jakecopp

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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   So...electric motorbikes means you don't need bike lanes? Why don't we put children on motorbikes again? NHTSA: "For every mile traveled, motorcyclists have a risk of a fatal accident that is 35 times higher than a car driver
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   Aussie Sydneysider cyclist here that commutes every day and in summer on a $70 bike - as long as I have a shower/beach at the end of my commute and a water bottle I'm pretty fine!
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   The ignorance and belief everything will turn out alright in Australia is astounding. That 1964 book [1] really did seem to nail a lot: "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on othe
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   Could you elaborate which points would differ between cultures? If one is choosing to live in a city, they are willing to be surrounded by other people in their daily life. I don't think anyone is advocating banning/reducing cars
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   Cars are expensive. Cars are extremely expensive to park in the city. I don't think anyone is arguing to ban cars in outer suburbs without sufficient buses to the local station. I imagine most inner city drivers are quite wealthy if th
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   - Children love to ride bikes when it is safe to do so, from personal experience. - If you keep some (inverse of most) streets open to a small amount of traffic (Like Barcelona's superblocks [1]), the elderly and those with disabilitie
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   Are there any examples of this "decking" model that have worked? What about all the businesses that occupied the old ground floor? This multi layered fantasy seems to have been around since GM's world fair exhibit in 1939 at
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   Looks great! Though, why not pull buildings under construction from OpenStreetMap like this? (just hit run) https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/N1l You can just query on this key: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F
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   by jakecopp 7y ago

   It's fascinating hearing the narrator cleverly announce huge urban freeways as the natural future of progress, and how such progress is unstoppable!
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Why not Ubuntu and i3? I love my Mac for photo/video/audio work, but linux for pure dev is wonderful!
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I don't know what I'll do after my Pebble Time Steel dies (hopefully a few years from now). It's so un-intrusive and I want E-ink (reflective LCD) screens on everything. I even wrote a little JS app for it to pull down transi
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Yep the 400 bus does! It goes via Mascot Station and then via UNSW and Randwick to Bondi Junction. A good hack is getting off the train at Mascot, walking across the road and catching the 400 one stop. They come every few minutes and you sa
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    That's true, I guess it works out to be the same. Isn't Sydney wonderful!
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Why not adblock the news feed and delete the app? Then you are able to stay in contact with those far away, and make new friends at random events you may not have heard about otherwise? I dislike their monopoly on the friend graph just as m
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I don't agree with how they phrased it, but I think they are sarcastically referring to how the media treats disasters in third world countries and doesn't actually believe that. If the accidents happened in the US I imagine there
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    When upgrading from a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 I was debating between the Kinesis Advantage 2 and the Ergodox EZ. The Ergo 4000 was my first ergonomic keyboard (and amazing for the cost) but I grew frustrated by the layout and rubbe
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    No RSI problems, but typing on a Kinesis Advantage with the Colemak layout is absolutely divine! It makes every staggered keyboard feel like a relic from another age, they make no sense to me at all.
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    It's a shame they didn't invest in OpenStreetMap. Their values would align significantly, and OpenStreetMap has excellent road and path coverage in my experience (though struggles with Points of Interest).
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I'm posing having two bikes (one a cheapo one) as a solution to not being able to take your bike on the bus/train - solving the the first AND last mile problem.
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Fair point. Though if the "last mile" commute from the bus stop/train station isn't too far, and in a relatively urban area, you can get an Uber trip in the worst case scenario of the bike breaking and taking the bike to
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Or just buy a $50 bike second hand and park it at the end of the bus route!
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Try loading up 20 JS-heavy tabs in Firefox/Chrome and looking at your RAM/CPU/battery use :) Offloading that computation to a VPS somewhere with a fast internet pipe is attractive. Most webpages are mostly text, and terminals
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    No need to feel guilty - thanks so much for your amazing work :) I also enjoy reading your blog - your article on China was eye opening.
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I thought RSS requires polling - to get timely outage notifications does Slack hit all the RSS feeds every minute?
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Agreed - Browsh over mosh on a cheap VPS is good fun! Also, some commands interfere with Tmux I think, such as closing tabs. I need to figure that one out!
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I've started using Brow.sh[1] occasionally - it runs headless Firefox and pipes the output over a terminal. Try `ssh brow.sh` for a 5 minute demo (`ssh brow.sh -t https://maps.google.com` is pretty cool too) I really need t
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Thanks for such a detailed comment :) That is worrying that keys would stop working. I'd definitely be interested in a cheaper model with an ARM processor primarily for remote development on the go.
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    Just heard about the GPD Pocket for the first time, it's a fascinating little thing! What is the keyboard like to type on and how fast can you type? Where did you purchase it?
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    I've never encountered this with my Advantage 2, I've had it about a year now. Something I've been thinking about getting is a clip on 12 inch monitor + RasPi, it would be such a great remote development setup for cafes.
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    by jakecopp 7y ago

    The Kinesis Advantage 2 is an absolutely wonderful keyboard. It costs an arm and leg and takes a while to learn, but it makes every other keyboard I've touched feel downright archaic!