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StefanHamminga

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StefanHamminga··on Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable Forms
This is extremely common in the Netherlands. Also very well sorted out these days. My parents' company used to assemble these. A specialised contractor digs and pours a concrete foundation for the walls and once those would be cured a crane, a loader truck and a crew of maybe 3-6 people would on average have a new house ready every 3 days (walls, floors, roofs, wiring, piping), 'ready' being very close to how they're sold to individual owners.

A prefab house design will typically be replicated in several projects / cities, usually with a few customisation options. Different prefab factories have different levels of standardisation and automation. The prefab production lines I designed long ago for example used fully parametric designs to offer standard concepts sized to fit. At the time (~10-15 years ago) a novelty, by now must be pretty standard.

StefanHamminga··on Why Rust is a great choice for startups
I've seen this in action: A startup I did consulting work for had a "genius" who convinced management that everything should be written in Haskell. As a consequence building a team was painfully slow, so slow that some guy in a weekend recreated in node.js what their 15 people team had painstaking put together in 3 months. Turns out doing a web service with tools meant for it was better than "everything should be functional".
StefanHamminga··on Async destructors, async genericity and completion futures
Am I the only one who would want [language] tags for these kind of ambiguous titles? This is about Rust, for those who wondered.
StefanHamminga··on Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?
Small victories.

Start with the smallest, simplest task you can complete. The endorphins from that you apply to the next small job and so on. Ideally each of these small tasks move you a tiny step towards your end goal(s).

The idea is to create and maintain a positive flow / momentum. If you stumble step back to something smaller and regain momentum. The difference with discipline (also a valuable trait) is that a good flow makes you _want_ instead of _need_, a more positive and less stressful mindset.

StefanHamminga··on Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024
The concept looks interesting, but I wonder what will happen when a car or trailer with these drives a road with snow / and or grit?

The open structure looks perfect for launching anything that will go into the slots into other traffic.

StefanHamminga··on Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications
I suppose they'll leverage 'function multi-version'[1], as Clear Linux already does[2] to enable extra instructions on the big cores.

[1]: `target_clones` -> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attribute...

[2]: https://github.com/clearlinux/make-fmv-patch

StefanHamminga··on 500 Lines or Less
.repository-content { display: flex; flex-direction: column; }

#readme { order: -1; }

You could add that to the page style (using a browser plugin).

StefanHamminga··on It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) – Why Recursion Still Matters
My 2c: Building a hierarchical structure requiring opening and closing tags/code/etc (like HTML) is where I like to use recursion. The code structure matches the data structure, so you only have to reason about it once.
StefanHamminga··on Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
For this reason I'm considering updating my Terms of Service to include a 'Windows 10 clause' clarifying that any OS that can't be trusted in its default state is in direct violation of any NDA provided by me and would nullify any NDA imposed by other parties.

This because, imho, the issue with every proposed 'fix' for Windows 10 is the same: The deal the Windows 10 buyer made with Microsoft is that Microsoft is allowed to monitor you. There is no guarantee that Microsoft won't disable any fix at a future time, like they do now with methods to bypass their software features (like activation).