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Sounds interesting. Unfortunately not available in my country in the Android app store. I live in The Netherlands. If you're looking for feedback, you might want to double check th…

But in that case, it won't be subsidized by the manufacturer! I'm sure people would get a cheaper toaster in exchange of an ad being burned in your bread.

Same here, surprised that only you mentioned it here.

Elections are happening soon (April). It's not clear at all Orban will win this round of elections, see e.g. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-magyar-rival-rallie...

Curious to how well LLM's work in this context! (mentioned as one of the reasons to embed CAD in Rust) I only know of another text -> STL AI model, I'm quite a bit more excited abo…

Nice! You might want to fix your GitHub link in the footer though, it 404's for me right now :)

How much VRAM would this require, if I would want to run this locally? I bought a 12GB Nvidia card a year ago. In general I'm having a hard time to find the actual required hardwar…

Ah, 5x? At $WORK, the low code tool vendor that is used to build the monolith (and that of our sister company) is bought by a private equity firm. Our sister company will face a 7x…

Yep. I do create fresh db's from a fixture db using postgres's ability to create a database from a template. Very quick, always correct.

Wow. In the EU, canceling subscriptions must be as easy as signing up for them by law. My personal longest issue with ISP's was when the software config once went wrong in their si…

Which tool did you use to create that busy_spec.html file? They remind me of Engelbart's blue numbering system for documents, if I remember the name correctly.

Very nice! I talked (~10y ago) at a Nix meetup to a company that did over the air updates of bicycle shed usage signs in NL that ran on embedded linux systems. One of their bigger …

IMHO the constraints of these systems make them still quite fun to code for, just like solving sudoku puzzles can be fun. I found about this [1] amazing live coding session by lftk…

TIL that self-updating mobile apps are a thing. It is quite surprising to me that the app store gatekeepers don't force all app changes through their vetting process! Has this alwa…

Seems interesting. I can't decipher from the docs nor demo if this is about debugging _live_ behavior of the systems under observation, (e.g. it only captures stuff for which there…

Wow, that's quite different from the Netherlands. Here, we have the BAG, Basis Administratie Gebouwen (Base Administration Buildings). Muniplicities are the data owners, but data i…

Have you considered a water based heating/cooling system that uses the earth itself as its storage buffer?

Next to getting an (electronic) sit/standing desk, consider getting a treadmill that you can shove under your desk, if you have the space. I don't use it every day, not even every …

For me, deadlines work best if more people than me have a stake in the thing I'm working on.

As a motorcycle drivers myself, I think that the obsession of my fellow drivers with producing loud noises is childish. I really enjoy the acceleration though (when it's safe to e.…

Same in Dutch: "nar". Hofnar means court jester, which is a more well known word.

Well, Tanenbaum retired in 2014 [1], so the book probably won't get updated anymore. [1] http://www.few.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/

The original author is Dutch. In Dutch, "niks" (same pronunciation as Nix), actually means "nothing". His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".

If you ever visit Amsterdam for some time, and like to visit musea, check out Micropia [0]. It is a museam where they exhibit microbes, that you can explore using microscopes. [0] …

It's what you're used to. Cups and gallons are confusing to me! In some of my Dutch cook book, there are mentions of cups. But mostly as a relative unit; add one cup of X, two cups…