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by ericmay | 2025-09-10 14:01:19+00:00
The mixed-use development, which was practically banned during the automobile era, is a great example of doing more with less. As you mention, being able to walk over to your local school, or park, or market, or clothing shop, etc. helps reduce the need for car travel for small things, which allows us to have fewer cars on the road, spend less on infrastructure, and make driving a little more pleasant.

But there are other benefits. That local coffee shop or clothing store is better able to compete, because they don't have to compete on efficient product delivery which is something that you see in the suburbs Ala Starbucks or Wal-Mart. This increases entrepreneurial activities and helps money spread instead of concentrate. It's no coincidence in my mind that income inequality has increased partially because of tax rates, but also because of concentration of businesses that can best realize supply chain efficiency.

To your point about brick, sure yea homes don't have to be brick, but generally plastic siding sucks visually, plus suburban houses are built incoherently, so if we could just get something that looks good that's half the battle. But perhaps the most important part, which I'm not sure suburban housing design can really accommodate, is the layout and streetscape design that enables a healthy mix of SFH, apartments, and other living arrangements mixed with businesses and amenities.
by eesmith | 2025-09-10 14:01:20+00:00
"School choice" is structured around the belief that the parent knows best, and that there are several good alternative choices.

This is not the case for education.

For one, the last century of school consolidation is because large consolidated schools are cheaper to operate than many small ones. The more so if you want students to have a chance to study something more specialized, like Latin, jazz ensemble, and linear algebra, to name three courses that my big city high school offered.

For another, "school choice" often means that the schools get to choose the students. Is someone hard to teach, perhaps with behavioral issues or learning problems? Kick them out, or use strict school policies which encourage parents to pull out their kids. While public schools have an obligation to teach everyone.

For a third, these often end up subsidizing private schools. If the money follows the student then parents who would have sent their student to private school anyway get a nice discount - and the private school raises tuition to match, which keeps poorer students out.

As a variant of the third, schools get more funding for students with learning disabilities and severe impairments, including special ed classes. Some of the school choice schools market to students with learning disabilities which are relatively inexpensive to deal with, while not providing support for students with more intensive, and thus expensive, needs. Public schools have an obligation to teach everyone.

For a fourth, many of these non-public schools have poor oversight. Want to see the finances? Sorry, that's private. Want to know how policy is made? Sorry, that's private.

And it's not even like "non-profit school" changes things. You end up with schools which rent the building from one for-profit company, the educational materials from a second, consulting advice from a third - and all three for-profit companies are owned by the same people who run the non-profit.

If the non-profit decides to shut down in the middle of the school year, do the parents and students really have a choice to move their kids to another school? Is there space? Are those other schools obligated to take in new students?
by manbash | 2025-09-10 14:01:22+00:00
Do they charge for actual bandwidth as well? Seems like it. From tarsnap.com:

> Tarsnap uses a prepaid model based on actual usage: Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data ($0.25 / GB-month) Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte of encoded data ($0.25 / GB)
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 14:01:45+00:00
> “Build it and they will come” won’t get you housing density, small local retailers, geographic compression of services, suitable climate, a different way of living. All key ingredients for walkable cities with well served public transport.

Yes it does. It will take 20 years, but if you don't start now you will never get there. Are you willing to invest in a better future or just accept the status quo?
by btown | 2025-09-10 14:01:54+00:00
Based on the README [0] and discussion [1] it seems like it might especially shine on high-write-volume workflows, with the implementation of anti-bloat measures. Do you have a sense for whether it would shine even further where those rows have large text/JSONB fields that might be TOASTed?

And more generally, curious if you have any sense for what might make up the "1%" of workflows this wouldn't be advisable for? Any downsides to be aware of?

[0] https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb?tab=readme-ov-file#orio...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462695 (2022)
by jmclnx | 2025-09-10 14:02:02+00:00
>For me the most frustrating thing about linux is that it's distros are universally made by people who love linux, and the linux paradigm.

The distro I use (Slackware), 100% true. Plus that can be said for many others too.

But, RHEL and by extension Rocky and Alma Linux are driven by corporations and marketing, like Windows is. So if you want a marketing driven OS, you have these anyway.

I just hope RHEL changes does not infect Slackware, a couple of things snuck in due to dependencies, but luckily it did not change the feel of Slackware (yet).
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-10 14:02:29+00:00
> Windows solves friction with GUI usability.

I strictly use KDE. It is well refined, all the KDE built apps follow a consistent UI. It behaves much like I have expected any desktop OS to behave. Back in the days of KDE 3 (or 3.5?) they used to do a setup wizard where it would ask you which experience you'd prefer: Windows, Mac, or Linux and it would change everything to match how those platforms behaved.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 14:02:29+00:00
> That’s on me for using NVIDIA though, I’m sure it’s much smoother with Intel and AMD hardware.

Yeah, I can confirm that AMD on Linux just fucking works and has for ages. I've not used any recent Intel 3D accelerator cards, but if their new stuff is as solid as their stuff from like twenty years ago, then it'll also just fucking work.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-10 14:02:32+00:00
Sure, it works in your context, you live in a city with 9 million people and you sometimes rent a car - fine. I live in a city 100x smaller. I literally don't know a person that doesn't own a car, or at least has access to a car.

The context actually get far more granular than it. I lived without a car for 25 years of my life, buses and trains were enough. But all it takes to require a car is having a home 3-4 km from the city center bus stops (which probably covers >50% of population). Unless someone likes walking 1h one way in -10 deg in winter to get to work each day.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-10 14:02:35+00:00
Cities always have many areas. And of course the outer areas are not as good as the tourist focused inner city, but they are generally still pretty good urbanism.

Even European subburbs are generally better, smaller roads, more mixed use, more trees, more dynamics, more commercial and building times mixed in. The extreme separation between building types that became the standard in US zoning-codes simple never happened to the same extent in Europe.
by bombcar | 2025-09-10 14:02:48+00:00
Rush hour is more of a problem than people will admit; the biggest issue with public transit (in general) is that it is horribly "unprofitable" (for whatever you want that to be) except curing crush-time.

At the extremes, a bus (or worse, a train) with one driver and one passenger is obviously worse than one person in a car.

But transportation is not Car vs the World™ no matter how many people (online) want it to be. It's a question of "how do you get people where they want/need to be". And that is a multi-faceted question with complex solutions - and the car will be part of it except in extreme/absurd situations that are so rare as to be ignored (like the "islands with no cars" (they have cars) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_islands).

One of the best ways to discuss transportation is to NOT do "r/fuckcars" which makes everyone defensive and hate you, but instead talk about how the benefits are for everyone - grade separation of rail is nice, but it's also self enforcing (trains will crush cars). But grade separation for bikes and pedestrians is a win for everyone! Cars don't like bikes next to them, and bikes don't like being next to cars. Cars don't mind driving a few miles out of their way, but pedestrians just don't want to deviate from the crow-flight line unless rabidly enforced.
by josephg | 2025-09-10 14:03:11+00:00
Yes; I get all that from the readme. You pick an arbitrary order for operations to happen in. What I don't understand is how that helps when dealing with conflicts.

For example, lets say we have a state machine for a task. The task is currently in the IN_PROGRESS state - and from here it can transition to either CANCELLED or COMPLETE. Either of those states should be terminal. That is to say, once a task has been completed it can't be cancelled and vice versa.

The problem I see with your system is - lets say we have a task in the IN_PROGRESS state. One peer cancels a task and another tries to mark it complete. Lets say a peer sees the COMPLETE message first, so we have this:

IN_PROGRESS -> COMPLETE

But then a peer sees the CANCEL message, and decides (unambiguously) that it must be applied before the completion event. Now we have this:

IN_PROGRESS -> CANCELLED (-> COMPLETE ignored)

But this results in the state of the task visibly moving from the COMPLETE to CANCELLED state - which we said above the system should never do. If the task was complete, it can't be cancelled. There are other solutions to this problem, but it seems like the sort of thing your system cannot help with.

In general, CRDTs never had a problem arbitrarily picking a winner. One of the earliest documented CRDTs was a "Last-writer wins (LWW) register" which is a register (ie variable) which stores a value. When concurrent changes happen, the register chooses a winner somewhat arbitrarily. But the criticism is that this is sometimes not the application behaviour what we actually want.

You might be able to model a multi-value (MV) register using your system too. (Actually I'm not sure. Can you?) But I guess I don't understand why I would use it compared to just using an MV register directly. Specifically when it comes to conflicts.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-10 14:03:28+00:00
> I am trying to argue that they are a net bad with virtually no good upsides to them for the programming world as a whole.

What I'm saying is that you have failed in this argument. You hardly even attempt to make it. Thus clickbait.

You said "this is why I am saying it is evil, as it will send you to hell quicker."

Okay, so then it's up to you to prove this hell actually exists. But you don't. You just assert its existence -- "Dependency hell is a real thing which anyone who has worked on a large project has experienced." By framing it this way, you can dismiss anyone who claims to not have experienced this as not having sufficient experience. But reading the comments here, a lot of people have experienced a sort of "dependency hell" (the kind that's talked about in the wiki you link to) that is solved by package managers.

So that's why it's classed as clickbait -- you (admittedly) wrote a provocative headline that you don't even remotely back up.

FYI for the future since you're lamenting in many comments that people are misinterpreting you, this is why. Given that you don't really make an attempt to prove this dependency hell and package managers are evil, and you don't acknowledge anything good about them, it's reasonable to assume your bias is just that dependencies are evil at their core. It's actually the most charitable reading because otherwise you seem confused.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-10 14:03:30+00:00
The main reason youtube has no competitors is because people want free (no ads, no subscription) content. And people will gleefully ad-block your service.

Look up the story of Vid.me

It exploded in popularity around 2015-17. Many youtube creators moved to it.

Then they went bankrupt because no one wanted to pay a subscription, and no one wanted to view ads.

Internet users desperately need to look in the mirror to figure out why so many services have strangleholds and why so many services plain suck for users - the users aren't paying for anything in any form, and they celebrate that fact.
by gnfargbl | 2025-09-10 14:03:38+00:00
> rotated regularly

Is this really a useful mitigation here? If someone has suitable presence to make requests to the TGS, then the time window for cracking and exploiting those tickets (if they are exploitable) is surely always going to be small compared to the rotation window. Hackers don't typically have the patience to sit running hashcat on an old GPU for weeks, they just find some way to get ephemeral access to a bunch of faster GPUs.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-10 14:03:49+00:00
I feel like this common conversation is missing a dimension. Car vs. public transport is too flat.

I prefer that cities are walkable and have good inter and intra public transport. So I'm with the anti-car crowd on that.

However, I do not prefer cities in general. So I'm with the pro-car people on this one. I enjoy the trend of spacious car-friendly suburbs and rural areas. I value the space and freedom over the conveniences of the city.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-10 14:04:10+00:00
> I don't know what rhetoric you are taking about.

The rhetoric of blaming consumers for buying the wrong product when they complain about hostile features on Apple's side of the duopoly, and then blaming them again when they switch to Android and complain about hostile features on that side.

The rhetoric of blaming the consumers for simply "not demanding" what we want with enough conviction. It's an asinine thing to suggest because freedom to install and customize has been the headline feature of Android since day 1, but they're killing it anyway because the duopoly doesn't give a shit about what we want. They know that they can make more money and they know that we don't have a choice.

> Recommending buying stuff that supports your wishes seems like pretty reasonable advice.

No, not when the market is a well-known abusive duopoly. That's either ignorant of the reality or just gaslighting.
by marcusb | 2025-09-10 14:04:27+00:00
> Are these mortgages backed by the underlying real estate?

Yes.

> 62 million / 850 = 80k per unit. Seems easy to cover?

I imagine if the owner could sell at that price they would. The value of apartment buildings, broadly speaking, is based on net operating income divided by a market-specific capitalization rate. The math might just not work for new owners based on the prevailing interest rate and rent environment, or the NOI and cap rate might make the selling price untenable for the current owners.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-09-10 14:04:31+00:00
> "War and Peace" had a working title "War, what is it good for" before his mistress insisted he change it.

I suspect that you are being facetious, but for the benefit of anyone else reading, this is not true. It's a "factoid" (an invented fact mistaken as true)[1] spawned from a joke on the TV program Seinfeld[2].

This has been your daily wet blanket.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqS1Ty79mOE
by ragnot | 2025-09-10 14:04:44+00:00
I've been following your responses in this thread. I do agree with you but you make it seem that it's almost impossible to blend in now. Based on this, wouldn't it be almost impossible for intelligence agencies to develop human sources in modern countries? They could just trace the case officer back to their home base or just classify them as a spy based on other patterns? Doesn't this mean that human intelligence is practically dead in 1st world countries?
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-10 14:04:53+00:00
> It's not that simple. Some are designed to fly alongside the target and send a shrapnel ring blasting out

Yes many air target missiles do just that but this is a hellfire, normally used for ground targets. So there is no flying alongside its intended targets, it's just a big boom warhead.

Because it's meant for ground targets I could imagine the detonator needs something really firm to hit in order to detonate though. A drone might not suffice in all circumstances
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 14:04:59+00:00
>big houses and yards are the only options on the table for most Americans because of zoning regulation

Worse, they're not an option for more americans specifically because of zoning and regulation. If not for government micro management there'd be more density, more cheap housing and you wouldn't need to drive 4hr out of the city to find a single family that's affordable.

>There isn’t an option for new brick house in neighborhood built before cars were a thing.

There would perhaps be if not for all the regulation. Maybe not brick, probably something with brick veneer, but someone would be shoehorning them into small lots.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-10 14:05:09+00:00
You're talking about the consequences of consent being violated. I'm asking something different. If "the reason why a drunk person can't consent to sex is because their judgement is impaired", then there's nothing in that sentence that makes sex special. Replace it with anything else and it's equally true. "The reason why a drunk person can't consent to a loan is because their judgement is impaired." That the consequences of consent being violated in one instance or another are different doesn't change the fact that consent to anything has been defined as impossible in that situation.
by jmpman | 2025-09-10 14:05:18+00:00
My son is taking a woodworking class in high school. First week, he came home and I asked him what he was doing in his woodworking class… “Disassembling the library bookcases”. “Why???” “Because they’re getting rid of the library”.

Apparently the school board decided to save money by cutting the librarian, and then decided to just move the books out of the school library and into the “nearby” public library.

In reality, there were 95 books in the school library which were being questioned by some parents. Instead of removing just those books, and being accused of book banning, they just removed the entire library. For all intents and purposes, it was a book burning.

Yet the football team is fully funded, and the baseball diamond is kept up.

This society has priorities which aren’t education.
by yostrovs | 2025-09-10 14:06:20+00:00
Statistics don't apply to individuals. If you are a single mom with a bad knee, a car will make your life easy, while public transport will be hard. The car will be safer, cheaper, more manageable because walking with kids and their things to the bus or train may be too challenging. An average human is a hermaphrodite because roughly half are men and half are women.
by yungporko | 2025-09-10 14:06:32+00:00
probably literally nothing, just like google and LLMs also have had basically zero effect on patients experiences for the same reasons. maybe it varies by location but in my experience doctors will virtually put their fingers in their ears and say BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH if you mention apple watch data before kicking you out. i had one doctor confidently tell me that "apple watch blood pressure measurements had been proven to be inaccurate compared to BP monitors" and that she refuses to look at them for that reason after mishearing something i said. apple watches obviously do not even have the ability to measure blood pressure and never have done, but she was very eager to lie in order to disregard whatever concerns i may have had just in case.
by yndoendo | 2025-09-10 14:06:35+00:00
I never said that guy does not need Excel. High probability that all the features in Excel being utilized by most users is available else where. I get told all the time you don't need TOOL_X because that tool is uncommon compared to office software. It is funny how many people think everyone uses spread sheets. I personal don't need them or touch them. There are others tools that are better fit.

Excel is a great definition of _Law of small numbers_ when it comes to praising Microsoft. Major of all Microsoft solutions are not great and there are better alternatives. Even the most popular ones where not created by Microsoft and bought.

Microsoft does not have any user experience standards. This was ingrained with Bill Gates making CTRL+F _Forward Email_ in Outlook versus a constant of _Find Text_. Number one complaint I see from Microsoft employees in their feature tickets is lack of _muscle memory_ designs. Their file listing algorithms still think 109 < 74 where quality file listing should show 109 after 74, not before.

Microsoft produce products _You have to pay me to use_. I have not bought a Microsoft product in years and never will with my personal income. This doesn't not mean I don't know how to use their junk-ware -- that is more tools in the tool box. It is the mentality that once you know one spread sheet software you don't need any other. Once you know how to use Microsoft tool X, you don't need to know how to use tool Y, even when tool Y is a better fit for the solution.

Then again most people like to short their brain and only know the tools they were taught or used in school.
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-09-10 14:06:35+00:00
I love the look of flame fractals, but I never figured out how to tweak things to get them to look more like how I want. I could never predict what a particular change would do to the look, or which change is needed to get a particular look.

I tried Apophysis (or one of the many spinoffs), but it never quite clicked.
by tibbon | 2025-09-10 14:06:38+00:00
Agreed. Give me a phone thick and durable enough that I don't feel the need to add a screen protector and case to it, or strap a battery to the back to make it last.

It seems they are often peeling away useful features, which then you have to replace - yielding a worse experience often.

Small screen, thick, durable, good battery. Would pay $
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