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by sgu999 3y ago
This is what bothers me the most with the car-centric mindset so many people have. You have to choose in-between being car free in a very dense area or car dependent in a rural area. In reality small towns can be just compact enough to allo
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by sgu999 3y ago
I'm not that hopeful. It does look like we will eventually get code of the quality of a good SWE. Usually that's not the case for craftsmanship-type items... shoes, knives, teapots, etc. I'm a sucker for this kind of objects
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by sgu999 3y ago
Probably not the kind of "things" you're after, but the YouTube channel "Japanese Garden TV" is just that, team of people building something, without comments. [1] [1] https://m.youtube.com/@Japanese
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by sgu999 3y ago
Is your point that MS is diversified enough to absorb the losses of eating up Google's share in search even with the now higher costs?
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by sgu999 3y ago
This and TIC-80 recommended bellow really feel more like a fun challenge for a programmer than a creative tool for a kid. Was it the first time your kid was exposed to any kind of programming?
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by sgu999 3y ago
> The doctors initially thought he would quickly die after being taken off the ventilator, but he has persisted for about a month now. Doctors can think whatever but because most of them will prefer legality over morality anyway, they le
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by sgu999 3y ago
It's roughly the same in France, aside from some startup bros who have been told leetcode and brainteasers are the way of unicorns. I think it's in part due to the higher trust we put on credentials like Eng degrees.
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by sgu999 3y ago
Iceland isn't a poor country. I'd be very surprised if the state doesn't have the means to take care properly of its citizens in an event like this, in particular because it's not that unexpected. If not, another pots an
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Industrialization led to us all having enough free time for vacations, the internet and hacker news. I believe you forgot to mention that it also led us to ruin our environment in the process. Not trying to argue that we should always
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by sgu999 3y ago
I really thought you were a proper wanker until I reached the end of your sentence, well done
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by sgu999 3y ago
I've come across so many devs with "good" CVs who were full of themselves and couldn't do a single pragmatic thing. CVs, degrees, titles seem completely inflated and mostly meaningless in North America and in tech in par
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by sgu999 3y ago
PyTorch is much nicer to play with in my opinion. Maybe start with their official tutorial, I've also heard good things about Karpathy's YouTube channel from beginners.
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by sgu999 3y ago
In this kind of cases I'd probably use the Hough-based algo as ground truth to see if you can indeed fine-tune a DNN on that regression task. If it does with reasonable accuracy, then you have a baseline that could be improved in multi
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by sgu999 3y ago
> just buy a Jetson nano and throw Linux on it I've been writing gstreamer-based inference pipelines for a couple years on Jetsons and in my experience there is never a "just" with any of the these, sadly. It is such a pa
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by sgu999 3y ago
> You don't have to be in Japan for QoL. SNCF is the absolute worst in term of customer service. They even consider that a train is on time if it's less than 15mn late on almost all TGV lines [1]. And if they provide a bus as a
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by sgu999 3y ago
See it like a cache, no need to recompute. Or like these nice archive links people post for paywalled articles, I could do it myself but it's simply helpful.
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by sgu999 3y ago
Do you have a source? I think you may be referring to the peak production price without storage. Oil comes with storage: put it in a jug, and use it whenever.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> I don't think ever before we had significant periods of time where we actually get paid to use energy from the grid due to overprovisioning with renewables Yes, because storage isn't factored in and production is intermittent
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by sgu999 3y ago
> historically they always lost to progress What you call "progress" is what led us here. Remains to be seen if "here" is a trap. You seem to think that everything is fine since everything will be fine, but that opini
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by sgu999 3y ago
Good point for the buses, I wonder which is more energy-efficient in-between putting all passengers in a battery-electric bus or on electric scooters. The main advantage I see to electric motorcycles is that you barely need to change anythi
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by sgu999 3y ago
> If the US pollutes too much (for example's sake) and the ice shelf at the North pole melts, you're gonna feel it all over the world because the water will rise equally. "If the US pollutes too much", droughts and ot
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by sgu999 3y ago
> No one claimed that the average suburban "Main St" is going to compare to high-density urban planning You did. Dense cities are struggling to implement the 15mn trip to any amenities. Yet you are claiming that everything is i
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by sgu999 3y ago
First line of the wikipedia page I linked: > The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC[2][3][4][5][6][7]) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Electric is simply not an option for the majority of people, it is a luxury. Until a worker can get an electric car for a couple of thousands, no scrapyard bonus will make any difference whatsoever. It's just more tax money subsid
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by sgu999 3y ago
> It's literally free after building the infrastructure. That's a gross oversimplification of the problem at hand. The entire supply chain from mining to manufacturing to shipping relies on fossil fuel... The investments to ren
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by sgu999 3y ago
I'm glad to learn that American suburbs are all 15 mn cities... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
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by sgu999 3y ago
In France we have a "bonus for scrapyard" to avoid that [1]. You get an extra discount if you prove that the old car you're replacing is going to be removed from the road. I don't think it's well thought through giv
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by sgu999 3y ago
I keep on seeing this problem reduced to the market or a business decision, but is it simply physically possible? These vehicles require much more energy to produce. And without a reduction in consumption, almost the entire economy accounts
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by sgu999 3y ago
No, sorry for the misunderstanding, I was referring to the comment I replied to: sharing more things is simply more efficient on used resources. I agree with you on the supply chain of EVs... in particular if we're talking about electr
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by sgu999 3y ago
> All of the stores you typically go to are 0-5 miles way (grocery store, gas station, pharmacy, doctor, etc.) Fair enough, but that list doesn't include the third places the parent commenter was referring to: a choice of restaurant

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