bedobi

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by bedobi 3y ago
in certain countries, yes meanwhile in blue zones all over the world, the longest living people in the world are mostly quite poor
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by bedobi 3y ago
Having recently spent quite a bit of time in Silicon Valley for the first time... for the supposedly richest area of the richest country in the world, wow, what an underwhelming experience, that money you're spending doesn't give
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by bedobi 3y ago
there's not a single city in the US that has a real bicycle network despite all the improvements even cities like NYC still doesn't have this imagine a city that's made up of a neighborhoods with high quality roads inside the
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by bedobi 3y ago
So you don’t even live in the city, you don’t find pedestrian or bike friendliness attractive, yet you demand that cities bend over backwards in a never ending attempt to accommodate more cars, faster bigger roads, parking lots etc etc Glad
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by bedobi 3y ago
It’s so strange when motorists talk and act like there aren’t countless cities around the world where people do just that - live life with zero need for or benefit from a car. They buy groceries, take the kids to soccer practice and visit g
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by bedobi 3y ago
Everyone from kids to phd urban planners and traffic engineers know that viable alternatives to driving lead to people switching modes. This isn’t controversial.
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by bedobi 3y ago
So your observation is US cities don’t have transit, therefore we should invest more in car infrastructure?
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by bedobi 3y ago
Car skeptics are not saying “don’t drive” They’re saying “allow viable alternatives to driving”
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by bedobi 3y ago
Meanwhile in Tokyo 40 million people virtually all take the train, and those who do drive never experience traffic or gridlock
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by bedobi 3y ago
Uh, I encounter that everywhere from San Jose to NYC to Miami
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by bedobi 3y ago
Akshully it’s you who need to read up on first thing about the history of the invasion of cities by the automobile. Complete, total regulatory capture of the government by the automobile and oil industry, purchase of transit only to rip it
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by bedobi 3y ago
Private automobiles do not belong in cities. They are guests there. But they've invited themselves in and taken over the place. It's disturbing how common it is for people's default assumption to be that it's the pedestr
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by bedobi 3y ago
at a previous gig, we put a Redis cache in front of a slow monolithic Microsoft SQL Server db that gave us breathing room to migrate the data we were interested in into a much smaller dedicated db for our purposes (the user data, used on ev
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by bedobi 3y ago
the "best" infra i ever had was a gig where we * built a jar (it was a jvm shop) * put it on a docker image * put that on an ami * then had a regular aws load balancer that just combined the ami with the correctly specced (for eac
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by bedobi 3y ago
not as many languages as you'd hope unfortunately, but plenty do (see eg other reply you got, there are more still including F# etc etc) + other languages get close, eg Kotlin has nullable types (which is a poor substitute) and Result
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by bedobi 3y ago
100% agree, and Go gets oh so close But the correct and only sane way to do this is Either<Error, Success> that you can then pass on, map over both or either of the two, flatMap to chain with other Eithers, fold into a single thing et
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by bedobi 3y ago
You're right. Go is not simple, it is idiotically designed to deliberately exclude common sense features that ironically makes it less simple and more error prone to code in and read Go. Other languages are objectively better than Go f
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by bedobi 3y ago
if the justification for paying taxes is having a government and police, why pay them if you're getting robbed with no recourse and the government itself breaks the law on the daily anyway? i'm no libertarian but it's kind of
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by bedobi 3y ago
> In my experience (sample size greater than one), they receive some kudos, but remain underpaid, never promoted, and are given more work under tight deadlines. At least until some of them are laid off along with lower performers. 100% a
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by bedobi 3y ago
it's so disappointing otherwise sane people cling to that nonsense, I've seen first hand people reach for homeopathy and crystals over getting qualified physician advice (and suffering the consequences), it's sad
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by bedobi 3y ago
> Most “nones” believe in God or another higher power this is 1) a bit misleading to call them "nones"... what about the actual nones who simply don't believe anything at all? 2) disappointing and fundamentally different f
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by bedobi 3y ago
am i the only one who's confused and kind of sick of these updates? blabla signs of life on mars for decades but zero actual evidence don't mean to be uncharitable, i'm as excited as anyone at the prospect, but the whole thin
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by bedobi 3y ago
at this point I'm just not flying Boeing anymore, period and no, I don't want to know about similar problems with Airbus, please leave me in blissful ignorance
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by bedobi 3y ago
> What really bothers me is that the CEO of the Organisation at the time was also a Christian priest/deacon lol, in my experience... well, let me not finish that sentence
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by bedobi 3y ago
words like "marriage" and "family" when wielded like this are effectively clubs and weasel words meant to induce an image of something akin to 50's propaganda posters of the happy american family living out their am
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by bedobi 3y ago
lol, ok, never mind all the countless people those "values" drove their childhoods, adolescence and lives into the ground or worse
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by bedobi 3y ago
Gen X and Millenials also had video games (including online ones that didn't require you to be playing physically together) and it didn't have the same effect - the mental health decline became prominent and accelerated during the
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by bedobi 3y ago
in no small part "thanks" to social media, no? like yeah in the us and anglosphere it's no small part car centricity, but like the blog post points out, this is a trend that's visible even places that don't have sch
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by bedobi 3y ago
agree with other commenters who point out that the "top" companies are probably not "top" as much as "no other option", but yeah there's no denying this is pretty insane and damning figures for big tech. p
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by bedobi 3y ago
here i was thinking we'd be treated to a post about quitting as an employee i mean, good for the author and i agree with a lot of the enshittification of music streaming apps, but yeah not sure this particular post is hn material

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