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by pkulak 2y ago
Maybe you don't want some random phone in China clogging up your map until you die? I could see wanting to get rid of it. Be nice if you could hide it or something. Maybe a button to brick it out of spite and be done with it forever.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Well, somehow housing in NYC is up 3% this year. I’m the biggest urbanist shill you’ll meet and even I don’t live there, cus it’s too damn expensive. We build only suburbs, only suburbs are affordable, and that’s where people live. Shocking
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by pkulak 2y ago
Okay, if you can't handle being around other people, then don't live in NY. But, what's your point here? Cus I know you hate it, but supply and demand says that waaaay more people like NYs than there actually _are_ NYs. Peopl
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by pkulak 2y ago
The only reason we have cities with crap density is cars, and their super-wide roads and giant parking lots spreading everything out. So, yes, we can't just put a subway system under Dallas. That's why I said busses first. At the
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by pkulak 2y ago
I can get everywhere I need to go in NYC with a few bucks loaded onto a transit card. In Atlanta I need to rent a car for $100s a day, drive it myself, pay for it's gas, its insurance and parking, prove to the local government that I&#
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by pkulak 2y ago
> That means cheaper and faster automotive transportation. That is… extremely silly. You can’t make an inherently expensive activity cheap because you’d like it to be. Cars take up so much space that’s expensive to build and maintain. Th
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by pkulak 2y ago
Yeah, but that little bit of user friendliness ruins the file system for file system things. Now you need “registries” and other, secondary file systems to do file system things because you can’t even use base64 in file names. Make your fil
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by pkulak 2y ago
Yup. Matrix and Jabber are what’s left. Sadly, all of the US is on iMessage, locking us not only into proprietary chat, but proprietary hardware to run the proprietary chat. I don’t really like my iPhone, but I bridge iMessage to my Matrix
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by pkulak 2y ago
I’m locked in to JetBrains for JVM stuff, but the language server is so good, using Neovim is an absolute pleasure for Rust.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Spotify does this thing for me where, no matter what you do, after an hour or so of listening you find yourself hearing the same 50 or so songs, over and over and over until you go mad. I still pay for it, and use it a bit, but playing my o
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by pkulak 2y ago
Whatever you call it, if there’s apartment-level density, that’s enough for public transit. If there’s an apartment in the middle of a field… well, then there’s lots of room for chargers, I guess.
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by pkulak 2y ago
And if you live in a suburb, plug your EV into an outlet in your garage. What’s your point?
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by pkulak 2y ago
Bit of a hot take here, but if you live in an apartment, you’re in a city, and cities shouldn’t require cars. Not that we’re there now, most places, but I think not requiring cars is a better goal than requiring them and putting a million c
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by pkulak 2y ago
Yes, I know. We’re talking about EV sedans. Hyundai has one, and it’s a great car, but it’s not exactly their volume seller. I don’t know that Polstar considers the 2 a sedan.
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by pkulak 2y ago
That market barely has room for the two players already there. Really, there isn’t even room for Hyundai.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Too many new chemistries these days for that to hold true universally. Especially the sodium stuff.
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by pkulak 2y ago
You may be right. Just did it in Katy Texas and got 24 minutes of, honestly, not a bad walk. I guess I'm just going off my experience, and when I was a kid, no one just went to the closest church. You went to _your_ church. My girlfrie
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by pkulak 2y ago
> In your average US suburb or small town you'd have a hard time finding a home that isn't within walking distance of some church or another. What??? Have you been to an American suburb? Yes, there are churches all over the pl
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by pkulak 2y ago
It's my understanding that the real reason we measure co2 is because it's easier to measure. Obviously, o2 is what's important, but they correlate when co2 comes from breathing out, so it's fine to just measure one. Mayb
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by pkulak 2y ago
Sorry. Nix. And it’s too late to edit.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Neovim
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by pkulak 2y ago
I dunno, maybe 100x was an exaggeration, but not by much! Take a look at this transmission from 2007. They haven't gotten simpler. Lot's of cars are sporting 10-speeds these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by pkulak 2y ago
Oh, that's my bad. I copied this from my Nix config and that's how you escape. https://git.sr.ht/~pkulak/nix/tree/main/item/home/default.ni... https://git.sr.ht/~pkula
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by pkulak 2y ago
I set up PolyGit on my phone. So I can take new notes by pulling, editing, and the pushing. It's a pain, not gonna lie. But I don't take notes away from any of my computers that often. Mostly I'm in a work meeting, reading an
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by pkulak 2y ago
Yeah, every year or so I get a merge conflict, and then the whole things stops syncing and it takes me a week to notice before I go in and resolve it. It's not perfect, but I can't be assed to fix something that happens once a yea
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by pkulak 2y ago
I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then
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by pkulak 2y ago
Well, hybrids sometimes get to replace the transmission with EV bits, like Toyota's system. Imagine an engine and exhaust system; now multiply the complexity by 100 and you have a modern transmission. Toyota hybrids (and GM/Chryst
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by pkulak 2y ago
But can I symlink sudo instead of run0? There are so many scripts that assume sudo, not to mention my own fingers.
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by pkulak 2y ago
Off topic, but why would people downvote this? I say a lot of dumb shit, but this really seemed uncontroversial. Uninteresting, I suppose.
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by pkulak 2y ago
I don’t care about crowds. I need to visit Japan before I die. Maybe now is the time. I’m a huge train/transit nerd, and every year I don’t, I lose credibility.

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