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wilgertvelinga··on Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
Considering that for the average person things, not food, nor housing, nor transport are the main drivers of our negative impact on this world. Repairing instead of throwing away is very undervalued.

See: https://myhiddenimpact.com/nl/en to discover your biggest impact driver and https://thinkbigactnow.org to learn more.

wilgertvelinga··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
Spot on! It's probably the stuff you buy that has the biggest impact on the planet.

Fill in this test to find out for yourself: https://myhiddenimpact.com/en/

wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Never trust anyone with a network setup like this... https://www.jmail.world/photos?photo=EFTA00002627-0
wilgertvelinga··on The Awful German Language (1880)
Why do you assume reduction?
wilgertvelinga··on Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
Is there anything Electrobun does to prevent XSS vulnerabilities? The docs actively promote setting .innerHTML, without any warning regarding concatenating user input.
wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: World's Radio – Listen to Radio Stations Worldwide
Tip: Venice!
wilgertvelinga··on How I Program in 2024
It's actually called mutation testing. And luckily it's almost fully automated.
wilgertvelinga··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Edmij | Senior data engineer & Senior Back-End Developer | Fulttime, Onsite >= 2 days a week | Amsterdam, NL

Edmij is a Climate Tech scale-up focused on electrifying the Dutch energy market. Using classic and machine learning methods to forecast weather patterns, electricity usage, and energy market dynamics, we are able to efficiently allocate energy production and consumption for our clients.

Our steering algorithms for solar panels, turbines, and batteries maximize green-energy production and consumption in the Netherlands, alleviating the pressure on an overloaded energy-grid. This allows more renewable energy capacity to be installed, as well as improving access of users to less carbon-intensive energy sources. We are very profitable so no need for outside investors, allowing us to take a long-term view.

In the last years we have grown into a major player with some of the most advanced software and algorithms in this niche market. The next phase requires a level of professionalization and scalability in our operations to allow for explosive growth. We are seeking an experienced data engineer that would like to build/improve our data platform, and a back-end developer to help create algorithms.

We’re a tightknit team of 20 mathematicians/econometricians/phycisists/metereologists/software developers. If you want to help us build a carbon-free future, please apply at https://edmij.nl/vacatures/senior-data-engineer/ or https://edmij.nl/vacatures/analytische-back-end-developer/

wilgertvelinga··on Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums
Not calling it DOG-E* is a waste of opportunity!

* Acronym tbd

wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
Offline multiplayer over bluetooth would be a great addition!
wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
'The Gorilla "mounting tape squares" are strong and don't leave any residue.'

Which is also an engineering marvel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-F2QQuZZGk

wilgertvelinga··on The Reddits
If you enjoy visual representations, try https://scrolldit.com/
wilgertvelinga··on Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta
Find ways to reduce those 10 minutes. Some ideas: - make the individual tests run faster - remove obsolete tests - increase parallellism - use a tool that can determine which tests to run based on what has changed, for example nx.dev.
wilgertvelinga··on Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta
The solution to that is mutation tests. They force your tests to actually verify the implementation instead of just running the code to fake coverage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing Tools and frameworks exist for almost all languages. Some examples:

- stryker-mutator (C#, Typescript)

- pitest (Java)

- mutatest (Python)

wilgertvelinga··on The appendix is not, in fact, useless
I've got the proof of the embryology in my throat. My uvula is partially split. See: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23943-bifid-u...
wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP
There is also a carbon offset company called wren, they're even Y Combinator alumni: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wren
wilgertvelinga··on Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
Sounds a lot like Azure Durable functions. Which we started using recently. Curious to know if inngest could also fit our use case.
wilgertvelinga··on Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?
Interesting, I would assume a smartwatch on your wrist would make it way more easy to get distracted. But I've never worn a smartwatch so maybe I'm wrong.
wilgertvelinga··on How to use a Breadboard. How do breadboards work? (2021) [video]
Even more in-depth from the magnificent Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-_rJqvDhQ
wilgertvelinga··on We’re all just temporarily abled
If you're in Europe, these are amazing: https://www.alpine.nl/products/partyplug
wilgertvelinga··on EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
It has all been calculated: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/science-and-techn...
wilgertvelinga··on EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
Do you have a source for that story. I'm curious to learn about the details!
wilgertvelinga··on Ask HN: What are household items that can be repaired but people often replace?
If you are on the verge of throwing something away, better to visit a repair café! https://www.repaircafe.org/en/
wilgertvelinga··on The great junk transfer is coming
In Amsterdam we have a Facebook Group called "Amsterdam Deelt/Geeft (Shares/Gives)" with 40k+ members. Almost anything you put up there is picked up within 24hrs by a very happy new owner!

I must have given a way over 50 items through this page. It is really nice that you can see the happiness of the person who will benefit from what you don't need anymore.

wilgertvelinga··on Use Git tactically
Switch to WebStorm / IntelliJ and enjoy the endless bliss of the local history and many other advanced life saving features!
wilgertvelinga··on Advantages of Monorepos (2015)
Did you hear about nx.dev?
wilgertvelinga··on Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python
You're mistaking recommended age for number of players. Recommended age is 8+.
wilgertvelinga··on To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
It is actually possible to be able to travel point to point on your own schedule in the same small amount of time without all those externalities. See Dutch cities like Utrecht and Amsterdam. Where everything is a bike ride away.
wilgertvelinga··on Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
Immune by Phillipp Dettmer. It explains the second most complex system in the universe in enough detail to understand it.
wilgertvelinga··on Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion
You can use https://www.projectcece.nl/ to search for sustainable items and https://goodonyou.eco/ to check if your favorite brand is actually sustainable. Additionally of course you should buy second hand through thriftshops or something like https://www.vinted.com/.
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