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by badpun 3y ago
This depends on how light the traffic is. In a lot of places, traffic outside of rush hours is light to moderate (but definitely not light enough to justify disabling the lights), and the roundabouts might the more efficient solution, at le
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by badpun 3y ago
> I really love software engineering. I'm the kind of person who spent hours in their free time coding up their pet projects. What you described at your job _is_ software engineering. Software engineering might have a large programm
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by badpun 3y ago
That would explain why there are so many stop signs in the US suburbs on intersection with excellent visibility and little to moderate traffic (at least, that's what I see in US movies). Must be super annoying to drive through. Where I
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by badpun 3y ago
To answer your question: wait times can be lower because, if the traffic is low enough, ALL cars just wizz through, at the cost of slowing down while entering the roundabout. Whereas, for the intersection with traffic lights, a significant
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by badpun 3y ago
My understaning is that normal intersection with traffic lights has higher troughput (as cars can just fly through it at or near 50 km/h if the green light is long enough), but roundabout have lower average wait times (if the traffic i
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by badpun 3y ago
Wait, Americans aren't used to yield signs? Is this in general, or only in the context or roundabouts?
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by badpun 3y ago
I agree, but we should start having this discussion nonetheless. As is now, the state is encouraging dangerous and reckless behaviours, which is contrary of its intentions.
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by badpun 3y ago
Because some people pay extra for the eBook + hardcopy combo (or buy the eBook and hardcopy separately). From a publisher's perspective, why leave that money on the table?
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm not a historian, but my understanding is that Vietnam was a failure for the US because it wasn't executed properly. Eventually, US lost heart and fled the country. The goal itself (stopping comunism from spreading to another c
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by badpun 3y ago
I would be ok with people wrecking one's health on the condition that it means they automatically lose any rights to the state's help (health care, housing, any kind of direct cash handouts etc.). I don't think we should othe
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by badpun 3y ago
E.g. by stopping a spread of said ideology?
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by badpun 3y ago
Depends on the hardware manufacturer. From what I know, developers at Intel are treated pretty well. It all depends on how integral the software component is to the overall product's market success. In the case of Intel, a GPU with poo
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by badpun 3y ago
> The fsd is magic. Watching it make turns etc. Shouldn't you watch it at all times, since it's not reliable? Sounds more like a gimmick to me, just driving the car yourself seems less tiring than constantly hovering over an ai
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by badpun 3y ago
I believe that Hungary is doing that as well (a quick googling reveals a bunch of projects under development and construction). However, untying themselves from Russia might take a couple of years at least.
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by badpun 3y ago
Seeing how Putin cannot be appeased, his war with Ukraine is a pretty convenient outcome for the US. Ukraine, with some limited help from NATO countries, is doing a huge bleeding of Russian military potential. This, for a mere cost of a cou
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by badpun 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing > Ethnic cleansing has been described as part of a continuum of violence whose most extreme form is genocide, where the perpetrator's goal is the destruction of th
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by badpun 3y ago
Hungary is currently hugely dependent on Russian natgas, so they're completely at Putin's mercy. Putin could have have them freeze to death at a snap of his fingers, which I'm sure was pointed out to Orban during a private au
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by badpun 3y ago
Russian-backed forces shot down Netherlands' airliner, murdering over 200 people. There was no response either. Countries don't go to war if they don't see it paying off.
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by badpun 3y ago
> "Leave" as in "ethnically cleanse themselves, never to return"? So what's all this song and dance about pretending to not be on board with genocide about? Ethic cleansing is about mass relocating people, while
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by badpun 3y ago
> I wouldn't - 100 dollars is not worth a death on my conscience. How much do you have in mind then?
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by badpun 3y ago
The variable you have largest impact on is your cost of living. If you try to live somewhat non-conventionally (which is not hard, given that most software engineers are essentially mindless consumers), you can live on a fraction of what yo
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by badpun 3y ago
If you want to use rasterization part of your GPU, you're going to have to eventually convert the voxel data into triangles.
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by badpun 3y ago
US is the largest food exporter in the world. It would make sense to start with no longer subsidising exports, and putting more subsidies into food that is actually consumed in the country. This would kill the export part of the industry (w
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by badpun 3y ago
> Look, people need to eat. Usually, on those permaculture "internships", you get a roof over your head and food to eat. You don't get any money on top of that, the assumption is that you're being paid in skill acquis
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by badpun 3y ago
It's a bit philosophical, but generally most people want to leave their current employer. That is evidenced by how most people take retirement as soon as they can, instead of staying on the job even after they could retire. This shows
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by badpun 3y ago
That's rather "infinitesimally", not "infinitely".
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by badpun 3y ago
Can you name some bailouts to green companies so far? I've never heard of that.
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by badpun 3y ago
Except for things covered with e.g. tree canopy.
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by badpun 3y ago
In Poland, it's called "Earth gas" or "ground gas".
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by badpun 3y ago
The best moment to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best moment to plant a tree is now.

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