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by asoneth 2y ago
I apologize if I was unclear. In response to a cyclist saying they prefer being near Waymo vehicles to human drivers you said: >> that's cool. until it's not...same with code updates that will make cyclist life worse...you&#
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by asoneth 2y ago
In the United States there are few legal repercussions when a human driver kills someone as long as they are sober and utter the phrase "I didn't see them". Therefore, biking on US roads means trusting in the inherent goodnes
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by asoneth 2y ago
My family has a couple cars but we still ride with our kids in taxis all the time, for example to the airport or into/out of the city. Even hauling bikes isn't insurmountable -- we've taken weeklong bike camping trips with fr
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by asoneth 2y ago
It may not stop someone the first time, but it's not hard to block the reserving account and prevent a second time from occurring. For most people the threat of being placed on the "no-fly" list is sufficient to ensure prosoc
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by asoneth 2y ago
I've taken taxis with infants and small children several dozen times. It doesn't take me more than about twenty seconds to pop the car seat out of the stroller and latch it into the back seat of a taxi, for slightly older kids we
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Will you pay the cost difference afterwards? Are you asking if I would be willing to pay more money for goods that don't irreversibly destroy ocean ecosystems and that aren't made with slave labor? I struggle to imagine the k
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by asoneth 2y ago
That is an old screenshot. The Bloomberg Terminal currently uses a fantastic set of proprietary fonts designed for the company by Matthew Carter (who did Georgia and Verdana). See https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stori
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by asoneth 2y ago
Curious what you mean by "real tray by default"? Notifications? Background apps? One of the AppIndicator shell extensions? Something else?
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by asoneth 2y ago
Perhaps this is a "horses for courses" thing? Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of issues with design choices in both GNOME and macOS (don't get me started on the "flattening" trend to eliminate UI signifiers a
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by asoneth 2y ago
I think that mad optimism reminds me of the https://aptera.us/ solar car as well, or some of the wackier Dyson products. It's not about doing things differently for the sake of being different, but going back to first
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by asoneth 2y ago
I have strong positive and negative emotional reactions to things on a daily basis -- I sometimes tear up reading books to my children, have emotional responses to songs, that sort of thing. As I watched the video I found the destruction be
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by asoneth 2y ago
> I object to the current trend of minority groups trying to impose their views to the whole of society and to paint those who disagree as 'wrong'. I'm curious what you mean by "impose their views" with respect t
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Cows can‘t do that and don‘t have the point of reference to compare. I doubt even humans could unless they are raised to be taught all the cultural norms and what‘s good and bad. By that logic, would it be ethical to eat humans who do
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Because empathy being applied to other species is an evolutionary bug, not a feature I hope our eventual AI overlords do not feel similarly.
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Does the CCP really think that the US military are going to use ordinary street msps to target their missiles and that this obfuscation will protect them from on-target hits? In some cases using consumer-level street maps could make fo
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by asoneth 2y ago
> By this logic, would you say that software engineers should be financially liable for any bugs they cause Yes. Professional engineers are held ethically, professionally, and in some cases financially responsible for the work they sign
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by asoneth 2y ago
> But I don't think I'd recommend Gboard to someone who needs a simplified experience. Gboard is very complicated. Exactly. I'm not keen to attempt to explain the distinction between an input method and a keyboard language
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by asoneth 2y ago
On my Pixel phone keyboard I have two ways to switch language: Holding the spacebar gives me a list labeled "Change keyboard" with six options whereas clicking the keyboard icon in the lower-right corner gives me a similar list ex
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by asoneth 2y ago
Apologies for explaining the joke, but pretty sure the cucumber chopping and wall of achievements is a reference to https://vimeo.com/46304267
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by asoneth 2y ago
Tinkering with internal combustion engines in a personal garage? Sure. In an apartment of a multi-family dwelling? Less sure.
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by asoneth 2y ago
> The amount of revenue the city takes in through ticketing is outrageous, to the point that it's less and less about bylaw enforcement and more about making money. Be that as it may, a society that allows individuals to claim publi
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by asoneth 2y ago
Only $108 per ticket seems low to me. Depending on how often they write tickets it may still be worth it for residents to park on the sidewalk: If monthly rent in SF is between $4.63 and $5.35/sqft[1] then the value of an additional ~1
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by asoneth 2y ago
> So I go back to him and he accused me of lying and went and told the CEO. The CEO, a pretty chill guy with a doctorate, I was expecting to have a rational discussion about with but not he screamed at me too. That's terrible, I&#x2
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by asoneth 3y ago
My friends and I did DC to Pittsburgh every couple years when I lived in Pittsburgh and it's a great gateway trip to see if you like bike camping. Not sure about your fitness level but if you can handle a 75 mile ride and have a three
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by asoneth 3y ago
> None of these lists ever seem to be as fleshed out, up to date, or well organized as https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted That is an excellent and comprehensive list, but is it targeted at indi
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by asoneth 3y ago
Right, I suspect that $15 will prove to be far too low to dissuade 90% of lower Manhattan drivers. Having said that, it's a reasonable (and politically palatable) starting guess, it provides funding to improve transit, makes drivers pa
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by asoneth 3y ago
I agree we should ticket anyone who is blocking the box and I wish they still enforced those fines/points. But as drivers become increasingly lawless, especially in NYC, being the only person following the law can make you and the peop
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by asoneth 3y ago
> Making something more expensive will actually lower costs? Yes, this isn't uncommon. Besides the example you gave of developing new methods, if costs are high due to supply shortages causing production delays, then increasing the
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by asoneth 3y ago
I'm curious what fraction of people who drive a personal vehicle into lower Manhattan on a regular basis are poor or middle class. What would your guess be? Mine would be a tenth or less. When I lived in NYC the only people I knew who
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by asoneth 3y ago
I think it's meant to approximate that sort of dynamic pricing while making it simpler for drivers (and voters) to understand. Sort of like how dynamic electricity pricing for retail consumers takes the form of binary peak/off-pea

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