roel_v

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by roel_v 10y ago
Not sure if trolling or just oblivious...
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by roel_v 10y ago
The self-retracting charger on the first one is very cool, and a very good solution to a common problem.
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by roel_v 10y ago
In the UK it's called 'computational thinking', which much better covers what such a curriculum is about. Parts of it can be done without a computer at all; a 'bubble sort dance' for example (getting students to sor
1774.
by roel_v 10y ago
I waited almost an hour for a cab in Sydney a few months ago, calling 3 times in between being told every time 'it's on its way', with a 3 and a 5 year old waiting outside on the sidewalk - not fun. Had to take the bus to g
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by roel_v 10y ago
It's rare but I've seen them < 5 years ago in remote locations where electricity isn't everywhere (like rural tourist destinations). I love them - makes me feel like I'm leading the travel high life in the 1970's
1776.
by roel_v 10y ago
C'mon man, you can't just dangle that in front of us and then not tell the story.
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by roel_v 10y ago
"The main problem is the preprocessor including hundreds of thousands of lines for a single compilation unit." Some code bases have no real way around that, but many are served well enough with precompiled headers.
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by roel_v 10y ago
Right, for some reason I thought the gp said monetary and I was keeping with what I thought was the terminology of the thread.
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by roel_v 10y ago
Except that we do. We assign monetary values to human lives in actuarial models every day. The statistical value of a human live in the Netherlands when considering traffic safety was E700k in the last project I worked on, but this varies b
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by roel_v 10y ago
Well it's used as a word in the mu koan. Might be archaic and not used in modern Chinese or Japanese, I don't know, but for 'mu' as the prefix we have (as far as I understand, which is admittedly not particularly deep) &
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by roel_v 11y ago
There were varying degrees of guilt when killing someone in Roman law already. Suggesting that involuntary manslaughter was 'invented' because of trains is preposterous. You might be thinking of corporate manslaughter but that&#x2
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by roel_v 11y ago
Yes I got that part, but it still turns out I'm the idiot here - I had set the view mode to 'individual plates' instead of 'plate groups' (I didn't understand what it was for so I was poking around) and then it
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by roel_v 11y ago
If this is the state of the art, then we needn't be very worried. The demo site shows horrible results - the same plate is recognized 2 dozen times as different numbers every time, over a time span of 2 seconds. I'm pretty sure th
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by roel_v 11y ago
So what's the goal in such a competition? Produce a certain volume of smoke asap? (I never cease to be amazed by what people spend their spare time on)
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by roel_v 11y ago
Do you feel the online aspect of such a procedure would make things materially cheaper? In other words, are the costs really in the time spend in court, or is it maybe that preparations for oral arguments are much more expensive? I'm a
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by roel_v 11y ago
"I think the 'competitive vape' scene use nicotine-free substances" This is probably a ridiculous question, but you don't mean that there are vaping competitions, do you?
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by roel_v 11y ago
Panels would be build elsewhere, installation is once in two or three decades, maintenance is minimal and low skill. The only profit is land lease, which will only benefit those that have plenty of money already. So I think no, this won&#x2
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by roel_v 11y ago
woosh
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by roel_v 11y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy - we're now at the 6th season of hearing "winter is coming", it's bound to happen any time now.
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by roel_v 11y ago
Most everybody does not include Italy in "Western" Europe. Italy is "South Europe", along with Spain, Portugal, Greece etc. Heck, even the European Commission divides Europe into West (fr, be, nl, uk, de), North (se, no,
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by roel_v 11y ago
Abs are made in the gym and revealed in the kitchen.
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by roel_v 11y ago
"Think A-roads in town centres, with houses on one side and a park on the other." Where are those houses so cheap that it becomes profitable to bet on the emergence of autonomous EV's only? Cheap houses are cheap in most plac
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by roel_v 11y ago
For people working in an office, you could have a spare machine with a full copy of the whole Dropbox; then LAN sync makes updating a lot faster. I already do this because I have to change my selective sync set quite often.
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by roel_v 11y ago
" But adding an extra decision point where the worst that can happen is that the prosecution that was going forward keeps going forward, and the best that can happen is that the case gets dropped without the ordeal of a trial sounds li
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by roel_v 11y ago
"but the polygraph just helps shortcut it" The point is that polygraphs are utter nonsense, at about the same level as reading tea leaves. Had she failed the polygraph, she'd still be prosecuted. No judicial process should ha
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by roel_v 11y ago
Yes, the coffee shops do, and I'm not arguing that the residency-requirement wasn't (and isn't) a stupid idea. My point is that drug tourism isn't a net positive for the broader Dutch economy. Again, I'm not saying
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by roel_v 11y ago
Many Dutch cities take active measures against drug tourists. They are not a profitable or desirable crowd. Besides, most drug tourism is and always has been from countries where drugs laws are still (relatively) strict.
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by roel_v 11y ago
Yes, that's why I wrote '(satirical, debunked)'.
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by roel_v 11y ago
No, it's just perpetuating the very damaging mindset of 'everything must be codified and spelled out into tedious detail'. Look, I enjoy taking the mick out of religion as much as the next guy, and there are many cases where
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by roel_v 11y ago
This would be a valuable addition to other methods of determining presence in building automation systems. What would it take/cost to build a tiny dedicated device that would wake up every, say, 5 seconds, analyze wifi signals (what&#x

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