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  • I just want to say, as a light pollution researcher, it warms my heart to see people start to get it.

    You’re on the right track and got plenty of good suggestions already. I’ll add that the way to improve the feeling of safety is to light the faces of people, so you need lights at least taller than humans if you want them pointing downwards. Uniformity of lighting is also a big part, so multiple small lamps tend to be better than one big one.

    In short, keep it dim, amber/red, uniform, localized, downward pointing (with dark roads if possible) and turn it off when not needed (most town in France shit off the lights in the evening and no one complained).

    Also, keeping the streets narrow, winding and having buildings close (aka European streets) will confine the light in the city better than the opposite.

    Feel free to ask me anything and good luck!










  • I’m a scientist that has been coding almost exclusively in Python for the past decade and I strongly disagree.

    Python is great at being the glue that holds everything together, and everything crunchy part of the program is being handled by a library anyways.

    I code with two terminals, one for iPython and one for vim. And you don’t need anything else. The beauty of Python is that it’s not a language that is so full of boilerplate that you need an IDE to type it for you to be remotely productive.

    Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works and don’t need to spend years learning programming paradigms and industry practices. Fortran and C are so unwieldy in comparison and everything more modern lacks the expansive and diverse libraries of Python.