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rpwverheij

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I'm a passionate software engineer & artist in service of Life.

I've passionately committed myself for the last 11 years in search of the ultimate web technology. I've ended up building a CMS and programming framework for the Semantic Web. I'm launching this now as Semantu. It brings together Graph Database Technology, App building, Data visualization, Virtual Reality, Block-chain, Hand gestures, Multi dimensional story telling, Linguistic A.I. and others.

Above all my mission to reshape the internet so that it helps us to make sense of the world, helps us organize ourselves and helps us solve our biggest problems, together.

See www.semantu.com

Contact me at rene@semantu.com or telegram @renereborn

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rpwverheij··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650
rpwverheij··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
link to get up to speed on that?
rpwverheij··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
Yes, I do things like this too. Planning works great, but the same is true for making write-ups after completing a task. In this case you'd ask the agent to write up a document with all the rules for your refactoring based on the current thread (where you have discovered the rules with the agent as you go). Let it include examples and let it pause and report back to you if it comes across a situation that isn't fully covered by the current rules yet so you can review it ,update the rules, and then let it continue
rpwverheij··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
+1 for Superwhisper. It has an offline model for transcription. And it transcribes with very high accuracy for me and great speed.
rpwverheij··on Open Social
It seems a bit like this is reinventing what Linked Data (RDF) and Solid PODs already do. Solid: Personal storage repositories and granting access to different apps to read/write to it. Linked Data: you can link to other people's data with IRI's (URLS) and a common format is JSON-LD.

What's different here and why is it better? Do we really need another standard / protocol?

rpwverheij··on Cursor 1.0
have you compared Windsurf (previously codeium, had to look it up) to Github Copilot agent or ChatGPT? I'm mostly still using ChatGPT's App integration. It can see my currently open files in webstorm and can directly suggest and apply changes from the app. And I find the suggestions better then JetBrain's AI integrations. But curious about Windsurf / CoPilot Agent
rpwverheij··on Cursor 1.0
have you tried the CoPilot agent tab in Github copilot chat in Webstorm? I wonder if/why you find using it through VSCode better in any way then using it directly in WebStorm.
rpwverheij··on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
oh gosh really? there goes my optimism :|
rpwverheij··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
> 2. New water/oxygen/hydrogen land on earth fairly regularly due to comets, which are usually slushy balls of ice.

This + the fact that we've seen microbes come back to life after being frozen in polar ice for millions of years always seems like the most obvious explanation for the origins of cellular life on earth to me.

In other words, what's the chance that the immense complexity of cells did evolve from a molecular soup here on earth VS the chance that it formed somewhere in the universe and found its way here (and many other places)

rpwverheij··on We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake
wildy pedantic? I found it enlightening that without the properties of the quantum waves / particle clouds a molecule could not be. So it seems pretty crucial then to consider the perspective of particles as quantum waves. Which is not something I'm very familiar with. So I really enjoyed this article.
rpwverheij··on Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
Instead you want to avoid/deny eventual natural death for ever? Fight it? To be at peace with the process of aging and the thought of eventually dying is not the same as suicidal thinking.

> I cannot see a world in which this could be deemed healthy.

I cannot see a world in which fighting and avoiding natural death can take healthy forms. All matter decays. All things recycle. We have material bodies, hence we are part of the cycle of life. The old giving way to the new is a necessity for growth & evolution. I would even say it's beautiful. And healthy.

rpwverheij··on Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
that's a crucial detail that I did not read in the article. I've seen Next.js mentioned a lot, but havn't gotten to trying it yet. Reading the article I wasn't sure if this meant I would have to adopt Next.js. I definitely suffer from build tool configuration fatigue, so if it had to be through next.js (a new system for me) it's a lot less interesting, for me, in this moment.
rpwverheij··on Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
I agree. Semantic data would mean that others can easily understand the meaning of the data. In the semantic web this would be by using ontologies, which define the types of things and relations between these types of things. But just having your schema visible doesn't mean anyone understands it straight away, they would still need to make an effort to understand the schema of that specific application. And the schema is probably unique to that application. The end result is pretty much the same as for example exposing your database as a GraphQL endpoint. Take "The Graph" a web3 project exposing data of many different blockchain projects as GraphQL endpoints. It's nice, but I still need to make an effort to understand the meaning of each property in each endpoint. And a "transaction" in one project is not linked to the meaning of a "transaction" in another. A bit off topic, but ironically I therefor don't find the name 'The Graph' to be all that accurate.

Point in case: YES to at least remembering that web3 is (also) the Semantic Web. But no, this solution is not semantic data.

rpwverheij··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
Imho - the only good explanation of why anything exists is that whatever 'is' has always been, is all there is, and is nothing of itself at all. Contemplating that infinite & eternal nature of our existence reconnects me with the magic & mystery of life. It awakens in me a gratitude, an awe, a wonder, a not knowing.. On a practical level - chi qong, yoga, pranayama, sauna/cold plunge, shaking, running, love making, meditating, reading the diamond sutras, beach cleanups, gardening.. whatever calls in the moment and makes me feel more alive, more connection, love, joy, appreciation, etc
rpwverheij··on Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
click date / time saying "x days ago". click favorite.
rpwverheij··on A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
Exactly. Thank you for sharing that. I was wondering if there is a place that collects this. Not sure if you're related to the site, but when clicking through to an article the site shows german, even though Im visiting in English.
rpwverheij··on WebGL Fluid Simulation
for trippiness try Density diffusion: just a hair under 1(visually) velocity diffusion: 0.99 pressure: 0.2 vorticity: 30
rpwverheij··on Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal
good to know for this non native speaker. thank you
rpwverheij··on The State of JavaScript 2018
as someone who tried Angular and was so relieved with the simplicity of React, I have no idea how they can come to that conclusion. But then again, I'm not very well know with the field of enterprise customers
rpwverheij··on Western lifestyle may cause blood pressure to rise with age
eh, yes western life style. But no mention of the much higher consumption of animal products in the west - and the link between saturated fat and high blood pressure?
rpwverheij··on New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN
what I get from the article is that all 3 experiments are doing something new with antimatter in some way. So I imagine the extend to which we can actually make, handle and measure antimatter to be a very determining factor in what sort of experiments can be done
rpwverheij··on Removing jQuery from GitHub.com front end
nice list of polyfils at the bottom! Didn't know about `closest` yet for example.
rpwverheij··on Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
beautiful read, thank you. Does anyone collect these educational inspirational stories?
rpwverheij··on Tesla caused accident because “it didn't do what the driver requested”
Yes it has been updated. "According to the police the woman behind the wheel wanted to slowly make a turn but according to her the car suddenly gave more gas." .. indeed could be just a normal crash with the driver blaming the tech.
rpwverheij··on Tesla caused accident because “it didn't do what the driver requested”
The article basically states an accident happened with a Tesla, another car, bicyclist & scooter involved. The Tesla didn't respond to the driver and "went wild" because of a technical malfunction.

In general I'm curious how this plays out in the coming years when self driving vehicles cause accidents due to 'bugs'. The promise of self driving cars is much less accidents, but who can people blame if something goes wrong? Will these sort of accidents - as they build up in the coming years - lead to a slower adoption rate of the technology, thus potentially causing more accidents to keep happening than would have been the case if we would have adopted it faster? Or does it make sense to wait longer with allowing self-driving technology if it still causes unneeded accidents, regardless of the potential?

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A runaway Tesla has caused havoc in Wormerveer. In the accident with the electric car, another car, a cyclist and a scooter driver were involved. According to the police, it was a technical defect.

The car crashed this afternoon at a schoolyard in a primary school, reports NH News. Due to a technical problem, the car did not do what the driver wanted anymore, the police say. It has not been announced whether the Tesla was on autopilot.

A wounded person fell in the accident. The victim has been treated by ambulance staff. Nothing is known yet about the nature of the injuries.

rpwverheij··on Firefox 58
same here. Am considering switching over to firefox for main browsing, but development is def in chrome for now. Last time I checked FF console warnings still brought me to the compiled JS file instead of the actual source file through sourcemaps. Did that change yet? (very limited internet atm so cant check)
rpwverheij··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
exactly, loving the typing of AS3, typescript is what made me switch over to reimplementing everything in javascript.
rpwverheij··on What's New in Create React App
ahh cool, didnt know, typescript is the main thing that would make me have to emmediatly eject since I use it for all my js projects these days, thanks!
rpwverheij··on How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
is anything being done to improve this? would it be reasonable to expect this to change in the future?
rpwverheij··on 4-Day Fast
If you want the fast to have a detoxing effect, skip the 2 - 4 cups of coffee per day
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