lorenzfx (u/lorenzfx)

lorenzfx commented on Germany is offering a summer of cheap trains bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/paul-graham

geff82 · 4 years ago

Then how do other countries get to a reliable service? Japan, Switzerland, France…

lorenzfx · 4 years 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 near the city centers high speed trains share rails with slower trains.

lorenzfx commented on Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple inkdrop.app/... · Posted by u/memorable

FalconSensei · 4 years ago

Cloud sync + 10gb storage space comes with a cost

lorenzfx · 4 years 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.

lorenzfx commented on Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple inkdrop.app/... · Posted by u/memorable

loloquwowndueo · 4 years ago

Vimwiki is just the thing for markdown note taking for us command line curmudgeons , and the resulting “wiki”, just a collection of interlinked markdown files, happens to be compatible with Obsidian for those times I need a graph visualization.

lorenzfx · 4 years 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 neovim that can display images. (Inserting images from the clipboard works with clipboard-image.nvim.)

[1] https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/

lorenzfx commented on Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple inkdrop.app/... · Posted by u/memorable

lorenzfx · 4 years 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 tell me what's their USP, why would I use this over something like Obsidian or Roam (just to name some examples)?

lorenzfx commented on Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll thedetroitbureau.com/2022... · Posted by u/mxschumacher

lorenzfx · 4 years 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 manufacturer does this for their systems (which capabilities they often make rather wild claims about).

lorenzfx commented on You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2... · Posted by u/JNRowe

lorenzfx · 4 years 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.

lorenzfx commented on You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2... · Posted by u/JNRowe

fgeiger · 4 years ago

Frankly, I would find it much easier to write the naive C version than this "moderately" optimized Python version in the article although I am much more familiar with Python than with C.

lorenzfx · 4 years 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`.

lorenzfx commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl

MichaelRazum · 4 years ago

Why not. Makes totally sense. Twitter gets a better image. Right now there is a real risk that something like gettr will take off.

lorenzfx · 4 years ago

You live in a very different world than I if for you, the associating of Twitter with Mr. Musk improves Twitters image.

lorenzfx commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl

gitfan86 · 4 years ago

There are four goals.

#1 make twitter efficient. firing 80-90% of the employees and replacing them with effective workers and management saves a ton of money.

#2. Mitigate the bots and trolls by requiring payment and identification.

#3. Open the feed algorithm and give people more control

#4. Reduce the silencing of users.

The last one is probably going to turn out to be harder than Elon expects. If Elon owned Youtube this week he would be sued for enabling the NYC subway terrorist. Same thing will happen on Twitter once he owns it.

lorenzfx · 4 years ago

You are implying, that current staff of twitter is not effective. How do you get to that assessment?

lorenzfx commented on Europe is investing heavily in trains nytimes.com/2022/04/05/tr... · Posted by u/lxm

hoseja · 4 years ago

... are miniscule but public-facing, thus suffering from the paper straw problem.

lorenzfx · 4 years ago

Sure, if you consider 3.5% of all green house gases miniscule.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation

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