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I feel bad for people who lives in cities without a car. It's sad life. You're stuck in a tiny bubble defined by a handful of transit stops. This is true in New York, London, and Paris all the same.

Public transit is slow and shitty in every city in the world. If you compare travel time by foot to subway the subway merely cut it by 50%. Subways are about as fast as a moving sidewalk. The "better" a city's public transportation the longer the average commute time of workers. Spending two hours a day on the train isn't living. (Nor is spending two hours a day in a car.)

I also refuse to accept that dense cities are cheaper than the alternative. Everything in a city costs 10x and takes longer. London's water pipes leak about 25% of their water. Replacing these pipes is effectively impossible.

I'm hoping remote works kills the dense mega-city and lets people spread out a bit more.
MBA's using macs telling their ux and ui "engineers" to make things better by copying Apple.
My point it let Russia loose. Let it be beaten by smaller country. Let it be beaten by a country (some) they say shouldn't exist. Let this Soviet imperialism die once and for all. Split it up into smaller countries, there are too many nationalities in there and most of the resources sit in Asian part, let the people there take the fruits.

This country needs to be cleaned from the head, just like Germany after WWII. If not it will always be a danger to world peace.
It's not unheard of. I live in a Dutch city. There are five supermarkets within 1km from my home, a tiny one, two medium ones and two larger ones. Now that I’m working from home, I usually walk to one twice a week. When I worked at an office, I biked to the office and took a small detour once a week to stop by a supermarket. Also, they have flash delivery here where you can order groceries and somebody will bring them to your door in literally 10 minutes. Those use e-bikes. There's also regular grocery delivery, one company uses these tiny electric vans, another uses normal vans.

Flash delivery is only available in the big cities but the rest is pretty standard.
In the case of Windows is even more surprising to me knowing the huge process they done with Windows 95 to achieve what we finally had.

They had a lot of sessions of different people beta testing Windows 95 with different knowledge about computer, and they mould Windows using that feedback. Now with the "free beta testing" and the ease to give that feedback to Microsoft we are totally certain that Microsoft doesn't do those changes because they don't want to.
I think bike lanes, pedestrian access, and other transportation options are great - I bike where I can these days for health - but ultimately most people /want/ to drive everywhere if they can afford to, otherwise cars wouldn't have taken off in the first place. They had bicycles through most of the 1800s and people generally chose to maintain a horse if they could. People seem to generally want to be able to go far, with little effort, directly where they want, independently. In this vein I think the improvements in ebikes will probably help drive more popular will for bike lanes. But I really don't see many people being convinced to give up cars.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by style. It can also be plaintext if the candidate feels like is the best approach to solve the problem.

But there needs to be a sense of personality behind it. Some reflection on their personal approach to life and problems.

I don't want to hire a set of milestones and qualifications, I want to hire a person.
That's a very nice human-scale kitchen you've made there.

One of the NY cooking staff recently put out a call for photos of people's pantries. Given that the people replying are likely to be somewhat more into cooking than an average person, I was amazed at the simplicity and "non-professionalism" of all the images I saw. Just simple shelving with somewhat random supplies packed in a not particularly access-efficient way. Quite different from what you'd expect to find behind the cabinet doors of your "richo kitchen".

However, I question your use of the term "utilitarian" when you're describing the "richo kitchen". To me it feels much more decorated than (for example) your own kitchen, which has lots of wonderful small aesthetic details, but the overall vibe of which I would be more likely to call "utilitarian". Your kitchen is there for you and your partner (I assume, from the photo) to prepare food and clean up. The "richo kitchen" is that too, but also a statement about wealth, specifically the wealth to have cabinets enclosing that much stuff.
> The early Internet was a toy system, and look how it blossomed into this marvel

Juicero was also a toy system, and it crashed and burned. What (except wishful thinking) makes you think crypto is the Internet and not Juicero
I agree. I constantly see arguments in HN comments that come from the perspective of a highly paid tech worker and they either ignore anyone making minimum wage or pretend they don't exist in this dynamic or they are written off as unimportant because they should have "worked harder to change their position in life"

Its pretty sad that this ideology exists, we need people to do jobs and we shouldn't shit on them for it. We should support people in what every job they're doing because we're all part of the same societal machine
Not only that, apparently this KeyAuth software has none other than Steve Jobs giving a glowing testimonial. I'm not sure what to make of this.

https://keyauth.win
I was also a grad student at the University of Washington and my feeling was that the union was a net-negative. I remember one time in particular when my advisor had an extra funding source for me but the union rules didn't allow her to hire me in that position. It's hard for me to understand why business the union has in inserting itself in between the relationship between me and my advisor.

On top of that, the union took a portion of pay pay from each check. I wish they would give me a refund.
Demonstrated not to be true in Toronto, Canada:

* https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/the-latest-evidence-that-bi...

On two separate streets (Bloor above, Queen below):

* https://www.fastcompany.com/3067515/why-local-businesses-sho...

Making it easier for cyclists and transit users has often been found to increase business:

> Despite longstanding popular belief, bicycle lanes can actually improve business. At worst, the negative impact on sales and employment is minimal, according to a new study. Researchers studied 14 corridors in 6 cities -- Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Memphis, Minneapolis and Indianapolis -- and found such improvements had either positive or non-significant impacts on sales and employment. Essentially, adding improvements like bike lanes largely boosted business and employment in the retail and food service sectors.

* https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200422151318.h...

Meta-review:

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01441647.2021.19...
I lived car free for couple years, until had a first kid. Carrying child car seat with you gets old very quickly. And, in winter time, biking is not only unpleasant but dangerous (or rather more dangerous than in summer). Even if it's only for 3000km a year, our lives, kids lives (and their activities) and business we bring would be negatively affected if we had no car.
I always tell people most programming happens away from the computer.
You're right in that most listings eventually end up on sites such as Funda, Pararius etc. However, almost all offers go online on an agent website first, oftentimes considerably so. Your milage will vary of course, personally I started using agent sites after calling an ad that had been up on Pararius for 5 minutes yielded the response that the viewing list is already full. Turned out it had already been up on the agent page for a day and well-priced offers go fast in desirable areas. It is worth noting that I live in a very contested area, I would hope life is better in smaller places.
> And Europe works hard on stopping that, but it is a bit hard to stop e.g. gas import if your own supply won't be able to heat people homes

In other words, Europe continues to buy from Russia so as to not to inconvenience its own citizens (need gas to heat people’s homes). But India shouldn’t buy from Russia to keep a check on fuel prices in a poor country.

Seems like you don’t care as long as someone else is inconvenienced.
C++ had a dynamically typed variant that was useless and got deprecated (and eventually dropped) a few standards ago.
What?

We don't know if he bought a mattress or not. I did. Years ago. And the fact that people online don't like Casper is neither here nor there. It's fine. It's a mattress. It's better than a spring mattress.

I merely brought it up because I used Affirm to purchase it because that was the option given to me by Casper for their "pay in X in Y months" option.
From my understanding, the problem with Ohm's law is that at the time, they had trouble characterizing internal resistance. You probably noticed that in the article, it is X=a/(b+x), not the familiar V=IR, because they didn't realize yet that internal resistance from the battery was the same as resistance from a length of copper wire. Remember that Kirchhoff's circuit laws came after Ohm and his law became universally recognized.

Everything seems so obvious now, but now, we have accurate multimeters, low internal resistance power supplies and color-coded resistors. They didn't have anything like that in the early 1800s.

Gatekeeping is a thing of course, and it certainly didn't help in Ohm's case, but it is easy to forget the context in which discoveries are made. It is a bit like heliocentrism, obvious now, but when the idea was first introduced, it was actually worse than the theories of that time, based on epicycles, it wasn't just obscurantism.
It seems like it’s very much being framed as a racial issue, yes, likely because the Berkeley professor asserted that calling the cops on a black man is a dangerous thing to do.

It seems that without the racial aspect, there wouldn’t be much of a story left, apart from a “Karen” story comparable with what one would find on Reddit.
At first glance it looks pretty nice. I wonder why it hasn't gotten more attention? Or did I just miss it?
I agree - a related issue is that if indeed government should be using it's power, then it should be exercised at theost local level possible ie at the city or county level. That way you could see what happens when people have more of a choice about whether to live under those rules or not, before applying it in a way that is harder to avoid. Meaning it is easy to move cities or counties (in the US), harder to move state, almost impossible to change countries for most people's.

If it really is good for companies, then more will move there. If not, they will move out - better to do the experiment on a small scale first!

But the aim of a lot of federal or state level proposed legislation is so that people can't escape nirvana...
Yes, Fastmail accounts correspond to the number of users you have. Each user can set up a virtually unlimited number of aliases.

I have also been a happy Fastmail user. Reliable and easy to configure.
The reason wasn't Microsoft acquisition but the rise of mobile. P2P does not work well on mobile devices.
I do a lot of commuting via bus and bike in LA. You can always bring your bike into the doorway of the business and throw your ulock around the frame and rear wheel to prevent it from being ridden. I find if there are at least other bikes in the rack I feel better about leaving my bike out, and if its something like the front entrance or a parking lot where there is foot traffic I don't mind leaving the bike out on a rack while I'm inside and its during business hours, but I would never leave it out on a rack overnight.

The bus is pretty annoying for getting things done, however. You can't exactly string together multiple errands unless shops are nearby, but luckily LA is dense enough where I can find redundant shops of a given category in every neighborhood. The bus was great for my commute though. No transfers, 30 mins on a bus that comes every 10 minutes vs the 20 min drive where I didn't have a parking space at work (and thus had to hunt or pay). It was on a route with a rapid and local bus line too, so really a bus came every 5 mins due to them being staggered. Transfers really kill a bus commute but sometimes even with the transferring, it remains the fastest way around. Certain parts of LA like the less bar heavy portions of the west side, you could be waiting 30 minutes at least for your ride to even be accepted, then it might be 15-20 mins before they slog through traffic to get to you. Rideshare is pretty spotty in LA outside of Santa monica, downtown LA, lax, weho, or hollywood, because the drivers rarely want to venture out beyond these areas and would rather stick to where the ride frequency is the highest due to the traffic. I do use the bus quite a bit for going home at the end of the night since its so cheap compared to surged rideshares. It seemingly runs until 4am and there are a surprising amount of people using it still at that time (I assume mostly third shift workers but a good amount of people who clearly are coming from the bars like me).
I would happily live in a 150 sq ft shed if it kept me out of the city and the "fun". It's not that I'm not willing to make do with a small space, it's that I don't want to be tripping over my neighborsband dealing with their noise and idiosyncrasies.
> And did you consult India before you orchestrated the regime changes and laid the seeds for conflict.

What regime changes, what orchestration?
And all Shiro games: Northgard, Darksburg, upcoming Wartales and Dune games. Not sure about Evoland but I wouldn't be surprised.
Yea until spring time. Then it’s endless lawn mowers, leaf blowers, drag racing, dirt bikes, and all sorts of other loud noises. Can’t keep the windows open because it’s too loud.
> A bit off-topic, but the topic of propaganda reminds me of the “propaganda” posters created by the artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid around 1980. Raised in the USSR and living in America, they made works of Soviet-style propaganda for the United States.

Those are pretty fantastic. I like how they peeled away some of the "foreignness" layers to reveal the core concept.
Actually you were right, I am talking about NKY/Cincinnati
The title in the <title> and <h1> tags on the actual article are also very different. I think they are playing some optimization game to get more people to click. It's possible that the HN title was once the title of the actual article.
https://www.owenyoung.com/en/

https://www.owenyoung.com/

I've used Zola to build both Chinese and English versions of my personal website, and one of my favorite parts is that I show the word count of the articles I've written so far in the header.

No Javascript, with a simple CSS file.
Next two bytes: 0xc0, 0x7a = "cola" ?
No, I explained why it makes me feel that way but I can expand. The modern kitchen image looks sterile, pristine, and I feel anxiety at the thought of dirtying it. I also think it looks alien and I can't imagine where the materials came from to construct it. I feel no connection to it as a "human place" and thus wouldn't want to live in it.

Additionally, I think size is related to aesthetic but it's an independent topic. You can have a small but "modern aesthetic" kitchen. I agree, a cramped kitchen sucks!
A middle manager should have managers reporting to them, not ICs.
> I just want single occupancy vehicles banned from city centers

Why be so authoritarian? It's one thing to say "I think single occupancy vehicles are inefficient and bad, so I'm not going to use them", but it's another to say "I think single occupancy vehicles are inefficient and bad, so I'm going to take away everyone else's choice to use them".
Also the slide rule section on John Savard's home page http://quadibloc.com/math/slrint.htm.

There is a mention of the K&E KE-LON slide rule which they prototyped, but never manufactured due to the availability of the pocket scientific calculator at that time. But I would still love to see someone make a replica of the KE-LON (or KeLon, however it was to be spelled), see the prototype picture here: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/KECollection/KeLon/keLon.h.... Of particular interest is the Constants scale at the top of the back side.
That is an awfully biased article.

> “A study in Berlin . . . more than 51 percent of customers lived within that walkable distance.”

So what? Even in Berlin, businesses care about the 49% of car travellers. Plus, a study in Berlin not that relevant to Auckland: Berlin has a population of 3.6M (area 892 km² with 1.2M passenger cars and a metro system), Auckland 1.6M (area 1,086 km² with 0.74 passenger vehicles per capita and no metro system). New Zealand has a population of 5M.

Personally I know lack of parking affects me. I live in the suburbs of Christchurch where a car is necessary. I rarely go shopping in town, because our city council has been making the city centre more difficult to access (expensive parking, congestion due to slow zones and newer slower traffic signals, removal of street-side parking). I love pedestrian zones, but there needs to be a way to get to them.
I'm 100% sure my dad believed then and would defend now that it was just a game.

Games aren't fun when you don't know someone's playing with you and you're trying to be serious.

YMMV, and I hope it does. I'm just providing the anecdote that I'm not in touch with my dad anymore, and dishonesty that at least looked a lot like what you're describing is a significant part of the reason.
Certainly if you do traditional TDD or something like REPL-driven development, you see the intermediate results and validate the correctness of your code as you go.
> I don't even think there's anything wrong with 2-3 car households being the norm in suburbs.

I don’t either. I think the suburbs themselves are what is wrong. Having 2-3 cars is just the adaptation for a moronic building style.
>and the preferred means of payment for everything illegal.

No, that would be cash. Bitcoin is very traceable, I doubt anybody wants to permanently store a record of their misdeeds on the blockchain.
You are still arguing a straw man.

The point is not about what the regulation stopped them from doing locally, the point is that no regulation that came into existence ever broke the power structure. It was never a threat to the ones connected to the elites.

Any regulation that does get approve ends up weaponized in favor of the big companies.

To illustrate: look at Dieselgate. If the regulations were actually meant to be serious, any scrappy company from Poland, Portugal or Bulgaria would have been absolutely dismantled out of existence. But VW got what? A symbolic fine, some Casablanca-style reprimands, perhaps a expiatory goat... but they will continue to have the support from the government.

What about tech? What real benefit has GDPR brought to the people? Nothing! It made only the small business owners scared of violations, got them out of running their own sites and into siloed Facebook/Amazon pages, and with their "social Media presence" on Twitter/Instagram. Tell me with a clean face how that "regulation" was in your favor and not of the status quo?
This is super cool. Well done!
As far as I know, JS does not allow hiding. Python kind of does, but it is very leaky as the event loop is not reentrant.
Speaking as a senior dev who has interviewed dozens (if not hundreds) of candidates, I assure you that the bulk of the burden is firmly on the interviewers, not the candidates.
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I think the most plausible interpretation of that remark is that the OP has 0 friends in Europe.
That's all well known. I personally still wonder what really happened in 1972 when Barzel thought he had 250 votes to oust Brandt and then in the elections that followed. The spying allegations that did him in finally had been in view for years by that point. I hope someday to read a good book about it all but I don't think key parts have been declassified.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/23/archives/the-painful-road...
The prisoner's dilemma is a toy example where everyone wants the same thing, but they can't achieve it without some external mechanism. Many regulations in the real world fall into this category, ensuring your competitors can't do things you don't want to do and thereby force you to do it to compete (and they in turn don't want to do it, but if their competitors do it...).
Easy to clean is important, but we don't need to attach form and function so tightly in the age of modern tech. We have better plastic finishes, and in a fairly utilitarian modern lifestyle we just don't make as much mess, our meals are simpler.

Then again, I'm a vegetarian with no kids, so my experience of kitchen cleaning may be a bit different, since I don't do a lot of the more messy and hygiene critical stuff.

Older non-utilitarian design really fits pretty well with very modern lifestyles and technology, because there's not nearly as much pressure on the environment to be functional, when the actual things you're doing are more streamlined.
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As a grad student you are there for an education and your education doesn't only (or even mostly) happen in the classroom. If grad students want to be treated more like employees and less like students, the relationship between student/advisor will shift more toward an employee/employer relationship. This may result in more pay but it will also result in different expectations. For example, if you want to be treated more as an employee, then I would have a lower tolerance for mistakes a student would make. If you want to be an employee I will start hiring for skills rather than potential. As employer/employee relationships have developed maxims like "fire fast", this attitude change may work against grad students.

Also just to be precise, tuition isn't just to pay for classes, it goes to pay for all of the resources you use as part of the university community. If you are done your requirements you will still have to pay tuition. And students don't stop taking classes by the end of year 2 (or 4 depending), they stop taking required classes. Since your advisor pays your tuition, you can negotiate with them if you want to take more than the minimum. You are done your requirements after 2-4 years and don't have to take more classes, but of course you can (I did). Maybe this is something unions can help with.
I don’t want to drive everywhere, and I have chosen to live where I rarely have to drive. And I’m not alone.

The first bicycle that looks somewhat like a modern bicycle was from around 1880.

And many people prefer the car for the simple reason that car infrastructure has been prioritised.
Basic Central European country.
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I think many people /want/ to drive everywhere, but at the same time would prefer to live in the kind of place you get when /not everyone/ constantly drives everywhere (if they had some experience with such places).

There's a tragedy of the commons here.
What prevents an hourly employee from working 32 hours now? It seems like many hourly employees have the opposite problem: they want more hours but they can't get them scheduled.