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by sien 10mo ago
This is an ill formed question. Stackoverflow may be up or down. Please return later when you are able to determine exactly where your problem is and have read all the documentation on Unix, C and the internet.
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by sien 11mo ago
"While private passenger vehicles contribute 90% of the mileage in the U.S. transportation sector, their emissions share is only 58%. The remaining emissions come from public transit (27%) and other modes including airplanes (13%).&quo
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by sien 11mo ago
Yes. US cars get 1 cent per passenger mile. US Transit gets $2.39 per passenger mile. https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=22027 Also look up the Farebox Recovery Ratio. There are values for many US cities. https:/&#x2F
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Where is my von Braun Wheel?(worksinprogress.news)
8 points by sien 11mo ago|1 comments
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by sien 11mo ago
Yep. I use it for feedback on things I've written. It's not as good as a good editor who understands what you're writing about. But it is so fast and it really does help.
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by sien 11mo ago
Thiel is worth 25 Bn according to some sources, 16 Bn according the article. In this case surely there will be an AI correction before Thiel runs out of money.
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by sien 11mo ago
Fair point. I didn't mean to imply people's politics means they are creative or not. But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creat
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by sien 11mo ago
It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one. I was at SIGGRAPH many
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by sien 1y ago
The US attacking Venezuela before 2026 is now at 31% on metaculus. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/39336/us-attacks-venezue...
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by sien 1y ago
I've played football (soccer for Americans) with people who were very good who didn't watch the game at all. Similarly for basketball. People watch sports because it gives them an emotional investment in something that has a new r
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by sien 1y ago
The economic aspect is also worth considering. The subsidy per passenger mile in the US is : 0.019 for road transport, 0.021 for air transport, 0.710 for Amtrak and 2.300 for transit. From : https://ti.org/antiplanner/?
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Sunscreen for the Planet(worksinprogress.co)
11 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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People Use ChatGPT(forklightning.substack.com)
4 points by sien 1y ago|1 comments
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by sien 1y ago
It's interesting to contrast to food trucks that are another method for more profitable places by reducing costs. Food trucks seem to be pretty popular and work well. Perhaps the difference is that food trucks are all about establishin
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by sien 1y ago
There is a BBC Audio drama of Neuromancer that is 1:56 long. It is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo I haven't listened to the audio book of Neuromancer but I re-read it a few weeks back. The audio
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by sien 1y ago
You can do this in Python now with : https://github.com/tcsenpai/pybooklid here is an example that plays a sound via Pygame https://github.com/Petess/MacLidPythonSound This avoids having to deal w
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by sien 1y ago
There is data for Australia as well that shows a similar decline. It's worth looking at the road deaths data in wikipedia at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... The road toll of 1266
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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads(ourworldindata.org)
149 points by sien 1y ago|265 comments
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by sien 1y ago
Article : https://archive.md/SP5lq
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College Students Have Changed Forever(theatlantic.com)
5 points by sien 1y ago|1 comments
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by sien 1y ago
Interestingly by the time it came into service the Me-262 could reach it. B-29 service ceiling was 9710 m. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress#Spec... For the Me-262 the service ceiling: 11,450 m h
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Liberté, égalité, Radioactivité(worksinprogress.news)
3 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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We Got the Internet All Wrong(persuasion.community)
4 points by sien 1y ago|0 comments
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by sien 1y ago
It's not solved in real life. It's a huge ask that it should be solved on the internet. Where are good discussions between really different viewpoints anywhere?
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by sien 1y ago
Existentialism. Post-modernism. Accidentalism. Perhaps the difference is that these isms didn't think they had thought up everything themselves.
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by sien 1y ago
Rationalists have not read or understood David Hume. You cannot work out what out to be from what is. To want to be alive is irrational. Nietzsche and the Existentialists understood that. Arguably religions too.
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by sien 1y ago
Errrf. That was poor writing on my part. I meant use the AI to critique what you have written in response to reading the suggested authors. Yes, a particularly smart critic would be better. But an LLM is easily available.
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by sien 1y ago
Trying to do a bit of formal philosophy at University is really worth doing. You realise that it's very hard to do well and it's intellectual quicksand. Reading philosophers and great writers as you suggest is better than joining
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by sien 1y ago
How would you power it? Solar sail or nuclear? How big would the payload be?
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by sien 1y ago
Nullius in verba.

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