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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
VBA is the ultimate agile programming language. The company's IT aka Bureaucracy Department is stuck with Scrum, Squads and what not. And meanwhile in the other departments people are just getting things done with Excel/VBA. Not
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The question then is, what heat? From the stars and moon is almost nothing. No idea what it exactly is, but assume that a clear sky at night has about -170 C temp (you are looking at the cold universe, only some CO2 in between to absorb). S
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One bummer is that modern building codes ask for better insulating roofs. Think 15 cm mineral wool. Because of this it does not so much matter anymore how hot the roof becomes at the exterior. I doubt if you earn back the investment.
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At night they would do the opposite what you suggest. A very white surface would stay warmer, a black (in the sense of IR black) surface would radiate heat better and cool below dew.
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Somebody observed in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233905 seeing the town shake on camera
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Nice one, when I read it, I assumed a typo and that task was meant.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> not wanting to share the larger context ... or not being capable of articulating the larger context (edit: in which it would be the perfect case to do micro management)
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Is this a callout for micro management? Of course it is good to be clear on expectations, but the more specific leadership has to be in order to achieve their goals, the more likely they end up with a team that only does things when asked.
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Valuable lesson for a teenager to discover how people really are. I hope the police was more reasonable!
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
You can see the town Grindavik (camera 1) shake regularly. Could be the wind, or one of the 800 earthquakes per day.
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Live volcano and earthquake stream on Iceland [video](youtube.com)
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> Real customers won't object to that. They will. Either by bouncing the reservation page and/or by giving a nasty review.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
In the Netherlands an exceptional high percentage of houses are social - so they should not be expensive. But most of them are single family houses connected 'rijtjeshuis'. Think of them as flat buildings flipped over. I can imagi
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
The New York Times regularly have this flowing style of stories. It is often quite impressive. Once they did a simple flowless scroll type of story called 78 long minutes, about a scared police force during a school shooting. Very impressiv
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Forgot most of that, I consider this 'enterprise period' in my life as pretty boring. There was one product really popular then, but forgot the name. Sorry. A product I personally know is Oracle Designer . This could generate fai
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> The more organisational layers you have between you and the customers - architects, business analysts, and the like - the more disconnected your work will be from the business value. Totally agree. However be aware that there is a trad
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Yes, reminds me of about 25/30 years ago when low code was at its high. Back then there were strict guidelines where to put business logic (client, server or both), how to name them. Everything had to originate from the model (model dr
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> mostly people just focus and fixate in the obstacle ahead Indeed! Forgot all about my takeaway #2 of the course, thanks for reminding me. People tend to focus wrong in an emergency. Look further ahead, get the bigger picture otherwise
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> And while discussions are still going on, people can inform themselves with good journalism, which supports the democracy. That is a looters mentality, sorry to say that. Paywall jumping software is like robbing a disabled old veteran
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I can dig deeper behind my face. It was a Volvo 850. After the incident the brake lights kept on. I had to repair the car twice. The first responding mechanic had a single sensor that sort of fitted. A few days later I had my regular mechan
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
For me this is grotesque. Democracy is in dispair so is journalism. What exactly is this software doing to support journalism or democracy?
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In the README there is a WHY paragraph: > Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy and informed decision-making. While media organizations have legitimate financial interests, it is crucial to strike a balance between
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I did a anti-slip course where we learned dosed breaking to reduce break distance. And once a circuit racing course where the instructor just told me to break with all force available. The latter stuck. This instructor logic was, only if yo
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Yes been there, still am actually. Also as a merchant I like a pro-active attitude of the bank to deal with fraud. But, more on-topic, bank accounts are definitely more stable than CCs. But they are not immune for seizures and fraud detecti
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Maybe the mouse keeper will help, a device I created when I was student. It is a motion detector duct taped to a vacuum cleaner. Works very good on mice, perhaps also on squirrels.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
OTOH I do hope a bank is allowed to go full stop on the brakes if needed. I had my CC blocked 4 times because of fraud detection. All done by the CC company and it never cost me anything but inconvenience. If the bank would be liable, we al
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
We simply should not blindly rely on services like banks. You can invent any other new system, but you will never avoid this to happen. The lesson to be learned here is never let yourself get cornered.
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Not only fine tech university folks like us can keep order. I lived in the Amsterdam Red Light district for a couple of years. It was said the criminals kept law and order, not the police . True or not, I never had any issue there, contrary
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
After reading the links you mentioned I do not support your opinion that Toyota is pushing this or a similar story since 2021. On the contrary, they announce huge investments and research breakthroughs for years now, but only now they are s
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Common sense let me think you need to calculate the value of the data that OpenAI receives. But the article quickly goes into a comparison between OpenAI, which is highly optimised for the AI workload versus the pricing of an instance at AW

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