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by dagw 3y ago
license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid What does any of that have to do with 15 minute cities?
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by dagw 3y ago
there is no real plan in place to fix that. The plan is to identify where there are a lot of people living but there aren't any doctors offices within 15 minute walk, and then find the optimal places to open new doctors offices to co
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by dagw 3y ago
My understanding is that one of the big problems with the French design was that their nuclear reactors used less enriched uranium and need to be be refuelled several times before the EOL of the submarine. This is not a problem for the Fren
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by dagw 3y ago
The code never advanced beyond some hack scripts and a Jupyter notebook. Cleaning it up and perhaps making it into web app has been on my todo list for the past 2-3 years. Maybe this reminder will be the kick I need to actually do something
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by dagw 3y ago
A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N
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by dagw 3y ago
If you're going to risk your future permanent residency, it is very important to know exactly what that 'base rate' is. As someone who travels a fair bit within Schengen, I can tell you that the rate is quite high, much highe
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by dagw 3y ago
I'd argue that people live in small apartments because they like living centrally and dislike long commutes more than Americans. Certainly in the part of Europe where I live, a SFH in a not very popular suburbs with a long commute is a
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by dagw 3y ago
IRC is not a website. Neither is WhatApp, Discord, Slack and many of the other ones mentioned (yes you can interact with them via a website, but the same is true for IRC)
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by dagw 3y ago
Snapchat - does it even exist anymore? It's the primary mode of group communication for my teenage daughter and everybody in her social circles. Second place is probably Discord, but that is heavily skewer towards people she knows vi
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by dagw 3y ago
In what way? There has been plenty of studies on this and the general consensus is that while there may be certain health benefits to alcohol under certain conditions, in aggregate alcohol in any amount does not have a net positive effect o
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by dagw 3y ago
Both my fridge and freezer controls are labeled in deg C and you select the actual temperature you want. Which seems to me to be the only completely obvious way to do it.
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by dagw 3y ago
learning how to find a charging station and charging a car I'm traveling to a foreign country and renting a car in a few weeks and this is the main reason I don't want to rent an EV. I know I can work out how gas stations work t
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by dagw 3y ago
You need to separate the concept of EVs from the current state of battery technology. EVs are almost certainly the future, and as our battery and charging technology keeps improving the whole package will become greener and greener.
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by dagw 3y ago
If you're targeting just one version of python, on just one version of one OS, only running on a computer you control, then there are very few problems. The problems only really come when you remove one or more of the above constraints
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by dagw 3y ago
outlandishly expensive infrastructure projects are in the US As someone in Europe I wonder where this notion comes from. Just about every major (and several minor) infrastructure project I can remember in my lifetime, in any of the Europe
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by dagw 3y ago
There is often a lot of work that has to be done before and after PyTorch gets involved. For example the code I'm working on right now involves reading and parsing a bunch of files, filtering and extracting a bunch of data based on va
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by dagw 3y ago
I'm personally of the opinion that promotion and pay rises should be entirely separate discussions and it should be both possible and normal to get one without the other. In fact you should have to work your new position for at least 6
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by dagw 3y ago
If you're doing the same job after your promotion it's not really a promotion, it's just a pay rise with extra steps.
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by dagw 3y ago
Terrance Tao, who is a pretty good mathematician, made a post [1] not too long ago about how he found ChatGPT to be at least slightly useful for solving a non-trivial math problem. His basic insight is to not ask for an answer directly, but
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by dagw 3y ago
That should be fine. In this setup you'd essentially have a closed source 'client' talking to a GPL 'server', which is allowed.
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by dagw 3y ago
It was…alright. It also felt very cramped. The 'buzz' about the A220 is that you can fly more people further while using less fuel. All of this is super exciting if you are an airline, but nothing that directly benefits you as a
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by dagw 3y ago
The whole point is that the previous CEO and the one that arguably kicked off this whole mess did in fact have both a degree and background in engineering. Your mindset and business philosophy matters far more than your degree.
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by dagw 3y ago
Sega created a Panzer Dragoon game for the Xbox (great game), but the original Panzer Dragoon games never got ported as far as I know
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by dagw 3y ago
It's entirely unclear to me whether certification helps. I've worked a lot in civil engineering, and honestly the worst working civil engineer I've worked with was still a lot better at their job than the worst working prog
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by dagw 3y ago
A short test like this can remove them completely If your goal is to remove the bullshitters wouldn't a 5-10 minute, slightly harder than FizzBuzz, test also remove them just accurately and save everybody a bunch of time.
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by dagw 3y ago
'We' as an industry also seem to be very allergic to any sort of formal certification process, so this is where we end up. On the positive side that means that in theory anyone can show up with no formal training, pass the intervi
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by dagw 3y ago
That is nothing new. I've met and worked with plenty of old software engineers who learnt C++ 30 years ago and don't want to learn anything new (not even modern C++) for their job.
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by dagw 3y ago
We haven't even gotten there yet, have we? Yes and no. Countless teams have solved exactly this problems at universities and research groups across the world. Technically it's pretty much a solved problem. The hard part is getti
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by dagw 3y ago
Oh I am definitely not recommending this. It's just a warning of how people will work around any security protocols you put in place if they make it too cumbersome to actually get their job done. And in this case it was their secret d
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by dagw 3y ago
of unknown origin or type Very few people end up in hospital because they are randomly eating mushrooms of unknown origin or type. They end up in hospital because they 'know' the type of mushroom they are eating, and just happen

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