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by jansan 4y ago
Rick Sanchez is a great fan of fart humor ("He may have manifested some sort of butt") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqYfoO1eqo
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by jansan 4y ago
Every Commodore 64 in every department store that I went to was running that loop (but with "Hello") after I left.
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by jansan 4y ago
There's nothing like the face of your friends when you pull out your Makita drill, connect it to the top of your vintage style coffee grinder and start grinding at 200rpm. This alone is worth purchasing a cordless drill (the bigger the
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by jansan 4y ago
I cannot find it right now, but our beloved Terry Davis once said something like this: "If you make having children enough of a hassle, people will stop having kids".
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by jansan 4y ago
I bought a hand cranked coffee grinder several years ago. After a while I got a little annoyed by the work it took to grind some coffee, so I made an adapter for my cordless drill. This made grinding coffee a lot easier when I needed a quic
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by jansan 4y ago
In winter, when the solar panels in Sweden will provide roughly zero electricity, this will be much closer to your definition of "off grid". But hey, during that season one can be "off grid" on the Bahamas.
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by jansan 4y ago
Since the sorting scene seems to be fully assembled in this thread, I take the opportunity to ask quick question about a use case that does not seem uncommon: Is there an algorithm that is especially efficient if the array contains many sor
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by jansan 4y ago
That is a great tool. Also, I learned about perfetto the first time today, after doing Javascript profiling for a few years.
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by jansan 4y ago
It would be great if there was a tool that shows you where deoptimization is taking place. IIRC the Chrome Javascript profiler once flagged functions where optimization failed, but this feature is not available in current versions of the de
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by jansan 4y ago
> Profilers also lie Yep, it becomes obvious when the Chrome profiler tells you that the CPU has spent a sizable amount of time on a javascript comment, which it sometimes actually does.
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by jansan 4y ago
There certainly are issues with precision: toFixed(1000.005, 2); // returns 1000.01 toFixed(1.005, 2) // returns 1 Rounding to a fixed number of fraction decimals is extremely tricky, much trickier than
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by jansan 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781403
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by jansan 4y ago
Apple is about money, nothing else. Look at their quarterly reports, they are not a byproduct of a higher ethics or anything
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by jansan 4y ago
>. There's this pipe dream that GDPR would somehow jumpstart a privacy-focused digital economy with viable alternatives to US-based services I would like to see this, but given the extremely shitty track record of European software
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by jansan 4y ago
Their ketchup has part number ZDK 259 101. They had the best curry ketchup ever, but for some obscure reason changed the supplier and recipe in 2018. Now it is just a curry ketchup like any other. Like the McDonald's szechuan sauce thi
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by jansan 4y ago
I do not know how much energy can be extracted from plastic bottles by burning them, but ist using oil for plastic bottles and then burning the plastic bottles better than burning the oil straight away?
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by jansan 4y ago
Just imagine the ragne of those trucks running on that "battery".
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by jansan 4y ago
I have a cheap UV-C lamp that I purchased from ebay. Aside from the danger to your skin and eyes, after running for a few minutes there will be a distinct ozone smell in the room. Once I keept it on for a few hours in a small room (windows
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by jansan 4y ago
If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.
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by jansan 4y ago
There are few things on this planet that I despise more than cruise ships. Be it the small Italian coastal towns, the beautiful fjords in Norway, tropical islands, wherever they go, it's like a swarm of locusts completely overwhelming
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by jansan 4y ago
Looks like they are not only attracting the best, but also a bunch of freeloaders.
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by jansan 4y ago
Did't you see the "Day in my life at the Twitter office video!"? https://www.tiktok.com/@realpankhilpatel/video/7159187292631... Normal people don't have vacations like that.
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by jansan 4y ago
For large projects Hydrogren will probably be attached to nitrogen to produce ammonium. Technology to handle ammonum has been availble for about 100 years now, and while it has its drawbacks (it is toxic), using ammomium solves a lot of iss
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by jansan 4y ago
And you think that isn't done already? If every country was like Norway, this would be the way to go. But good look doing this in the Netherlands.
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by jansan 4y ago
We need technologies to store electricity generated by renewables. If anyone has a better idea than hydrogen to do this in a scalable way, congratulations, you made the world a better place.
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by jansan 4y ago
Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.
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by jansan 4y ago
Long time ago a friend oof mine told me that Passat is a horrible choice for a car name, because it sounds like "Pas ça!" (=not that) in French. Can any native French speakers tell me if this really sounds awkward, or is it just a
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by jansan 4y ago
So glad to see that Rimac seems to be doing well. They had great plans for the 2020 Geneva motor show, where the C_TWO (now Nevera) was supposed to be officially presented, but the show was one of the first major events canceled due to COVI
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by jansan 4y ago
"Fit" in "survival of the fittest" was never about strength or health, but about fit as "to be adapted to a situation". This is a misunderstanding that I know is very common in the German speaking world where &
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by jansan 4y ago
So this was reported on October 31st, then escalated on November 3rd, and the "feature" is still in there. Seeing how severly this impacts users from France, this is slightly diappointing. Here is a discussion in the product suppo

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