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by idreyn 4y ago
Roads are free at the point of use, so this analogy doesn't hold (and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find empirical evidence of what you're describing)
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by idreyn 4y ago
You might be interested in the S-process: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWivz6KidkI
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by idreyn 4y ago
Increasingly I think the screenreader/ARIA proposition of navigating a (linearized ordering of) elements on a 2D page is fundamentally limiting for blind users. The web needs a more robust model of application state from which text, au
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by idreyn 4y ago
I tried it again and was able to use it this time!
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by idreyn 4y ago
Check the Graphics folder! (It crashed immediately for me in Firefox, though)
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by idreyn 5y ago
Glad to see they never exceed 20 mph in this video. If AVs can stick to city speeds that prioritize pedestrian safety over travel time, they'll have a huge head start over human drivers in safety and "human decency" metrics.
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by idreyn 5y ago
> The previews are clearly marked when they open in a lightbox. Oh, I didn't realize that because I was on mobile. > on click you get the content right away, not a website in a tab where you need to find the content This is quite
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by idreyn 5y ago
The rich previews on hover are great. I was referring to the "Immersive Previews", and for the things demoed on your landing page like short forms and Youtube videos, they're a nice experience. I worry about a world where eve
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by idreyn 5y ago
This has some neat use cases but I dearly hope it doesn't become the norm...
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by idreyn 5y ago
The skyways! They're fun and iconic, but in some ways they're the worst thing about downtown Minneapolis. Since so many office workers use them to get around, the streets feel dead and car-dominated even by the standards of Americ
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by idreyn 5y ago
I'd like to see more discussion about the nuts-and-bolts infrastructure of web3: the servers, file hosting and streaming, the caching layers. All of these slick websites are probably running on the same old cloud platforms and using th
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by idreyn 5y ago
Many people have deep ties to a place — as caregivers to aging parents, as members of diaspora enclaves, or as young people willing to struggle through a few years of hardship for the chance of success. Many others have seen the writing on
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by idreyn 5y ago
- The basic geography of the Bay Area: it's big, it's polycentric, it's hilly, there's a huge body of water on the direct route between many origin/destination pairs. The train ride can take hours and can actually c
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by idreyn 5y ago
Others are free to do the same, except that they have to continue to commute to where the jobs are. If they're lucky they might live on the fringes of BART but increasingly people are just condemned to hours-long gridlocked freeway com
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by idreyn 5y ago
> Shaun has joked that “brute force creativity” is the attitude to take when solving a problem in Pulp. This simple toolbox gives you just enough flexibility to expand the game’s featureset beyond what seems possible at first. I learned
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by idreyn 5y ago
Totally. I don't think Google is necessarily doing anything as blatant as directly selling your browsing history to third parties. Since I went to go check, I might as well share what I found: in my Google account "Activity contro
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by idreyn 5y ago
> Oh, and we don't sell your data > Wondering why browsers are usually free? There's a heavy implication here that most browser vendors sell your browsing data, but you don't state it outright because (aside from Chrome
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by idreyn 5y ago
If you're referring to the Driver's Cooperative in New York City, they'll take you up on that offer for $72k: https://drivers.coop/jobs
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by idreyn 5y ago
I like the perspective offered here but I don't really think the author's perspective on the "leftward end of the climate activist movement" comports with my own experience. Most people I know that I'd bucket as suc
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by idreyn 5y ago
In case you haven't seen it: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
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by idreyn 5y ago
But it's worth clarifying that the number is correct — Bitcoin is currently using 1 Mwh per transaction.
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by idreyn 5y ago
I dunno if this is really some high modernist plot to assimilate all of these quirky little polities into a single transportation regime. If New Mexico or Montana don't want trains I really couldn't care less. But the actual power
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by idreyn 5y ago
The federal government is the issuer of our currency and is well-positioned to fund intercity rail in a way that states and cities just aren't. It's bad that, as you suggested, the senators from large and sparsely populated wester
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by idreyn 5y ago
Not in terms of population density, which is what matters when it comes to intercity rail. I know this isn't convincing to senators from big western states — but we've gotta draw a line in the sand in allocating decision making po
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by idreyn 5y ago
> I would rather suffer the environmental damage that Bitcoin incentivizes over having central banking control our currency What multiplier do you have to add to the environmental damage to get to the point where Bitcoin meaningfully sup
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by idreyn 5y ago
I just saw another interesting whitepaper the other day from the World Sudoku Society suggesting that we tile the Mojave with solar panels to generate more Sudoku puzzles!
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by idreyn 5y ago
The ad infrastructure can still exist -- it would just have a restricted set of data (IP, device fingerprint, the surrounding content, and whatever info the first-party publisher voluntarily submits about you) to decide what ad to serve. Sm
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by idreyn 6y ago
I used paged.js in production and while it's definitely not fast enough to run during an HTTP request, it can render a 300 page document reasonably quickly, definitely within the 120 second TTL of our worker tasks. It can be quite fini
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by idreyn 6y ago
> Even though it was far from ready, SvelteKit was the only framework that matched our esoteric requirements. (Anyone who has worked in a newsroom and done battle with their CMS will know what I'm talking about.) I would be interest
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by idreyn 6y ago
It is maybe not such a bad thing that now and again a woman secures the financial independence she needs to look beyond the life she was born into in her tiny rural community.

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