reading this on a phone via a wifi connection right now. No (GSM) modem involved here.
152.
by fho 3y ago
I recently started at a big connector manufacturer... And I have to say, there is so much more that goes into connectors, even "simple" ones, than what is obvious to the end user.
153.
by fho 3y ago
Not sure if a myth, iirc it was literally in the ZFS manual last time I looked into ZFS (which to be fair was 10+ years ago).
154.
by fho 3y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I used Haskell "scripts" with relative success for a while. Stack has a nice script interpreter mode that is runnable in the familiar #! way. Even allows to add dependencies and if necessary compile the scri
155.
by fho 3y ago
Fun thing: (in Germany) some of the peope that are strictly against nuclear power now start to argue against wind too ... Because they don't like the look of the turbines and does nobody thing about the nature and ... Some can't b
156.
by fho 3y ago
R290 is straight up propane.
157.
by fho 3y ago
That's interesting ... Might be my specific view on Haskell, but there is a lot of emphasis on using the right data structure for the right job. That's probably because due to Haskell being immutable you have to rethink which stan
158.
by fho 3y ago
> It's expensive Definitely... The market is too small and everything is built by hand. You can get reasonable used ones for 4000-6000€, but you probably know that. Otoh you save gasoline which pays for itself after a while (3 years
159.
by fho 3y ago
I frequent a (German) VM forum ... there definitely are accidents. The only fatal one was on a crossing on fields were the high crop covered the VM ... not sure how high the crop was and if e.g. a child on a bike would have been visible. Ot
160.
by fho 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036224
161.
by fho 3y ago
> With such height I would expect it to be almost invidible to cars That's the first thing that comes up every time VMs are mentioned. It's definitely not false, but I feelel that some points should be mentioned: 1. Over all VM
162.
by fho 3y ago
Except that basically every velocar is vaporware atm. Here in Germany regulations are unnecessarily complex and your best option is to get 10-20 year old Velomobiles that can legally be driven as S-Pedelecs (up to 45 km/h) because they
163.
by fho 3y ago
It's crazy that basically no "fast Velomobile" is in the market. Something shaped like a velomobile (goes 100 km/h downhill by gravity alone), but some what bigger, with a motor and more safety features.
164.
by fho 3y ago
I would argue that the US are large enough that the diversity in the in the population is more extreme than in a single European country. Yes, they all identify as (US) Americans, but if you compare e.g. California to Minnesota the differen
165.
by fho 3y ago
> That type of quality, especially at that price, would be unheard of in the 1800s. Just compare role playing rule books from 30-40 years ago with those today. Back then they were mostly text with the occasional b/w line art and 10-
166.
by fho 3y ago
> but it doesn't mean making a proper Linux port is as easy as pressing the "Linux" button. Depends ... It can be that easy, sometimes. I was maintaining a huge Unity based VR setup the last years which had both Linux and
167.
by fho 3y ago
Also: generalizing something for all of Europe is as about as useful as generalizing for the US. Both span a huge landmass with diverse populations, but often people generalize from their point of view to the whole.
168.
by fho 3y ago
I think that's actually quite common on new car models. The dazzle paint job makes it harder for the press to see the shape. E.g.: https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/prototype-cars.html
169.
by fho 3y ago
That channel is great, but as with many I suspect that there is some sort of "shadow industry" that creates great YouTube channels "from scratch". If you compare inheritance machining to e.g. this old tony, the later has
170.
by fho 3y ago
Thanks for listening! At $10 per month unlimited searches I'll immediately switch. Also thanks for creating kagi. Kagi was the first "alternative" search that convinced me that there can be competition to Google. YaCy just do
171.
by fho 3y ago
Iirc there was a somewhat famous case where the design involved some gates that were obviously not connected to the rest of the logic. But if removed the results were different. Iirc the explanation was that the genetic algorithm created an
172.
by fho 3y ago
I basically just did that and got the job. The interesting bit is that after the (many) interview(s) I talked to some guys and was told not to do that because it would be too unusual and would decrease my chances :shrug:
173.
by fho 3y ago
You won me over by summarizing listicles to a short list :-) To be honest I think your pricing is to high. $25 for unlimited queries might be fine for somebody who needs a good search to work and earn appropriately. But as a (former) PhD st
174.
by fho 3y ago
Not in my experience, I had to start manually feeding my Venus fly traps. Otherwise they would die after some weeks. Never managed to keep one alive over winter.
175.
by fho 3y ago
That's pretty clever... QR codes even allow you to set the percentage of error correction allowed.
176.
by fho 3y ago
IANAastrologist, but "very quickly" probably still means several thousand years in astronomical terms.
177.
by fho 3y ago
Everything is quite fuzzy in the brain... The eye already does basic pattern recognition (stripes, contrasts, rings). One could argue that that is already part of the character detection/interpretation process.
178.
by fho 3y ago
You might be surprised to hear that the eye actually does a lot of "preprocessing" for the brain.
179.
by fho 3y ago
Didn't Google just switch to rolling releases? Also shout-out to Arch ... I've been using it since ... forever and never really had an issue in update.
180.
by fho 3y ago
Yep ... "back in my days" we even walked to primary school (crossing two medium sized roads on our own in the process). Today the alternative are cargo bikes modified for child transport which become more and more popular around h

More ›