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by speleding 1y ago
The railway system in the Netherlands is not privatized. The structure is publicly owned but operated under a concession model where both state-owned and private companies may run services. There are some regional operators that are private
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by speleding 1y ago
To do governing properly you want to understand the impact your policies are having, and I general that means more data can give you better answers. In a world where the invasion had not happened yet it was not unreasonable to collect as mu
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by speleding 1y ago
Yes, I agree, one or two good engineers should easily be enough, and preferable to a large team. In between having programmers on staff I ended up doing most of it myself. It was not for want of trying, but even getting someone to apply is
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by speleding 1y ago
Good question. The main problem I had was being too slow scaling up from 1 person. Building a good team is tricky, it's very hard to convince great devs to join you when you are by yourself at a time when they had a pick of jobs from F
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by speleding 1y ago
Congrats. A word of warning: I scaled my SaaS site to $1M in AAR in a few years, but then a lot of competition appeared and a decade later it's still at only $1.5M. I have a good time running it and I can live comfortably while feeding
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by speleding 1y ago
I agree that owning real estate doesn't seem a big issue to me, but urban design does: I lived on both sides of the pond and in the USA getting to a party usually involved driving somewhere. That means organizing to go there with a gro
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by speleding 1y ago
The concurrency story in Ruby is fine. We've been using multi-process Ruby scripts in production for over a decade. The pre 2.7 ruby had some issues, but it's been solid for years. The async/await programming paradigm is pain
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by speleding 1y ago
The main operating cost of running a bus line is the salary of the bus driver. It dwarfs vehicle maintenance cost and petrol. The VLR has the ambition to run autonomously eventually. Autonomous buses are quite a bit further into the future.
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by speleding 1y ago
If the vehicle is battery operated there is no longer a need to use metal wheels. Something like ABS, nylon or rubber probably results in less wear and noise. (Perhaps at the cost of a bit more dust from braking though)
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by speleding 1y ago
Hasn't that ship sailed? How would any type of ban work when the user can just redirect the banned query to a model in a different jurisdiction, for example, Deepseek? I don't think this genie is going back into the bottle, we&#x2
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by speleding 1y ago
If someone does leave a message we get an email from the voip service with that message as an attachment, and we listen to it. I figure that should be good enough to comply with the law. That's better than trying to call e.g. Google. (
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by speleding 1y ago
In our case Google updated the company phone number from the Chamber of Commerce register. We don't provide phone support, but by law you have to have a phone number in that register (in the Netherlands). I put a voip number in there t
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by speleding 1y ago
The baby bells actually took with them part of Bell Labs, renamed to Bellcore, that survived for another decade or so. I interned there whilst doing my MSc, it was still a great place for a while, with serious research. Wikipedia tells me i
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by speleding 1y ago
Another approach that may help you, that worked for me. I was not familiar with rust so I wrote an initial proof of concept in another language (Go in my case). Then I asked Claude AI to translate it to Rust. It compiled on the first try, t
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by speleding 1y ago
As an angel you do have a few advantages over VCs. There is no pressure to invest a certain amount within a certain time frame, so you can wait as long as you like until something comes along you really like. You can also do very small tick
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by speleding 1y ago
I agree with your general point, but I just read the book "Your life is manufactured" by Tim Minshall, in which he describes the production of toilet paper in detail and it's a surprising global industry. Wood pulp with the c
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by speleding 2y ago
I replied to the wrong comment! Sorry, I can no longer change it.
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by speleding 2y ago
Or..or..or.. don't use a framework! You can do so much with HTML5 + CSS + Vanilla JS nowadays. I think the default "let's start by picking a framework" is often wrong, unless you know from the start this is going to be a
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by speleding 2y ago
You can add all kind of verification scripts to git hooks, that trigger before and after someone pushes, like you do with GitHub actions. Whether you trust you devs less than your build pipeline is an organizational issue, but in our org on
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by speleding 2y ago
I would like to add one point: * Consider whether it's not easier to do away with CI in the cloud and just build locally on the dev's laptop With fast laptops and Docker you can get perfectly reproducible builds and tests locally
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by speleding 2y ago
A chicken needs 4 m2 per bird to be called free range (in the EU), a battery chicken needs less space than a sheet of paper, and they can be stacked. Then you need twice as much land to grow their feed, or more if you don't want to use
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by speleding 2y ago
Meat from free-range chickens has an ecological footprint about 4 times higher (they grow slower, live longer, so need more water and feed, while excreting more methane, and use up more land). It would indeed be interesting if packaging fro
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by speleding 2y ago
Over the last 10 years the number of programmers has grown enormously. So ruby dropping in position does not necessarily imply the absolute number of ruby programmers went down.
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by speleding 2y ago
A loan for a house typically isn't really "credit", because the value of the house covers the loan. The small print in your mortgage will say that if you default the bank will get the house. There is some risk to the bank bec
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by speleding 2y ago
You can use dig: dig +short -4 myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com (still an external service, but not reliant on a website)
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by speleding 2y ago
Actually the homes typically take heat out with a simple heat exchanger, not a heat pump. Projects previously could use the waste heat from electricity generation, but fewer of those sources are available with coal plants shutting down and
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by speleding 2y ago
I understand the sentiment, but as a Dutch person: The only thing I am more worried about than the government moving all our data to US clouds, is the government trying to do anything IT related themselves. They do not have the skill and ha
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by speleding 2y ago
I too missed the old VCS tools in the new UI. But it was 10 minutes work to get them back in the toolbar, along with a few other things I missed (and that setting syncs to my JetBrains account, so new installs get that same modification). I
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by speleding 2y ago
Somewhat surprisingly (to me), this is also found for User Interfaces [0]. The best initial design for a User Interface for a feature phone was done by designers who were not shown previous work by other designers. Iterations based on previ
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by speleding 2y ago
Yes, thanks, I've configured that for kids and other loved ones. But I can't pick up anything else, even sales people from India manage to use a number that appears local (in The Netherlands for me), so I might miss a call from th

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