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by wheels 5y ago
The notion of sentience is something that's unsurprisingly well-trodden in both philosophy and neuroscience. Your statements presumes that such is flippant. While there's not a single well-agreed on definition, there are differen
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by wheels 5y ago
s/uniquely well suited/somewhat less bad/ Fixed that for you. ;-) Actually a few RDMBSes (Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL) have graph extensions. I've never used any of them, but I assume they work around some of the basic un
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by wheels 5y ago
And in Germany, it would be illegal to ask unless it was specifically relevant to the job – and courts have specifically decided that you can lie if you're asked and it's not relevant. The US tends to really overreach on that sor
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by wheels 5y ago
Yes, you're mostly correct. (The one caveat being that if you know your access patterns in advance, you can choose if you store the edge type along with the edge, or if you store separate edge types in separate columns.) I'm not
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by wheels 5y ago
You're not understanding what I mean by locality in this context. I mean that the on-disk structure should approximate an array of indexes, e.g.: const unsigned *edge_indexes = (const unsigned *) mmaped_structure_on_disk[disk_offs
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by wheels 5y ago
Uhm, that's basically what I said? Aside from the "other advantages" -- which, yeah, sure. Socket sets have other advantages than hammers, but they're not very good at pounding in nails. You can do it, but it'll
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by wheels 5y ago
You can reasonably model graphs in a column-oriented database, but traditional SQL models tend to be horrible performance-wise, because most graph algorithms need fast traversal of edges, and doing a lot of recursive lookups in SQL is impra
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by wheels 5y ago
"Prosumer" laser printers (often labeled "home office" or "small office") are pretty great. I had an OKI black and white printer for about a decade before it died. I printed many, many thousands of pages on it
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by wheels 5y ago
Except that your history is wrong in this case. It's more about politics and Intel's failure, and Taiwan and TSMC's capitalization on that than it is about salaries. A lot of manufacturing did move to Taiwan in the 70s and 8
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by wheels 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STMicroelectronics 46,000 employees.
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by wheels 5y ago
Here's my point though: Engineers in virtually every country in the world make less money than in the US. But the reason people have jobs in the rest of the world isn't because everyone wants to make things in the US, but it&#x27
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by wheels 5y ago
The article is about engineers, not factory workers. Are you really telling me there's no culture of overworking for engineers in Silicon Valley? It's contrasting Arizona with Taiwan; I don't think this same article would
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by wheels 5y ago
The GDP per capita of Taiwan is higher than France. It's not the place you move jobs to to optimize for labor costs. Again, there's a pretty racist subtext here that because it's in Asia, you assume that must be cheap labor,
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by wheels 5y ago
> [...] we moved because it cost less with no labor or environmental protections and we could work the shit out of people. TSMC was never in North America, it was always a Taiwanese company. It's literally an Asian company moving p
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by wheels 5y ago
Yes, but not insanely so. A compact car for a week with Share Now is €42/day, and with Sixt it's €32/day. In a lot of cases, I'd happily pay that for the 1-2 hours of saved time in not dealing with the rental company,
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by wheels 5y ago
I hadn't tracked which cities they'd pulled out of, and have used them in a few places. But my point was more that there's no structural reason for the rental friction, other than to upsell people. The risk profile, and thin
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by wheels 5y ago
Sixt has the most streamlined rental of the major German rental companies (if you have their member card), but their prices aren't really lower than DriveNow or Miles, with still significantly more friction.
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by wheels 5y ago
No, "car sharing" in this context is by large companies -- the main one here is a joint venture between Daimler and BMW. Inside of the city, they can be parked in any public parking (mostly on street), and you can find them in the
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by wheels 5y ago
I don't know how popular car sharing is in the US, but it's common in a lot of European cities, and there's literally nothing to renting a car (either short term or multiple days, admittedly, not at great prices for multiple
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by wheels 5y ago
Yeah, I don't mean that being name-brand ensures quality, but buying from a big-box or department store at least ensures that you're getting the thing you order. The whole point of brands from a consumer perspective is that they
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by wheels 5y ago
I haven't had any scams, and I've done maybe 100 orders from there. I've had some things that are crap, and not worth the effort of returning, but that's significantly true with Amazon too. I originally started using t
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by wheels 5y ago
This has had a significant impact on my buying habits as well. For luxury items, I tend to order them from a large department store chain, which is pricey, but more predictable quality, and for cheap knock offs, I just go to the source and
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by wheels 5y ago
I think where that analogy breaks down some is that this is mostly about what's happening in urban Europe, where SUVs and off-road vehicles are exceedingly rare. They're so rare that you notice them on the odd occasion of passing
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by wheels 5y ago
My 9 year old Hyundai i10 with 30k km and no accidents on it cost €3200. I'd call that "fairly decent". That's less than an electric cargo bike costs.
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by wheels 5y ago
Cargo bikes are more effective as a yuppie status symbol. It shows, "I could have spent this much on a car, but I chose to spend it on a bike instead." Honestly, I don't really get it. I have a €50 used bike, a €100 used bi
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by wheels 5y ago
Here's one that I personally find really interesting: Spiegel is one of the major German news magazines, and it has a small international section, where it takes the most important important, almost always long-form articles per day a
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by wheels 5y ago
This is one of those things that seems to be an institutional part of Americans quitting or being fired from jobs, but it's far from universal. In Germany (and I believe most of Europe) several months notice is usual (three months mini
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When will everyone on the planet have had Covid by?(gist.github.com)
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by wheels 5y ago
I can say that struggle is not universal: I learned German as an adult, and don't struggle with writing down numbers I hear spoken. In fact, I'd never even thought about it being hard. Every once in a while I say a number backwa
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by wheels 5y ago
There are third party services that handle cancellation (e.g. Aboalarm) that are more reliable, and don't require any more time. I honestly just have an online fax account where I can upload a PDF to send a fax for like 20 cents, and

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