exDM69

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by exDM69 6y ago
Absolutely true for most of Finland. Not necessarily Helsinki. Espoo, Vantaa metro area is borderline. One car household is still much more common than two cars per family.
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by exDM69 6y ago
I have plenty of friends who have kids, do gardening etc and don't own a car (or even have a license) in Helsinki. Most people in Helsinki live in apartments so construction etc is not an issue. If you can afford a house in Helsinki, c
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by exDM69 6y ago
Examples: If you get in a car accident, have a stroke, drug overdose or get cancer, you get almost free world class treatment in the public hospital urgently. If you hurt your knee while playing tennis but it doesn't prevent you from w
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by exDM69 6y ago
> And is the wait similar for major things like cancer, brain tutor, or heart surgery? No. For serious illness or acute accident that needs hospitalization, the public health care is excellent and fast. And it won't bankrupt you, ev
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by exDM69 6y ago
> You don't necessarily want to use that angle on Finland... the gas tank is pretty large and gas is highly taxed, both figuratively and literally. While the cost of car ownership and general cost of living is high, I'd like to
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by exDM69 6y ago
> Your retained-mode GUI framework isn't doing dirty rectangles anymore anyway; it's going to redraw everything anyway. (Not every frame, but upon receiving an event.) Except that a a retained mode GUI can easily tell that no r
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by exDM69 6y ago
You will always get page tearing with ImGui (this library and any others). There are mitigations and workarounds but the issue is fundamental to the paradigm. Consider this trivial counterexample: int counter = 0; label("coun
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by exDM69 6y ago
As much as I like Dear ImGui, the immediate mode paradigm doesn't work everywhere. The problem of "page tearing" (not to be confused with vsync) means you either need to render frames continuously, or at least 2 frames for ev
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by exDM69 6y ago
> New York and Sweden have tackled the virus have been the most consistent. There was a large first wave, but no second wave (measured in deaths). Sweden reported all time high new case numbers today. They have also enacted stricter rest
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by exDM69 6y ago
It is not uncommon for someone to not be able to distinguish the pitch difference from two sound sources, especially being able to tell if they're singing in tune or not. That's not at all the same thing as not being able to disti
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by exDM69 6y ago
> Completely tone-deaf person would not be able to recognize voices, e.g. tell male voice from female, father's voice from mother's. I find this hard to believe. Human voice has a lot of timbral characteristics that show up on
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by exDM69 6y ago
> dependency management tool for C++ is the system's package manager The system package manager has a different purpose than a "development" package manager. The system packages are supposed to give you a consistent set of
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by exDM69 6y ago
I have the ~80GB "full english" snapshot I grabbed some time ago and use with Kiwix. It's not quite "full", it doesn't have quite all images and video, etc. But the size is still reasonable for a desktop/l
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by exDM69 6y ago
> I for one would really like a say 3 GiB version of English Wikipedia without Pokemon and Porn, or a 33GiB version with useful images. There are several offline snapshots of different sizes of Wikipedia that do exactly this. Some of the
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by exDM69 6y ago
You're either unlucky or exaggerating. I've had cardboard honeycomb furniture for years and years with no major degradation. If the surface coating gets damaged or the surface gets pierced or it becomes waterlogged from spills or
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by exDM69 6y ago
> Current new things there are made from paper!!! Another point of view: the IKEA cardboard honeycomb material is AWESOME! It's made from recycled material, it doesn't weigh anything, it's very strong when compared to weig
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by exDM69 6y ago
But on low earth orbit, the L2 term of earth's oblateness dominates by an order of magnitude compared to the moon and the sun, and the rest of the planets are negligible. Source is a table in the first chapters of Fundamentals of Astro
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by exDM69 6y ago
Transistors have been in racing cars since 1967 when the Cosworth DFV engine, with a "transistorized ignition" system, was put to the back of the Lotus 49, driven by Jim Clark and Graham Hill. Going all mechanical would be going b
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by exDM69 6y ago
Thanks for clarification! There aren't any iron ore mines in my corner of the world either. The material traditionally used was called "lake ore", which is iron-rich stones collected from lakes that are the result of activity
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by exDM69 6y ago
Yes, Japanese blacksmithing and metal industry is very highly skilled to compensate the poor quality of iron ore available in the region. The "ore" (called Tamahagane) is sandy/rocky stone material which needs to be forged re
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by exDM69 6y ago
Yes! Just to provide one anecdotal example, I have a Asus Zenbook Windows 10 laptop (OEM installed), where the touchpad just randomly breaks after some Windows updates every few years. Right now my laptop isn't recognizing any multi to
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by exDM69 6y ago
It's a fine engine alright, but not even really in the same class. The engine would have to put out about 7 mpg at 110 mph average speed, with lots of braking and acceleration and top speeds north of 200 mph. It would need a turbo and
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by exDM69 6y ago
I liked the book, but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't get along as friends and I definitely would not want to work for him. I might be all wrong with this, but it's the impression I got from his book.
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by exDM69 6y ago
> 90% of the incentive to watch live a car racing event is to get to hear the roaring sounds Modern F1 cars are quite silent. I went to a Grand Prix last year, and the loudest trackside noise I heard all weekend was the sound of puncture
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by exDM69 6y ago
> You could stick a commodity pushrod V8 in there and make 1000hp easy with a bolt on turbo and run the same laptimes. Here's the issue: the engine manufacturers are also one of the most important financial sponsors of the sport. Yo
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by exDM69 6y ago
Try Adrian Newey's ghost written memoir "How to Build a Car". It's not a deep dive into technological tidbits, but has got some interesting details about the technology and the development of his cars. To those not famil
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by exDM69 6y ago
No, they are not sophisticated ML models. Such things don't exist in this space as far as I know. The ones that cheat are in racing games. The hardcore sims that have AI bots don't usually cheat, and they are the ones that are fas
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by exDM69 6y ago
There are no racing simulators or even games that have reasonable AI opponents that don't cheat. I, mid-tier sim racer, have no chance against good AI in hotlapping on track in some popular sims, but all of them either yield or cause a
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by exDM69 6y ago
Not the answer you're looking for, but motor racing and simulations of it. Sounds counter intuitive, but despite doing fast laps when on the circuit alone, even the best AI racers have difficulty surviving a race distance in close pack
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by exDM69 6y ago
Hello, fellow hide glue geek. If you're not already familiar with it, here's a gem of a document called "Hide Glue in the Modern Workshop" [0]. I really like Old Brown Glue too, but shipping it from America is prohibitiv

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