jampekka

20 ms·

421.
by jampekka 1y ago
In aggregate it was good for society, but it was a disaster for a lot of people and a lot of areas. This is the theme of e.g. The Grapes of Wrath. We should welcome automation and efficiency, but also address the situation of the "lose
422.
by jampekka 1y ago
From 200 years ago sure, but the link between productivity growth and income growth got more or less broken in the 1970's. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
423.
by jampekka 1y ago
I agree that with the current economic structures a lot of us will end up worse off. Just like e.g. manufacturing workers did. But the automation is not the problem, it's the economic structure in which increased efficiency makes a lot
424.
by jampekka 1y ago
The Android app is even worse.
425.
by jampekka 1y ago
> Future is not bright. While we are endlessly talking about details reality is that AI is taken over so many jobs. Of course this is not because of AI. It's because of the ridiculous system of social organization where increased au
426.
by jampekka 1y ago
Looking at what the billionaires are doing in US politics, perhaps there's something to this.
427.
by jampekka 1y ago
The effect on the page is per-pixel, it doesn't change the whole cursor color when the hovered element changes. For normal elements this can be done with mix-blend-mode, but that's not available for the cursor.
428.
by jampekka 1y ago
The cursor color inversion can't be done with CSS though.
429.
by jampekka 1y ago
CSS supports replacing cursor images natively. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
430.
by jampekka 1y ago
The expressed goal is emotionally impacting UX. They clearly got strong emotions out of you. Mission accomplished!
431.
by jampekka 1y ago
> You’d think sites would want to minimize the impact of the cookie law on usability, instead of expanding on all the worst parts of it. Really wish that law would go away. The law does not require the banners if the site is not doing sh
432.
by jampekka 1y ago
To nitpick: the ears are faced with more or less constant pressure variation. Constant pressure is silence.
433.
by jampekka 1y ago
R is for sure not a Python replacement. And it's even slower than Python.
434.
by jampekka 1y ago
The main attraction of tidyverse is that it's easy to copy-paste code for common cases. If there's no ready recipe for something, it's usually just not done, or some "technical person" is called to do it. R is used
435.
by jampekka 1y ago
Mainly the lack of practical support for non-REPL/Notebook usage and interoperability.
436.
by jampekka 1y ago
Numpy was about N-dimensional arrays from the getgo. It was a continuation of numarray, which was Nd.
437.
by jampekka 1y ago
Matlab's support for more than 2 dimensions in arrays is so bad that it's rare to encounter the situations lamented in TFA.
438.
by jampekka 1y ago
> Going from MATLAB to NumPy I felt like I suddenly became a mediocre programmer, spending less time on math and more time on "performance engineering" of just trying to figure out how to use NumPy right. Matlab is about as slo
439.
by jampekka 1y ago
And given the ending of TFA the author would likely agree with GP.
440.
by jampekka 1y ago
I've never understood the "so tedious" argument of Python vs Matlab. Sure, having to import numpy and use np.array to create numpy arrays is a bit typing, but other than that I don't see major differences. Given what inc
441.
by jampekka 1y ago
Numpy and tidyverse/data.table are not really on the same level of abstraction. Something like Pandas would be (and it definitely has its warts). Doing the lower level stuff that NumPy is used for is really mindfuck territory in R.
442.
by jampekka 1y ago
What's not obvious is how strong the impact is, does it cause substitution of travel modes or just decrease in travel, how does it change when travel takes place, what share of people are those who still have to drive etc.
443.
by jampekka 1y ago
Over 300 recreationally used molecules have been banned outright by UN conventions alone. Not saying this is good, but cigarettes are very much an exception to the norm.
444.
by jampekka 1y ago
> What's so bizarre to me is how many people have strong opinions on NYC congestion pricing who have never been and will never go to NYC. Because NYC is gonna be used as a case for selling congestion charges elsewhere. This may caus
445.
by jampekka 1y ago
Whether there will be net increase in these investments remains to be seen. Even if the revenue does get into these investments, there's no reason it can't be offset by reduction in e.g. tax revenue investment, or even a tax cut.
446.
by jampekka 1y ago
If you could afford the car only just, it's quite obvious you can't afford it if you now have to pay congestion charges on top.
447.
by jampekka 1y ago
If you price out low-income people, you do get relatively more revenue from high-income earners. But the low-income people also get less service. The non-charge eligible trips of the low earners declined as well. The paper did not different
448.
by jampekka 1y ago
Travel of low-income people also declined significantly while high-income travel did not. So quite literally the London congestion pricing got the poor off the zones. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/036119
449.
by jampekka 1y ago
EU does allow states to subsidize transit (including trains) but the subsidies are subject to all sorts of regulations. They have to be of "public interest" and to not generate (excess) profits for the companies. At least in theor
450.
by jampekka 1y ago
Google AI studio at least has this. I found at least that implementation quite confusing though, which may be a reason it's not implemented in more "consumer oriented" tools.

More ›