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by u801e 5y ago
> one lane (each way) for cars, 1 lane for buses, and 1 protected lane for bikes. most lanes are about 10 feet wide, so we can take a foot away from the car lane and give it to the bus lane How will intersections be managed for each lane
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by u801e 5y ago
> The scarcity of bike lanes is wholly artificial and easily fixed by transitioning more automobile infrastructure. Wouldn't it just be easier to just have all vehicle types share the same infrastructure (roads)? They're alrea
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by u801e 5y ago
> 300 kg of cargo at 25 km/h is very close to the momentum of a moped riding at 50 km/h, which is something I definitely don't want to share a bike path with. Why does the mass or momentum of a particular vehicle driver co
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by u801e 5y ago
In the case of Pakistan, the principal geopolitical rival is India. Despite the fact that both have nuclear arsenals and have had skirmishes over Kashmir, a couple of which after they both made public their nuclear capability, neither of t
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by u801e 5y ago
Given that there are a few nuclear powers that could meet that criteria, I really don't see a reason why Iran is a special case, especially when comparing it to Pakistan, for example.
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by u801e 5y ago
Is there a fundamental difference between Iran having nuclear weapons compared to Pakistan? If the government of Pakistan hasn't used them so far, then why would Iran?
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by u801e 5y ago
I used Win 98 SE for a few years, but I subsequently switched to Windows 2000 which was far more stable. I used the same installation (installing updates and service packs via Windows update) from around 2002 through 2010 until a lightning
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by u801e 5y ago
> Svn and cvs are centralized, which makes everything much more intuitive and easier to understand IMO. For both cvs and svn, creating branches, merging changes from different branches, and switching branches definitely were operations t
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by u801e 5y ago
Given the widespread use of git now, it's probably the first VCS that people are exposed to. But, for several years after it was released, it was the first distributed VCS that people used (if they hadn't had a chance to work wit
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by u801e 5y ago
Compared to what came before it, I really don't see how the interface is any less intuitive or documented compared to svn or cvs. For example, see the sections for the checkout command for svn[1] and cvs[2]. And then there's the
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by u801e 5y ago
> If only we could instead have an intuitive version control system What makes git any less intuitive compared to svn or cvs? To use either of those or git effectively required reading through documentation to understand what each comma
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by u801e 5y ago
It depends on the compiler or interpreter. Some don't give very informative messages and indicate a syntax error on a line that may be one or more lines after the actual error. But the syntax highlighting gives an immediate indication
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by u801e 5y ago
Could the regression be mitigated by requiring a minimum value of transactions to be tax free? More affluent people spend more, so they will go beyond the minimum.
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by u801e 5y ago
Pharmaceutical companies still introduce new medications. They just need to submit documents/applications to the relevant government authorities. The same could be done with packaging when trying to introduce a new type.
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by u801e 5y ago
This source[1] claims that the probability of getting hijacked while on a commercial flight is 0.000004%. On the other hand, the case fatality rate of covid-19 is around 2% based on what I'm able to find. So why are we worried about p
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by u801e 5y ago
With the current measures in place (reinforced cockpit doors), it's not a significant enough risk to worry about.
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by u801e 5y ago
After the number of deaths and economic impact that resulted from the pandemic, I would be perfectly fine if we completely eliminated any type of security check associated with air travel. I would rather air travel be much like traveling b
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by u801e 5y ago
perl actually has a one-liner way of invocation that's modeled after awk. For example, to print the first field of a line work the default delimiter could be accomplished in perl by running: perl -ane 'print $F[0], "\n&
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by u801e 5y ago
> why it’s valuable. It's valuable in the same way that well structured code and good documentation is. In other words, it helps in terms of code base maintainability. For example, I can run git blame on a line of code and see the r
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by u801e 5y ago
> Who's going to police the feature branches to ensure the merges are cleaned up and rebased prior to merge to main? That's typically handled when the code is reviewed. > My feature branches are full of useless commits (from
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by u801e 5y ago
If commits are split properly, then it's not an issue. For example, one commit could add a new method, and a subsequent commit could add one or more calls to that method. If it turns out that we don't want to use the new method wi
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by u801e 5y ago
But they also lead to commits that affect a lot of lines and files and are much harder to revert without conflicts.
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by u801e 5y ago
I don't know about the last 10 to 15 years, but 30 years ago, a lot of clothing brands had wrinkle free/resistant products which significantly reduced the need for ironing.
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by u801e 5y ago
> Most people won't be comfortable doing this for the simple reason that they'll be going slower than surrounding traffic People, in general, aren't comfortable engaging in an activity they don't have experience with.
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by u801e 5y ago
TBH, I'm not in favor of requiring helmets, but given the fact that balance does tend to decline with age, I think that recommending that older cyclists ride trikes instead of bikes would be a good idea. Falling off of a trike is less
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by u801e 5y ago
> I think the reason more people don't use the kind of bike lanes we see in the United States is that they're not safe. Cycling in the U.S. means riding on roads with vehicles that aren't expecting bikes and that can easil
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by u801e 5y ago
> Bike lanes keep people safe. With the installations they have in the US, they're actually less safe to use compared to riding I the center of the rightmost general purpose lane.
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by u801e 5y ago
> People from age 7 up into their 70s ride their bikes regularly and safely - so safely that bike helmets are a total rarity. Bike helmets are designed to provide some degree of protection in simple falls, meaning falls that are caused b
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by u801e 5y ago
Separated rail or river trails are definitely a plus for bike commuting. But infrastructure parallel to roads with frequent intersections and mid-block driveways isn't really that much different than riding on the sidewalk (with all t
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by u801e 5y ago
Infrastructure tends to be constrained and will likely limit one's speed to the speed of the slowest cyclist ahead, since there's no room to pass. The other issue is that infrastructure doesn't take downgrades into account.

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