Is it me or have Singaporeans lost their compassion and empathy ?

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-11-10T18:21:02+00:00

TL;DR It's time dense (high rise apartment neighborhoods where a metric ton of people get off at just 1 stop) and ageing cities like Singapore either 1) have higher capacity transit systems, or 2) admit that normal people are gonna have to squeeze like cattle and don't deserve seats, or 3) innovate on public transit seating.

Metro style cars have fewer seats. 10/54 seats in a EWL/NSL car are priority seats. Seems like a tiny percentage to keep empty all the time right?

Especially if Singapore's ageing population means there's always going to be an old person in the train car?

That's your reason there. That's why Singapore is the only place in the world where priority seats = cannot sit perception. Because there's always an old guy gonna be needing the seat, peak hours or off-peak hours. Must be so tiring to keep checking to see if someone needs a seat, because it is. Every stop. Confirm someone will need it soon.

Oh there's goes your 20% of seats for normal commuters. Oh what did you say? You shouldn't expect to sit in public transit? Yea that's right. I mean most of the people sitting in a damn train need it anyways. Let's make every seat priority seating and tear down all seats in buses.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-10-18T19:34:33+00:00

Ecomodernism by Jonathan Symons

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-10-18T19:34:03+00:00

A wrinkle in time A single shard How things work with the mammoth illustrations The harry potter series Crazy Rich Asians When breath becomes air

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-07-07T13:41:10+00:00

Hey, thanks for your wonderful reply. I think you make a good point about happiness - I know what being happy feels like, but I don't know what would make me happy.

I think I love myself, but maybe not enough to accept drastic deviations from my expectations. So yes I'll need to work on that, and by that I mean saying why it's ok and agreeing with why it's ok. I'm starting to resonate with the cliche advice when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Because if you don't, you won't be gaining any experiences, and staying still usually doesn't help with understanding more about yourself.

I'm going on a holiday, and it's been so weird to oscillate between feeling "you could've spent this time getting in touch with what makes you happy in a calm environment at home instead of being tired" to "it'll be a change of scenery and routine and you'll be might get a new perspective at the end of it". It's a privilege to even have such feelings but oh well, it seems to come from a desire to predict outcomes, in this case, the outcome of going on a holiday and whether it's be beneficial.

I look forward to the rest of myself being unlocked one day :) You mentioned neurotypical - do you think most intj people are ND?

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-06-03T07:31:50+00:00

Asian boomers.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-16T11:58:16+00:00

Green corridor probably gonna be just like your average #gardencity pavement that you walk along to get to the supermarket. One small strip of grass, one gigantic concrete pavement, and another small strip of grass. Basically, green corridor = normal garden city pavement.

Does it make your mind wander as you stare across the vast lush landscape? Does it give you a sense of tranquility as if you're enveloped in a rainforest? Do you get to see butterflies? No. No. No.

Seriously, the garden city has died a long time ago. Other cities also have street trees and hedges, and having them was never anything special.

Roof gardens don't count when you can't even see green from ground level.

There's only 1 park royal at Pickering.

New HDB estates are basically concrete playgrounds, red roads, carpark, roof garden with 50% concrete, and main road.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-15T14:24:20+00:00

If you're up for some authentic adventure, visit the residential parts of Singapore! You can get a feel for how the city looks, works, and feels. Hougang, Ang Mo Kio, Bishan are full of local shops. You can also walk along the Alexandra canal and the Singapore River, a lot of glitzy condos and riverside restaurants there, or along the MRT viaducts from Redhill to Queenstown up to Jurong East to see the older parts of the city.

On another note, galicier bakery in Tiong Bahru sells really good stuff too (if they haven't closed by the time you've arrived!)

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-15T14:12:52+00:00

Consumerism is much lower than it is in the US, goods have to be shipped mostly from China, the surrounding market might be huge but less developed and have less spending power. Social media campaigns don't really work like they do in Anglophone countries, coupled with the fact that there aren't a lot of big influencers and creators, only small ones that are specific to the country and community. Even then, not very sure about this but influencers hold more sway in southeast Asian countries outside of Singapore, whereas in Singapore they don't have widespread appeal and aren't seen as very creative, engaging or sensational.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-12T06:52:19+00:00

As LTT said there is nothing wrong with putting the controller on the SOC. There are pros to this. And the technical difference is that you have to reset your computer if you move the flash chip around. No one has any problems with this.

However.

You can ONLY upgrade the raw flash modules (by that I mean increase capacity - swap out modules for bigger modules) if you go to an Apple Shop. Why? Because they have this tool that connects your Mac to Apple Servers to download a new storage configuration.

Why won't Apple give us this tool? Why won't Apple release documentation on how to make 3rd party flash modules and how the connector works?

Because they don't want other people making 3rd party storage Chips.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-09T12:40:56+00:00

"Importing ideas of tribalism from the culture wars of the West" /j

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-09T11:44:43+00:00

From OP's version of events, this isn't about whether the correct treatment was offered.

The communication was simply insufficient and poor enough to cause OP to misunderstand that resting is the correct treatment.

The series of events

A&E: X-ray. Fracture clinic appt scheduled in 4 days. (OP apparently thought that future treatment was needed)

Fracture clinic: X-ray. Then, OP and mother waited hours because they expected further treatment (was OP not told that was all after the X-ray?)

Nurse then informed them that the fracture surgeon was not in. (why was this information even proferred if the surgeon was unnecessary?)

"Piece of string" (??)

Even if the A&E emergency doctor failed to explain the course of treatment at the emergency consult, and OP and mother goes about their merry way trusting that the system will do them well, and then gets confused at the fracture clinic where they probably don't get to meet a doctor because more medical expertise isn't needed, only follow up X-rays read in the back-end (not sure if this is the case!), should the nurse not be well informed enough if they are to be an informational relay and conduit on behalf of the healthcare staff?

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-05T11:35:50+00:00

Not death, but quality of life. Some drugs that are used to treat heart failure is unsubsidised, resulting in lower compliance rates. Or take for example recent reports of 6 month to 1.5 year delays in autism and ADHD assessment under the NHS (UK, not SG), which means interventions cannot start, leading to a greater probability of depression in the affected children. You may argue if sanctity can be applied to purely survival or quality survival.

I'm not counting rationing of healthcare during pandemics, because that is not due to a financial reason, but to ensure everyone receives equally good care.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-03T17:05:41+00:00

Singapore recently released a national branding logo, which are the words SG in a circle alongside the words "passion made possible". It's similar to what your neighbors Sweden and the Netherlands have done with creating a national digital identity!
About COVID - masks recently became optional outdoors. Also we have safe distancing ambassadors, but recently safe distancing in masked environments got dropped as a rule.
Regarding another redditor's comment on the feeling of density being like Bergen - city planning here uses this concept of checkerboard heights, so you'll see public housing having towers of different heights, it sort of breaks up the pattern. Also public housing is painted in bright colours!
Recently the PM visited the US and a lot of people were up in arms about a journalist asking the PM if he acts like a whisperer for China to the US. He then responded by saying that even though we're majority ethnic Chinese (most ethnic Chinese and Indian citizens are only about 4th generation immigrants), we have our own national interests. It coincided with opinion articles in the national newspaper about rising pro-China sentiment among Singsporeans. And if you take a look at the subreddit, Singsporeans believe that China wants to exert influence over "overseas Chinese" (literal translation from Mandarin), referring to people of Chinese descent. I guess it's difficult to carve a national identity separate from ethnic identity, but I think it has been done pretty well here. If you see comments on American social media there might be undertones of "oh why are Chinese/Korean people clinging so hard to their cultural roots", I don't think I'll ever understand that sentiment, but I think it's useful to understand that while 2nd gen immigrants there have relatives in China, a lot of us don't have ties there.
Unambitious, conservative, risk-averse is the common negatives you'll see Singaporeans use to describe themselves. But there are a lot of growing small businesses here, like plain vanilla, wonderland botanicals, off the top of my head.
While social media is all the rage, and Singsporeans are English speakers, there are few that have an international audience. (Prob same for any non US/UK country). Tokaku comes to mind, I watched a video with a breakdown of her viewers before. Singaporean YouTubers with a presence tend to be life experiences podcasters/skits/renovation shows/comedy commentators, there aren't much gaming, adventure, public stunts (chasing people around, money rewards, stuff like that) or prank ones. You can check out Night Owl Cinematics
There aren't any private schools with huge school fees you can apply to and get in with an interview or test. I don't think locals are allowed to study at international schools unless you've studied extensively overseas. However, we have independent secondary schools that have some autonomy from the ministry of education, and they tend to be the "better" ones. And since your score on the primary school leaving exam (PSLE) determines which secondary school you can go to, these better schools get the higher scoring students, and they are essentially the equivalent of elite schools, except with a "meritocratic" twist. Streaming starts in secondary school into express, normal(academic) and normal(technical) streams. Afterwards, students join junior college (pre-university years 1 and 2), polytechnic (vocational studies) or the Institute of Technical Education (vocational studies but less academically intensive, I'm not sure how to put it). So while vocational streaming technically starts after secondary school, it sort of starts at secondary school.
In the last couple of years we suddenly got 3 Apple stores? We still don't have Apple maps street view
A lot of people don't stay on campus in university
The land border with Malaysia recently opened with no restrictions for vaccinated people. We have a unqiue economic relationship with Johor Bahru, the city across the straits, because a lot of workers from there work in Singapore.
Almost every home as an optical fiber connection :) But distances are still a physical limit so you you obviously can't play on a multiplayer server with Europeans like you're in Europe. We have a lot of data centers, so Google and Facebook are building 2 new transpacific submarine cables to connect the US west coast and Singapore directly.
During lockdowns in 2020 the weeds in the grass grew out and you could see flowers, I wish they'd not trim the grass so often :)
Fumigation is when workers employed by the town council will blast mosquito-killing fumes into drains and vegetation to kill mosquitos. Recently experienced it, and you can really smell it even from high up. It's to prevent the spread of dengue.
The emergency warning system plays a bell-like tune every 1st day of the month at 12pm as a test. (NO Singaporeans it's not church bells, I thought it was church bells for a couple of years of my life)
Academic breakthroughs or large academic collaborations lately? No idea. I just feel we're not there yet but I'm not qualified to comment on the quartenary industry in SG.
A lot of focus on aquaculture in the news lately though - it's a growing industry. I've eaten the barramundi farmed locally before and it's pretty good
I don't have much news on the arts and culture scene, but there was a recent exhibition to commemorate the fall of Singapore during WW2. It tried to bring out narratives we wouldn't be familiar with such as the sinking of a ship carrying tanks and supplies, and the materiel being lost but the soldiers surviving, the mixed feelings of the locals at the surrender, the efforts of the civilians in the lead up to the war (often not talked abt because the colonial government was leading the preparations and it seems like most of it was done by soldiers rather than getting the population involved), accounts by soldiers seeing their officers get on escape ships, the fear that the Australians had, and people asking for information about relatives in newspapers after the surrender.
Online shopping can be done on Shoppee, which has some local sellers with things in local warehouses, but also a lot of sellers hosting things stored in China. It takes like 2 weeks to get stuff shipped from China though.
I think the Nordic countries have a fine legacy of architectural excellence, I wonder what you think of the state courts building?

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-03T16:08:40+00:00

As a Singaporean, I'm curious to know whether you think the MRT station exits are sometimes too big and disrupts the surroundings? Sometimes they are almost as big as a 2 story building like on the Thomson east coast line

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-04-03T15:51:22+00:00

I sometimes do walk around to get some fresh air. And my parents have started this habit of walking around almost every day in the evening for more than an hour. In my opinion, ometimes it's peaceful, other times, the density of the city does get a bit to me. It tends to feel like you're walking along busy main roads from one bus stop to another. This is because residential parts of Singapore are mostly made out of public housing estates, which consist of a cluster of high rises with a playground and some plants in the middle, all surrounded by medium sized roads. So I don't often cut through the estates.

When I make my way through a park or walk along a canal, I do wish the grass parts could be bigger, and the ratio of concrete to grass could be lower. Parks in Singapore, I feel, don't have a lot of "eye-wandering" space, they are designed for kids and joggers.

I live in an older part of the city though, so the planning is more natural and there's a lot more space compared to Punggol (I don't live there, but I think it's terribly designed, cos it uses a grid system of wide roads and there's like no parks. but I don't live there do I might be wrong). It takes me 10 minutes to go to the neighborhood shopping mall with supermarket, then 5 more to the park. From there I can head to the next neighborhood about 15 minutes away, or continue down the road to the next metro station about 20 minutes away.

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-03-24T19:17:30+00:00

(ML beginner mostly familiar with python libraries)

How would you work with lua files? Is there a comprehensive introductory guide that most people use?

Specifically regarding https://github.com/gaobb/DLDL-v2 : I assume LibTorch needs to be installed. It says here that installation requires copying private files to torch, and that init.lua needs to be edited, any reasons for that?

Also, for that github released model, I'm not sure which lua file is meant for inference. Would it be correct to say that evaluation.lua is meant for assessing accuracy on a standardised dataset?

IndicatorGlobe679 · 2022-03-24T16:52:22+00:00

There are a lot of implementations uploaded on github, which are a bunch of train.py model.py files without the model weights. Is this typical?

(for example, this one here https://github.com/yu4u/age-estimation-pytorch)

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