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Look for books from "Mir publishers", there are some nice soviet books.

https://mirtitles.org/tag/mathematics/

Paying with credit card gives you at least some leverage when a merchant doesn't hold their end of the deal. Good luck getting your money back with iDEAL (it's not possible right now).

As someone also working on CAD in their spare time, also tried the hosted app. I get the feeling that this is made by someone who has never opened a (professional) CAD app at all. It feels like a mix between a tool like blender and CSG-style CAD, but even all of that doesn't seem to work. Maybe this is the proof that vibe coding does not work, at least not for this kind of application.

In my own project I use LLMs very sparingly and hesitantly, but made the observation that they are not very useful on the hard parts of CAD. I expect this is because of a lack of training material. Most professional CAD applications are proprietary and books on the topic are usually sparse on implementation details. The non-BRep CAD applications such as OpenSCAD and family are probably overrepresented in the training data.

This might also explain why people's experiences with LLMs are very varied. If you stay in the happy path of CRUD web development and stuff all is nice and well, but if you start to veer off this path you get more and more challenged.

People in the Netherlands are usually not at all proud of their cuisine, but the cheese is definitely a nice aspect (as someone who eats the >1 year ripened stuff almost daily)

Although for me some of the French cheeses are the best. Just what you're used to I guess :D

It seems like the advice is primarily relevant if you are already very talkative and/or complaining too much about everything wrong. In that case, it will not hurt to take a step back sometimes: this is also leadership.

This is what I could see with my camera in the east of the Netherlands, and even with the naked eye I could easily see some red at times: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

Around 1 AM at night this was the view in the east of the Netherlands: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

With the naked eye I could see moving bright "clouds", and sometimes see streaks of red inside them. After 1:30 it died out quite rapidly for me.

In the east of the Netherlands I was seeing something similar to what you describe, but when particularly active I also saw a reddish glow in places. This is a timelapse I made around the same time: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

Well, if you produce crops instead of livestock, you are not emitting any nitrogen compounds so would in theory be totally unaffected by regulation.

The "local nature" (barely anything left), has already been sacrificed for decades to this. For example, a large drop in insect populations has been recorded, likely because of intensive farming practices. So continuing to do this (apart from EU regulation) does not seem to me like it is very wise. Agriculture is also very dependent on some kind of local nature existing (think pollinators). If you don't care about nature at all, it will be a very dead place soon enough. We are also part of nature, after all.

Even with the proposed reduction in the amount of farm animals the Netherlands will still produce more than enough meat and milk to meet domestic demand, and the reason that construction can't continue is precisely the excess nitrogen emissions produced and the physical space consumed by by the farms. The country simply isn't large enough to not make this tradeoff. And if you don't care about the biodiversity, sooner or later you'll find out that you can't continue with agriculture at all because there are no pollinators left.

The reduction in farm animals isn't going to happen within a year (there are not even very concrete plans yet), this will likely be a very long process.

The Netherlands simply has too many farm animals and overfertilization has been a problem for decades. This is especially visible on this map from 2011 [1]. The overfertilization will lead to biodiversity loss, as plants that prefer nutrient poor soils will be outcompeted by plants that can harness the excess nitrogen and/or that prefer acidic soils [2]. Due to EU regulation and court orders only recently did this become a real mess, where building projects couldn't even continue because of the limits on nitrogen emissions.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_Global_Fertil...

[2] https://www.wur.nl/en/Dossiers/file/Nitrogen.htm

I have a similar experience with stainless steel pans. We use them for everything (also eggs, which people seem to find especially hard on the internet). After getting used to the pans (especially cooking on the right temperature), I just don't get the obsession people have with non-stick pans and seasoning.

Additionally, there is something else I wonder about: people often seem to be recommended those pans "requiring" seasoning from a health-conscious perspective, but to me it seems like everything that is involved in seasoning could be worse than just using a non-stick Teflon or ceramic pan to begin with. I mean, isn't seasoning basically burning oil and making a layer of burnt stuff at the bottom of your pan? Can't this stuff flake into your food? I can't find much about this on the internet, so maybe I'm wrong, but it just doesn't feel right to me.

Given that because of quarantine measures a lot of people have little or no work to do at the moment, that might be a potential source of farm labor (which is mostly unskilled labor anyways)?

In the Netherlands, soon after the first measures were put in place, they decided to open up the wholesale stores to private persons (normally, by law, only businesses are allowed to use these). I have no idea how many people actually go there, but in the light of this situation it may well have been a smart move.

Physically Based Rendering is basically a complete guide to building a modern physically based rendering engine (it even won an Academy Award)

https://pbrt.org/

Makes me wonder at what point they will sell your input (keyboard) history... There's technically nothing stopping them from it, if they have access to all this other information.

Unfortunately, I can still reproduce it when the mouse is disconnected completely (tried it in the past as my first guess)

I have a similar issue with my desktop computer: when I suspend or hibernate it, it sometimes wakes up again when I'm standing, getting up from my chair or leaving the room. This also occasionally happens (when hibernated) after I have physically switched off the power of the computer and switch it on again. The issue occurred first a few years after I bought it, but right now I have just given up debugging it, as I have absolutely no idea what the cause could be. It's mildly annoying sometimes as I have to check that it's really staying put, but I can deal with it.

Assuming the dirt weighs about 2 tons per cubic meter, this corresponds to 58 kg/m^2 / 2000 kg/m^3 =~ 0.03 m, so it seems like the gp just used the incorrect unit.

The amount of important work in modern astronomy that is satellite based is limited, as pointed out elsewhere on this thread.

The manufacturing tolerances for large mirrors are very small, and it seems unlikely that we would be able to do this - note that barely any manufacturing has been done in space.

Assembling from pieces on the other hand, is more doable.

But why would you want that we become a space-faring species, at all costs? There is not much interesting to find in space, compared to what we have on Earth (especially not close to us, and I do not see us getting out of the solar system for a long time). Perhaps you could argue that we might do asteroid mining at some point, but at the moment that's very far out of reach.

Telescopes in space could have better performance, because you are not limited by atmospheric conditions for your angular resolution. But you still need a larger aperture to increase your theoretical angular resolution (see the Rayleigh criterion), and increase light gathering power.

If we are talking about visual light astronomy (the wavelengths where black satellites could help), a majority of astronomy is ground based. There exists just a single capable space observatory in visual light, the Hubble telescope, which will be going out of service in a few years. There's some metrics here[1] which show that about 10% of the most cited papers use Hubble data, which is still quite impressive. This is dated though, it could very well be that Hubble is becoming less relevant with recent advances in technology.

[1] http://www.stsci.edu/%7Ewebdocs/STScINewsletter/2003/spring_...

It's very expensive to build (especially large) space telescopes (JWST is already costing more than 8 billion at this point), and astronomy is not very well funded.

the best musicians, actors, and artists are extremely well compensated

What is your definition of best in this context? As far as I know, taste in art is very personal... Artists I consider the best are often very far from well compensated.

I think the answer is quite simple, computers don't "kill" anything by themselves, for any new technological invention like AI you have a choice about whether you like it or not. What I'm saying with that is, that given the negative sentiment so many people have towards AI, I find it very unlikely that most of us will suddenly stop doing things just because some AI can do it better (look at chess).

If AI's make music as well, why would I care? I still listen to the music composed by Bach and other ancient composers, more than 300 years after they lived, and their music is still being performed today.

I think the availability of AI's will only make a difference where their effects on humanity are beneficial (that is, tasks we don't like doing, for the most part).

Note that I have not said anything about cannabis on a prescription basis for medical purposes, you just said "maybe smoke some weed" (smoking anything doesn't seem very healthy...), not "maybe see a doctor".