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Chicago has a few express buses and is playing with the idea of more. Things like only 1 stop per half mile, a special lane to travel in, raised platforms, and magic that flips traffic signals for them.

http://www.transitchicago.com/ashlandbrt/

They are going for a 16 mph average speed, vs 21 mph that the subway gets. Obviously still a bit slow, but way better than a normal bus (which I think is 5-10 mph)

I know street space is a bit more of a premium in SF over Chicago, but it seems like a pretty good help. Not as good as a subway, but in theory much much cheaper to use, it uses existing streets with just a few rule changes.
Neither of those examples are accessible through my phone (VeriOn, US). The first one says the dns server couldn’t be found. The second returns “Error code 8 The proxy failed to connect to the web server.”

Any idea why this is? I have a pretty much stock S8
Imagine if they achieve economies of scale and started introducing buses instead of cars. Imagine they improve efficiency by driving routes as requested by customers in realtime. Imagine if they were to charge customers based on how much it actually costs them to drive in real time so each customer can decide if its worth it based on their own needs. I can definitely see that such a world will be a lot more efficient in terms of transportation costs and time. If it requires subsidies so that they can achieve that economies of scale, so be it.
I'm not surprised to be honest. In the city I currently live in, since moving here a year ago, I've never even gotten the bus because an uber is maybe twice the price but 10x more convenient and 5x as fast to get to the local train station... To get to the next city along, it's a 15min uber or >1hr public transport commute... However, if Uber didn't exist here, I don't think I'd be taking taxis because they are far more expensive.
"...pursuing and obtaining..."
UPX is usually better than other generic compression utilities. IIRC it actually modifies the executable before compressing it to provide better compression. I think on Windows it reversibly changes relative addresses to absolute addresses so you get better compression rates.
On one hand this is true, on the other, if you have two devices that can work for 5 years and then you anyway replace them because they are now too small and never failed you have one device that you replaced and the other hardly in use and you have an increase TCO since you had to buy another device in the middle of the life cycle.

Not that it is really critical, read-disturb exists but it is on a far lower scale compared to erase endurance.
Mass transit is already subsidized and yet they are unable to make it work. Only one is subsidizing to gain ridership. As I’ve told friends and family it’s still cheaper than owning a car. If that equation changes I’ll re-evaluate our habits.
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In London taxis are classed as public transport - don't have to pay congestion charges, and the legacy expensive cash-only ones can use bus lanes (but not south of the river at this time of night).

The upshot of this is its far cheaper to park outside and get a taxi from outside the zone than to drive all the way in, despite not saving on congestion. The reason it didn't used to be as easy was black cabs are an archaic unreliable form of transport. Uber in the other hand is more convienient than driving and parking.
IIRC there was some project doing more or less real-time weather forecasts for small areas (think airports and such) that used deep learning instead of traditional CFD style simulations. They were able to do it with several orders of magnitude less CPU usage than the CFD calculations.
>Mars, not easy; Venus, impossible

Mars may very well be much easier, but the bias towards Mars may also be largely cultural: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag
Is T-Mobile now blocking this? I get their DNS failure page (I'd have sworn I opted out of that too)
> Those cost a lot to run, and ride-hailing has the luxury of not having to run those routes.

It might make sense for some cities to stop running buses on those routes and instead pay a private company. Imagine being able to book an Uber or Lyft ride and still only paying the $2.50 fare. Maybe it would be cheaper for the city and more convenient for users?
Many people were selling things online when Amazon was just a book store. Amazon was the best of them all.

To me, it doesn't sound so strange that the #1 online store grew to be a strong competitor in other online businesses as well.
London has online live bus information, but not live tracking. It's still very useful though.

https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490013766E/trafalgar-square-char...
Maybe if it promotes a significant increase in carpooling.
MySQL is bad because they've tracked a bug across 3 different companies & working groups.

Postgres is good because we have no open bug tracker whatsoever and we're always adding new features!

I can't figure out who this article is for - certainly not DBAs!
x86 isn't that good. RISC-V has similar code density as amd64 while being fairly simpler.
There's not much appeal to x86 as an ISA, other than for running legacy software.
I think it is a cautious approach. Mapping is one aspect, but there will always vehicles and pedestrians that the vehicle has to plan for.

This reminds me darpa grand challanhe and urban challenge difference. The cars that were built for the desert wouldnt work great in an urban environment.

Over time these restrictions will surely go away.
I'm writing this as a thought experiment, so please don't respond if what I say angers you. I'm hoping to possibly seed an interesting conversation from which I can learn, not trying to make any specific points.

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why is corruption bad? Well, it definitely feels dirty, and it probably usually directly harms someone (who has to pay, doesn't pay, etc.)

But what if we looked at it from a trust based perspective? Single incidents of corruption have an outsized impact on the overall trust a society has in itself, and others.

So, what if the cost isn't created by the act of corruption, but by the perception / dissemination of corrupt events?

From that perspective, the best overall utility to society after the VW scandal was both to make it appear like someone is watching (disincentivize others) but also downplay the size of it (maximally maintain trust).

This isn't particularly thought through, but I was hoping to invoke Cunningham's Law to learn more about something I know very little about.
OP here: I heard from people working in hotels that some expensive ones loose millions each year but wealthy people from Arab countries who own them don't care.
You wonder? It's easy to guess. They go up. A lot.

But you don't have to guess, just look at property values for anything at all nice in Vancouver. Practically the whole city could not afford to buy a house there on their current income.
That is quite the number of atoms (although not even a mole's worth). It makes me wonder if quantum entanglement in the brain is more likely.
> efficient

Specifically, it should be efficient and preferably fast for me, not just in aggregate
Which I guess most landlords would simply pass on to the tenants?
Where I live it is nearly cost equivalent or even cheaper to use an app to pre-pay for parking and go into the city from the suburbs instead of taking public transit. It's faster too. I will take one or the other depending on how much I feel like I want to zone out or be stressed by the traffic.
Which part? The cost of rides being subsidized or people eschewing mass transit in favor of these ride sharing apps or was it the insinuation that people are eschewing mass transit because it is cheaper or more convenient for the price?

Cost of ride: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a3vye/uber-true-...

2nd point is the highlight of the linked article.
3rd point has been made repeatedly in this very thread.
The FS cache sits above the raid driver.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Open_Items

This seems to be the canonical list.
It would've required completely rewriting the solution. The reason we used friend functions in the past was when we had god objects that we needed to test. It did not make any sense here since the class under test had a single responsibility. It would also have made the implementation more complicated and would have tightly coupled the unit tests to the implementation of the class.
Those disorders have never seemed unrelated to me.
> There's no research on sensory issues with psychedelic therapy

Is that not part of the PTSD inventory they administer before and after?
Same. I think the companies shut down the APIs for damage control.
I've always thought bus stops were too frequent outside of downtown Pittsburgh as well. Probably half he stops could be removed and that would speed up bus routes.
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If you're in a city that mostly moves people by bus, and has incredibly high construction costs, of course this is the solution they're going to chase. The bus service suffers with more competing vehicles on the road. People prefer rail and dedicated right-of-ways, but they also don't want their neighborhood destroyed while it's built. The transit advocacy groups end up hamstrung by these competing desires.

Uber and Lyft have given everyone a taste of the self-driving car dream (on-demand comfortable private transit) -- they just need to figure out how to get rid of the drivers. It's already producing political pressure to stall or end hugely expensive transit projects because of uncertainty about what a city might really need in 20-30 years.

Hopefully someone's smart enough to show that we'll all still be stuck in the same dumb traffic of our own making, regardless of a human or computer driver, because we really need to be solving for space and land use by minimizing the distance and frequency of vehicle trips instead, public transit included.
There are a few cities in the world where public transportation is privately owned and operated. Those cities have so much density, most routes can turn a profit. Most cities do not have this luxury.

Cities in Europe, for the most part, do just fine with public transit. It's all publicly-run. And they have solved the problem with a way that would be seemingly unacceptable in the US: Segregated rights-of-way for buses and trams, an extensive metro and regional rail network, and depending on the city, sometimes heavy subsidies. And that's fine, because if public transit is run as a public service, it's not all going to make money.
> I don't think this is a debate about what makes a better programmer (although other commenters have argued that many skills gained with side projects are not the same skills needed to succeed in a company) but rather whether it's fair to penalize people who — for whatever reason — literally cannot devote their out-of-work hours to what's essentially unpaid overtime training themselves.

I think it's perfectly fair, and I disagree that it's "penalizing" them. If I choose to buy a product that gives me more of what I want, I'm not "penalizing" the manufacturers of the competing products I didn't choose.

To flip it around, If I do choose to spend my free time acquiring skills and knowledge that make me more valuable to my employer, why should I not be paid more than those who, for whatever reason, provide less value to my employer than I do?

> I didn't have a specific scenario in mind — IMO that's not a meaningful distinction and a company should not expect you to learn it on your own time either way. What do you think separates one case from the other?

If an employer hires me as, for example, a Java developer, because that's what I represented myself to be, and then she decides that all future development will be in Perl, then she made that business decision knowing that her current team was (presumably) not Perl experts, and she can expect that's going to impact their productivity. I would be less inclined to let her business decision impose a huge burden on my own time, learning a language that is no longer very marketable. I might tell her to be patient while I develop Perl expertise on the job, or, more likely, I would find another job.

Jake, I'm not going to keep going back and forth with you on this, because I don't care whether or not anyone agrees with me or changing anyone's mind. In fact, I'm really glad that a large portion of the developer population has the attitude you do, because it makes it easier for me to stay at or near the top of the heap. If 98% took my approach, then it would be much more work for to be among the highest paid ones who have never had any trouble getting or keeping a job in the software development field.
That’s really great. I think society really needs more of that. More and more I feel like people acting in their own best (short sighted) interests do not aggregate to a net positive for society nor the world at large.
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Reading even a bad book is better than watching TV. Apart from the content the act of reading itself is very wholesome. You need to conjure up an entire world out of thin air, imagine what all the characters look like, how they sound etc.
Not in a majority of American cities where mass transit is non-existent. Which is awful.
> > expand routes, increase availability, update their equipment.

> ... and be faster.

mere reliability would be a nice start. denver's RTD system can't deal with predictable spikes in usage like the start of a semester at universities, or adjust itself when three or four of the high-frequency buses stack up on top of each other such that buses that should show ever 15 minutes don't appear for an hour.

everything in a smartphone that makes uber/lyft possible would've been cost effective to cram into a bus 20 years ago. but as far as i know they're still just talking (intermittently) on a radio.
Well, that Fortran codebase probably also was written in large parts by PhD students, not export Fortran programmers.
How neat!

Here's a little Excel-file writer in PHP; Excel will read these files, but this library won't:

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'; ?>
<?php echo '<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>'; ?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet1">
<?php $data = array(array(4,5,6),array("dude","whatever","m<om")); ?>
<Table>
<?php foreach($data as $row): ?>
<Row>
<?php foreach($row as $cell): ?>
<Cell>
<Data ss:Type="String"><?= htmlentities($cell) ?></Data>
</Cell>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</Row>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</Table>
</Worksheet>
</Workbook>

They're "technically" Microsoft Office XML-format[1], and not "Excel files", but users don't tend to be amused by programmers being technically right so I tend not to argue about that sort of thing. I only bring it up here in case someone wants to search for a specification on it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats
very fun and interesting experience
I can understand the "We'll never terraform Mars" argument. (It's certainly a looooong ways off if we ever even start. I suspect there's not much value in it.)

But never landing a human on Mars seems like a bad bet to me. With Musk/SpaceX pushing for it, and our history of landing rovers there, it seems like putting some people on Mars, however briefly, is in our future. I'm curious why you feel this way.
Adding more units, where existing units are underutilized, makes no sense.
To be pedantic, I said doubling their coin, not doubling their USD equivalent. And who's gonna complain about 5-6% in free gains?

And that's assuming speculation doesn't continue to inflate the price of those alternative coins.
Their assets in Switzerland would be priced in CHF. It could be a good diversification from USD-priced assets they have at home. There was a single-day 30% pop in CHF a few years back.
This is a quite common myth that is factually wrong. It's the main way for a private wealth advisors to talk somebody into a unecessary mortage.

The interest rate on mortages is always higher compared to the interest rate on leverage for stock (by using the stock itself as collateral).

You can get close to the yield on swiss confederation bonds if you buy well priced, leveraged ETFs.

Obviously that interest rate is as stable if not more stable than the interest rates on mortages.

Please DO NOT buy stocks with money from a mortage. you're just giving up at least 1% yield.
Sorry i get less sick when i commute by car hence i refuse to spend time with other people using buses/trams/subway.
Nix is pretty cool but has some significant usability issues.
well a folding bike aka the Brompton works better for this use case
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Well, it could hardly be below, could it. Was there an insight you wanted to mention?
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Live tracking is not rocket science. See example what we got in Vilnius, Lithuania. Over there every city bus have GPS trackers for various other reasons anyway.

https://www.trafi.com/lt/vilnius/autobusai/1g-greitasis-auto...
For San Francisco I’d settle with “not smell of feces/vomit so badly you can’t stomach riding in the first place.”
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> you were never asked to opt-in

I certainly was. My neighbors and I elected someone to represent us on the matter, there was a public debate about the law before it was passed and I told my representative how I wanted them to vote, and our representative's job is up for review in a year.
This one hundred times.

I once had a reviewer who took this even further, asking for changes in code that were unrelated to my changeset but appeared in the diff. e.g. I add a parameter Y and get a comment like "parameter X should support feature Z".

Please just let me get my feature out!
I gotta admit that I can forgive a multiple of sins when I'm paid on time.
> Thing is, it's not very start-uppable as a concept: you need partnerships with any bus companies involved, you need GPS equipment in the buses, you need parternships with cell networks and good enough coverage that location and ancillary information can be sent back to base to be served up through the app, etc.

It may not be something you hack together in a weekend, but it's definitely startuppable. Love that word, btw, can I keep it?

Because of the partnerships needed, it won't scale quickly, but I wonder if it has potential as a non-profit startup. Or even for-profit, you just need to work on the value proposition to the local transit agencies. Some areas in the US do have this, after all. I'm not sure if it's GPS or what, but I've seen it Seattle when I visited, and also in Arlington, VA, where I used to live:

http://mobile.commuterpage.com/realtime.cfm?stopCode=41209&f...

I believe in Arlington, it was mostly grant funded (state and federal), but somebody's gotta be out there doing the work.

I live in Maine now - having decent public transportation would be a nice first step.
You're not wrong, but all those software methodologies aren't meant for the teams of very good developers, because they don't need them, but for the large majority of mediocre programmers who need to be herded.
As the article mentions - this is what Via does https://ridewithvia.com/
At a certain point the comparison breaks down.

Yes, public transit is subsidised. But it isn't subsidised in such a way that it is expected to eventually become self sustaining - tax-payer funding is expected to continue in perpetuity.

That's not the case with Uber and Lyft. VCs are subsiding their rides on the expectation that eventually the company will dominate the market enough to not require subsidy any more.
On my macOS work machine, Nix has replaced Homebrew. The ability to switch between generations of your system state [1] when a new install goes awry is underrated, IMO.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-profiles
The statement " Uber and Lyft have reduced mass transit use" doesn't contain a value judgement. It's simply stating the most likely explanation for the observed data.

But advocacy against ride-sharing is probably a good use for mass transit advocates' time: this trend drains the financial resources from mass transit, it further reduces the group of people interested in public transit to the poor, who have less political influence. And it creates more traffic, where now even more often a bus with 60 passengers is held up by three cars with one passenger each, preferably blocking traffic while unloading.
Having never used Nix before, I would like to know what kind of usability issues it faces.

For me, the biggest one is that I can't use it at clients running a Windows shop. That's a blocker.
No you wont you will get cherry picked routes and in the uk the free bus pass for seniors and use of the same busses for transporting school kids really distorts bus service for other users
I see our current economic pains in terms of The Second Industrial Revolution. The first created the 40 hour work week (among other things). The second needs to make the burden of work for the masses even lighter. I don't see UBI as having a role here.

We also need to build enough affordable housing and provide universal basic healthcare. Shannon is stressing in part because her adult son and his child live with her. The child -- Shannon's grandchild -- has serious health issues. This is part of why she says "I'm not rich. I got bills to pay."

She could more readily afford to take a pay cut if she didn't have to worry about the high cost of medical care in America.
Also, from what I've gathered the frontend can execute whatever query it wants on the backend without any kind of checks.
Nah, I avoid SF and SV like the plague. Too many people.
I had started a simpler version of your approach a while ago, but how do you manage the overhead if you use it for EVERYTHING?
It makes no sense if all units here are equal.

It makes a lot of sense to add better unit.
> Even though Uber has been saying that they are improving urban transportation

Note here that there are other dimensions of improving, not expressed in VMT. Such as convenience, availability, time to get to certain point, ability to perform certain tasks (e.g. compare traveling with two huge suitcases to/from an airport in public transport with two transfers and in a ride service car), etc. So when talking about improving, I don't think VMT is really a good criterion.
Yeah i remember that too - there is a answer in the scipy FAQ -

https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/faq.html#how-can-scipy-be-fas...

"Actually, the time-critical loops are usually implemented in C or Fortran. "
2nd Quadrant is a DBA-as-a-service company that does only Postgres, so it makes sense that the target audience is decision-makers trying to pick between databases who are themselves not DBAs (but probably in the position of hiring DBAs, either as normal employees or as a company to contract with).
Is there such a system in general use? Aside from NY, and London with its archaic "knowlege", is there any artificial limitations on most cities?

The problems with taxis has always been how inconvienent they are - hailing, having to pay, having to beg for a receipt (and then in NY the forced adverts)

Uber etc makes taxis easy. It's cheap too, but that's to be expected in the near future with automated driving.
I "won"! I now feel very very sad.
I agree that it clutters the thread, but the flip side is that many people don't come back to the full thread and only view replies.