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by clarry 8y ago
It is frightening how the internet outrage culture is getting people fired and destroying their lives over some stupid tweet.
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by clarry 8y ago
> I'm challenging cheap dismissals of cycling as a whole Then you're in the wrong place. Nobody here dismissed cycling as a whole. I'm an avid cyclist but I also recognize the downsides of it, and I understand why cyclin
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by clarry 8y ago
Why are cycles held to a higher standard than cars in that regard? People drive without licenses, and they DUI, and they drive without appropriate training, and they text and drive, and they kill people. We still don't limit the whol
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by clarry 8y ago
I don't even want to think of in terms of "[insert speed limit] bike", to me it makes more sense that your bike is however fast you ride it, and if it's an electric assist bike, you ride however fast your muscle plus the
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by clarry 8y ago
The speeds I listed were not averages, but instantaneous; the purpose were to outline the speed difference between different moving things that share the path. Yes, more or less any grownup in fair shape can pedal 40 kph on a flat, as long
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by clarry 8y ago
I think the argument was for limited power that you can apply on top of your unlimited muscle power, regardless of speed. I don't see why it has to be so controversial. 250W is a big boost for those who can't go fast on their ow
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by clarry 8y ago
People have granny gears. I see kids and the elderly and everything in between regularly coming down hills that get you to 25kph and more if you pedal a little. I also see unfit people hike up their bike and then ride down. I'm ok wi
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by clarry 8y ago
> Well, it may be for you. I've been biking for 15 years and it really is an issue for me. I don't want pedestrians, cars or fast objects on bike lane. If there are a lot of bikes on the bike lane and convoy goes at 30 kph that
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by clarry 8y ago
> All of these points are brought up a lot, but none of them are really valid. Dude, I've been cycling in all weather for 20 years. I've been hauling stuff, small and big, light and heavy. It's not as simple as you make
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by clarry 8y ago
I don't think it's roof or windscreen, it's both if you want to stay dry. That's a big increase in size, mass, and wind resistance (including susceptibility to side winds that can tip you over). That might have you con
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by clarry 8y ago
What bothers me even more is the 25 kph speed limit, after which all the electronics are legally required to be dead weight. Come on, I can cycle faster than that on muscle power (and I normally do). I've averaged 27 kph doing 90 kil
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by clarry 8y ago
> Scooters and electric bicycles are the sensible form of electric mobility, but everybody talks about electric cars. Yes, because cars make sense when you've got more than your own arse to haul. Or when you don't want to end
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by clarry 8y ago
Not "JS vulnerabilities", but things that waste memory & cpu cycles and in worst case exploit your PC for things like bitcoin mining. Also consider that most browser vulnerabilities -- not "JS vulnerabilities" -- are
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by clarry 8y ago
In fact the C aliasing rules don't say a single thing about casting. You are free to cast at will. What matters, as far as aliasing is concerned, is the effective type of an object for access through an lvalue. And the effective t
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by clarry 8y ago
> - Instead of network byte order, buf[offset] + buf[offset+1] * 256 . And you got it wrong. Shows that there is no silver bullet.
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by clarry 8y ago
> As I've become a more experienced software engineer, my job stopped being about making new features and switched to controlling chaos. Isn't that funny. Get the inexperienced folk to churn out features so the experienced fol
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by clarry 8y ago
> When we go into the world of unsolved problems that someone solved and we have to maintain them I don't believe in this world of unsolved problems. Most codebases reinvent the wheel like they've never seen one. Most "p
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by clarry 8y ago
> e.g. why doesn't `rm` just move files to /tmp? And do what when tmp gets full and services & applications start crashing? When someone implements that undo, someone's going to need to write a tool that really does re
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by clarry 8y ago
And yet Shovel Knight is doing so so great. Cuphead too. Turns out retro platformers can do great. But way too many indie retro platformers are just trash with nothing to save them. I don't think you can gauge success by looking at
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by clarry 8y ago
> People want to scream about CS degrees being trash and yet all the passion in the world doesn't seem to convey an understanding of memory leaks, garbage collection, and VM/bytecode/etc. hijinks (like JVM, MRI, etc.) to t
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by clarry 8y ago
At least in my part of the world, qbasic remained a popular beginner language through the 90s to the early 2000s. It was easy to get, and there was plenty of tutorials available for it. Visual Basic didn't have the same appeal unless
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by clarry 8y ago
I think everyone ignores it because it's so far fetched (even if they go as far as assuming copyright == monetary compensation)
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by clarry 8y ago
> I think blaming technology is just a cop out. Oh, tech doesn't prevent one from seeking out social interaction. But it really does seem to reduce unplanned & opportunistic interaction. Maybe I'd chat with people on my wa
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by clarry 8y ago
A lot of the litter I see is thrown from cars. I can't imagine the people who throw cigarette butts and trash out of their car windows driving around to find a bin for a nugget.
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by clarry 8y ago
I'm more concerned that the crows get a little too aggressive about it and try to pick up things from people's hands.
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by clarry 8y ago
Which finger goes on which key?
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by clarry 8y ago
Implementing it is straightforward, trivial even. As makomk hints, the problem is that you'd be doing something non-standard and thus have to rely on your own driver (or someone else's) rather than the system's built-in and
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by clarry 8y ago
When gaming, I usually have one hand on the keyboard, the other on the mouse. My hand has only 5 fingers. NKRO couldn't matter less.
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by clarry 8y ago
Selecting a car is not straightforward at all.
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by clarry 8y ago
Or just games in general (glancing at my collection of >1000 titles).

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