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by taeric 1y ago
I'd hazard that people also typically hear "what are the odds of this from the outset?" Effectively, "you flip two quarters, and see one land heads; what were your odds to flip two tails?"
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by taeric 1y ago
Why not keep the string as normal, but still do as you are suggesting? Shouldn't be too hard to have the macro parse it out so that the following would work, no? (define-http-get-route ("/hello/:who") (
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by taeric 1y ago
I thought this would be about Braess's paradox. I suppose that is a contrary wording of this? How making things faster slows things down? A few fun videos covering this. I first saw Steve Mould's. He links to Up and Atom. Bot
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I agree it can be workable. It can be amusing to consider how much more area people cover today than in history. I specifically remember walking 5 miles to a friends house somewhat regularly from back in the day. For the kinds of people t
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Car ownership is still in the 80%s there, though? And I live in Seattle, which has even better numbers, from last I looked. Still, it is hard to find someone that makes more and doesn't drive fairly regularly. Even more so if you co
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Right, and this is largely my point. NYC has a physical design that is good for less driving. Even with that, they still see increased driving without a specific policy to make driving more expensive. As noted in another thread, I do take
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I went for over a decade without a car in Atlanta. More, I think financing the first car I got was among the worst decisions I have ever made in my life. It was shocking how bad that monthly payment screwed up my financial planning. All o
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by taeric 1y ago
Ok, I take it as an obvious prerequisite that you have to have transit for people to use it. Such that, yes, it isn't enough to just tax the heck out of cars to force them to start walking long distances. But I point to Atlanta as eas
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Just searching "cost of owning a car in Amsterdam" says it is expensive, though? Now, it does cite parking costs as a major driver of that. Which, again, if you are willing to specifically make parking/driving expensive, I
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I'd love to be proven wrong on this. If you have data, very happy to see numbers showing I'm wrong. My anecdote is everyone I know from Chicago doesn't take transit. Not many people, and I'm certainly not in a young gr
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5 miles is a ridiculously short radius. Even keeping to that, though, the elementary school is 2.5 miles away, with 250 feet of climb. 20 minutes down to about 5 if I consider bike to car. (And that is at speeds I can keep on that climb.
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Personal anecdotes definitely shape thoughts here. Mine is that I have used transit and biking in Atlanta and Seattle to get to work for the past few decades. I have liked the money savings, especially back when I couldn't afford a c
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Fair, but largely to my point? If you want to lower the miles driven, you are going to be going through the same general steps along the way.
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I mean, cars per household is 2+ in large portions of the US. Again, I'm largely inline with what you are speaking towards. The only change I'm making to the discourse is that, if you want fewer people owning cars, you pretty muc
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I took the memes as largely for comedic effect, only? I do think there is a ton of indirection going on in the code that I would not immediately think to look for. As the post stated, could be a good reason for this in some things. But it
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I could just be wrong. Nor am I aiming for exaggerated effect, though. I legit have grown to feel that people will get a car if they can afford it. Pretty much everywhere. As I said, I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this. This is
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by taeric 1y ago
So on this we are in complete agreement. My criticism is when people show walkable cities, they need to underline that majority of those people will own a car if they can financially make it happen. Almost bar none.
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My point is that, even in the cities that you are referencing, the more affluent people almost always have a car. Because they can afford it, and because it is more convenient. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this. Essentially, my
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by taeric 1y ago
On this I fully agree, and is largely what I mean with my lead-in. It sucks how much we have to drive around. Back when I lived in the middle of a city, it was remarkably nice how much I could do without a car. I still opened up more opt
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Fair questions, I think. I am just pointing out that if you have a lot of options when on foot, you almost certainly have more with a car. And you would have an easier schedule if you own your own car. I say this as someone that enjoys th
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The campus I lived on had a transit stop not far off. I'm sure more people used it than my little anecdote made it sound. I agree that places should be made as convenient as they can be for walking, as well. I just get annoyed with s
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It is frustrating how so much in life can feel car centered, I think. That said, so many of the counter arguments cannot contend with the fact that having a car is convenient. To an absurd degree. There is a reason why everyone in the dor
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by taeric 1y ago
Ish? I never ever memorized the multiplication tables. To this day, I don't think I know them fully. I still did quite well in math by knowing how to quiz the various equations. Not just know them, but how to ask questions about mo
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I would wager some folks can memorize without understanding? I do think memorization is underrated, though. There is also something to the practice of reproducing something. I always took this as a form of "machine learning" for
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by taeric 1y ago
As the sibling says, CL can be written in most any style. Which, I think it is fair to say for any general programming language? The book Exercises in Programming Style highlights that. That said, CL feels far friendlier to the various s
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I get what both of you are saying. But "bad marks" on an assignment is more what I had in mind. And it isn't punishment to get a bad grade. It is disappointing, on many levels. But criticism is not punishment. Even if it
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Really fun read. Love how it tracks where you are to do specific things in the drawing and I'm surprised I don't see this done more. Clicking through to the rope page, it is a really good strategy for web pages.
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As the sibling says, shorthand is a very different thing. Cursive seems much more a way to write with fewer finger movements. That is about it. I'm tempted to say it is also about fewer pickups of the pen, but I think that is largely
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Really enjoying that first video. Thanks!
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I don't remember being punished for bad handwriting, but I know I got chided for it a lot. And I know we spent a lot of time on it. It definitely sucked, at every level of the experience. I also find it odd that people have some off

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