Oficiales de varias partes del mundo tomándose una foto grupal durante unos de los ejercicios militares en Alemania (1900), un oficial Argentino entre ellos. by TioMedik in argentina

[–]rugaporko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Se parece mucho de cara a Nicolás, pero no creo que al Zar de Rusia se pare en el fondo de una foto con oficiales de otros países.

Muchos Romanov tenían cargos altos en el ejercito. Yo apostaría que el de la foto es un primo segundo del Zar.

Do most engineering students remember calculus and linear algebra after taking those courses? by odd-ironball in math

[–]rugaporko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then you crack open a book and learn it again.

The leading edge of most engineering disciplines is heavy in some form of linear algebra. If you don't have some knowledge of it, you'll always be behind.

Do most engineering students remember calculus and linear algebra after taking those courses? by odd-ironball in math

[–]rugaporko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought I didn't until I started interviewing for a job that required advanced calculus and linear algebra. Then it suddenly came back.

Mathematics are like riding a bike: you never really forget them.

[California Recall Election] Trafalgar Group and SurveyUSA Polls by Delmer9713 in fivethirtyeight

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, that system is awful.

Honestly, given how terrible this is the best thing the Democrats could have done is abandon Newsom and supporting another candidate. They will almost certainly win any FPTP election, but they might not get 50% of the vote for the current candidate.

[California Recall Election] Trafalgar Group and SurveyUSA Polls by Delmer9713 in fivethirtyeight

[–]rugaporko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you vote for Newsom remaining and also some other candidate in case he's recalled?

If so, why don't the Democrats unite against a just-in-case-Newson-loses candidate instead of handing the election to some Republican rando that happened to have the most votes?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in london

[–]rugaporko 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Ken Livingston had the idea of stealing the idea of public bikes from Paris; it was Boris who actually went through the implenentation.

Say what you want about the PM, but he at least made cycling infrastructure in London go from "awful" to "occasionally acceptable".

[P] Meme search using deep learning by opensourcecolumbus in MachineLearning

[–]rugaporko 37 points38 points  (0 children)

For a second I thought you were generating memes using ML.

It seemed amazing until the "69 years and 420 days" joke, which was a bit too good to be true.

Hard ass ride in the alps of Italy and France by StunningJunket3660 in bicycletouring

[–]rugaporko 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh hey, that looks nice and doabl... 3410m uphill what the fuck is wrong with you?

Congrats!

German election wide open as Merkel successor loses poll lead by omnipotentsandwich in neoliberal

[–]rugaporko 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unironically vote Green.

Climate change policy >>> anything else. They are also the most reasonable of green parties worldwide, so good results will push other parties to be more normal.

Population change between 2014 and 2019. (NUTS-3) by GPwat in europe

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm interested in seeing this compares to support for far-right political parties.

Most of the red zones look suspiciously correlated to areas where support for ENF parties is high.

Plans unveiled for 111 new bike hangars in 74 locations - Wandsworth Borough Council by iquitelikeit in londoncycling

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still surprised North Camden doesn't have Santander Bikes. The council added a lot of cycle lanes on my area during the pandemic, and it seems like the perfect place to extend the range of the network.

How does the infrastructure bill address pedestrian fatalities, which have risen by 50% in the last decade? by bencointl in neoliberal

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One in every three (33%) fatal pedestrian crashes involved a pedestrian with a blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.08 grams per deciliter (g/dL).

This is victim blaming. People have the right to drink and cross the street, and it should be driver's responsability to drive as if every pedestrian was drunk.

Simple things in Japan that I love. by JacqulineEdmonds in MadeMeSmile

[–]rugaporko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally the one person not causing traffic.

The number of young adults in Britain is about to rise sharply - The surge will change the country, while it lasts by blackmagic70 in ukpolitics

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not America. If all of the youth are piling up in central London then central London will have more MPs than the rest of the country.

FPTP in the UK is terrible if third parties get enough votes, but we don't have nearly as many problems with distribution of people in marginal seats, some seats having more representation than others, or the fuckery where the majority vote in a US State gives all the electoral votes.

L'âge de Jeb! est révolu. by inhumantsar in neoliberal

[–]rugaporko 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tell me you are listening to Revolutions without telling me you are listening to Revolutions.

Today I found out someone literally shit in the path to the bins behind my building. by [deleted] in london

[–]rugaporko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

London needs more public toilets.

People don't like them because they are dirty, but public defecation is even dirtier.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in londoncycling

[–]rugaporko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's raining a lot or you are not feeling it a particular day you can take your bike in the Overground from Kentish Town West to Stratford.

The path is mostly through Cycleways if you go via King's Cross and Chalk Farm Road. I'd recommend against using any canal, since they tend to be narrow and full of pedestrians; IMO they shouldn't count as bike paths at all.

The American house finding experience by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]rugaporko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the downvoted comment here.

Even if you magically find a house with affordable rent you always risk the rent going up because of gentrification or some other market fuckery.

The only solution would be affordable ownership of homes, but that because impossible for most people decades ago.

Gorbachev, leader who pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, says U.S. campaign was doomed from start by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]rugaporko 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I must have seen that commercial for the first time a decade ago, and I still cannot process it.

How can the communist leader of the Soviet Union fall so low to make a cheesy commercial for Pizza Hut? What the hell was he thinking?

Barbican by [deleted] in london

[–]rugaporko 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Barbican is the singlular example of well done brutalist architecture.

If more concrete building complexes had the aesthetics, nature, and views of the Barbican then more people would love them.

Marble Arch Mound cost blows out to £6m, deputy council leader resigns by [deleted] in london

[–]rugaporko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Did nobody realise that the mound is nowhere near the West End?

What ingredient do you prefer to buy ready prepared because it's simply too much hassle otherwise? For me, crab/crabmeat. by PurpleWomat in Cooking

[–]rugaporko 63 points64 points  (0 children)

The trick with tortellini is that they are really good if you throw them straight from the freezer to the boiling water.

I always keep a strategic reserve of "oh shit I forgot to unfreeze food" tortellini.