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by bkettle 3y ago
https://benkettle.xyz It is a work in progress, but I’d like for it to be a place where I can write about projects and anything that interests me. Will primarily be a combination of computer science and urban planning topics, ma
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by bkettle 3y ago
What does your residential street look like? My guess is that is is wide and has no physical traffic calming features to make it uncomfortable to drive fast. If you and your neighbors want to slow people down on the street, you should fight
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by bkettle 3y ago
Slowing down roads also means they are more comfortable to bike in and to walk alongside, which will move some people from cars to other modes and decrease peak traffic for drivers.
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by bkettle 3y ago
We can also prevent people from driving 50MPH through residential neighborhoods with good street design. Current safety standards with open roads encourage people to ignore the speed limit. Safety features like raised crosswalks, curb bulb-
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by bkettle 3y ago
I think city-only use (in cities with slower speeds than American ones, too) is the intended domain indeed, especially given the “city car” name. In theory, in urban environments where pedestrians and bikers who have no protection at all ar
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by bkettle 3y ago
The widespread use of huge, highway-built vehicles (that is, all American cars) for short trips in US cities has been sticking out to me recently as a major safety hazard and detractor from pleasant urban living. Highway-built cars are fund
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by bkettle 3y ago
A PIN entered onto a physical device like a smartphone can be rate limited (see iPhone progressively increasing PIN timeouts). If you try to rate limit password entry to an online service, you make it trivially easy for an attacker to lock
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by bkettle 4y ago
I think they are talking about the definition under the Espionage section, i.e. a hardware supply chain attack: > The term interdiction is also used by the NSA when an electronics shipment is secretly intercepted by an intelligence agenc
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by bkettle 4y ago
"Happy City" by Charles Montgomery brings an interesting angle on the typical urban planning story by focusing largely on how we can plan cities and communities to maximize happiness. In the book, he discusses that people have thi
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by bkettle 4y ago
Isn’t this sort of like saying that Apple is just dictating how developers should operate when creating apps for their phones? If developers don’t want to use the App Store, they are free to leave the market of Apple consumers.