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by asdff 3mo ago
I disagree with that take generally. What is the difference between say a UK garden suburb and a new build suburb outside dallas? The commuter rail station really. UK suburbs are similarly labyrinthine. But actually, the dallas suburbs have
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by asdff 3mo ago
Indeed. After all, roads predate the car by thousands of years. But still, often roads are overbuilt and their potential capacity is never close to being reached. The bog standard suburban design we see in america for example is generally s
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by asdff 3mo ago
Any chemical bond is a potential source of energy. Plenty of sources of potential energy too able to be converted to work.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Sure, and it infests the little free 'libraries' you see scattered around the neighborhood and often the shelves in the Goodwill, but a good used bookstore and a good public library system will do a bit of filtering on that. These
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by asdff 3mo ago
Reference material is one thing. But literature is pretty timeless. And there are used bookstores and public libraries.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Never say never https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolith
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by asdff 3mo ago
This assumes non ai writers are drinking from the well of slop. Not all of course. Some people still read old books.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Conscious probabilistic thinking is perhaps more demanding of energy. But all animals engage in subconscious probabilistic thinking. That gut feeling you have for example is your inner bayesian logic refined from millions of years of natura
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by asdff 3mo ago
The freedom of loosely moderated minecraft was amazing back in the day. I traded hats all the time between being a shameless griefer or actual contributor to community projects. I remember one server far away from spawn had a growing 1:1 im
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by asdff 3mo ago
When apps took off they weren't really making use of any of that either. Top apps back then were either using the standard ux libraries, or they were something like a simulated beer pint. Rehashing of popular flash and flip phone games
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by asdff 3mo ago
Pretty much every single feature added in the early days (and later) of ios was simply copying what was popular on cydia. That well started to run dry as they got better at whack a moleing jailbreaking exploits, severely contracting that co
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by asdff 3mo ago
Different strokes I guess. I love using bash.
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by asdff 3mo ago
The calculator argument is interesting because I am for sure slower at arithmetic by hand than when I was in gradeschool able to rattle off times tables and long division and what not, due to calculator use. I know plenty of other people wh
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by asdff 3mo ago
On this forum? You are probably one of the few. I hate the way mobile browsers handle tabs with no control over forcing a reload and losing state. I prefer the desktop. I prefer my treestyle tabs. I am hardly on the phone as a result.
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by asdff 3mo ago
There are examples on github from the beforetimes (preai). I made my own little version with a basic ui in python a couple years ago. Works pretty good. Best to pull the powertab or guitar pro tab versions though and open in tuxguitar. Here
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by asdff 3mo ago
There is so much rot in law enforcement. LASD still has deputy gangs.
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by asdff 3mo ago
The issue is deciding importance and most people are too stupid to understand nth order effects. So that will turn into the usual pitchforks.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Meanwhile I use no vram to read with my own eyes
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by asdff 3mo ago
I can tell you don’t check used car prices
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by asdff 3mo ago
No one gets hurt or dies when roger ebert whiffs on a movie review. Now imagine I tell you I've built a bridge. I have no idea how to perform the necessary calculations. I have no idea how to verify the necessary calculations. But, I&#
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by asdff 3mo ago
This is probably true in the consumer facing software space. But in business, industry, and academia, often there are novel data generated by some new or refined process. And this needs new software that correctly handles both the nature of
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by asdff 3mo ago
A real v12, vs hypothetical in my example, actually does in the form of gas consumed. Still, doesn't mean it is a good excuse to justify the waste in energy and materials, all to achieve what I already can do. It would be nice to throw
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by asdff 3mo ago
Fuel tax doesn’t often cover everything. LA metro actually spends an appreciable fraction of its budget on highway and road expansion for example.
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by asdff 3mo ago
So many god damn unprotected left turns on mapping software. Some of them illegal too like asking you to do it when a sign says no left turns during listed hours.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Just move to the rust belt. If you are going to move to a growing job market don’t be surprised when the job market grows and triggers demand for development.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Massive ongoing investment into roads. EV incentives that would pay for 3-4 ebikes outright. Big 3 bailout. Cash for clunkers. Impact fees from developers towards roads. As others said parking requirements. There is so much beyond that too.
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by asdff 3mo ago
Most kids are only into playing in the yard for a couple years really. Before long they are preteens living in their room, probably seething at the fact they need a ride from a parent to hang out with any of their friends. Apartments can al
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by asdff 3mo ago
It isn’t a flat fee per se, if only because wealthier people are too prideful. Rich man buys a 100k mercedes. Poor man buys that mercedes 15 or 20 years later for 3k. It still does what it did when it cost 100k.
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by asdff 3mo ago
The explosion was also due to the car not only spreading low density housing out that would have been a tough sell previously, but also job sprawl to suburban and exurban greenfield. There used to be natural agglomeration to central well co
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by asdff 3mo ago
That would be like driving a v12 down my driveway everytime I want to check the mailbox.

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