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by dagw 3y ago
That line is fantastic for freight (unless they've derailed an ore train again...), but the passenger service it offers would feel right at home in the US when it comes to both speed and number of departures. The passenger service to N
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by dagw 3y ago
80% of freight is done by rail in Sweden I find that very unlikely and this link seems to contradict that: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... Another aspect that needs to be taken in
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by dagw 3y ago
It's worth noting that talking about the 'European' rail infrastructure is a bit of a misnomer since there is no standardisation of the rail system of regulations between countries and as such moving freight across multiple c
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by dagw 3y ago
In practise the flight is much slower due to security etc Only for very specific routes. If I want go to from here to the one of the maybe 4 closest large cities, I'm definitely taking the train. If I want to to go from here to just
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by dagw 3y ago
Can you name a system that moves roughly the same amount of freight as the US while still having excellent passenger service on the same rail infrastructure? Genuinely curious.
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by dagw 3y ago
The US rail system carries a lot more cargo than in Europe. On the order of 3 times more freight per mile of track. It is an also much cheaper to send freight by rail in the US compared to Europe. Reconfiguring the US rail system to even sl
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by dagw 3y ago
Just make sure no one in the UK, Ireland, Australia or Japan gets asked to solve those captchas.
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by dagw 3y ago
Depends slightly where you are, but often the ebook licenses are time limited, often to 1 year. So not only can't you resell the licenses, you have to keep rebuying them.
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by dagw 3y ago
Libraries have limited money. I'd rather they buy 10 different books than 10 copies of the same book, even if that means some people have to wait longer to read that one popular book.
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I know that where I live my understanding is that basically the publishers felt 'screwed' by the old deal that they had with print books and that libraries were underpaying. So when e-book negotiations started they used that to tr
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by dagw 3y ago
playwrights have won in the past so in principle it could happen. The problem is that the way tv and movies are made today, there really isn't one person you can point to as 'the screenwriter' of a movie. Between writing room
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by dagw 3y ago
When I was at university I had probably 2 or 3 courses where we were beta testing textbooks that the lecturer was in the process of writing. On the downside the book had some rough edges, on the plus side the books where free
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I felt that the amount and type of "romantic/sexual drama" in the show wasn't that different from what we got in the later books, and on the whole done a lot better.
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TL;DR If you want see people act out the book, watch the Tencent version. If you're open to a new and interesting take on the story told in the book, watch the Netflix version. It very much depends on what you consider a good adaptatio
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by dagw 3y ago
By the time Microsoft stepped in, Nokia's mobile phone market share had already plummeted, and they'd cut their Finish work force to probably a third of what it was at its peak. Yes Nokia is a shadow of its former self, but most o
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by dagw 3y ago
Looking at most relevant data it is hard to make an argument the Nokia is doing worse today that it was just before Microsoft bought it. Nokia's market cap is currently close to double what it was compared to the year before Microsoft
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by dagw 3y ago
I feel pretty convinced that that is the next iteration here, and would be quite disappointed if there aren't at least three companies working it right now. In fact maybe the correct solution is to generate 3 version of each function u
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by dagw 3y ago
highly plausible looking nonsense Ask the LLM to generate some unit tests for the code it just generated. Then if the test fails, ask the LLM to fix the bug in the code. I find that this catches and fixes a surprising number of LLM bugs i
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by dagw 3y ago
Is that a requirement for dumping? From a legal/WTO case standpoint, yes. Selling at a loss in general is perfectly legal, and lots of companies do that for all kinds of perfectly legitimate reasons. Using price discrimination to sel
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by dagw 3y ago
I wonder what percentage of home movie watchers have a centre speaker that they can turn up the volume on? Or is the thinking more that if you don't have a centre speaker you can turn up the volume on, you're not really into movie
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by dagw 3y ago
While a million dollars might be wealthy in some global sense I don't think it's helpful to the debate to classify them as such. A 67 year old whom after 45 years of work has managed to pay off his mortgage and scrape together a m
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by dagw 3y ago
The first step is to separate system tools from userland tools. For example if system tools depend on python then they should be using their own isolate python and not the one that gets run when a user types 'python' on the comman
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by dagw 3y ago
Why look at the end result in isolation? I definitely agree that you shouldn't. To me absolutist arguments about if AI-generated content is art or not makes no sense. AI is a tool, like for example carpentry, that can be used for man
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by dagw 3y ago
Are there a lot of people who know all about tensors, deep learning, and PyTorch but have no idea what C is? They probably know what C is in the very general sense, but there are lots and lots of people people who know all the deep learni
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by dagw 3y ago
shouldn't that be a library function It's a balance. Sometimes it's better to just to write a 10 line function and get on with your work, rather than dragging in a huge extra dependency to your project.
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by dagw 3y ago
Does anyone has examples where promoting and double checking is faster than doing it on your own? I find it is faster in lots of cases where the solution is 'simple' but long and and a bit fiddly. As a concrete example from earl
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by dagw 3y ago
Democrats hold the presidency, but not the congress. If congress decides do thwart the president on an issue, then there is very little the president can do. Basically the president has the power to veto something that congress wants to do,
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by dagw 3y ago
I would consider that the whole act of making the a machine that can generate music and then making it generate a song of the MIT license could be considered 'art'. That doesn't make the end result 'art' in isolatio
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I think the first place we will see large scale AI music replace 'real' music is in the 'lo-fi' background music that just about every bar, restaurant and shop has going in a loop. Instead of having various playlists, th
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by dagw 3y ago
Low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities are entirely different concepts, trying to solve different problems and that have very little to do with each other. You can easily have one without the other. Deflecting from one by pretendi

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