kharak

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by kharak 3mo ago
The ignorant part is claiming we have workable alternatives to AC. Now you one-up your previous statement by claiming people thrive(d) in these temperatures. Even if you had mistaken thrive for survive, it would still be incorrect, indicate
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by kharak 3mo ago
I believe Japan does it, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Japan "An unusual feature of Japanese housing is that houses are presumed to have a limited lifespan, and are often torn down and reb
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by kharak 3mo ago
This is the kind of ignorant comment we thankfully see less and less. You can no longer shift your activities when the weather reaches 35C (95f) every day for weeks without noticeably cooling down in the night. And even if activity shifting
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by kharak 4mo ago
Lovely blend of analogue and digital elements. I am not into cars and I will certainly not pay for a luxury car anytime soon, so not the most relevant opinion. Still, when I buy a car again, I'd love to have this interior design. The e
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by kharak 4mo ago
I've always had excellent model building functionality for abstractions and got the "physics" of a subject rather quickly, be it economics, biology, certain mathematical subjects and more. Then, I met software and computer sc
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by kharak 6mo ago
Sometimes interests intersect.
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by kharak 11mo ago
I'm in the opposite camp. Programming has never been fun to me, and LLMs are a godsend to deal with all the parts I don't care for. LLMs have accelerated my learning speed and productivity, and believe it or not, programming even
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by kharak 11mo ago
Could you elaborate on the differences in the healthcare systems?
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by kharak 11mo ago
Not sure why you are downvoted. Social market economy is the self-description in Germany, it's what you learn in school and how German politicians name the system. The goal of social market economy is to 'correct undesirable effec
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by kharak 1y ago
To be honest, I do understand some people preferring pastures in front of their home. But we can't have nice things if individuals are capable of blocking projects for that. Personal preferences should not be a valid reason to block pr
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by kharak 1y ago
To add to this, I know person a farmer who wanted to use part of his farmland for solar panels. The project failed. Reasons: lack of power grid connection, no one wanted to takeover the costs for added capacity; and local resistance from re
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by kharak 1y ago
I made no argument, merely tried to explain why he is viewed favourably by some. I could have left out the second and last paragraph, that was more about me showing that I didn’t agree with his performance either.
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by kharak 1y ago
He has been well received among left-green voters, civil servants and alike. He communicated without the usual empty political phrases, that alone brought him sympathies. He also managed the Ukraine crisis well, for instance, he was involve
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by kharak 1y ago
Every time I've looked into the arguments for this being a genocide, I saw, at best, a description of urban warfare. Maybe I am wrong. If anyone is still reading this thread, could you write what you believe will happen after Israel wo
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by kharak 1y ago
That is an insane comment.
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by kharak 1y ago
Coming from the other side of this argument: In my degree, rote memorization was required for a surprising amount of courses. It required students, me included, to memorize huge quantities of things we knew were utterly irrelevant to anythi
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by kharak 1y ago
An anecdote to add to this: Me and most of my peers in college had the choice between two courses. Course A was interesting, yet vastly more challenging and therefore time consuming, with the additional downside of lower grade expectation.
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by kharak 1y ago
In my mind, this generalizes to the same problem with other non-stochastic (deterministic) operations like logical conclusions (A => B) . I have a running bet with friend that humans encode deterministic operations in neural networks, to
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by kharak 2y ago
What about the additional costs for delivery and online platforms? Both only apply for delivery and are quite significant. Takeouts should reduce costs, but delivery has significant costs added to each order.
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by kharak 2y ago
Did similar movements had a measurable impact? Asking because I have the impression that boycott movements are ineffective, but I never verified that.
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by kharak 2y ago
Replace European with Cosmopolitan values. There are no unified European values, as the states of Europe are quite diverse. But there is significant cultural homogeneity for a subset of the population, the cosmopolitans. They tend to be the
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by kharak 3y ago
I've never known these kinds of systems exist. Love it. Like a common interface or index. Something like this should be implemented everywhere.
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by kharak 3y ago
Same question for HTML. In my mind, HTML is a markup language. Maybe I am unaware of more advanced features that fall into the programming language category.
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by kharak 3y ago
Not OP, but not really. I do not hate it, but enjoyment is not something I get out of coding. It has gotten better over the years, as I have become a better programmer. Liking what you are good at is natural, after all. Still, I failed to f
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by kharak 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, what is emotional philosophy?
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by kharak 3y ago
I find it fascinating that the USA lacks these kinds of education systems. Trade schools exist for software developers, too. Some companies in Europe even prefer trade school over university education, as the later often have not really lea
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American carpenters visit a carpenter trade school in Switzerland(youtube.com)
9 points by kharak 3y ago|2 comments
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by kharak 4y ago
Something I like to understand: Is every single movement pre-programmed? Or does the Atlas interpret more general commands, such as "move to point b, grab rectangular object a, move to point c, throw object a to position d"?
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by kharak 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer) Among other things, he is one of the founders of Ycombinator. He is quite known in the tech world. You've might stumbled across one of his essays which are fr
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by kharak 4y ago
> It only spends the legal minimal amount for charity, 5% (way less than taxes that would go to build roads, hospitals and schools). The rest is invested in a portfolio that, by the magic of being in a non profit, can make billions witho

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