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Comment · 3 months ago
Maybe the future generations will need to pay otherwise.
Comment · 4 months ago
I have the feeling that the author is really onto something: the explicit boundary between symbolic intent and real-world execution.

Type systems don’t cut it always, you sometimes need something in-between imperative code - which is hard to test all edge cases - and pure type system chasing. The sweet spot maybe lies in having a DSL (in this case "building business mutations") and have good building blocks.

Comment · 6 months ago
(and The Netherlands)
Comment · 7 months ago
If your air purifier sucks from and dumps into the same room it will do nothing for CO2 levels. Only for dust particulates.
Comment · 8 months ago
Is it also self-hosting as a sort of meta-quine?
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice setup although I remember that the efficiency of air tools is very low like around 1%. That’s also why they get replaced a lot.
Comment · 4 years ago
What if the plant grows?
Comment · 4 years ago
Does anyone know something similar for Europeans (I live in The Netherlands)? Common units used here are all metric; for heating I've seen Natural Gas Usage (in m3) used and GigaJoules. Also almost no-one here seems to use air conditioning.
Comment · 5 years ago
In the Amsterdam area there is ftth available. I have 500/500 for € 55.
Comment · 5 years ago
> a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs

Isn’t that called a duck?

Comment · 5 years ago
Can you recommend a book or course for improving ones ability to write good technical documentation?
Comment · 5 years ago
Yo mama's so fat, we had to set her column type to BLOB.
Comment · 5 years ago
I had one here in The Netherlands on my Volvo. I also remember setting it off accidentally many times.
Comment · 5 years ago

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