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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Mostly by spending more money. Especially France and Japan built special rails only to be used by high speed trains. While those exist in Germany, there are less of them and they mostly don't reach from station to station but instead n
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
If you live in the Apple ecosystem you could use something like FSNotes and icloud for 7$ for FSNotes plus 1$/month for icloud.
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
I'm also always coming back to vimwiki after trying something else (mostly because I'm so used to (n)vim). I still want to give zk [1] a try though (but it's also vim based). The one killer feature for me would be a gui for n
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
The space of markdown based note taking apps is getting more and more crowded. I'm wondering how many more are sustainable, especially as many free (and open source) ones are available. Regarding Inkdrop: this page really doesn't
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
While the specs sound very underwhelming at first (geo-fenced on some roads, very low speeds, no bad weather), they seem to be so confident in their system, that they will take responsibility for the car when in autopilot. AFAIK, no other m
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Does anyone have any personal experience in applying mypyc on type-hinted, but otherwise not specially optimized python code? I'm especially interested in what kind of performance speed-ups could be achieved.
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Especially reading and understanding the "moderately" optimized Python version is a lot harder than reading the C version. Also I really dislike python optimization tricks like `output = stdout.buffer.write`.
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
You live in a very different world than I if for you, the associating of Twitter with Mr. Musk improves Twitters image.
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
You are implying, that current staff of twitter is not effective. How do you get to that assessment?
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Sure, if you consider 3.5% of all green house gases miniscule. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
According to this [1], taxes on gasoline are much higher than 40 cents/litre (50 cents in Spain, 68 cents in France). If you buy a train ticket in advance, you definitely are in that price scale. I looked up train rides one month in ad
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
> Here in Germany, for as long as I can remember, the government praises itself every year for investing as much in rail as never before. Unfortunately, that's not true (the investment part). In preparation for the IPO (that never h
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
This. As I commented recently on another thread: This was done on purpose. There was the hope, that strong economic ties would make war between Germany and Russia impossible. While it now looks really stupid, it worked really well between G
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is the right answer. The prevailing political view, was that strong economic ties would make war and violent conflict between Germany and Russia impossible. This is basically what happened intentionally and succes
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The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information(fortelabs.co)
206 points by lorenzfx 4y ago|52 comments
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Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, but These Experts Want to Stop It(forbes.com)
1 points by lorenzfx 4y ago|0 comments
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Perkeep is your personal storage system for life: store, sync, share, back up(perkeep.org)
2 points by lorenzfx 4y ago|0 comments
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
As commented below: That broomstick example gets paraded around a lot, but this was on a vehicle that wasn't supposed to have a gun in the first place. There is a lot of valid criticism on the readiness of Germany's armed forces,
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Did you read the first article? That broomstick example gets paraded around a lot, but this was on a vehicle, that wasn't supposed to have a gun in the first place. There is a lot of valid criticism on the readiness of Germany's a
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by lorenzfx 4y ago
Why care about the %? What really matters are the capabilities, no matter the cost.
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Andrew Ng predicts the next 10 years in AI(venturebeat.com)
5 points by lorenzfx 4y ago|0 comments
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How Big Tech lost the antitrust battle with Europe(ft.com)
1 points by lorenzfx 4y ago|0 comments
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
Here are the release notes for 13.1 https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
Which is what the article describes.
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
Sorry. Principal Investigator See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
The PI was also involved in an earlier study [1, 2], that found "Jennifer Aniston neurons", i.e., neurons that get activated when the proband gets shown an image of Jennifer Aniston, but not activated when shown the image of anoth
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EU proposes Chips Act to confront semiconductor shortages and boost tech sector(ec.europa.eu)
1 points by lorenzfx 5y ago|0 comments
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
This very much mirrors my experience. I would like to add, that for people with little professional experience, working in a consultancy can accelerate the rate at which work experience is gained (by working on different projects, perhaps a
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by lorenzfx 5y ago
The acquired podcast episode on TSMC gives some more insight into TSMC's interesting history. Highly recommended. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
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Remaining Useful Life (RUL) Estimation Using RUL Estimator Models(mathworks.com)
2 points by lorenzfx 5y ago|0 comments

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