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hetspookjee

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working on: - awow.io ; the workspace for humans & agents to better collaborate. - thisbit.ai ; ai efficient commenting on anything - weights.fyi ; affordable flex / batch / scavenge LLM jobs, soon including global /search and /fetch - rattle.fyi ; massive parallel red team agents - zyxio.xyz ; a managed k8s grid with very cheap pricing - sums.to ; the starting AI-native grid - maywe.email ; a lightweight newsletter & mail logic box. - jobflux.io [tba] ; AI native job search across all the vacancies in the netherlands

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hetspookjee··on Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite
Definitely seems the case here that hormones play a part. When my wife was pregnant she got 100% of the bites. Now we’re having a son and the bites are even again
hetspookjee··on Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
Having no experience with treesitter I find the query language rather hard to parse. From a practical point of view and experimenting with the library I’m not surprised to go with this nested For loop approach.
hetspookjee··on Improving cat food flavors with the help of feline taste-testers
I love cats and this way of thinking. I had a pet rabbit for some years and often wondered why the food seemed to be more geared towards what humans would like (e.g. cream strawberry candies), rather than what would be nice for a rabbit.

Off topic, but I wish there was a way to marry the desire for a feline partner and the survival of native bird species. Here in the suburb of Utrecht in the Netherlands they do wreak havoc on the local bird population. I like to feed the magpies to keep the cats a bit at bay as they are so aggresive towards cats. Sure, magpies also eat birds but they're so far inferior in hunting (and already well fed) that I'm sure their presence is a net positive for the smaller bird species in the neighborhood. I don't see another way cause forcing your cat to remain inside is also not fair towards the cat, but introducing them in a foreign hunting game walhalla is also not right.

hetspookjee··on Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
Quite interested in this board game. Do you have some more information on this?
hetspookjee··on Tegelwippen
What book would you recommend to start to best understand the way you described the differences and similarities between the languages? It really is a very nice post and I’d like to thank you for it.
hetspookjee··on 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
I believe an ocean crossing was even done with this kind of vehicle.
hetspookjee··on Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth
Kombucha is another one.
hetspookjee··on Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
While I agree entirely I just wanna correct you for a bit:

The Gross Vehicle Weight (GVWR)refers to the maximum weight a vehicle is designed to carry including the net weight of the vehicle with accessories, plus the weight of passengers, fuel, and cargo, which is indeed a hefty 3375 kg.

The Weight Unladen (EU) is still a ridiculous 2810 kg for the EQS SUV 580 4matic

hetspookjee··on Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)
I rent any movie I’d like for like 3-4eu instead of a monthly subscription with a tiny offering.
hetspookjee··on Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically
This was the first time that the prediction of the water level was above 300cm and made the computer to close it automatically. It closed once before due to water level in 2007 but that was because the threshold was lowered to 260cm during the 2007 storm season. It’s tested every year though. Quite nice to spectate even though it takes two hours and is too slow to really see with the eye.
hetspookjee··on Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically
On December 21, 2023 the Maeslantkering was closed automatically at the 300 cm threshold for the first time in history. During the day a forecast had been made that the water level in Rotterdam would reach critical height of 300 cm above NAP at around 23:30. There were discussions to close the Maeslantkering manually before that time, and the Port of Rotterdam started reducing traffic at 16:00. Around 18:00 the traffic across the Nieuwe Waterweg came to a complete standstill. Before the decision was actually made to manually close the Maeslantkering, the computer systems intervened and had begun the automatic closing procedure. Closing started at 20:15, a process which takes about 2 hours. The next day at 4:45 the gates were opened again.[8]

From the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering

hetspookjee··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
Well I think one can start with a bit of an average car. I mean humans vary a lot too. Both in size and resilience. If there’d be some wireframe made that can represent a bit of the car rigidity of an average 2008 car for example we can definitely see how this monolith would vaporize any car, versus the Jazz that’d mostly dent itself in a crash. And include that in the rating as well. Current SUV trends are abysmal for others with their 800bhp and near 3000kg kerb weight. It’s I think a solid way to stop this race to the bottom.
hetspookjee··on Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs
From engineering explained the difference in the rollout for some fast cars is about 0.2-0.3 seconds on top of the actual number. Here’s the video https://youtu.be/9LTq45o0ttQ
hetspookjee··on NASA: Capillary Cup
Makes me wonder in how far you can actually. Wouldn’t the smell molecules also more or less stay roughly in the same space without convection and gravity playing their part?
hetspookjee··on Rimac unveils SineStack, battery energy storage system
Im quite bothered by the “standard” one foot roll-out that car manufacturers advertise these day with their 0-60 times. It’s not 0-60 with it when there’s one foot roll out so it just feels unrealistic. And besides the difference in time measured between actual 0-60 and the one with the one foot roll-out is huge.
hetspookjee··on iNaturalist strikes out on its own
What camera do you use? This one is so nicely zoomed https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132443637

Almost looks like an image from an electron microscope the way the grass stands up.

hetspookjee··on I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
Just take the leap with a new one that gives you good vibes. Skipping one side entirely is also a recipe for worse things to come. So, the longer you wait the worse it'll probably get.
hetspookjee··on Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?
Don't forget most of us are using Leibniz' notation for calculus, though. They invented calculus around the same time.
hetspookjee··on What to do about aggressive moose
That kill seemed pointless in so many ways. Couldn’t he just back off?
hetspookjee··on Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)
For all the times that I’ve seen woodpeckers at work. I only see them banging as hard as they could during mating season, as to make as much sound as possible to signal vitality. All other times I’ve seen them at work they’re calmly chipping away at a tree like a woodworker with a chisel, and no way near there max strength. Almost all articles I read only seem to mention that a woodpecker hammers as hard as possible all dag long which just isn’t true.

Also for anyone hearing a woodpecker banging metal, it’s the sound signaling during mating season. Dampen the metal and he’ll find another place.

hetspookjee··on Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Climber Ever? (2022)
To me it seems as a rather obvious playful creation that anyone can conjure, and I’d rather attribute it to convergent evolution. Much like calculus by Newton and Leibniz.
hetspookjee··on Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
Unfortunately quite some things only work entirely on Chrome. My default is still Firefox but it’s no getting around it at times.
hetspookjee··on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
I’m not suggesting an alternative material. I’m suggesting a more sane way of replacing the backside. For the iPhone 13 Pro it’s so expensive and hard to do they even just hand you a new phone rather than fixing it.
hetspookjee··on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
Oh come on. The backside is made of glass and costs an astonishing 570euros to replace. That’s not striving to do right.
hetspookjee··on 134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]
For some reason the feeling of getting exhausted on an ultralight racing bike feels much easier on the mind than getting exhausted on a regular bike with a flat tire. Similar with swimming with slick gear versus swimming with long shorts and a shirt.
hetspookjee··on NordVPN Review
If you’re going with a VPN provider one might as well go for a more privacy aware one like Mullvad.
hetspookjee··on Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities
A story that stood by me is the one of the lyre bird and the hunt to near extinction in the early 1900s for their impressive tail feathers. I cannot find the source on wikipedia anymore nor can I find these conservation efforts in a quick google search, but what stood by me is that 120 years ago people were also concerned about conservation of species.
hetspookjee··on Spain will introduce free train travel
No my experience is that I sit in the hallway every time I take the train. I often get redirected because there’s something on the trail and or I miss my next train because a few min delay caused the quite tightly planned next train to be missed.
hetspookjee··on Spain will introduce free train travel
Here in the Netherlands it’s most often cheaper to go by car. In addition the trains are horrible unreliable and stacked with people so odds of getting a seat are very small. I’m not sure how we got here.
hetspookjee··on State lotteries transfer wealth out of needy communities, investigation finds
I am very skeptic of this theory as a lot winners of lottery’s end up in enormous debt after few years due to horrible mismanagement of their funds. Why take this odd route and not just directly implement UBI if that is the goal?
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