For those complaining about the news sites being sensationalist, why not just read Reuters? You will miss out on local news, but it's pretty reliable for international news.
Readit Newssquidgyhead commented on More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety theguardian.com/society/n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
squidgyhead commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
Speed enforcement has been extensively studied, and there are a lot of publicly available articles on the subject. The results are basically universally in favour of speed enforcement reducing motor vehicle collisions, reducing injury and cost.
squidgyhead commented on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer wsj.com/us-news/how-to-ca... · Posted by u/Element_
The idea that deer need to be protected is hilarious. All around the Midwest (USA) you can see obvious signs of deer overpopulation. Every doe gives birth to twins. The understory in the forest is bare.
This guy is selling 60 deer decoys a year? The DNR is just playing a power game.
If the focus of the article were about poaching an animal that isn’t as common as mice, I would be more sympathetic.
Instead it seems like the focus is on the easiest poaching to catch (because of the massive numbers of infractions), not the greatest impact.
I am not familiar with poaching issues in the USA, but in Canada, one isn't allowed to hunt too close to roads; doing otherwise is poaching. It seems reasonable to not discharge firearms next to public roads, so stopping poachers who do so is a great use case here.
See the Solomon Curve - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
We absolutely should consider the entirety of drivers and their existing behaviors when we design roads, instead of wishing they would behave differently.
Moreover, reducing accommodation for motor vehicles in cities leaves the non-urban population behind - and neglects that private vehicles aren't the only users of the roadway. Truck deliveries, garbage collection, and mail become a lot more difficult if roadways are reduced.
Differences in speed matter, but so does absolute speed.
"Inappropriate speed is responsible for 20 to 30% of all fatal road crashes." from https://www.itf-oecd.org/speed-crash-risk
Also, due to kinetic energy increasing with speed, collisions are worse, in addition to being more likely.
squidgyhead commented on Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs docs.scale-lang.com/... · Posted by u/Straw
Pretty much any modern NVIDIA GPU supports CUDA. You don't have to buy a datacenter-class unit to get your feet wet with CUDA programming. ROCm will count as "something" when the same is true for AMD GPUs.
Here is the support list:
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...
squidgyhead commented on Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images wsj.com/real-estate/home-... · Posted by u/traviswingo
I think that one difference might be that physical inspections don't scale. It seems to me that the current systems working (for regular people) requires that insurers not be too good at assessing risks. The better the insurer is at assessing risk the closer insurance gets to providing no value to the insured.
In terms of sheer game-theoretic value, sure, perfect knowledge will reduce value gaps. However, the thing with having your house insured is that you will have somewhere to live if you have a house fire. The +/- for the insurer might be close, but going from having a house to having no house is a bigger deal than going from one house to a twice-as-expensive house.
squidgyhead commented on A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022) npr.org/2022/10/08/112768... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...
It seems that one or two European countries ban fluoridation; however few practice it. But "Europe banned this" is simply false. Moreover, it seems that there is fluoridation of salt instead (eg in Switzerland).
squidgyhead commented on The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/... · Posted by u/rpgbr
Pitching AntennaPod as a replacement:
Does it work with android auto?
squidgyhead commented on Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019) coldbike.com/2019/02/13/h... · Posted by u/bill38
Have you considered buying a car?
Thankfully, I have been able to keept the car in the garage and ride at -30. Passed a lot of cars needing a boost though.
squidgyhead commented on Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019) coldbike.com/2019/02/13/h... · Posted by u/bill38
The recent cold snap in Edmonton had me commuting in -37°C. I've never had to rely on face coverings while cycling.
Last August however I attempted to cycle from Edmonton to Vancouver but was shut down due to wildfire smoke. My next chance to attempt is again in August, and I don't expect the smoke conditions to be any better. I could go for a cycling or sports specific PAP.
I used the 3m filter mask biking in the wildfire smoke a while ago. There is a blowout hole, which makes it much easier to get stale air out. The sport-specifc one from MEC made it hard to get fresh air when biking up hill.
I used the air warmer mask during this last cold snap. It made it so much more comfortable! Last year I was fine biking in the cold snap, except for one time biking up a hill. Actually breathing hard, I got a lot more cold air in my lungs, and ended up with a cough for a week. Wanted to avoid that this year.