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by tjansen 4y ago
Yes, was about to suggest Ramsey as well. His advice is quite repetitive (baby-steps..), but that's kind of the point: there are some easy rules that you will learn by heart if you listen to Ramsey for a few months. I live in Europe an
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by tjansen 4y ago
Not for me, labels like that confuse me even more. I rather have just "X" with a checkbox next to it. The root issue are negations like "disable X".
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by tjansen 4y ago
Even weirder than PartiQL is Microsoft's CosmosDB for NoSQL. Its query language is called SQL, despite the database name being NoSQL. Also a very limited SQL dialect, just a bit more convenient than PartiQL. Without joins across tables
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by tjansen 4y ago
My understanding is that modern heat pump installations for colder climates come with an electric heat strip, a conventional heating element. It will take over when the heat pump can't work efficiently anymore. So the heat pump will co
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by tjansen 4y ago
Back in the days of mostly static HTML, and maybe some simple JS for effects, you didn't need much complexity in the Frontend. Most logic was in the backend. That logic has moved to the Frontend, and so has the complexity. Yes, Fronten
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by tjansen 4y ago
Hmm... in the early days of HTML+CSS, there were a lot of visual people in the field. Some of them wrote some JavaScript, but stopped when things got too complex. These days they are doing UX design or create designs in Figma, and don'
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by tjansen 4y ago
> chasing TikTok without realizing that gen Z isn’t using that either So what is Gen Z using?
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by tjansen 4y ago
The issue is the amount of storage required. It depends a lot on the country, but here in Germany I think everybody agrees that we need to store enough energy to power the whole country for at least 2 weeks before we can get rid of fossil f
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by tjansen 4y ago
Yes, but it either needs storage or fossil backup. Otherwise you can't compare wind, even offshore wind, with a reliable source of energy.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Didn't they do that with Han Solo a long time ago?
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by tjansen 4y ago
In the last >10 years, I have ordered all my glasses from brille24.de and mrspex.de. Pricing usually starts at around 30 EUR for no-name frames, and even the no-name options are really good. Never had any problems. I am usually buying th
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by tjansen 4y ago
+1 Yes, I really miss Corel Xara! Stopped using it when I abandoned Windows. But it seems like there is a similar application on xara.com, Xara Designer Pro. Did anyone try this?
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by tjansen 4y ago
Google or Apple could change their app store policies to either require allowing it or offer APIs.
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Yes, it definitely needs interaction if the user did not define preferences in earlier conversations.
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think the translation from human speech to something a computer can execute already qualifies as AI. But there are a lot of other things that need to be considered, if the AI aims to be the equivalent of a human assistant. It needs to de
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by tjansen 4y ago
> For that to happen, the AI needs to already be working. I don't think that the AI will be primarily developed to replace apps. I would rather expect Alexa or Google Assistant or Siri to start supporting arbitrary APIs. > Closed
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think it will be mixed, using both pointing device or touch screen, and voice. Some things are easier with a pointing device. For example, when browsing the web, I could rather touch or click on a link than saying it out loud. But other t
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by tjansen 4y ago
It doesn't need to be free, but companies will need to adapt. I don't think there will be apps in 30 years.
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by tjansen 4y ago
> Why would companies want to expose APIs in this manner? They don't. But why would record companies want to license their music to streaming services instead of selling CDs? If the AI is there, and it offers a superior experience t
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by tjansen 4y ago
I think, long term, apps will disappear and we will get APIs and algorithms that are controlled by an AI engine. Apps are data silos that prevent an AI from doing the things it could. You should be able to tell the AI engine something like
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by tjansen 4y ago
The blocker is Windows backward-compatibility. Macs are only sold with ARMs these days. Many (most?) Chromebooks are also using ARM. But one of the main reasons for Windows is backward-compatibility, and you won't get it with ARM.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Whether that works depends on the company culture. It makes you look like "you're only working for the money" and people won't trust you because "you will switch as soon as you get a better offer".
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by tjansen 4y ago
We have tried Outschool for our kids to learn English (ESL). As others have written, it's hit or miss. Outschool does not provide any form of curriculum. It's just a portal that organizes classes via Zoom. The teachers we tried we
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by tjansen 4y ago
Problem with 13C in many European houses is that will get mold at 13C. The insulation prevents any ventilation.
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by tjansen 4y ago
During an inflation your salary is likely going up, and so are all other assets that you own or buy. Let's say you owe 100000 EUR for a 200000 EUR house, pay 2% interest, inflation rate of 10%. Your net worth is 100000 EUR in the first
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by tjansen 4y ago
> The seeming normality of service staff taking your card out-of-sight is also unnerving You usually don't need to do this anymore though. I think I have eaten out in the US about 15 times this year, and never needed to hand out my
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by tjansen 4y ago
Is it? In Germany, a double income household can also pay about 2100 EUR per month for public health insurance (if both partners earn at least 85k). Many people have additional insurances for dental and possibly other things that are not co
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by tjansen 4y ago
You're saying that nuclear is too slow, because it takes 10 years, so we should use unproven technology at unprecedented scale instead and hope that it works?
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by tjansen 4y ago
Transition to what? The only available technologies providing base load are fossils and nuclear.
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It's much better than coal. Most places don't have enough hydro, biogas or geothermal, and nuclear ran out of favour. There is currently nothing else that can deliver a base load.

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