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jhoechtl··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
A delicate topic with many perspectives. Our small families make it possible to devote so much energy to our kids. However autonomy is all so important to become a strong adult later. We deliberately need let go more than we do now.
jhoechtl··on The Importance of Being Idle
As you mention Lafarge. I think his fallacy and other theorists of its time and school of thinking was mankinds natural sense of enough os enough.

Lafarge wont come true with the quite large inequality of wealth and mankinds appetite for disteactions and general fear of silence and deep contemplation.

In the case of Europe much of generated wealth is wandering abroud (China: goods, US: digital services) so wealth doesn't get enough redistributed but is created somewhere else.

jhoechtl··on LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
> OpenOffice and LibreOffice already feel irrelevant and dated to begin with.

It is the only non cloud free office solution which is truely free. How can this be irrelevant?

jhoechtl··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
That the elite is poisoning the masses.
jhoechtl··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Ny that time office will be cloud only.
jhoechtl··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
The dispora means little though, the people in the country count as they live 365 days there without the convenient ability to comment from a distance and they are ones who would have to die for a turnover.
jhoechtl··on The Om Programming Language
Last commit is from 2 years
jhoechtl··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Space - no. Moon - yes

Space is cold but has little mass. Either heat can radiated or transfered. To transfer heat, mass which easily absorbs heat is required. The moon might be suitable for that.

jhoechtl··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
So do your marh then in the roman system and have fun with it.

Enjoy the warmth!

jhoechtl··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
I think it was Reagan turning all backwards orientated
jhoechtl··on Unscii
With sixel support finally comming to terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

we are full circle, 40 year later.

jhoechtl··on 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
But that wouldn't be cool
jhoechtl··on JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
I think JSON Schema made the same fallacy as eg. OWL did: The assumption of an open world. 99% percent of the time you want to express "This message should look like this and everything else is wrong". Instead JSON-S went the way to make everything possible at the price of rendering the default unwieldy.
jhoechtl··on Lenses in Julia
Is Julia a general purpose programming language? I mean I did check the web site which contains a "General Purpose" section, yet the articles seem to center around "scientific applications".
jhoechtl··on The Green Tea Garbage Collector
Wut? Oh boy https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8affineqb
jhoechtl··on Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
snow is acting as a mirror. Won't have the effect on green gras.
jhoechtl··on Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++
I guess the Rust workforce is tiny, opinionated and mentally demanding.
jhoechtl··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Time for the disposable vape web farm
jhoechtl··on Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide
Emacs with databases without org would be interessing. I now there is sql-mode which supposedly works to connect with an inferior process but a tuorial about that would be nice
jhoechtl··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
Thatcherism all the way down.
jhoechtl··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
> It is likely the hardware effiency of their chips. Apple SoCs running industry-standard benchmarks still run very cool, yet still show dominant performance

Dieselgate?

jhoechtl··on D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders
Using it - better: used it. It's outdated, doesn't understand key words of recent D2 - versions and doesn't integrate well with emacs, i.e. default key bindings are IMHO not very emacsish.
jhoechtl··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Checking if you are sharing torrents, run a tor node, mine coins?
jhoechtl··on Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner
Uh yeah, my mistake
jhoechtl··on Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner
That makes a very intersting read and adds the necessary context to the previous comment how that plan can actually be legally sold.
jhoechtl··on Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner
> It sounds like Airbus’s bet on the future paid of

Well they did bet on the Dreamliner, fell on their nose and still recovered.

jhoechtl··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
For some your comment might sound even comic but it is damn true. It safens me that the dangerous spiral is not seen by many others.

After all, the milenia old adage "bread and games" silences to many.

jhoechtl··on Org tutorials
I have on gripe, that is the mixture between org structure and org document heradings. I know, they are the same, and such a distinction doesn't exist.

You can start a "document" at any place in the org hierachy. I would rather prefer a distintion between these two concepts.

jhoechtl··on Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
What makes a modern Lisp? I am aware of Fennel and Jannet. Anyone havng experience with one of those or another one I am not aware of?
jhoechtl··on My favourite German word
Aufstand, Unterstand, Verstand, Umstand.

In german we have some of those -stand words.

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