bad_alloc

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Programmer and roboticist at university.
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Comment · 2 years ago
For people who don't know them yet: use DDG bangs. For example "!m restaurant [citynmae]" will immediately bring you to Google maps, "!w chemistry" will open Wikipedia etc. Super easy and powerful :)
Comment · 2 years ago
How is Airbus doing meanwhile? I didn't hear about any production quality issues in their aircraft.
Comment · 2 years ago
Never had a paper rejected for lack of reproducibility though. And as long as I am working for the PhD and not the long term career, it's still better to focus on the short term. I don't like it, but I feel that's where I ended up :(
Comment · 2 years ago
I just handed in my PhD in computer science. Our department teaches "best practices" but adherence to them is hardly possible in research:

1) Requirements change constantly, since... it's research. We don't know where exactly we're going and what problems we encounter.

2) Buying faster hardware is usually an option.

3) Time spent on documentation, optimization or anything else that does not directly lead to results is directly detrimental to your progress. The published paper counts, nothing else. If a reviewer ask about reproducibility, just add a git repository link.

4) Most PhD students never worked in industry, and directly come from the Master's to the PhD. Hence there is no place where they'd encounter the need to create scalable systems.

I guess Nr. 3 is has the worst impact. I would love to improve my project w.r.t. stability and reusability, but I would shoot myself into the foot: It's no publishable, I can't mention it a lot in my thesis, and the professorship doesn't check.

Comment · 2 years ago
Here's most of Europe, but mostly based on interpolated schedule data:

https://travic.app/?z=6&x=1652866.9&y=6336146.8&l=osm_standa...

It's also great to see the utter mess that DB organization is. I found their live tracking on [1], but it can only be ordered as a product to embed somewhere, they don't show it on their site. Then there is the random https://www.bahnhof.de/, which seems to collect information about train stations. But if you want to schedule your trip or buy a ticket, you'd better get the DB Navigator app, which is not available as a web version. FML.

[1] https://www.dbinfrago.com/web

Comment · 2 years ago
I wish there was some standard way to add DC wiring in parallel to AC. Seems like people who want to do this have to roll their own systems for now.
Comment · 2 years ago
> if you're working on something collaboratively you need to express intent in your commit messages!

100%! And if somebody cannot communicate the intent, there is a high chance they don't understand fully what they just did.

Comment · 2 years ago
689Wh/mi is 428Wh/km... that is utterly insane energy use. My Zoe (small car) needs 150Wh/km in winter and I wouldn't get a car above 200 or 250.
Comment · 2 years ago
How would you detect and track somebody with a faraday bag?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans.

Since we now know that Covid can lead to long-term suppression of the immune system and that a significant part of infected people have other lingering issues, this is obviously false.

Comment · 2 years ago
> It's very noticeably in building architecture.

My bad take: Modern architecture ugliness comes from architects using CAD with insufficient proficiency to create complex designs. Result: Mossty cubes and grids, with some advanced users adding fillets.

Comment · 2 years ago
> nuclear is always on

When is peak energy demand during the day/month/year?

> nuclear can be built anywhere

Like Fukushima? How do you handle lack of cooling water during droughts (see France 2022)?

> doesn't kill animals

How many animals get killed by wind farms roughly?

> is safe and effective

What is the cost per MWh including building cost + waste disposal costs?

Comment · 2 years ago
Finally. As a next step, we need mechanisms to prevent the constant rehashing of these attempts to break security. Otherwise, it will get through during a crisis or via fatigue.
Comment · 2 years ago

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