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by flomo 2y ago
Yeah, "company towns" were another issue that cars solved.
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by flomo 2y ago
Because the truth is nobody has any real idea how to retrofit the last 70 years of American suburbia so that mass transit is actually effective and useful for people. "Transit-oriented development" really only helps downtown worke
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by flomo 2y ago
The citation is every American transit system in the 1950s. Even SF only kept the streetcars where they couldn't replace with a bus line. I think you're making a different argument, where trains attract a more well-heeled commuter
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by flomo 2y ago
It's interesting, in San Francisco, the streetcars got too heavy for the old tracks so they replaced them with about 4 feet deep of concrete. That is actual infrastructure and not "fake". (along with all the stops and handica
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by flomo 2y ago
Surprising, considering the NYC subway has been ignoring the ADA as much as possible.
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by flomo 2y ago
In the USA, the working poor generally don't work downtown, and it's really the industrial areas where there is awful transit service. So cheapo used cars are a must for these folks. There is some awful HN bias here where young he
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by flomo 2y ago
I'd guess an ICE transmission provides some deceleration too. But right on, apples-to-apples you would need to compare a Tesla to a Mercedes or etc and not a Corolla. They are sold as a luxury/performance car.
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by flomo 2y ago
That's the myth. Streetcars were actually torn up because busses were much cheaper, there was no conspiracy. The streetcars were also old and cold and ppl hated them. (I lived in a streetcar part of SF, and loved it, fwiw. But the only
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by flomo 2y ago
I guess the complaint was more about your fans updooting stuff, so apologies if it sounded like I was shitting on this. Cool project, and I really am awaiting the presentation/writeup.
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by flomo 2y ago
> bidirectional stateful sockets, aka a tcp connection Which is not "easy" to do over the internet, so the native app folks ended-up using HTTP anyway. (Plus they invented things like SOAP.)
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by flomo 2y ago
Right, and that probably should have been the link rather than some in-process thoughts about popcount or w/e. Sorry for not figuring it out and clicking around effectively.
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by flomo 2y ago
Of course, everyone votes up the headlines, but this link seems like premature WIP. Hopefully this will get posted for real after the presentation.
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by flomo 2y ago
Yes, I ran that way on principle, and you could mostly make it work. But not really OOB. Registry ACL templates and etc, qualify for a real PITA. UAC and the other magic on Vista/7 mollified that by a lot.
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by flomo 2y ago
> 2k brought multi-processing/multi-user Sorta. It was real pain-in-the-ass to run 2000 as a regular (non-administrator) user. Assuming your software worked at all that way, as even Office 2000 had some issues. UAC was necessary.
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by flomo 2y ago
> But something happened and they abandoned it. The rumour is... The reality is NetApp sued Sun/Oracle over ZFS patents. https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dis...
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by flomo 2y ago
On that note, the only textbook I still have is a 1980s Physics 100 book, and I still pull it out occasionally for reference.
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by flomo 2y ago
There was also a huge bunch of completely forgotten ActionScript Flash stuff.
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by flomo 2y ago
Google's special relationship with Reddit says the Ambrosia website disappeared only 6 years ago. Perhaps you could try emailing the guy?
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by flomo 2y ago
I believe in this case, "open" = supports UNIX/POSIX apis.
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by flomo 2y ago
I think Firefox "weirdos" are probably under reported in general because they go to great lengths to hide themselves from analytics. Therefore I also think the number of "weirdos" who change their UA while still allowing
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by flomo 2y ago
Back in 1987, Apple sold a PC compatibility card, and the Extended Keyboard was designed to work with that. So I assume it always sent the correct scan codes.
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by flomo 2y ago
"Marketing and evangelism" => the arrow has been going down for like ten years now. Better strategy?? Not in the OP. They are actually begging the government for pity. Not just now, but Mozilla's own argument here is they
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by flomo 2y ago
I generally agree, but that's not what Mozills is arguing at all. > The last unicorn–the web can’t afford to lose Mozilla’s browser engine Their stated plan is to be the "endagered species", like the Dodo of browsers. Ca
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by flomo 2y ago
They can keep it going for several years, but Firefox marketshare is already sinking into irrelevancy territory, and they have NEVER had a real plan to do anything about that. Mozilla philosophy has been just to ride it down. Just trail chr
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by flomo 2y ago
Oy, you're right about the laser printer (as that is how modern copy machines work). But GUIs, OOP programming, etc, Xerox had no business model around that at all and it was just sitting around, until someone "stole the loot&quot
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by flomo 2y ago
Question: In light of the article, is it fair to lump Bell Labs in with Xerox PARC like that? Bell invented a lot of stuff which directly improved the telephone system and communications in general. Possibly because they owned every problem
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by flomo 2y ago
Wow, check stubs used to be the basic social currency around renting and etc. Are you saying people can't get these anymore? Or maybe they know too much and don't care?
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by flomo 2y ago
I have a 2016 MBP-15 (sticky keyboard). I suspect Apple changed something so the fans no longer go into turbo vortex mode. Normally it isn't sluggish at all, but when it overheats, everything grinds to a halt.[1] (Presumably this is to
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by flomo 2y ago
Point taken that VB was a programming ghetto. But the actual seniors were fighting the language to call Win32, writing MTS servers, and etc, they 'got' all that stuff. I did some VBS ASP back in the day (not VB), and the language
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by flomo 2y ago
iOS has a good one.

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