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oesexe commented on Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment wsj.com/business/energy-o... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

oesexe · 2 years ago

Any chance for a tldr?

I can’t read article because of paywall.

I’m genuinely interested as I am part of expanding the thermal energy network (district heating) in Denmark. A technology we have been exporting for quite many years - later years also for cooling.

oesexe commented on "Niksen": The art of doing nothing theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/Archelaos

waffleiron · 2 years ago

> I couldn’t find any record of use of niksen in the Dutch language before the late 2010s.

This feel wrong to me, the concept is definitely older. It just went by nietsen instead of niksen, which is (or was) more grammatically correct/formal as niks is an informal/spoken version of niets.

Here is an example [1] from 2006 with nietsen, defined as to do nothing on a grammar forum. And before 2008 [2] as “not doing anything”. Even a use from 1997 [3].

[1] https://www.dutchgrammar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=627 [2] https://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=Verbs.Ot04 [3] https://ronald-giphart.nl/vrouwen-zijn-de-baas/

oesexe · 2 years ago

we have the word in Danish. It is used to express 'No' with a bit of slang-vibes to it. Kinda like 'Nope'.

We also say 'Niks'

I think Niksen is the 'cute' word for Niks. The ending -sen is the familiar -sen from 'son (of)' found in 'Jensen' 'Hansen' 'Larsen' or in swedish 'Hansson' 'Larsson'

oesexe commented on Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark theprivacydad.com/final-d... · Posted by u/kawsper

ho_schi · 2 years ago

As far as I know Sweden is rolling back[1]large parts of the digitalization at schools. Not just because of cloud usage, maintenance and incompetence.

The digital devices harm learning. Sweden will spend 60 million for reintroducing actual books, focus on actual reading and writing (important for learning and motoric ability).

I’m not surprised. While I’m sceptic about many positions of Manfred Spitzer [2] (University of Ulm) I’m afraid that he is right in many areas. A tablet is not the tool to discover the world for a child. They need to view, touch, smell and focus on matters.

Putting aside that Apple (iPad), Google (Chromebook) and Microsoft (Surface) just want to train child’s to depend on their stuff forever. We can still introduce computers at the age of 12 and the kids will adapt - and teach required basics (control your data, understand technic on high level, touch-typing, how you can access knowledge…and that a lot of companies and people are hostile).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/sweden-says-ba...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Spitzer

oesexe · 2 years ago

Yesterday the Danish Minister of Education went on screen to tell everybody he will try and help the schools reduce the use of screens and electronics.

He wants handwriting and books back in the classrooms.

oesexe commented on Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?” oceanservice.noaa.gov/fac... · Posted by u/snitzr

kwhitefoot · 3 years ago

Babord is port in Norwegian. But starboard is styrbord which makes a lot of sense because the steering board, or oar, is on the steersman's right side.

oesexe · 3 years ago

Danish as well. I didn’t see it mentioned, so I will add: that back then, a ship could not moor along the key on starboard/styrbord side. So it had to be the other side: hence the English port side.

oesexe commented on Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living wsj.com/articles/stop-tel... · Posted by u/klohto

blitzar · 3 years ago

I'm in Waste Management.

oesexe · 3 years ago

Could you elaborate a bit on that?

Personally I think waste management is one of the coolest things to do. Everyone generates waste, and it is fwcking so much up for us.

An old Indian word for a sweeper (lowest caste sweeping roads with a broom) is Mahader - meaning ’the Greatest’.

I’ve done work at waste water treatment facilities, land fills, incinerators, to name a few horrible places; and as terrible the surroundings may be, it grants a special self esteem, wealth and ‘ordinary’ status will never fully give you.

oesexe commented on Morphing Matter Lab’s self-burying seed carriers morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu... · Posted by u/oesexe

oesexe · 3 years ago

Aerial seeding is used to quickly cover large areas, e.g. post forest fires; but often has very low germination rates.

By attaching seed to a self burying carrier, germination rates go up.

It seems as if the carrier is made out of wooden veneer.

Article from Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05656-3

oesexe commented on If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys? english.elpais.com/scienc... · Posted by u/belter

dasickis · 3 years ago

We've been building tech to translate dog barks to something meaningful for us to understand.

A few things we observed: 1. Dogs are more communicative once they believe you are correctly responsive to their vocalizations 2. Their barks are more differentiated over time and they start to introduce new types of vocalizations or sequences of vocalizations 3. Dogs don't have a structured vocal language as it starts of slightly differentiated and mostly to get people's attention

This isn't true for other animals (based on our reading of academic papers) and a commonality we've seen in the papers: as animals have more individuals they interact with across their life especially not directly related, their vocalizations are more structured. Within family units they tend to rely more on touch, body language, and some intermittent vocalizations. Though marine mammals are very vocal given they operate within acoustic environments in the ocean and it gets dark around 100m - 200m.

Basically, as number of sustained individuals in a group goes up and the number of non-related individuals increases, vocalizations get more diverse. We see cows, pigs, goats, and other herd animals are also very vocal which is how scientists have been decoding their speech recently similar to prairie dogs.

Much of what I've written here is a super simplification but happy to get deeper into the weeds.

oesexe · 3 years ago

Speaking of Dogs and Human interaction: I remember a study stating that wolfs lack a certain muscle, which dogs have. A muscle above the eye; believed to be directly linked to dogs’ long time interaction with humans.

oesexe commented on Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... · Posted by u/mywacaday

noduerme · 3 years ago

I'm sort of curious how they don't simply explode when you bring them to the surface.

oesexe · 3 years ago

I have caught quite a few red fish in Greenland. They ‘only’ live a hundred meters down, but sure they kinda explode when surface. Eyes pop out, and their swim bladder pops out of their mouth. If they get unhooked on the way up, they will also surface themselves.

oesexe commented on Zion Climbing in the 1930s bigwallgear.com/p/zion-cl... · Posted by u/oftenwrong

oesexe · 3 years ago

Such an amazing read!