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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Kröller Müller is also not flooded with people. The world's top musea, like van Gogh and Musée d'Orsay are a victim of their own success.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
In the Netherlands basic müsli is still popular after many decades. I swapped it for just a handful of nuts with three spoons greek (10% fat) yoghurt plus a double espresso. Super fast and lets me skip lunch. If I add carbs, like with müsli
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I can't imagine eating high carb and margarine is a problem for children. They burn anything they swallow especially if you stick to decent carbs like bread or rice. It derails where parents serve yoghurt drinks to babies (have seen th
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Same here. Took me years trying and failing. What worked for me was a full stop on sugar and avoiding supermarkets, gasoline and train stations at the beginning. I read recently that sugar is disappearing from the average the kitchen cupboa
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
PRQL is a solution in search of a problem. Lacking such, the problem had to be fabricated.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Agree, there are the usual suspects. For small companies the rules, especially on cookies, are intimidating and therefore ignored - however because are small so is the impact of it. For larger companies, the financial incentive to bend the
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Had similar journey years ago, entering the shop naively thinking: ah, it will cost me a month' salary, soit! I wonder how this goes at the other end of the table. Seeing all these young couples crazy rationalising their purchase, not
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Unfortunately, despite having appropriate laws for many years, these privacy rules are broken en masse . And why? If every EU country would simply check their top 1000 websites (and apps) pro actively, this would problem would not exist. N
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Diamonds are losing their allure(economist.com)
82 points by j-a-a-p 3y ago|128 comments
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
> it's no longer present in current Caddy but the bad taste still remains Adding a sponsor header is harmless (albeit useless IMO). For me that would be no reason to not choosing this software, and certainly no ground for having a &
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Same here, we did a VB6 project that allowed the customer to chat with their remote mortgage advisor using a webcam, around '98. The client was supposed to go to a local branch of the bank and then connect to the banks HQ. I have also
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I think the summer season this will be logical and doable. Everybody can do this driving. But the truckers get paid for the entire year. How would a self driven truck go when there is near zero visibility? They will stop and wait for a snow
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Gulp, an island decides to export sand while see levels are rising
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Did some camping (with only sleeping bag) at -40C, works great. The original plan was to build an iglo, but we learned too late that snow does not stick below a certain temperature. Luckily we had a snow storm, so soon after tugging in we w
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Death of the Calorie(economist.com)
4 points by j-a-a-p 3y ago|1 comments
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Confusing book, that ironically has the subject on interfaces - something that almost by definition should convey information as clearly as possible. Confusion as the title of the book, why do we interface? evolves to a perhaps more interes
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
An acquaintance of mine wrote commercial content for a living. Pretty repetitive work, which he performs remotely. He recently quit because of AI. This will happen more and more and the people concerned will often have a negative bias on AI
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Smoking must be banned because it is an annoying habit. These people smoke where ever they want, on the street, on a terras while other people are eating, in busy shopping streets. It is hard to understand how screwed up some smokers are. I
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Feels like old news. And maybe it is my bubble, but isn't smoking a rapidly dying habit? Research on vaping would be a more valuable and urgent subject IMHO.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
From university I learned that aluminium and steel both have around the same weight to strength ratio. The fact they use aluminum for airplanes is that steel will become too thin and is therefor not stiff enough. I think for bikes the oppos
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
The opposite is true. I would claim that even 100 drones would use less energy than one airship.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Beside the elegance and historical significance of airships, I don't get the advantage compared to a quad drone. If multiple cameras are needed, why not launch multiple drones? Simply tell the drones to platoon with the leader.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I have witnessed man's desire to shoot anything that flies. It was at a shooting range in the military, my group (ie eight soldiers) each had a full clip and were supposed to do target practice. Suddenly two unsuspicious ducks passed,
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
Digging a well after dark also adds to the experience.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
About the gas furnaces, their efficiency exceeds 100% because of water vapour condensation. It happens both in the furnace and in the plastic exhaust pipe that exchanges heat with the outside air inflow. Gas comes in, liquid goes out and yo
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
No, your point was on using propane gas to produce electricity for heating. If your consider/complicate the equation with other energy sources (coal, wind, ...) the outcome is more random. Heat pumps do not make sense unless the energy
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
At energy level a heat pump never made sense, it merits are with the fossil fuel transition. Example, a gas furnace runs at 100% efficiency (103% I believe). Heat pump at 300%. Gas to electricity to home goes at 30%. End to end they both pe
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
It would be great if natural gas is replaced with propane for households. Just imagine to fill up your ICE/LPG car at home, and to have a real wok burner without the need to change gas tanks.
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
And if you sneeze at propane it becomes liquid (-42C). Not sure how natural gas is stored though. Heating use is indeed very obvious, and so is transportation use. Many countries have an elaborate distribution network for LPG and fitting a
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by j-a-a-p 3y ago
I think it is the opposite, it will be very effective. But how to prove it works will be difficult as the goal is not safety, something easy to measure, but annoyance.

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