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derdrdirkon Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests

There are many people that are willing to rent at the market rate? I would argue that if there is more supply on the market property owners will be forced to rent at lower prices?

For those who do not I would create incentives like raising taxes for empty property.

derdrdirkon Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests

From the sample of my direct neighborhood I can tell that there are many empty former warehouses that could be turned into housing stock. I don't see the city developing any of those neither.

derdrdirkon Blocked from accessing zdf.de outside of Germany

I tried accessing the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF's website (zdf.de) from outside of Germany, but it seems I'm being blocked. There are national elections happening today in Germany, and I wanted to follow the coverage.

Error: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.zdf.de/" on this server. Reference #18.5d401002.1740330090.500ca4e4

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.5d401002.1740330090.500ca4e4

derdrdirkon Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests

IMO it is good that Barcelona bought the building. I don't think regulating rent prices and the housing market helps lower rents.

In Poblenou, a district of Barcelona where I live, the city has decided that 50-70% of each property sold has to be purposed for social housing, i.e. limiting the rent to a fourth of the market price and choosing the tenants. Many of the district buildings are abandoned factory halls. I am rennovating one of them to become a house for my family, but am now forced to rent half of it to a poor family. From what I can see from the neighborhood is that there is almost no building activity and that private investments have stopped.

derdrdirkon Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?

TPUs are tightly coupled to JAX and the XLA compiler. If your model is based on Pytorch you can use a bridge to export your model to StableHLO and then compile it to a TPU accelerator. In theory the XLA compiler should be more performant than the Pytorch Inductor.

derdrdirkon macOS Multi-Monitor Problems

MacOS does not support Daisy-Chaining, which renders most ports with two monitor outputs useless.

To use two monitors you have to use two different USB-C ports and play the lottery that the monitors get recognized as wished each time you reboot. Second option is two buy a Thunderbold 3 port which costs ~300€.