LeanderK

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by LeanderK 3y ago
is there really no middle ground (not an American)? What about cities like Seattle or Boston (just guessing here)? For me, the thought feels a bit like just going back in time. I mean there are still issues everywhere but this is so drastic
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> The game theory of zoning dictates that it needs to be done at a higher-than-local level. This is also true in other countries. When a city grows everybody agrees that we need to expand the city and build new city districts. But it&#x2
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by LeanderK 3y ago
there's also a tension between making things simple and making things customisable. The reality is that for most a computer is not a hobby but a tool. They use it to do something and do not want to babysit it. The simpler, the better.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Well, but cars don't work very well as soon as you concentrate parts of your population in urban centres. Both are needed and both are optional depending on where you live. At least individual ownership, because you will always need t
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by LeanderK 3y ago
training it will be way harder and the net probably needs to grow to eliminate external motion tracking, but I don't think the image processing and quality of image sensors is the bottleneck. These robots need the right hardware for qu
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by LeanderK 3y ago
this is a personal opinion disguised as a rational argument and general truth. It essentially reads as "I don't like brutalism, nobody does, it sucks and therefore this has nothing to do with it". It's intellectually dis
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by LeanderK 3y ago
commuting should definitely be factored in. You don't commute for fun, you only commute for the job. It's an expense that occurs every time you work and, as you said, a fixed cost that becomes more important the lower paying your
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I don't why the climate change aspect is so dismissed. In germany we are currently banning new gas heating installation as a general push to phase out gas. If you want to replace gas with electricity from green sources you have to star
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I bet this can be resolved in the future. The problem is that some things appear very, very often in similar forms in the training data, this leads to the model memorising the answer instead to generalising. This phenomenon can be seen for
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by LeanderK 3y ago
ah ok, now I get what you mean. Yeah, doing everything in canvas is in general a bad approach for all the reasons you listed.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> I don't know but Vespa-type scooters are very uncommon in the US why? They are also quite common in germany for people living in the city and very useful to get around in the city. I personally bike but I see the appeal.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> As a cyclist, I don't have an issue sharing space with other traffic, but I do have an issue with the hyper-aggressive drivers that seek to scare and/or injure cyclists by not giving them enough space when overtaking I haven&
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> USING HIDET SCRIPT TO WRITE CUSTOM OPERATORS this is really cool. I sometimes would like to have custom operators that are more or less trivial but the amount of work to create the operators by hand is just not worth it.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I think it might also be the privilege of software engineers speaking. You can literally get another job, a permanent position with benefits, if you're unhappy with your current position. You probably just have to change your linkedin
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Wouldn't you need pipes anyway for regular plumbing? That would have lead to issues anyway, right? Also I doubt somewhat the tech was new 15 years ago, it's quite common in germany to use district heating, especially if there&#x27
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by LeanderK 3y ago
this take is a little bit too simplistic. There are use-cases where you are bound to a web-based framework but JS solutions are just not fast enough, e.g. data visualisations via jupyter notebooks. So you're stuck with some horribly sl
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by LeanderK 3y ago
wow, i am genuinely impressed! super snappy. I wonder whether it could be used to tackle a real pain point of mine. I work a lot with data, visualisations with jupiter notebooks. There are essentially two approaches: matplotlib, which outpu
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by LeanderK 3y ago
also I wasn't really talking as if there's not fix for it, but the sabotage of MS on the UX of their flagship product. It feels cheap and not pleasant to use if you're bombarded with ads and stupid cortana-stuff. I really don
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by LeanderK 3y ago
my girlfriend recently had ads in the browser from microsoft urging her to use bing for a month to earn a few dollars in amazon credit. I was baffled how you can cripple the UX of your flagship product without any respect to it, and in such
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by LeanderK 3y ago
even elon musk said it would be a success if it didn't damage the launchpad. It did, it is wrecked.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
but do you need to reach geostationary? couldn't you just switch to a rocket at this stage? Maybe a small one to bridge the gap? I would have thought that the first kilometres are the ones where you have to invest the most work so if y
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I consider everything longer than 15 minutes a lot. 80 minutes away by car is enormous, that's 160 minutes to your friend and back, even 40 minutes is a lot. It just kills spontaneity and increases work. I don't want travel for 40
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I am surprised we are this close to regional airliner. I would have thought any useful electric plane is not feasible yet. Maybe electric regional airliners will inject enough capital to increase the range gradually.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Europe has to accept the loss of Ariane 6. We have to write it off, it's a pill we have to swallow. Either get Ariane 6 into production right now or continue with Ariane 5, but we have to get Ariane 7 into development as fast as possib
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by LeanderK 3y ago
it mirrors a bit the experience I had in university with foreign students/phd students. Some immigrants are only friends with immigrants from the same country and it was surprising to hear that after spending years (sometimes BSc/
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by LeanderK 3y ago
this really sounds like a fun and promising way to make friends. I've seen it happen at universities with "tandem" partners (italian comes to germany and wants to learn german, the german wants to learn italian), but they usu
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by LeanderK 3y ago
yeah, I am a bit confused by the statement. I have never planned this, it just happens after repeatedly meeting at the same pub in some frequency. I've also seen a shared, regular activity create this, for example the monthly pub quiz
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I would say suburbs are smaller communities next to a major city. Most inhabitants usually work in the city, and the suburb is clustered around a center with the town-hall, activities like an ice-cream shop, and a mass-transit connection to
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> Well … yeah. It’s education at scale. Anything at scale will be inflexible by definition. Maybe agree to disagree because I don't see that. > ~$22k wow...this is honestly insane. I wonder how many full-time teacher positions pe
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> That’s the current theory and it fails I do not see such evidence, maybe it fails in san francisco but that can have thousands of reasons. Everything I've read here points me to the fact that the public education is not good/

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