kzrdude

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   by kzrdude 3y ago

   Communal bath are wonderful. Iceland has a really nice culture of it (and their baths are nice and warm too, thanks to geothermal energy..)
2. 812.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   I think I agree with your facts as stated, but the absurd part of it is that a single guy was selected as "the face of AI". This happens all the time (and it's wrong): focus on the most prominent people becomes a feedback loo
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   by kzrdude 3y ago

   I think in IKEA's case, they rapidly restructured to avoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_funds which was a rather short-lived political experiment.
4. 814.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   There are tons of controversial people in tech, they'll find a place somewhere.
5. 815.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   Brockman immediately said "don't worry, great things are coming", which also seems to line up.
6. 816.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   Lots of danish trains are still diesel
7. 817.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   And the strength of guard rail needed to keep the vehicle in its lane is also proportional to .. the square of the weight (kinetic energy) if I could guess?
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   by kzrdude 3y ago

   Thanks for bringing this up. I usually wonder which of the styles is correct..
9. 819.▲
   by kzrdude 3y ago

   I think there's a small difference in intonation
10. 820.▲
    by kzrdude 3y ago

    There is something subtly nostalgic and pleasant with how that notice is written. (The old-fashioned style.)
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    Now that you're mentioning that, why doesn't the default calculator app on a phone have prominent functionality for that, it's so useful in everyday life.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    Oh yes, 2022.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    See the cross section https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/68621 "Natural bowl higher than sea level" could be called a lake.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    And the work to speed up Moldova & Ukraine's connection to the sychronous grid, just after Russia invaded in 2021, was impressive too.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    And when I use matplotlib it's to clean up some non-default tweaks to seaborn plots. Refactorability here means that it's easy to go from one plot into one that's split into facets (multiple subplots etc.)
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    By which you mean these I think? 1. the pyplot API (the old one, that is designed to mimic MATLAB - it has functions like plot() and xlabel()). 2. The Axes API - fig, ax = plt.subplots(); then call ax.plot(), ax.set_xlabel() and so on One s
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    What's the number of things that we can count instataneously and intuitively. What's your number in your opinion? It would appear as though it's three or four. I look over to some series of things, if it's exactly two or
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    That simple sequence, 1, 10, 100 etc, the digit is at least computable in O(1) time which is maybe a good way to look at predictability. It's a simple rule and no effort similar to computing every digit before it is required.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    It should be "geologically normal", Iceland is actively being created geologically. 35 million years ago, Iceland didn't exist as a landmass. The oldest land is around 30-35 million years old, the newest land is less than a m
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    Great Icelandic stamp from 2010 https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/273685-2010_Eruption_of_... It's valid for european postage, good for any mail from Iceland to Europe, just to send a nice reminder to
21. 831.▲
    by kzrdude 3y ago

    alternate pop sci news item for this https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digital-florentine-cod...
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    German newspapers do the same thing. Süddeutsche Zeitung's welcoming message asks you to choose between cookies + ads or a subscription.
23. 833.▲
    by kzrdude 3y ago

    I think that's a popular misconception
24. 834.▲
    by kzrdude 3y ago

    Why too many? I'm convinced it is healthier, so I think too few use olive oil where possible.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    The other way around I'm encouraged by how politicians and others in Denmark are held accountable at the highest level, it's a very good sign.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    It is sort of a fallacy to expect mayhem just because some door is unlocked once. People can happen to sleep or go away on vacation with their home unlocked and the normal result of that is plain nothing happening.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    I wonder what it feels like in general to read all of that from Australia or NZ or other western places that are not mentioned first. It's always US, US vs Europe or North America vs Europe and so on
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    I feel like I have a hard time remembering who I've told what story. I don't want to repeat myself, but I want to tell the recent story I have on my mind (because I like it somehow). Noticing that I'm repeating myself makes m
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    All kinds of illegal stuff would have been unprosecuted if (3) had never happened.
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    by kzrdude 3y ago

    One kind of bad localization that happens every now and then is that the time is given in 12-hour clock but the am/pm particles are translated (to some reasonable thing). While a proper localization in those cases would just display 24