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by jorisboris 7mo ago
I feel we’re framing it in a negative way Our goal shouldn’t be to be coal free. Our goal should be to be 100% renewable. If we set up our goals in terms of what we don’t want, we end up in the situation we are right now: high energy costs,
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by jorisboris 7mo ago
Amsterdam also declared war against fatbikes. There are plenty of electrical bikes in Amsterdam, but only fatbikes are the problem according to the Amsterdam City Government. It seems they are targeted as a proxy for the people who drive th
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by jorisboris 7mo ago
Innovation brings a golden age, then innovation flattens, competition arises and branding becomes more important Flying was having its golden age around the times of Concorde and 747, coffee bars were great when Starbucks reinvented the 3rd
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by jorisboris 8mo ago
Codex completely remove the layer where you see the code and it doesn't bother me, which is surprising At least with Cursor or Claude Code I had an idea of what happened to the code. But it seems I don't need to see the code afte
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by jorisboris 8mo ago
I was reading the post and had the same feeling of superficiality. I don’t think a human wrote it tbh
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by jorisboris 8mo ago
1000 years ago there was the medieval warm period which at least for Northern Europe provided warmer temperatures than today (eg grapes in the Netherlands) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
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by jorisboris 9mo ago
Reason I shared this is because I wonder when ai assisted engineering interviews will become a trend
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by jorisboris 9mo ago
Kinda summarises my experience: I get a lot more done but learn a lot less I can now claim I have experience with Docker, AWS, Rasberry PIs, … but don’t ask me to do it myself manually
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McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul(ft.com)
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by jorisboris 9mo ago
> 4) why Singapore got to be such an important global hub. Thailand is still dreaming of building a canal to create an alternative option.
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by jorisboris 9mo ago
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” Presumably most politicians own one (or more) houses The fact that there is a housing crisis in most of the western world seems to prove this
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by jorisboris 10mo ago
In the old Michel Vaillant comics the f1 and indy cars seem to be interchangeable, they compete in each other’s championships Not sure if true given that it’s fiction, but they do seem to be based on reality
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by jorisboris 10mo ago
But you do need a different sticker for each country
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by jorisboris 10mo ago
If Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam don’t like it they can probably do something about it Every euro city seems to be able to set their own regulation on car exhausts So why not limit the sizes of cars or prohibit specific cars into the city?
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by jorisboris 11mo ago
Why, does it breach any rules?
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by jorisboris 11mo ago
Assuming energy consumption per capita continues to rise
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by jorisboris 11mo ago
I believe the more technologically advanced we live the more energy we will use. Travel requires energy, ai models require energy, healthy food requires energy The cheaper and more abundant we can make electricity, the faster we can reap th
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by jorisboris 11mo ago
The right hand keyboard could finally make me look like Boris from Golden Eye typing away while holding a pen in the left hand
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by jorisboris 1y ago
> As a reminder, this applies not just to devices that exclusively use the Google Play Store: this is for every Android Certified device everywhere in the world, which encompasses over 95% of all Android devices outside of China. So what
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Had a cancelled flight with Swiss which they claimed was birdstrike and hence force majeur. So no compensation …
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by jorisboris 1y ago
the pushups are a great idea
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Its not for the coffee They are not hostile to laptops, and overall they have a well-thought out vibe with convenient seating and electricity plugs everywhere
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Sounds like the start of the Die Hard 2 movie
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Yes, I’ve read the spy who came in from the cold, and i tried to read a perfect spy I liked the first one but its very raw and dark, no glitter and glamour I quit the second one, part of the book are flashback scenes and I had a hard time s
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by jorisboris 1y ago
I like the old world charm The book was written in the 50s, its way slower than the movie (though still a short read). Some things from the movie plot are the same I love details like how difficult it was to get something communicated acros
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
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by jorisboris 1y ago
I still have old personal projects on there Its inertia, its just not a priority to move them over
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by jorisboris 1y ago
At that time time they were still hunter gatherers. So they might have been aware of their surroundings, but I presume not as much if they would have been a sedentary community. The first communities started to settle more or less after the
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Yes, or Apple who with all the talent don’t manage to pull off anything useful in AI xAI seems to be the exception, not the rule
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by jorisboris 1y ago
Every time I read an article like this I end up in a rabbit hole of reading about ice ages, sea level changes, and how the human evolved throughout it. It’s mind boggling that only 20000 years ago the sea level was 120 meters lower and much

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