mrgoldenbrown

15 ms·

31.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Look at the recent Boston mayoral election. Kraft used bike lanes as a wedge issue to try to unseat our incumbent mayor. It worked well enough that she tore out flexposts from a bunch of lanes.
32.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Yep, i switched to a under seat steering recumbent to avoid any pressure on my (startup workload damaged) wrists. I almost immediately hurt my knees because it was so fun to go really fast by pushing against the seat back.
33.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Usually this happens when there isn't dedicated bike infrastructure, both physical and legal and cultural. Of course they have to pick and choose.
34.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
FWIW anthropologists have debunked the overly simple and somewhat patronizing idea of cargo cults that Feynman presented. Reality was much more complicated and less amenable to his style storytelling.
35.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
For him to have been given a mandate, he would have had to stick to one well defined, self consistent position for more than a day.
36.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Also assuming that current API pricing is sustainable and not subsidized.
37.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Terms of service prohibit subscriptions for employees of companies bigger than X people. I suppose they could all sign up as individuals and try to get away with it but presumably that would look pretty obvious with a tiny bit of analytics
38.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
>...use a service in which costs are not predictable, and keeping those costs under control requires employee training. Isn't this a (mildly exaggerated) description of AWS, which is a very successful service?
39.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
https://statements.cornell.edu/2026/20260501-video-of-incide... In the first video on this page, the video that the university posted to exonerate the driver, it sure looks to me like the white shirt black backpack per
40.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Lawyers too cheap to pay an intern 1 hour of minimum wage to Google or lexis-nexis each cited case to make sure it actually exists. Then maybe another 1 hour of paralegal time to skim the summaries of the ones that passed the intern check
41.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
If an artist is just someone you listen to, you're not the demographic for a feature like this. You can't have several dozens of favorite bands. The idea is to get tickets to the hardcore fans, not the casual listeners.
42.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
But in the process of installing those language servers (automatically, without notifying you) it will install node, and download npm packages, which can do crazy stuff, as we've seen recently with the shai halud redux
43.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
On vscode you can control autoupdates. (Still trying to find a way to control zed's overeager updating)
44.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
I want to go all in on zed now that it's 1.0 but it's security model is all or nothing AFAIK - either I allow it to download and install unknown to me NPM packages whenever it wants with no notice to me, or I turn off all LSP fun
45.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Ads and other third party stuff are the major performance problem. Spending 1 millisecond of cpu time to block megabytes of ads and javascript (that would take much longer than 1 millisecond to run) is well worth it IMO.
46.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
CTF competitions and leaderboards are broken. Major competitions have stopped. Top competitors have dropped out.
47.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
In my experience (instant cure for recurrent c. diff) a fecal transplant is easier and simpler than a colonoscopy, which themselves are easy enough to be outpatient.
48.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
49.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
If you've never seen this level of perverse incentive, you have been lucky. The creation of and subsequent exploitation of them aren't new. For pre computer examples: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-co
50.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
> I have no idea how that situation arises unless the slower folks are just auto-approving PRs. Restricting changes to PR's is nowhere near universal.
51.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
Pretty sure the million dollars was not meant seriously. There are plenty of regulated fields in which people still participate, despite various risks of liability. Professional engineers, doctors, every Uber driver in the US, who could p
52.
by mrgoldenbrown 5mo ago
A proper experiment wouldn't have cherry picked the data. This seems more like rage bait than an experiment.
53.
by mrgoldenbrown 6mo ago
What about the authors' behavior justifies the lies about proper documentation for the transfer? There was no documentation. How does lying about documentation help protect anybody?
54.
by mrgoldenbrown 6mo ago
It's weird to have the same rules when there are several orders of magnitude difference in manueverability, maximum damage possible, and visibility between the two modes. Imagine if pedestrians had to follow all the same rules as cars.
55.
by mrgoldenbrown 6mo ago
As a former cashier it kills me to scan one at a time, the self checkouts all have painfully long mandatory wait times between scans. Most of my time is just spent holding back my muscle memory, or getting yelled at for trying to scan at
56.
by mrgoldenbrown 6mo ago
We have similar rules in the US, but depends on your state. In mine they have to give you the price on at least one of the items but you can't demand they give you 100 of them at the wrong price. Or yes you can demand but they are no
57.
by mrgoldenbrown 6mo ago
tex was pretty bug free.
58.
by mrgoldenbrown 7mo ago
Sensible working hours is a luxury for many people, at least in the United States. Especially the ones considered low socioeconomic status. 40 hours a week at minimum wage will barely pay the median rent in my state. That leaves nothin
59.
by mrgoldenbrown 7mo ago
What percent humidity? That is just as important as temperature for understanding how tolerable a particular sauna is.
60.
by mrgoldenbrown 7mo ago
Tesla specifically programmed their self driving mode to roll through stop signs without stopping. I don't think anyone has believed the claims of the self driving marketers for a long time now.

More ›