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by tjansen 5y ago
I think that LowCode makes more sense than NoCode, because sooner or later you will run into a requirement that requires a bit of code, but the LowCode tools I have used can be used without writing any real code. You only need simple expres
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by tjansen 5y ago
Yes. I don't have any experience with that because I never lived in a house like that, but practically all newer houses and apartments in Germany have an open floor plan.
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There are a few companies that build such houses, like bostonhaus.de and whitehouse.de .
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I always envied American Houses because they are so cheap and you get so much house for your money. Yes, they do feel flimsy to a German, especially the doors and windows, but that's something that would be easy to change (and I guess
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by tjansen 5y ago
I don't think so, because there are companies in Germany that build American-style houses that adhere to German energy efficiency rules, like https://www.bostonhaus.de . They use different windows and doors to achieve this,
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by tjansen 5y ago
> In the past, only very rich households had dedicated personnel for such kind of tasks, so i guess it was not that big % of people doing that. There were not many drivers either. But independent of drivers, shouldn't you also argue
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by tjansen 5y ago
If you think this through, with all the comfort people usually want, you end up with individual autonomous cars. When ignoring external constraints (energy use, traffic, parking space) it’s the optimal form of transport. Practically nobody
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by tjansen 5y ago
Yes, but does dwell time really matter? The EOL of a car is usually determined by the number of miles driven, not how long it stands without moving. On the other hand, if the (autonomous) car is not waiting for you, it needs to drive to yo
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by tjansen 5y ago
> As for safety, it would be much better to move as much of private traffic as possible to public transport. Not much better, probably slightly better than autonomous cars because the number of vehicles is smaller. But most people prefer
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by tjansen 5y ago
Newer driver licences issued after 2013 do have expiration dates. Older ones without printed expiration date will eventually expire, depending on the owner's birth year and the year they have been issued. The first ones will expire in
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by tjansen 5y ago
The article states that the first cases were connected to the wet market in Wuhan. But there is some evidence of earlier infections ( https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sars-cov-2s-spread... ). Not sure how credib
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by tjansen 5y ago
I have a couple of old projects, some also on HN, that I abandoned. Most of them had static sites, so I moved them to GitHub Pages, but didn't renew their domains. To answer why: these were all side projects. Over the years, I created
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by tjansen 5y ago
Does anyone mine in Europe? I can't imagine that, considering the cost of electricity here.
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Even if that's true, at least we would be betting on proven technology. What makes you think that unproven technology for storage can be built faster?
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by tjansen 5y ago
I guess a manufacturing limit is bad enough. The global battery production is expected to reach 2063 GWh/year by 2028 [0]. That wouldn't be enough to store China's electricity consumption for a single hour. The production wou
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by tjansen 5y ago
We are decades away from having enough storage to make wind and power a reliable power source. There is not even technology that would scale up enough to store a country's power for weeks or at least a few days. China just has announce
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by tjansen 5y ago
It's true, but when does it make sense to include plants that do not deliver reliable power? Wind power makes a lot of sense as long as you are still using fossil fuels. Every watt generated by wind power means that you can reduce foss
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by tjansen 5y ago
You can't compare 1/3rd of all plants being down with the volatility of wind power. On November 3, 2015, German wind power generated only 0.2 GW. Its power rating at that time was over 40 GW. How do you want to compensate for that
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by tjansen 5y ago
When I compare today's salaries with what developers were paid in the 90s, I don't get that impression. Salaries keep going up.
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by tjansen 5y ago
> Germany does have quite a lot of wind power doesn't it? Yes, but just not every week. The amount of energy produced per year by wind power is fine. But you'd need the capability to store it for weeks or even months to use it
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by tjansen 5y ago
Once you have them, is there any reason why you would want to ramp it down, other than trying to justify the existence of wind turbines?
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by tjansen 5y ago
>> So some very short passages were taking from other sources, but these were things like the list of countries that joined the EU. No, these were not just facts, but slightly edited passages taken from studies and other books ( https
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by tjansen 5y ago
https://www.emergencyreactor.org ?
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by tjansen 5y ago
There was a time when there was world-famous literature written in German, important scientific papers were written in German, German movies and music were successful internationally. That’s almost completely over. Today the German language
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> it's rare that I encounter someone without functional English and more and more interactions with government I don't worry so much about the interactions, but I think that top-down communication is difficult if you don'
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I never understood why no one did this in Germany or the Netherlands. It would make a city (or whole country) so much more attractive for international businesses.
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> including this site. What I find most interesting is that on HN, the Correct Thought depends on the time of day. I have seen quite a few comments that either didn't get any votes or even got a few upvotes in the European morning.
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by tjansen 5y ago
This is a study of 1597 athletes who were tested positive for Covid-19. 2.3% were diagnosed with myocarditis: https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/... As far as I know, you can get all the s
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by tjansen 5y ago
In order to use these findings to argue for or against vaccination, you'd first need to know what percentage of Covid-19 infections will cause myocarditis, and then compare them to the number caused by vaccinations. My understanding is
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Awesome. I loved Joust as a kid and spent countless hours playing it. Unfortunately the physics don't work as well as in the original. When you hit another player, the bounce is missing (and the egg, but I guess that's not importa

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