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hebrox··on Sugar Substitutes Surprise
It's not legal yet in Europe, but can't wait to try it out!
hebrox··on What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (2013)
Isn’t that question easily answered if we know if it’s a “factual” or “lived” subject that is being discussed?
hebrox··on Why you can’t tickle yourself
I just read an article about AI and ethics in a national newspaper. 90% was about the researcher and not about the research. I really dislike human interest stories when expecting some more depth.
hebrox··on Why doesn't Bash’s ‘set -e’ do what I expected? (2021)
Thanks! I'm not doing a lot of bash scripting, so there's always something weird happening.

`set -Eeuxo pipefail` will be my new default.

hebrox··on BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely
Maybe his next article will be about antimatter?
hebrox··on Many scientists see fusion as the future of energy
Just add some other renewables, storage, load shifting and interconnects, and the story continues.
hebrox··on I don’t believe in sprints
I understand the feeling, but isn't everything eventually broken down into small tasks?
hebrox··on US Job Outlook for Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers
With a declining population, wouldn’t you expect less demand?
hebrox··on Ask HN: Internship for a Java Role
When I did my internship in 2000, they paid me 1000 euro/m for doing web dev stuff on the Microsoft stack. This was in the Netherlands, and I'm Dutch, so maybe not the same situation.
hebrox··on The number input is the worst input
I was just looking into this today. iOS shows a decimal separator (a comma in the Netherlands) with `inputmode=decimal` and none for `inputmode=numeric`. You can try it out here: https://output.jsbin.com/necuzoj
hebrox··on iOS 16 Available September 12th
Can you share the 3D model for the mount?

Would love to try it first, before buying the expensive Apple licensed one.

hebrox··on Hydrogen battery startup says it has $700M order backlog
I’ve been dreaming about this for 15+ years and for me an important ideological aspect is decentralization. The amount of Bad Things tm that happened related to energy is immense.

Power to the people ;)

hebrox··on Hydrogen production from the air
So it's not the copper, but the bureaucracy then?

Could that maybe be fixed by the political will that Putin is creating all over Europe?

hebrox··on EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
It kinda happened, South Park even made an episode about it!
hebrox··on The Rise of SQL
ORMs: "Making easy things easy, and hard things harder"

I do like query builders though. But I think you need to understand and have easy access to the SQL that is being generated.

hebrox··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
That's what I like about Tesla, it has buttons for stuff you'd expect (lights, cruise control, wipers, volume, media navigation, a/c) and touchscreen for something complex like navigation or for settings that aren't used frequently.
hebrox··on Artificial synapses 10k times faster than real thing
I think we agree on that it’s made by humans. The discussion is about what is being made. Just because a tennis ball is round, we don’t call it an artificial sun.
hebrox··on Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with TypeScript inference
We're using TypeBox [0]: you use TypeScript to create JSON Schema's and it gives you a compile-time type.

From the documentation:

    const T = Type.String()     // const T = { type: 'string' }
    type T = Static<typeof T>   // type T = string

The main thing we're using it for now, is defining an OpenAPI schema and using the types in the front-end and backend, and using the schema to validate requests and responses, both client-side as well as server-side. Validation is done using avj [1].

We used Joi before and want to replace that code with JSON Schema, but that is quite the hassle. I like that TypeBox uses JSON Schema underneath, so migrating to another library should be easy.

[0] https://github.com/sinclairzx81/typebox

[1] https://ajv.js.org/

hebrox··on Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace humans
Can you name a few?
hebrox··on Life is not short
They used this song in Spanish class I took in Medellin. I think I’m not the only one who spent some time there and spends some time here on HN. Don’t underestimate that Venn diagram :) (Does early Shakira count?)
hebrox··on The Machine Learning Job Market
May I ask what you're working on?
hebrox··on There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)
I'm actually looking into this. Just an hour ago I mailed the local university that I won't be doing any courses there. My initial plan was to do a bachelor at around 50% speed. But working and having to girls (1,5 years and 3 weeks) makes that quite impossible. And looking at photos of myself at 17 makes me feel rather out of place at a university at age 42.

The Open University has an AI master that I'm thinking about right now. It has about 25% of the math that I want to learn, so that would be a good start. I did some prep work (an official high school math certificate) last few months and I noticed that I need a schedule to keep me going.

One thing that I'm quite certain about, is that doing math is the most important thing. And doing math leads to more doing math.

hebrox··on Solar Power/Batteries are 60% of planned new U.S. electric generation capacity
With a heatpump it can be as cheap.
hebrox··on Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)
What is your expected timeline to produce relevant amounts of synthetic fuel?
hebrox··on 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
I just read somewhere last week that the The Netherlands would get a similar law. Searching for a link, I found out that its actually the European "New Deal for Consumers" package [0]

[0]:https://leveranciers.bol.com/en/need-help/legislation/legisl...

hebrox··on China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear reactors
Doing a quick sanity check, I think you're off by about 10x.

93% capacity factor nuclear [0]

1 GW

8700000000 kWh/year [1]

440 Wp @ 1960x1308x40 mm [2]

1.96 m

1.308 m

2.56368 m2

440 Wp

0.85 kWh factor for the Netherlands [3]

374 kWh per year

145.8840417 kWh/m2

59636406.42 m2 for to match nuclear

59.63640642 km2

[0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+GW+to+kwh+per+year

[2] https://www.enfsolar.com/pv/panel-datasheet/crystalline/1049...

[3] https://www.tentensolar.nl/semi-overheid/dossiers/item/zonne...

hebrox··on Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results
And thankfully Brave on my iPhone does the same thing :)
hebrox··on The Highest Forms of Wealth
You mention goals twice as guiding force. It’s something that I read often, but what seems to mean different things to different people. Can you elaborate on what your goals are?
hebrox··on TypeScript 4.4 Beta
Using something like TypeBox [1] can help with that.

[1]https://github.com/sinclairzx81/typebox

hebrox··on What is the Axiom of Choice?
Is this [1] perhaps the book you’ll work through?

[1] https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/

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