jokteur

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by jokteur 6d ago
I am aware that the country is extremly small. Here is the thing: the DFW metro area (from Wikipedia) has > 8.3M residents, Switzerland has 9.1M residents. The DFW metro density sits at 339.9/km2 (I took the conurbation number which
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by jokteur 7d ago
Fun fact: you can do Zürich Madrid with 3 transfers and 14 hours. The car will take 16 hours. Obviously, nobody is going to do that, and the plane is a better alternative. Your example does not get solved by autonomous cars, I am quite cert
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by jokteur 7d ago
I live in Switzerland. Public transit goes _everywhere_, even remote villages and mountains. This is by design, such that one can only use public transit to go almost everywhere in the country. Is public transit always more convenient than
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by jokteur 2mo ago
Yes, but Spotify increasly does nothing against AI generated music that gets inserted into playlists, auto recommendation feature, ... So now, artists are competing against AI generated music, that is often manipulated to take listening spo
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by jokteur 3mo ago
Many of the dams in Switzerland have been built before the fifties and sixties, when environmental concerns were much lower. While most of the dams have been built high up in the mountains, a few villages have been buried by the dams. Today
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by jokteur 3mo ago
We have national media (German: srf, French/Italian: rts, Romanche: rtr), people consume that, and a few medias that have multiple language versions like 20minutes. We also have a few language specific medias (German: NZZ, Tagesanzeige
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by jokteur 3mo ago
Funny thing you mention that. We had a nuclear meltdown in an experimental reactor in Lucens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucens_reactor ).
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by jokteur 3mo ago
French part of Switzerland is much more left leaning, so I can expect more anti-nuclear sentiment on this side. But the sentiment of nuclear depends purely on which party you vote for, I don't think the language itself has an impact. B
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by jokteur 3mo ago
This still has to pass with the people in a referendum. The discourse on nuclear is still quite chaotic in politics in Switzerland. All left leaning parties and greens parties are strongly against nuclear. I am not expecting informed and ci
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by jokteur 2y ago
High speed travel in Europe is quite affordable. A 3h train trip (~360 miles, like the distance between Toronto and Montreal) costs about 40€ in Italy or in France if you buy in advance.
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by jokteur 2y ago
Yes, a 1MW solar plant point has about half the radius as a 1000MW hydroelectric plant point.
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by jokteur 2y ago
I would love to be able to use Rust in my professional project. Unfortunately, I am doing high performance scientific computing. Rust doesn't even come close to offer any good alternative to cross-plateform, cross-device (CPU/GPU)
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by jokteur 2y ago
I'm getting symmetric 10 Gbps for 49CHF (~54$) per month in Switzerland, and this is one of the most expensive countries in the world.
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by jokteur 3y ago
Mathematica is still unparalleled in computer algebra. Yes, you can do computer algebra with Matlab or sympy, but I know a few theoreticians who use Mathematica to derive complicated equations.
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by jokteur 3y ago
I agree with you. The thing is, compared to some of the scientific codes out there, GPU are quite recent. Sometimes, slapping OpenMP pragma on the code is not sufficient to take advantage of accelerators, and thus you would need a significa
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by jokteur 3y ago
It's because all these jobs using Fortran are scientific research projects. It is not explicitly asked, but if you are doing high performance computing, chances are you will be using Fortran. Scientific codes live for decades. For exam
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by jokteur 3y ago
I was curious about `soup`, clicking on it, the author states: >soup is a programming language I've been working on for a few years that is designed to make it easier for the programmer to write fast, robust programs with no bugs. &
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by jokteur 3y ago
In the french dub, they say jigowatt.
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by jokteur 3y ago
Sorry but you misread the report. They are saying that typical eco-calculator usually do not take into account the emissions from construction and maintenance. You can see on the document that on table 2, emissions of construction is take
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by jokteur 3y ago
Exactly the same thing with trains. I live in Switzerland, and they are adapting the capacity of the trains route by route, and to the time of the day. The train I take every day to work has 12 cars in rush hour, and 4 cars off-peak, someti
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by jokteur 3y ago
This study [1] cites a 80 to 280 tCO2 per km of new high speed track laid (it includes bridges, tunnels, ...). Lets lay 700km of new high speed tracks (Orlando to Atlanta). So 700km of high speed track is 56'000 tCO2 to 196'000 tC
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by jokteur 3y ago
I'm sorry, but rail is the lowest form carbon footprint you can find, if you exclude biking and walking. Also, boarding a train is so much more comfortable and convenient than boarding a plane (no security check, at least in Europe, wi
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by jokteur 3y ago
I love these maps. Here is one from Switzerland: https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/ , just a tad bit busier than the US
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by jokteur 3y ago
Because banks have financial incentives in keeping your transactions secure, and even then errors happen all the freaking time. Government do not have this incentive, and how do you recover from errors once malicious actors have gained powe
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by jokteur 3y ago
I recently broke the screen of my fairphone. I went to the official website, ordered a genuine screen for 70$, it came by mail two days later. They sent me an email showing how to do the repair, it took me about 10 minutes to replace it wit
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by jokteur 3y ago
You are underestimating how much trains and public transportation can do. Public transportation is abyssimal in the US, so I get why you think that it may not solve many problems. If you take a look at Switzerland which did public transport
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by jokteur 3y ago
I like the idea of Rust, the tooling, the package manager (far more better that what you can find in C++). What you are saying is true: I've been writing high performance scientific code and desktop gui apps. I would love to use Rust f
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by jokteur 3y ago
It's 3860chf in Switzerland, valid for any public transport, even boats. However, they are talking raising the price once again, and Switzerland is not interested in making this cheaper.
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by jokteur 3y ago
But this is becaude ASIOF was in the training dataset. Chatgpt wouldn't be able to say anything about this book if it wasn't in his dataset, and you wouldn't be able to have enough tokens to present the whole book to chatgpt.
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by jokteur 3y ago
Given the type of trains that are passing (it seems no IC/IR), along with their precise timing and direction, I'm sure it is easy to figure out where exactly you are living.

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