Citronics from Brussels does that with Fairphone 3 hardware. https://citronics.eu/
AFAIK, citronics uses Fairphone 2 hardware:
Readit Newsfgeiger commented on Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity infoworld.com/article/395... · Posted by u/GTP
I agree this is not a good strategy, but I found it curious that Kotlin seems to have stalled and maybe is even declining. After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be. The article also mentions the existence of better alternatives in the form of some other languages' cross-platform frameworks, but doesn't make any concrete example. Anyone has ideas on which frameworks those could be?
Btw, Kotlin isn't platform-specific as they seems to say in the article, it's cross-platform as well.
> After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be.
As a backend Kotlin developer, I wonder if a lot of the advantages that Kotlin used to have over Java are rendered moot by new features in recent versions of Java.
France truly has awesome trains though. Main criticism is that it lacks routes that don't go through Paris (like Lyon-Bordeaux, or Marseille-Bordeaux). But I live close to Marseille and it takes me 7 hours to go see my father who lives in Cherbourg (with a 1-hour connection in Paris, and one of the train being local). Coompared to 1200km of driving and zero planes.
And boy, don't get me started on the Eurostar. It's expensive sure, but 2 hours-ish to go from London to Paris is ludicrous.
The centralization of train infrastructure in France is especially annoying for someone arriving from the North or East trying to travel towards the South. That Paris does not have a proper rail connection between its various high speed terminals baffles me.
> The presence of fast trains between two cities, on the scale of <600km, is transformative, as it becomes more convenient to take a train than to fly
I haven't found this to be true for London to Brussels. Eurostar terminals seem to operate like airports and require check-in two hours in advance, with airport style security. So I don't save time, and for me, my regional airport is much easier to reach than the Eurostar terminal.
I can believe it works better for "normal" train travel within the Schengen area, but I wonder: what are the security requirements then, if any?
There are next to no security checks on stations that I regularly use throughout Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. I believe that French stations have a turnstile at the platform for TGV trains. Other than that, I know security checks only from Eurostar terminals at the Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris stations.
fgeiger commented on Are LLMs able to play the card game Set? github.com/vnglst/when-ai... · Posted by u/vnglst
fgeiger commented on Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds johnwalker.nl/posts/escap... · Posted by u/rekl
I'm sorry to be the pessimist here, but I doubt it. HN users are the most likely to use RSS in the first place. I sincerely doubt that RSS is going to make a comeback this year with all my non-IT friends using it.
I for one am consuming HN through RSS. I find it is incredible.
fgeiger commented on Why that one coworker got fired for no reason gieseanw.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/andyg_blog
Yes and no.
The key point is that if you do work for a week to track down a showstopper only to have that thrown in your face and the only reasonable response is to "cover your ass" you are doubling your work. That manager should be fired for halving the productivity of their devs.
The main point of the article is that by "covering your ass" you are actually becoming a better developer, because the prose you write is plans and documentation and gives your thoughts structure.
Hence, your personal productivity (measured by what metric?) might suffer for this one task. However, in the long run you and your team gain productivity because of existing explicit documentation and plans.
fgeiger commented on Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws ckrapu.github.io/blog/202... · Posted by u/ckrapu
What are you gonna do about all the nitrogen etc which the plants need? Are there good ways to reextract these nutrients from dead plant material without releasing loads of carbon at the same time?
I wonder the same. This proposal sounds like it is leeching nutrients from the ground and storing it for a long time (on a scale of centuries in the proposal). How do these nutrients cycle back for growing the food that we need? Or, for that matter, for the next round of biomass to freeze?
fgeiger commented on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"? · Posted by u/barrrrald
Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is a successful open source ERP.
( Their announcement: https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life The API doc: https://assets.bosecreative.com/m/496577402d128874/original/... )