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by tda 2y ago
Concrete seawalls are almost always inferior to well engineered earth structures. Only when space is at a premium it may be better to use concrete, but in roughly all other cases a concrete structure is more expensive and more likely to fai
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by tda 2y ago
> In Italy is now illegal to send your kids to school alone before they turn 14, it's now legally child abandonment I find your claim very hard to believe, can you back this up? I did some searching and could not find anything to ba
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by tda 2y ago
But there are also costs considered: no flexibility, thus no way to hedge risk. Think weather, plagues and diseases, funghi whatever: If you single crop is vulnerable, now all of it is affected. The use of pesticides and fertiliser is also
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by tda 2y ago
And more, smaller, robots vs large tractors could put an end to monocultures. Monoculture is the result of optimizing for minimal human labour, not an optimization for yields. So when labour is free, mixed fields are the way to maximize pro
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by tda 2y ago
I seriously thought that implementing some site specific custom rendering behaviour was meant as a joke. Why change html/css for a website when you can just implement some hardcoded site specific behaviour straight in the rendering eng
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by tda 2y ago
Luckily we have https://elektrotanya.com . All it takes is a little civil disobedience and a few professional repair man to make all those manuals available to everyone in true hacker spirit.
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by tda 2y ago
except that customers that pay 10x have different expectations. They will have a dedicated account manager, SLA's with very short response times, etc
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by tda 2y ago
I was looking out for a new laptop but was wondering the same. This NPU thing might be one of Microsoft's bets that pays off, and makes all pre-NPU hardware obsolete quickly. Though of course they have doubled down on various failed pr
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by tda 2y ago
The version with per div reflowing might have been before android. My Sony P1i ran symbian I think, can't remember actually. It was way before reactive webpages were a thing. And it worked really well for making most desktop pages usab
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by tda 2y ago
Opera also had a mode where it reflowed individual div's to fit the screen, without reflowing the entire page. I remember looking for an alternative browser with this feature back when, but never finding one
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by tda 2y ago
Leaving out personal opinions, I would love to hear some thoughtful speculation on how this might pa out. Will the ICC actually approve the warrants? How far will the US and/or Israel go to threaten or discredit the ICC leadership? Wil
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by tda 2y ago
There is a brilliant talk by David Beazley on asyncio. I used it to write a Discrete Even Simulation tool. Pretty cool to be able to make your own implementation of asyncio and replace the system clock with a simulated time
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by tda 2y ago
The article is to light on details to claim anything radical. The operating principal is the exact same principal as a Voith Schneider Propeller, but then with more actuators and less linkages. That too me could just as well be a cost savin
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by tda 3y ago
If you want to know more of the origins of SQLite I can highly recommend this episode of the Corecursive podcast https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
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by tda 3y ago
I immediately thought of those videos when I read the title, but somehow she is missing from the wiki page, even though there is a section on popular culture.
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by tda 3y ago
The issue with climate change is exactly that: change. Doesn't matter if it get colder, dryer, wetter, warmer than it used too. It is a huge undertaking to change the built environment to handle conditions that were once seen as except
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by tda 3y ago
Yes, but to get the exact query with interpolated parameters that can be copy pasted into e.g. pgadmin for a nice explain analyze visualization is a bit more involved. As I could never remember it I always copy pasted that function in any p
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by tda 3y ago
Putting the blame for the climate crisis on environmentalists for opposing nuclear is very disingenuous. Nuclear would not have saved us from SUV's, consumption society or all the other forces wrecking the earth we live on. If nuclear
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by tda 3y ago
Yep, that trusty simple algorithm always works. I have some grafana dashboards that plot a lot of 3D data (x,y,z lines coloured by some sensor readings) using a plotly plugin. I can't pre-aggregate too much in the database, or I'l
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by tda 3y ago
And it is not only the variety of pieces, but also that the number of colors has exploded. Lego is becoming more like Playmobil, with the advantage that you have extra fun putting your sets together, and with the disadvantage that they will
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by tda 3y ago
I once was involved in project where 60M m3 of sand was pumped to the desert from the sea. It felt totally insane; all that sand was dredged from the sea, mixed with a ton of water and then pumped for some 5-15km using up to 6 5MW pumps in
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by tda 3y ago
Thanks for creating this, I had some fun exploring the set. What does the scale parameter stand for?
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by tda 3y ago
I am not so sure. I believe Israel only exists by the mercy of support from their Allies. The minute they lose that support Israel is doomed. The country is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Sure their military could win a conventional wa
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by tda 3y ago
Matplotlib is MATLAB inspired, but otherwise your point stands.
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by tda 3y ago
I quit iterating on my animations (led strip based bedlight with ESPHome/ESP32) due to the exact same frustrations (and that writing c++ in a yaml file is not really great). Care to share the code for your approach?
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by tda 3y ago
The article really could use a picture. If I understand correctly you can get a parabolic shape if you have a stretchy film over ring and apply a pressure differential. The spherical balloon functions as the support ring for an internal re
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by tda 3y ago
So it should be possible to combine this with piet and write a quine... Just putting this out there hoping I can need snipe anyone
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by tda 3y ago
Back in the days I recall there was some plug-in to query Pivot tables in postgres, but it was such a pain to use that a two step approach (query the column names, and then generate a second query based on these column names) with Python&#x
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by tda 3y ago
This is only a map of the primary connecting railways, find all other rail here: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/
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by tda 3y ago
The main problem I have with Kafka is that their sales team is too good: at my previous employer the CIO was convinced we needed Kafka and bought a contract for sever 100k. But we already had all our events in a postgres database. Admittedl

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