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by estebank 7mo ago
One of my recurring language design hot takes is that it's easier to design for speed and then make it easy to use than it is to make it easy to use and then try to speed it up.
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by estebank 7mo ago
I see loads of those around my neighborhood, usually ferrying kids. At the same time, I don't need to go 5 miles for groceries, so you might be picturing using a cargo bike in sparse suburbs. If your built environment is car centric th
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by estebank 7mo ago
You might have replied to the wrong subthread.
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by estebank 7mo ago
I know what you're talking about, but a lot of people are conflating them. In some cases it is legislators like a recent attempt to require ebikes have to register and have a drivers' license for them. In others it's parents
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by estebank 7mo ago
I believe this to be growing pains. Legislation hasn't yet fully adapted, some of the legislation I've seen makes the mistake of conflaing these, and enforcement is nonexistent in most places. I suspect that as time passes, we&#x2
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by estebank 8mo ago
Talking about the Netherlands. Regular bicycle.
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by estebank 8mo ago
The difference between the SF 38 and the 38R which stops 1/3rd as much is 1/4th of the travel time in <5 miles.
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by estebank 8mo ago
It does that, but the parent means stop signs. San Francisco where there aren't traffic lights mostly blankets every intersection with 4 way stop signs. The parent is likely referring to The Sunset district, which looks like this: h
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by estebank 8mo ago
Another failure mode I've seen is a tourist with their phone set to their home timezone having their Google Maps mentioning bus lines I wasn't familiar with (which were the late night service that wouldn't go by any time soon
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by estebank 8mo ago
Half of all dutch people own cars (10,062,194 cars / 17,904,421 people). The majority of people still ride bikes or take public transport to move around except when they need to take their car. For comparison, a majority of americans
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by estebank 8mo ago
> enforcing boarding and paying in front and leaving via the back door, so the leavers don't delay the boarders. In my experience, being able to pay at any of the doors increases throughput because people are not bunched up in a sin
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by estebank 8mo ago
A lot of people arguing that these changes wouldn't bring benefits, or that the increased walk distance would crater ridership. I can provide some context from the SF 38 Geary[1] (often claimed to have the highest public transit riders
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by estebank 8mo ago
As a member of t-compiler, seconded.
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by estebank 8mo ago
You can look: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/8104/files?... It seems like it is used mostly for FFI.
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by estebank 8mo ago
The language's largest project before it hit 1.0 was Servo. The language wasn't designed for browsers, but it certainly was informed by them and their struggles with maintaining and developing Firefox.
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by estebank 8mo ago
That's what cargo/rustc do: all of the information is conveyed through text, but colors are used to make it easier to scan. It ends up using almost every usable base-16 color: red for the error marker and their primary spans, yell
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by estebank 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's referencing Half-Life 2, where an agent of an oppressive regime tells you to pick up a can that they just dropped on the floor as a sadistic display of authority (and to provide world-building and teach the gr
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by estebank 8mo ago
Learnability and usability are related but independent concepts. This feature is difficult to find out about unless told, relatively easy to remember once you first learn about it, and very intuitive once you try it out. Dragging from the c
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by estebank 8mo ago
I think anything short of fully obscuring your face (a-la ICE-agent/stormtrooper) will be merely a mitigation and not 100% successful. I recall articles talking about face recognition being used "successfully" on people weari
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by estebank 8mo ago
On the other hand, it does have Alt+right click & drag as a mechanism that doesn't require any manual dexterity to hit arbitrary edges.
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by estebank 8mo ago
That would be the fourth wall ________ | | | actors | | | audience
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by estebank 8mo ago
> They're lacked basic supplies for 30 years. Cuba has been under embargo for 66 years.
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by estebank 8mo ago
Train travel from LA to NY wouldn't be efficient, but there are plenty of population poles like LA to SF where train travel would make sense and a network of those could make cross country travel feasible if not in a hurry. But as
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by estebank 9mo ago
> No normal person engages in this stuff, it’s hyper activists part of organized groups with real financing I guess I'm not a normal person then. I didn't realize that I was a hyper activist because I drew on some cardboard and
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by estebank 9mo ago
I am pretty sure an em-dash in case 2 should not have spaces in either side.
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by estebank 9mo ago
The engine being written in C++ does not mean the application is. You're conflating the platform with what is being built on top of it. Your logic would mean that all Python applications should be counted as C applications.
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by estebank 9mo ago
> constant breakage Can you mention 3 cases of breakage the language has had in the last, let's say, 5 years? I've had colleagues in different companies responsible for updating company-wide language toolchains tell me that in
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by estebank 9mo ago
> Rust is never inherently faster than C. The opposite is true too. Which is the point of the article.
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by estebank 9mo ago
I know some large orgs have this data for internal projects. This page gives a very loose idea of how we're doing over time: https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html
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by estebank 9mo ago
> A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language What about against a vigilant Rust programmer who also man

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