janlaureys

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by janlaureys 8y ago
Weren't they planning to use their gigafactories to build batteries themselves as well ? I remember reading that a full gigafactory would process the same amount of silicium as the total current world production (at the time).
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Medical sector ?
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Both my parents and my in-laws have ceramic electric stoves with capacitative buttons (or resistive, not sure) that stop working when your fingers are wet or greasy or the stovetop is too hot. It's horrible.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Airports make a fair share of their money by passengers hanging around and spending money in shops and restaurants. This video is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdU1WTBJMl0
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Whew, how you can possibly wrap your mind around 10^10^120 is a mystery to me.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
I think https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug... is what you're looking for.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
I once posted a timelapse video of my commute on facebook and people were calling me out for not blurring license plates. This guy just walks around all day live streaming the life of random people ? How is that not a clear violation of pri
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by janlaureys 8y ago
That comic made me lightheaded.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Especially on mobile some of these cookie management screens I've seen lately are HORRIBLE. If you're gonna make me click on every single partner to opt out of their tracking, I'm just not gonna use your site.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Probably just that guy who made Flappy Bird I guess.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Calorie counting apps are great for battling that, after a while I'm like: "Is it worth running 2 hours for this bag of potato chips ?"
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by janlaureys 8y ago
All calories are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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by janlaureys 8y ago
Might be because Google Maps and Waze are getting closer entwined.
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by janlaureys 9y ago
Yeah reactivating just requires 1 login, I've done it a few times. Sometimes it asks you to point out a few friends in a bunch of pictures. The fact that your failed login reactivated your account is kinda scary. Anyone could just try
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by janlaureys 9y ago
Last week a documentary aired about our (Belgian) National Rail Service. They interviewed the "punctuality manager" and he was kind of angry about how all personnel wants fancy IT infrastructure and better tablets and integrated s
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by janlaureys 9y ago
I find this a really interesting concept but really hard to pull off on a big scale. First of all I thinkg battery energy density will have to multiply a few times. Traffic will have to be actively monitored 24/7 to avoid collisions, a
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by janlaureys 9y ago
This gives me PTSD to a consulting job I had as a web developer where every 15-30 minutes the project manager would come up to my desk to ask what I've been up to and what I had achieved (in the last 15 minutes). He'd also get ups
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by janlaureys 9y ago
There was a media event yesterday at the launch site. Look how tiny those people are in this picture: https://i.redd.it/pq77omcrwge01.jpg
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by janlaureys 9y ago
Mentally
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by janlaureys 9y ago
Remember that fb sattelite explosion ? If Falcon Heavy explodes (and I really hope it doesn't) the blast will be three times as big. I don't think I'm prepared.
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by janlaureys 9y ago
But then their prices would go up because their income goes up, pretty much crippling their business model.
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by janlaureys 9y ago
I tend to agree, but at least a few times a day have to resort to using !g to actually find a decent result. It's usually Angular/Symfony related but just last week I couldn't find the website of my local tennis club at all,
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by janlaureys 9y ago
Praise to everyone involved in managing blocking lists. <3