jaakl

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by jaakl 2y ago
Yep it is not to OP really. Just observation how programming numbers works nowadays: I had my first useful miniprogram using about 3-4 cryptic bytes about 33 years ago, now you can make a playable game with <200 chars of human language.
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by jaakl 2y ago
In nutiteq mobile maps SDK (later Carto, now abandonware) we used specifically compressed bitmap to represent 'water' and 'empty land' tilemasks to cover these two special cases. We provided planet-scale mobile embedded
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by jaakl 2y ago
Why so many bytes? I wrote one using just 141 bytes and it took just few seconds to write, and it is the first functional game I've ever written). Result: https://claude.site/artifacts/3b35069f-4d51-4415-9f58-69988
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by jaakl 2y ago
Sweden is building now new prison for underage and lacks thousands of seats for inmates. Other countries are talking about renting their spare capacities to them.
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by jaakl 2y ago
I wish it would work with actual building building projects…
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by jaakl 2y ago
Just an idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41111145
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by jaakl 2y ago
1M is xlsx file format limitation, and Excel on Mac can work with 1M just fine. But Excel is spreadsheet and not a database, so if you use it for so big datasets (anything over 1000 rows or so) you are very probably just using plain wrong t
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by jaakl 2y ago
It is not a real supply shortage: number of families has not gone up and number of homes has not decreased. It is just increase of demand side, probably due to the printed new money and income increase. People could just live as before but
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by jaakl 3y ago
Made me think how different can be generations and what is countless. I can count back 2 and have not even seen anything about my grandfather who was born 101 years before me (1875). At least I have “signature” as XXX in 1860ies on a plan o
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by jaakl 3y ago
So probably Suojelupoliisi, Finnish Security and Intelligence Service is behind all this
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by jaakl 3y ago
I thought the sensor can be used to check if my kids are making their own beds properly.
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by jaakl 3y ago
Common sense has a new meaning nowadays: it is just opposite of educated. And in that semantic space education = brainwashing. So yes, by that definition higher education (etc) leads to less common sense.
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by jaakl 3y ago
I remember serious time slowdown - eg distortion of sound pitch, just like with slowed down grammaphone with overuse of cannabis back in the university times. It was interesting, but not pleasant. But I guess thats quite common thing for m
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by jaakl 3y ago
Natural join is actually nice mental test of db semantics - if it does not just work, you have probably mixup of column names (same name meaning different things). If you have really clean and good patterns (I know you dont and you dont dis
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by jaakl 3y ago
Offline maps in Google have been blocked also by map data license terms - their providers just dont want to allow this, as they want to sell it as premium thing.
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by jaakl 3y ago
Estonian probably better known unicorns are Skype (now Microsoft/Teams), Pipedrive (CRM), Bolt (EU biggest Uber alternative), Starship (robotics), Wise, Sixfold (now Trimble) As Estonian I would recommend any of them, but it is just ho
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by jaakl 3y ago
This is essentially po box (or more just fake address) for Estonian e-resident companies ( https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/ ). It is quite popular for fellow neighbours Russians, Belorussians etc for whom their local country is
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by jaakl 4y ago
Only an Italian papparazzi can do that
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by jaakl 4y ago
In the other hand they were not dying from technology induced accidents, like traffic :) Sure it is simplification, but the point is that statistical average life duration and total lifespan of adult person have quite weak correlations. Act
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by jaakl 4y ago
Free (and messy from data user perspective) tagging of OSM is not a bug but feature: the system is optimized for map creator. Maybe it is the main thing why OSM was (and is) success compared to many other crowdmapping attempts. Sure map use
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by jaakl 4y ago
There are other factors too, sure. But I’d like to remind here that wars killing people too soon are still a thing, now even in the Global North. If you have any means to help to bring end closer to these current issues, please do so. We ha
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by jaakl 4y ago
The only thing what has changed is childhood mortality. If you take statistical lifetime of most animals (say frogs) and count in all offspring with hope to describe their average life duration then it would be low number of seconds. Human
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by jaakl 4y ago
Bad carma for 7 generations
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by jaakl 5y ago
Now if I add to all my backend response headers ”x-terms: you must agree usage terms: https://xn--blah-jb7a would it make it explicit enough, also for the ignorant engineer with “But this API just works” attitude ? It should be
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by jaakl 5y ago
Colonizing another place in the solar system makes sense in long run. We eventually need to escape our star and reach others. Not even in thusands, more like in few millions of years to come. Mars would be one baby step. But doing it now wo
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by jaakl 6y ago
There is one curve following Moore’s Law alarmingly accurately: global temperature record. Many say it is direct result of the other curves, industrialism, perhaps even capitalism in general. What about trying to fix this first?
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by jaakl 6y ago
Any references to this kind on swings happened ever, or in specific time?
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by jaakl 6y ago
Yep, and RR gives nice preview what web would look like with two-way links.
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by jaakl 6y ago
If anything can reduce/limit now the climate catastrophe then it is total transformation to clean electric energy which is produced with minimal emissions: housing, transport, industry, everything must go electric. Producing does not n
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by jaakl 6y ago
Yep, just saw it also. This speculates that we are fake. My curiosity is whether it is possible to prove or falsify it. Descartes had quite strong proof that we do exist (cogito...), but also he was not able to say are we real, or what we r

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