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Kichererbsenon Shells are two things

I refused to learn PowerShell for way to long. Now that I have, I've started to like it quite a lot. It has some weird stuff, but hey. So did Perl ;-)

Kichererbsenon Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting

You'd think, but time and time again, the "rabble" votes against it's own interest. We had an initiative for 6 weeks holidays - shot down. We had other good (IMO) initiatives on UBI, Healthcare, you name it - shot down. The system is quite stable and is also not immune to lobbying and fearmongering. It seems both qualities can be true at the same time.

Kichererbsenon QTS refits Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes with waste heat

Also known as a heat pump. Depending on the temperature lift, these can be very efficient. Low temperature district heating networks are an interesting thing to look into: Low temperature means the heat losses in the network are smaller (heat losses, if I remember correctly, are proportional to the temperature difference) and at the consumer side, a heat pump can lift it back up to the temperature required for a floor (or ceiling) heating. This is _way_ more efficient than an air-to-air heat pump or even an air-to-water heat pump. [Citation Required]

Kichererbsenon Solar-powered headphones

But how would you connect such a device to your iphone?

Kichererbsenon The Rise of SQL

literally. it was my first real exposure to functional programming.

Kichererbsenon What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

That's basically the plot of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!

Kichererbsenon Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?

Take a course on parenting. I got a _lot_ of value out of the STEP training (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting). You wouldn't get a dog without learning how to train dogs - getting a kid should follow the same logic!

Kichererbsenon Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify

I think that's what they're getting at: Download, then use client of choice?

Kichererbsenon [dead]

Did they seriously forget to mention Step 6? Check the toilet bowl after flushing. Did everything flush? If not, flush again. Is there any residue left on the porcelain? If so, use that toilet-brushy-thingy to clean that and flush again. Pro tip: lift the seat _before_ using the toilet-brushy-thingy to avoid droplets on the seat and then replace seat when done for marital reasons.

Kichererbsenon Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist or whatever someone who studies this stuff is called. But from what I've been able to gather, actually having the RNA be in it's own membrane (an "organelle" they're calling it in the article) is not something you'd usually expect in a bacterium. If I remember correctly, they're more "soupy" inside.

Kichererbsenon Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

I had a 2 hour train commute in 2000 - and a Palm V with a Forth (QForth?) and a copy of the SDK manual on it. Fun times! Really taught me a lot...

Kichererbsenon PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview

PowerShell as a _shell_ language though is really cool. Yes, scripting large scripts can be cumbersome, but actually having a PowerShell prompt beats having a cmd.exe prompt any day hands down!

Some of the things are not... ideal. And there's a bunch of legacy stuff in modern powershell that we could do without, but a REPL scripting language with pipe semantics is really useful on a day-to-day basis.

I'm not sure C# would work as a shell language at all.

Kichererbsenon Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop

this is totally expected behavior... "Me too." is local to f... what did you expect?

Kichererbsenon ISO should make all standards Publicly Available

That's exactly the point: Any business that can afford to spend on standards doesn't want to change any of this, because it helps keep out disruptors.

Kichererbsenon Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years

pretty sure sooner or later you're going to have to figure out what to do with defunct colonists anyway and disassembling them is not the worst option...

Kichererbsenon Web-based editor

was that you? i _love_ github1s. used it a few times. thank you so much!

Kichererbsenon Twike

Just checked the website - the Twike 5 (2021) with the largest battery should be able to do 190km/h and have a range of 500km. Those are optimistic numbers for sure, but not really "too slow", right?

Kichererbsenon Twike

There are still a few around in Zurich. They're quite expensive, though, so I guess that's why they didn't really take off. I might consider buying one for say... twice the price of a good electric bicycle.

Kichererbsenon New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

you mean like a woolen jumper?

Kichererbsenon Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

Not only that - the distribution my dad brought home included a _book_ (remember those?) which was actually a bunch of open source books collected in one! Tons of information on Unix stuff, shells, commands etc. I learnt so much from those books. I have no idea how someone would start in this day and age... (this was so important to tell for me that I finally stopped lurking and made an account _just_ for this comment!)