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IngaLovinde

@IngaLovinde@embracing.space

Very queer and extremely cuddly autistic lesbian in my 30s :Blobhaj_Flag_Progress_Intersex_Right: :Blobhaj_Flag_Lesbian: :Blobhaj_Flag_Pansexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Transgender: :Blobhaj_Flag_Demisexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Ace:

I mostly shitpost about IT, relationships, politics and crossborder rail travel in EU.

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"Confirmed to be more gay than Sappho" - https://mythago.space/@ghost_bird

Follow requests are absolutely welcome.
Boosts and stars are OK, interactions are extremely OK. If I post something, I do that in the hope that it will be read and maybe discussed! Moar interactions please :blobcatuwu:
(Unless you're a racist, imperialist, sexist, ableist, homophobe, TERF, SWERF, cryptocurrencies bro, free speech fan or a 4channer, in which case GTFO. If you think you're not one but apologist of one, GTFO and also you're one.)

Interpersonal relationships are not trans actional.

Born in USSR, live in Berlin, in happy exclusive mono wife relationship with https://embracing.space/@kiso4koid

Lewd alt for mutuals: https://embracing.space/@IngaAlt

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IngaLovinde, to random
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we were originally supposed to take a direct ICE to Basel a bit later from here, arriving an hour earlier; and now we got this instead (@ S 7 ➜ Berlin Hbf (S-Bahn)) https://traewelling.de/status/2658312

IngaLovinde,
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please don't be late (so that we will get to Basel just one hour later than originally planned) (@ ICE 593 ➜ Mannheim Hbf) https://traewelling.de/status/2658352

IngaLovinde,
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It's a silent carriage, is 4:53 in the morning now, and yet the lights are on full blast.

Also: ICE with the average speed around 105km/h... :blobfoxfacepalm:

IngaLovinde,
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We didn't even leave Berlin yet, and it's already 5 minutes late.
Really hope it will catch up by Mannheim where we have 8 minute interchange.

IngaLovinde,
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+7 ;(

IngaLovinde,
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Local trains from Fulda to Frankfurt: take 1:12.
This ICE, according to schedule: 1:39... and yet it's still late!
(Also regional trains take a reasonable route via Salmünster and Hanau, but this ICE, despite not having any intermediate stops, was going via Gemünden am Main.)
Looks like we'll miss our connecting train and won't get to Basel "in time" (which is already full one hour later than planned arrival was before we got DBed)...

IngaLovinde,
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And now this ICE, the express train with highest priority over everything else, is just standing still at Aschaffenburg, waiting for who knows what, even though even passing through Aschaffenburg doesn't make any sense for this route (non-stop stretch from Fulda to Frankfurt)...

IngaLovinde,
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@jon it is projected to have 10 minute delay even despite the generous schedule (it also only sped up above 100km/h on one short stretch, and often was only doing 50km/h).
But what I don't understand is that regional trains between Fulda and Hanau still seem to run? And it's not like Berlin S-Bahn; the track they take should be compatible with ICEs?

siina, to random

Ah yes, must know web3, blockchain and AI for a job at sewage plant.

They are similar though: shit in, shit out.

IngaLovinde,
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@lanodan @siina well where do you think shit from sewage plants goes? :blobcatgiggle:

futurebird, to random
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What is the best explanation you’ve heard for 1 not being a prime number? For me it’s “because it breaks everything in my programs since the loops won’t terminate” but that’s obtuse. “Because the God of math decrees it so!” is compelling, but shallow.

“it can only be divided by 1 distinct number” is contrived.

1 “feels” prime— it has the fewest factors. (Primeness being about NOT having factors) ruling it out for having too few? eh.

“it’s the zero of multiplication” is better… thoughts?

IngaLovinde,
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@futurebird one more way to thing about it: imagine a half-line of points / vectors with non-negative integer coordinates. There is a zero, and there is a "smallest" (cannot be represented as sum of two others) vector, 1.
Now imagine a quarter-plane, there will be two "smallest" vectors besides zero. They're interesting because we can represent any other vector in our quarter-plane as a sum of these "smallest" vectors (and not just sum but an unique sum). Of course we're interested in smallest non-zero vectors, otherwise zero vector would be the only smallest one. What we're interested in are "generating" vectors, those that define a shape of that quarter-plane and its content, and zero vector doesn't define anything.
We can then do the same exercise with 1/8th of 3-dimensional space, etc.
Now extend this to the space with countably many dimensions (and vectors with finite number of non-zero coordinates). And define the mapping between this space and positive integers: vector with a_i coordinate at ith place is converted to the product of ith prime numbers to the a_ith degree. Then vector addition turns into integer multiplication, "smallest" vectors turn into their respective primes, and origin / zero vector is converted to 1.
1 is a prime in the same sense as zero is the smallest vectors, but this doesn't get is anywhere, we're interested in smallest non-zero vectors, those that generate everything else.

IngaLovinde, to random
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Where do they get their electricity from??? :blobcat_googly_notlikethis:

Screenshot of google flights showing that emissions for a random Ryanair flight from Milan to Palermo are 92kg CO2 equivalent

IngaLovinde,
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For comparison, if DB website is to be believed, emissions on direct Berlin to Basel route for ICE is 0.09 kg CO2 equivalent.
Sure it's a couple of times shorter... but the difference between 0.09kg and 73.15kg is not just a couple of times!
How do you get your train to emit almost as much CO2 as an airplane on the same route...

IngaLovinde,
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Huh, apparently typical energy consumption of a train is around 30-50 Wh per passenger-km in seats (while electric cars with two people have around 125 Wh, didn't expect the difference to be so small), which means 10-25g CO2 per passenger km just for electric traction at typical energy mix in Germany or Italy (300-500 gm CO2 per kWh).
Sleepers will naturally have twice as much (because there are basically only 24 beds per car)
While airplanes have allegedly total emissions around 100g per passenger-km for short-haul flights, a bit over 50g for long haul. (And electric cars, 60g in operational energy consumption, thank to power consumption just a bit over trains (how?).)

So the trains are not really that efficient? What the fuck.

IngaLovinde,
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So basically at the current energy mix in Germany or Italy, electric trains (which are promoted as the greenest mode of travel) apparently do actually have emissions not very much lower than airplanes (which are considered to be the worst), even for short-haul (1k km) flights? With sleepers being almost the same as airplanes.
(While being much slower and much more expensive and generally terrible to book on distances over 1k km.)
Of course in the future all electricity should be green, but still

IngaLovinde,
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...and here I am, having gone through so much effort and pain to plan a long-distance rail trip through the countries with dirty electricity (Germany, Italy), and foolishly thinking that is going to have negligible emissions compared to flying :blobcat_googly_notlikethis:
While in reality it seems that emissions are pretty close, and taking even one sleeper along the route is enough to bring them over the airplane's.

Fooled once again by personal carbon footprint scam.

IngaLovinde,
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(trains are still much better for short trips (like, way under 1k km), even with Polish energy mix 500km in a train seat is going to emit less than just one hop from Tallinn to Helsinki (100km) in an airplane.
But for long-distance trips, there is basically no significant difference. Definitely not one that would be worth the pain of booking and the price of train tickets. At least not until our electricity becomes much cleaner.)

jon, to random
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And what’s going on here?

DB proposes 06:03 La Ciotat - Toulon 06:30, depart there 06:43 for Nice Ville, onwards to Ventimiglia

Smallish station in Toulon, 13 min change should be fine

SNCF Connect confirms each train runs but won’t show me the connection. Is it erroneously insisting I need more than 13 mins to change?

SNCF shows correct La Ciotat departure
SNCF Connect Shows correct departure from Toulon
This is what it proposes for La Ciotat - Ventimiglia - going later

IngaLovinde,
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@jon judging by the fact that SNCF shows you the connection 7:33-8:00 / 8:43-10:36 and not 8:04-8:30 / 8:43-10:36, looks like it indeed thinks that you'll need more than 13 minutes for this interchange?

jon, to random
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What happens when you build trains with too few doors and too little luggage space, and then aim to always sell every last seat on those trains

And remember no one is even allowed to stand

IngaLovinde,
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@jon surely the solution is to charge for luggage and for "priority seats" closest to the door, like airlines do

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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"The Why Files" is a youTube channel that regularly has videos with over a million views. They started as a kind of paranormal/fringe science channel that was mostly harmless, and that often debunked conspiracies.

But, they've moved beyond that in to material such as suppressed patents for cars that run on water. And treating climate change like it's a unresolved question. This has made their audience grow.

The things is they aren't just spitting lies. 1/

IngaLovinde,
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@GiddingsMJ @futurebird there are various metrics showing that advertising cannot be incredibly effective.
I remember reading the story about how IIRC ebay got some incredible conversion from Google ads (those Google displays in search results), like 50%, giving them incredible return on investment.
The twist to the story is that they bought the ad for the word "ebay". So people who were entering the word "ebay" in Google search field were presented with that incredible ad, immediately followed by the non-ad search results, with eBay website being on the first place (second if you count the ad) 🙃

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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What is it with bridges going down and people trying to make some huge theory or inventing a damn cryptid moth from space to explain it?

I guess it's like assassinations. The event feels big. It feels huge. So it MUST have a big huge momentous cause.

It can't be that people make mistakes, or that parts sometimes fail. Or sometimes the weather is just ... horrible.

IngaLovinde,
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@futurebird "cryptid moth from space" do they mean Lexx, the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes?

veronica, to random
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I have to use Windows for work, and it sucks. It is mind numbingly unresponsive compared to what I'm used to.

I recently got the "New" Outlook and Teams, and I'm wondering if all newer Microsoft software is built on a shared framework called "Microsoft Bloatware".

IngaLovinde,
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@veronica @tmr232 windows 10 used to be decent, but oh why did they take perfectly working native (UWP-based) Outlook app and replaced it with that "New" Outlook monstrosity which as I understand is a web app written with the slowest web framework in the world and wrapped into slowest Electron build in the world?
And what's even the point of this "New" Outlook, when one can get just the same experience by going to outlook.com in their browser.

IngaLovinde, to random
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Just came across a photo of a newborn Giruno on a stroller! :blobcataww:
Makes you smile a little.

futurebird, to random
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If I were rich enough I’d

  1. Buy google adsense a huge buy
  2. target ads at myself: audience of one
  3. make ads transparent zero width images
  4. Experience peace at last.

Why can’t they sell a “no ads” global package? I have blockers on most of my computers and phones but now and then I still see ads and I can’t deal with it. I know I can pay more than these people with their little before and after images of gross skin— and the ads for games that don’t exist and gambling ads.

IngaLovinde,
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@futurebird to sell an ad-free version of the internet (when it's not even your internet provider selling it but some entirely different company) will probably make people think "protection racket"

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

bitter snickering

IngaLovinde,
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@futurebird expectations: "the first one to release AI will prevent any future AIs from existing because the first AI will become god, and will not let anybody else to create another god"
Reality: the first one to release "AI" will prevent any future "AI"s from existing because the makers of the first "AI" will pollute everything with its garbage to such extent that there will be nothing clean to train another "AI" on.

Handout, to random
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they hate us.

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-z-splurge-groceries-spending-inflation-gen-z-boomers-2024-4

IngaLovinde,
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@futurebird @Handout but you don't understand, these spoiled children splurge more on food than they do on superyachts, private jets, mansions and baseball clubs!
Or, alternatively: "they only cannot buy their own housing and have to rent because instead of saving responsibly, they frivolously spend their money on avocado toasts and on Starbucks coffee", updated for 2024: "they only cannot buy their own housing and have to rent because instead of saving responsibly, they spend their money frivolously on groceries".

Some editor at Business Insider read this column and decided it was a good and publish-worthy. Makes me wonder if they know how much groceries cost.

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