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by thomasfl 6mo ago
Yes, architects still very much needs to draw by hand. Imagining working as an architect on a single family house. Being able to listen to the client and make drawings by hand in meetings is the best way to communicate architectural ideas.
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by thomasfl 7mo ago
Just likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker&#
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by thomasfl 7mo ago
Semantic web is for computers to read data from your website. WebMCP is for interacting with your website. Using URIs as identifiers and RDF as interchange format, makes it possible for LLM's and computers to understand well what somet
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by thomasfl 8mo ago
What are the use cases for Polis? Can it be used for city planning? It is a complex task with a lot of compronises to design towns.
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by thomasfl 8mo ago
Some brutalist architecture may be preserved, as a warning for future generations about the danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture. I am the founder of the architectural uprising non-profit in Norway. The primary goal of archi
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by thomasfl 10mo ago
If music is so valuable to us humans, then why can't humanity make a site like wikipedia for free music? There is a new generation growing up used to streaming services costing 10 bucks a month.
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by thomasfl 10mo ago
This is a nasty npm attack. It steals API keys and credits.
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Big attack on NPM – Shai-Hulud 2.0(about.gitlab.com)
2 points by thomasfl 10mo ago|3 comments
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by thomasfl 11mo ago
I want a small wrapper around slumber so it can take the same command line arguments and options as curl. I now there are several attempts at making a graphical UI for curl, but slumber has a very nice and simple cli.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Upvote for making a great city planning game. This could teach the young generation the importance of good city planning for the economy, the environment and the well-being of people. The architectural uprising is just as much about city pl
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Not many know that the inventor of the YAML specification built a fully working pendulum clock as a teenager. With Lego bricks. YAML is a good standard for simple settings files. For more complex data structures, use JSON.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Imagine talking to a "glasshole" for the first time. The "glasshole" is being able to do facial recognition while talking to you, and see a ton if info about you before you've been able to introduce yourself. What c
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by thomasfl 1y ago
I was new in the standards business. Believed this was common. Understand now that it wasn't.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
I worked for the Norwegian standard organization at the time. After seing with my own eyes how Microsoft was able to get OOXML approved, I quit doing standards. The OOXML standard is a joke. Three different ways to store basically the exact
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Many comments here defend the decision to bomb Hiroshima. Atomic bombs today are 80 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I find it difficult to defend a decision to drop an atomic bomb that powerful on a city of mi
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by thomasfl 1y ago
How about adding a demo? A demo may even be for a made up non existing fund, named Acme Fund.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Why not use javascript, JSX and TypScript to produce PDF? You use the language you know already.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
Sometimes AI model generates technical debt. It happens for instance if AI generates code with dependancies that to old to be automatically be updated to the latest version.
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by thomasfl 1y ago
We humans are story telling species. RPG in Box is what got my 12 year old son interested in programing. Not python. Not AI. My son wants to tell stories and let others experience his stories. Programing is just a means to an end.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
Best read today. Social networks have a lot in common with cryptocurrency. Early adopters on instagram have a lot in common with early adopters with cryptomining computers in their bedroom.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
For ad free Youtube, go to https://yewtu.be or any other Invidious instances https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ There is an arms race between YouTube and Invidious. From time to time Invidious is not work
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by thomasfl 2y ago
My HN account is 18 years old. Still no successful businesses to speak of after a few attempts. Have started an NGO instead to promote better urban planning and design.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
This needs 164 MB of disk space. Not to bad. Thank you to the author for this.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
Clever product placement of iPhone and Starlink and excellent storytelling. Space age technology used to connect astronauts to their loved ones on earth. Can’t be done any better.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
Finally something that can benefit artists as a sketching tool.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
This site is actually an online shop for merchandise, like sweatshirts and caps. All packaged as an extremely innovative and advanced company. https://enron.com/collections/shop
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Private nuclear reactor - The Egg by Enron(enron.com)
3 points by thomasfl 2y ago|4 comments
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by thomasfl 2y ago
Nuclear energy you can trust.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
Buy CRT displays now! In a few year they will be sought after collector items.
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by thomasfl 2y ago
My favorite ruby debugging tool is pry. When the code "binding.pry" is executed in ruby, you get a irb like shell.

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