simplesleeper

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by simplesleeper 6y ago
30mph changing to 20mph makes a huge difference to journey time... And london drivers hate it to the point most of them ignore it.
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
Doesn't work on mobile :(
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
In the UK, I've helped run some of the ninja bookshop crawls. There are usually guided routes that take you through independent bookshops - they are always interesting and great for discovering bookshops and the cities themselves. Inde
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
what is stopping you from buying and reading books on cryptography, number theory, security protocols etc?
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
why couldn't you? of course you can
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
This is just the age old question of nominalism vs realism
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by simplesleeper 6y ago
https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/ I have worked in transport for over 5 years in software and have read most of the technical books in the internal London Underground library. I generally have read >50 techn
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
If you try driving in Italy like you do in the UK, people will use their horn. Then you will understand.
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
That's what organisational transformations are for
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Not true at all. If you have tech skills, you will never run out of job opportunities in the UK
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
have some compassion and screw the rules
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Britain runs 20% of Europe's rail journeys. It has the least accidents and deaths of passengers and staff. It is considered the most improved rail network year on year since 1997. It has some of the lowest fares if you book far in adva
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
I work for Transport for London and I advise people to use citymapper rather than the official TfL tools.
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
An alternative take here: https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/reviewnapocs/index....
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
While more infrastructure will indeed just create new wardrop equilibriums (and potentially sometimes make things worse - see Braess' paradox), banning cars is also a bad idea. Frankly, cars are the most efficient means for individuals
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
WebAssembly?
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
I wrote a post that explains this as well, including a playable game with cards (uses js) https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/montyhallexplained/...
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
1. Has no support from central london residents and 2. Sadiq Khan has already tried to Pedestrianise Oxford Street, but was blocked by parliament. 3. There are cycle lanes and cycle highways and there is a lot of development in the cycle sp
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
They certainly get different results - but as I said, I don't know the intricacies of their system
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Agreed - I've had similar issues when renting a big van - I was directed through streets where I didn't comply with width restrictions
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
I don't know what happens under their hood, but I know for sure they source some data from third parties. Makes sense to, considering TfL provides a lot of data - e.g. live bus times etc
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Transport for London Tech Lead here. In London, we have been collaborating with google waze - we provide them with information at the local level. Streets that waze should not use for route finding (e.g. roads with schools) can be blocked f
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
For Polish speakers, I highly recommend this book: https://www.ccpress.pl/produkt/Dowody_ontologiczne._W_900._r... It has multiple formalisations of both Anselm's and Gaunilo's arguments, and critiques of eac
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
For those who enjoy Wittgenstein, I highly recommend the works of one his greatest students - Elizabeth Anscombe. Possibly one of the most prominent women philosophers of all time.
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
wikipedia says - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain - that transaction data is generally represented by a merkle tree in block chains
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Don't Merkle trees underpin bitcoin? Why does it disqualify it as a blockchain?
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
this isn't entirely true. At the time of Galileo, Tycho was presenting his model (and was a militant enemy of Galileo). Tycho's model was either used or not depending on more local scientific stances, but it wasn't entirely
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
no, Copernicus was never excommunicated, although "On the Revolutions of Heavenly bodies" went through various stages of requiring errata pointing out it was only a hypothesis and even a ban
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
I think he is using bird's-eye view distances, as opposed to bus travel distances. Roads are rarely directly straight between stops in London
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20029476

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