taeric

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   by taeric 1y ago

   That is indirect, pretty much by definition. Directly, there are few if any jobs that are not getting done due to lack of HSR today. Indirectly, people project a ton of benefits to having HSR.
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   by taeric 1y ago

   This report isn't looking at open field construction, though? It literally highlights the most expensive cities to build in. I'm not surprised that it is expensive to keep skilled labor in places where they will be in very high
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   by taeric 1y ago

   The material sciences involved in building a lot of this machinery is nothing to scoff at.
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   by taeric 1y ago

   I mean... Tesla still makes up a minority of vehicles out there. And without government investment, they almost certainly would not have made it to where they are, now? Yes, Tesla was valued more for potential growth. But it was also the
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   by taeric 1y ago

   I like how the headline makes it sound like we may have had an explosion of new magnet types for a while, and then that stopped for nearly a century. :D
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   by taeric 1y ago

   I find this hard to believe, to be honest. The capital costs of the machinery is already such that paying a premium to relocate someone for the duration of the construction is almost certainly not the bottle neck for most construction jobs
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   by taeric 1y ago

   It is not lack of knowing how to build rail that is keeping HSR over budget and never finished. It is lack of will. Largely driven from lack of direct need.
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   by taeric 1y ago

   The odds that these companies don't have moats to protect their tech is... very unlikely?
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   by taeric 1y ago

   I didn't think open field construction was hampered by the humans in the loop? Quite the contrary, I was under the naive impression that the heavy machinery was already largely doing the vast majority of the work. Even when operated
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I'll pay attention to poetry soon. As is, I don't recall my builds ever going slow because of poetry. I don't think I've noticed it have any impact on speed, at all. I did just update the dependencies of some of my pro
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Thanks! I'm not entirely sure I see a reason to change on there, oddly. I'm very fortunate that my python projects are all relatively small, so maybe that colors things a bit. Certainly looks like something that would have swaye
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I have been sticking with poetry for a while, now. What would make me want/need to move to uv?
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I'm surprised there isn't an argparse like thing for documenting expected environment variables.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I think for a lot of us, it was very frustrating when it was being pushed with no real analog for the practices we had in other languages. Poetry used to be pushed as how to do dependency management, but it was not obvious that it was not
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I argue that Python's success was almost entirely due to it not adopting any best practices on dependency management and being installed by default on systems. Being default installed was almost certainly the larger factor. As evidenc
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I mean, it isn't like you couldn't get similarly terse scripts in other languages. Common LISP, as an easy example people love to beat up on.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    This is a funny read in contrast to the latest Nate Silver book. He seems to have gone all in on justifying EV bets.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I feel like this is reaching for the vocabulary that you get in mathematics of axioms, postulates, and theorems. Not in a bad way, mind. Just the general idea of building a separate vocabulary for the different aspects of a system of know
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Agreed. Outliers are a thing. As is cherry-picking data to try and prove a point. Sucks, as this level of cherry-picking heavily biases me against the premise. If someone has a good data set, they don't need to drive anecdotes from
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I'm not entirely sure I follow? Most of the "arms" that people love to complain about aren't created or sold by "big tech." Some of this is that people are rather wrong about just how much smarter some of the
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    by taeric 1y ago

    I mean, somewhat fair. But when people decry "big tech," they aren't talking about these companies.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    It has been truly frustrating when people will blame the "tech industry" for what is essentially reckless behavior from other industries. For a while, it was often the finance sector that did most of the crazy stuff. With crypto
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Alas, I'm trying to convince them to put down whatever other distraction they have. That is a predictably difficult thing to surmount.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    There is something to this, but I'm fairly convinced that the key to writing fast clean code is to write more code. Pretty much period. Sucks, as that is effectively arguing for rote repetition in the tasks. And it is. But, that wor
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    by taeric 1y ago

    It is amusingly frustrating to finally learn this. Trying to convince my kids of it, and they don't believe me. At all. Spouse is also dubious. Remarks that spending 20 minutes on a treadmill or out walking is actually somewhat hard
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Ha! Probably more than fair for a lot of folks. It also was not uncommon for this to be when parents were cleaning the house. Doing that with a kid around is unreasonably difficult.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Apologies, I assumed you'd have to play with the terms a bit, especially with Google being personalized nowadays. For me, the first result on that search is https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/bibliography/re
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Just googling "impact of rear view cameras on car safety" brings up the standard studies. They were modest in impact, but the cohort analysis did show results with nobody rejecting their stats.
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    by taeric 1y ago

    There are studies where they compared the same vehicles that show it has reduced the numbers. They can go into the actual calculations for how they got that, if you want to see it. You seem to be asking why you don't see this directly
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    by taeric 1y ago

    Apologies, I debated whether to add to this, as I don't even disagree that the fobs are largely uselessly easy attack vector. My argument was also to the doors, though. Again, I got used to just leaving keys in the car at all times.