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by fnfjfk 3y ago
> customer support specialist ed blair and software engineer Blade Barringer Weird editing here—one name in lowercase? > posted on X (formerly Twitter) Speaking of editing—oh my, are we going to do this parenthetical forever? > Bar
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
If he had a standard year long lease with this tenant, I would be much more upset for him not getting paid or the tenant evicted! But he tried to run a hotel out of his house instead, because it could be more profitable, and the externaliti
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
He can rent it to a properly regulated long term tenant. He instead chose to profit more by trying to run a hotel out of a residential neighborhood. Thoughts and prayers.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Renting short term housing to tourists does not help the housing issue, and it is unfair to neighbors that did not sign up to live next to or in the same apartment building as a hotel. Tourists belong in hotels, not in residential buildings
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Academic papers are often very disconnected from industry reality. I’ve worked on reliability at a company everyone has heard of for software that billions use daily. So many bugs would have been blocked by having a type system at all (dyna
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
This article gets posted a lot, but I find it a little unsatisfying. I think it’s because it’s pretty vague about what “boring” means exactly, so it’s the kind of statement most can agree with, without it actually being a very strong statem
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Go doesn’t have type-safe enums in the language? That’s wild, even C compilers have this feature now (optionally), and then there’s Rust/Swift’s capabilities.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Wow, I thought QR axles meant that they had a handle rather than a hex wrench socket. They ship these with QR skewers ?? Forget downhill MTB, no reputable bike company ships road bikes without proper axles these days. Wow this company is
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Holy fuck they have mechanical discs on these beasts? Any lightweight road bike will have hydros and they weigh nothing compared to this.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
I’ve been riding in NYC for over 10 years and the ebike situation is getting ridiculous. People buy a bike that lets them ride fast with no training, and then ride like they are in a Terry Barentsen “Hotline” video (Google it). Except unlik
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Hydraulic discs are fine on steep hills, I have both GRX and Ultegra ones and they will stop you very fast. That’s on a much lighter bike though, and I doubt they’re putting Ultegra-tier bikes on cheap e-stuff.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Mocking “this person paid $8 for Twitter” is already a meme, this is 1. $499 and 2. a dating app where you’re trying to look attractive. Does having a badge that someone is burning $499 a month on this increase attractiveness? It seems less
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
A lot of the spam is trying to sell really illegal drugs like LSD, I went to their website (won't link but obviously you can find it easily) and their checkout process for buying a bunch of LSD takes PayPal and Google Pay. They also ha
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
I live in NYC and haven’t been to DC in ages, but what is the deal with this station? https://maps.app.goo.gl/G8SXAuMAZVypHyuKA?g_st=ic It’s, like, in the middle of a bunch of parking lots? A big part of the catchment area
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Oh I understand how safe helps and all, just wanted to sing Rust’s praises as a less low level memory-focused language too.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Yes, and std::optional is a janky implementation of a sum type in a language that doesn’t have them. The ergonomics are bad, and it is easy to make your program blow up if you forget a check. In a language with sum types like Rust, Kotlin,
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
I don’t work on server code, and I think a lot of discussions are really focused on server-side work. I have done desktop, mobile, and developer tools (CLIs and “scripts”). If I was working on a server thing Kotlin would seem really good. I
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Option/Optional/Maybe is the most obvious one, as a basic example have you interacted with a API that sends some JSON where a field can be null or not? How would you represent that and distinguish it from a field that is always
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
This article could be 1 sentence: “it has sum types” :) I find programming in a language without sum types is like rock climbing in ankle weights. I just can’t model many types of data correctly, and I hate using product types for something
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
In NYC and particularly in Manhattan and the built up areas of other boroughs, almost every crossing is signaled and timed. This isn’t a suburb where pedestrians walk out into a crosswalk and traffic stops outside of the normal light cycle.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
If you commute by bike over an east river bridge, ride the correct way in a bike lane, or use the sidewalk ever, you should definitely start disliking them too.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
> NYC can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can reduce car traffic (I'm for the midtown congestion pricing) and crack down on ebike/scooter violators. Well, I wish, but we can’t even get the obviously good Mcguinness blvd
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
No problem, it was phrasing that would have been picked up clearly on a place like /r/nycbike but not as well on a general forum like this
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Yes, and then it takes about a minute to cross one block on a street and reach an avenue going the correct direction, as they (mostly!) alternate.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
IMO cycling Route 9W (closer to 55mph, not certain of speed limit) in Jersey is much safer than cycling Manhattan (25mph)
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Not really? It’s mostly the uptown section of the greenway and the Jamaica bay path that are shared, and the latter is mostly used by enthusiasts (distance runners and roadies) that are aware, it’s not a big problem. The other “paths” in NY
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
The west side greenway is segregated downtown and in midtown, but joggers and tourists often go in the bike part anyways. There are some pretty clear signs and bikes painted on the ground there, but they get ignored. Uptown, around the 80s
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
do you live in NYC? Mopeds and e-bikes are all over the sidewalk, and they just caused a major crash on the Manhattan Bridge bike (not moped!!) path.
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Let me give an example of the “predicable idiocy”: mixing zones on 1st Ave bike lane. Drivers are supposed to yield to cyclists, as they are left turning across a lane of straight moving traffic. It is extremely predicable that they never d
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by fnfjfk 3y ago
Cars reclaiming 1st place at being idiots to watch out for while cycling the streets of NYC :)

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