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by jokteur 4y ago
> And of course, taking it to the extreme, people simply will stop creating works. Or, some folks may not be able to afford to create works. Being broke has never prevented artists from making great art. In fact, historically and today,
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by jokteur 4y ago
I've seen also people arguing that we should never ever build nuclear fission again because it is "bad". What I want to say is that bad faith arguments will always exist, and calling this a breakthrough won't significant
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by jokteur 4y ago
I see people reacting left and right saying "yeah, but the lasers used 300MJ" like a gotcha. At the press conference, they were pretty clear about what they achieved. They stated multiple times that it was the laser energy in, and
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by jokteur 4y ago
Also, people fail to take into account that even with reduced consumption, we would still need to improve the electrical grid. We have to electrify transport, heating, agriculture, industrial processes, ... Even if we all stopped buying iP
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by jokteur 4y ago
Yes, try to imagine a London - Tokyo non stop flight in 1902. Would be pretty crazy to imagine, considering that the longest distance the Wright brother flew was 180m.
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by jokteur 4y ago
As they said in the press conference, the lasers weren’t designed with efficiency in mind, because it is not the goal of the experiment.
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by jokteur 4y ago
Realistic fusion (with the best understood technology): build powerful magnets around a donut shaped chamber, which allows to contain a plasma comprised of Deuterium and Tritium (both Hydrogen isotops) which is then heated by externals sour
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by jokteur 4y ago
Even for certain applications, 50ms is quite a lot. When using MIDI devices and playing piano over the computer, I certainly notice anything above 20ms. We may be slow to react to sudden events, but we are very good at noticing the lag for
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by jokteur 4y ago
People cycle in the city of Lausanne (Switzerland), which has a 500m height difference between its lowest point and highest point. Of course nobody is doing these 500m every day, but its common to see parents bring their children to school
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by jokteur 4y ago
You can also make the road narrower and put obstacles on the road to force to reduce the speed: it is very effective, and very cheap to install with little technology. Here is a typical example of narrow street with obstacles in Switzerland
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by jokteur 4y ago
I know that most HPC cluster do have a limit on the number of files per user ; this pushes scientific applications to generate big hdf5 files.
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by jokteur 4y ago
I have once tested an electric piano that was using binaural audio (so you have to use headphones for the experience). I have to say, this was the most realistic sound I have heard from an electric piano, because spatially it made sense. I
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by jokteur 4y ago
I feel like each time we get so many features at each release (at an astonishing pace even so)? I know that Blender is well funded, and I’m sure that there are other companies that have the same budget (even more) for development. So what i
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by jokteur 4y ago
I am sorry, I haven't had the time to look into the details of these slides. But I am not saying there aren't some great ressources around here. These books and articles (that I talked about) can still offer some good insights. Ge
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by jokteur 4y ago
It's a classic physics post. If you have studied classical (Langrangian) mechanics, then everything said in this article would make sense. But then, you would also be aware of Noether's theorem. Currently doing research in physics
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by jokteur 4y ago
Also, the median salary in Switzerland is high enough such that $50 per month is absolutely affordable.
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by jokteur 4y ago
My bad, I confused the numbers. I corrected
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by jokteur 4y ago
If the parliament passes something that you don't want, you can collect 50'000 signatures and challenges the decision. If you managed to collect these signatures, then the law will voted by the whole population in the next votatio
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by jokteur 4y ago
People here are asking why Switzerland isn't investing in a much more obvious surface railway cargo system. The answer is that the current railway is already very dense, and both passager and cargo share the same tracks. There are alre
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by jokteur 4y ago
Author here: it would be a good point of comparison, to generate a random network and look at the same statistics. I will do this maybe in a future article.
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by jokteur 4y ago
Once per year, you are allowed to complain on https://www.projet-horaire.ch/fr/prise-de-position.html . However, the delay for next years timetable has already passed. I did this once for a bus to a village which didn&#
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by jokteur 4y ago
I am sorry that you have this kind of experience. Vevey - Morges is really a weak point of the network, and I do agree that the Romandie gets treated like a second class citizen. I also use the train daily to get to Romandie (to Lausanne),
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by jokteur 4y ago
This is what you get with averages: you may have lots of problems on one particular line, but compared to the sheer numbers of daily trains in Switzerland that are on time, it doesn't change the average so much.
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by jokteur 4y ago
Yes, as it is very densely build around the tracks, it is now almost impossible to build more tracks without paying a lot.
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by jokteur 4y ago
You are right, thanks. I changed it
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by jokteur 4y ago
Author here: great suggestion, I will add this at the end of the article for supplementary readings
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by jokteur 4y ago
I would say, if you take single tickets (even with the half-fare card), the tickets are quite more expensive than the trip with a normal car (counting costs of car, of gas, insurrance, ...). However, if you have a monthly fare because you g
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The integrated timetable of Switzerland(jokteur.com)
229 points by jokteur 4y ago|158 comments
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by jokteur 4y ago
If you are into music production, then you really care about audio latency. And no, the consumer wireless headphones you can buy have terrible latency. I wouldn't say that wired headphones are stuck in the past. VHS to DVD was a huge j
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by jokteur 4y ago
I recently got the new fairphone, which also doesn't include a headphone jack. I have been using the same 17$ in-ear headphones for years, and they have been working amazingly (they even got multiple times in the washing machine and st

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