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Like mentioned in the video Moppets are annoyingly loud. They are allowed on many of the bicycle paths (and go on the once they're not supposed to anyway). So if a city center diverges car traffic but has a bicycle path through it they ruin the otherwise calm.
In my personal opinion they are not suited for bicycle paths at all. And don't get me started on 'brommobielen' (tiny cars that can go max. 45 km/h and you can drive with just a scooter license). Those things annoy the heck out of me. They either drive you off the bicycle path because they are just cars and should be on the road, or, they clog up the roads because they are not cars and shouldn't be on the road. Dutch infrastructure is just not made for them.
Not even the lobbyists. Once you become "too big to fail" you're quids in.
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Good riddance! ;)
Yeah, it's an easy fix. Couriers routinely waste 20 minutes finding my place, scale that up and surely there's an incentive to resolve it.
More often than not, it is still hard to locate the floors.
In Rust, for memory, you don't pay as you go, everyone has to pay all the time
TikTok is evil. Let’s stop with the whataboutism
Depends on your use case.

Ex lease mini desktop Dell/Hp/Lenovo Intel machines off eBay can be good, and first class Linux support, and cheaper than raspberry pi.

Some applications can be replaced with a microcontroller like esp32 which has excellent software support.

Many of the machines above have pretty average Linux support but it seems to be improving, depends on your application.
Oh right, I remember seeing something about that now.

Guess I was expecting something a bit worse, I don't see how online age requirements will help but it doesn't land as "hyper-totalitarian" to me either. Feels like a less enforcement version of age limits on buying alcohol or cigarettes - a hit on personal freedoms but can't say I've ever heard those labeled as totalitarian.
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I could not get inside the article, but I remember when Gentoo started. It was a big hit but for me, I really did not want to compile everything.

But one debt I owe that project, is the ability for other distros avoid systemd. They separated (forked) out components from systemd for other distros to use. So a big thanks to gentoo for that.
Of course the CEO of %company% is going to say that %company_product% is absolutely unique and irreplaceable.

The truth is that browsing through alibaba proves him wrong, fast.

All he has is a trademark (which is extremely valuable, don't get me wrong).
Is some of these a product that runs on mainline Linux? I feel like a device that only runs a kernel with weird vendor patches is going to be stuck on that kernel, which might be a problem for software support going forward. And will certainly be a problem from security point of view.
Living in Tokyo, I found the most constantly intrusive noise to be the deliberate noise-makers at stations and crossings. Less frequent but even more annoying because they intruded into areas supposed to be quieter were the PA systems mounted on trucks. Traffic rumble was always there but for me it was ignorable away from the major thoroughfares.
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Oh my god I'm so lucky to live in a culture where unnecessary honking is almost nonexistent…
I actually have it worse, I live directly on a 35mph (where people regularly do 50+) semi-main "stroad". The only nice thing is the fire department is also on this road, so it gets priority plowing. We get semi-trailers and dump trucks on it.

Walking with the dogs the approx 400' to the nearest cul-de-sac is a harrowing affair. Bike riding is so intimidating that my bike hasn't even gone outside in months. Yeah people ride on it but it's way outside my comfort zone.

Pretty much all of suburbia needs to be magically terraformed, for any of these things to be feasible.

> If you're wanting to haul things like pets and lumber, recent cargo e-bikes can haul a lot.

I don't think you realize how big a 3/4 x 48 x 96 is. I can't even fit it in my Forester without ripping it lengthwise and driving with the hatch propped.
Not really, you get 2 TSI credits included in the annually fee and I've only needed to use them once in 10 years for a really obscure problem I couldn't figure out. My experience with Apple support is that sometimes can be slow and frustrating but it works, unlike Google support.

Similar to Apple, I'd happily pay a yearly fee for better support with the Google developer program
i have nreal light too, for around $400 its really good.
there is a community made api that can access glasses head tracking data, some made their own multi monitor app demos too,
hope official one gets better later on too
edit; spacetop is using nreal light (6dof)
In a free market a ban should be enough for competitors and replacements to arise
I'm in a similar situation now, but the new company has been more than happy to have company days where we fly in from around the world and get to know each other and it works pretty well. Also, having zoom/teams/slack video channels permanently open works surprisingly well too (you don't have to have your camera on).

Companies that have gone fully remote, also quickly discover how much of their company knowledge is in one person's head, or whether it's well documented, which helps with the onboarding too.

Some companies have definitely moved to remote working better than others.
> We're getting there, it seems.

That's the whole point.

>Now we need to find the benevolent aliens.

Unfortunately, in reality I think we're all we have.

Which should have been the timeline in ST as well, since it's more aspirational. That the Vulcans had interfere sort of undermines the whole theme of humanity overcoming its flaws through sheer undaunted effort and positivity. Nope, turns out we would have hit the Great Filter headon and died in the rubble if the Vulcans hadn't seen one alcoholic madman make a warp joyride near Mars, and decided we needed to be housebroken for the good of the galaxy.
I fondly remember the first day of lockdown in my city. No cars, except a handful. Mostly people wandering around on the sideways. It was so quiet that I wish it would've always stayed that way.
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Not much of a crypto currency enthusiast but i find this paragraph amusing:

“The market value of all cryptocurrencies ballooned from $250bn at the start of 2020 to $3trn by late 2021. But it has since fallen back to just $1.3trn. ”

That is larger than the entire economy of some developed countries.
Note that while you point out this happened in specific areas you've lived in, there are unfortunately plenty of places in Europe where you'd face the same issue.
I don’t think anyone serious expects existing suburbs to be torn down in a generation, the argument that car-free folks make is that we should stop forcing new growth to sprawl outside cities by:

1. Not limiting density in cities through red tape (parking requirements, multi-year review processes, etc.)

2. Not forcing urbanites to subsidize suburbanite’s lifestyles, which are more expensive[1]

The train argument I typically see is that it should be cheaper to take the train between city pairs in the northeast (NYC-Boston, NYC-DC) than it is to fly, which it currently often is not.

There are also a lot of ways the status quo is subtly baked into the system. e.g. employers can offer employees pre-tax money to pay for parking to commute, but if they ride a bikeshare to work and the employer pays for it, it’s a taxable benefit.

1: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt...
I seem to recall them showing him carrying it across his shoulders.
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This take does not square in the slightest with my actual experience in the DC area. I make a middle class income, pay a fairly modest rent, and have an active social life and tons of hobbies that are enabled by the trappings of city living - density of educated people, easy mobility on a bike, a wealth of pleasant public spaces.
OpenAI - contrary to its name, it is not open-source enough anymore.

Wolfram Mathematica - a lot of academicians (read Physicists) still use it for the ease of writing programs, but there is no open source alternative.
You're correct about Pix, it averages at 0.22% [1]. It's free for personal transactions and some card/POS machines have zeroed the fees when you scan a Pix QR code to pay at small shops. It's currently the most popular payment method in Brazil (credit card is second) [2]. It's slower than just tapping my Apple Watch to pay, but tap-to-pay with Pix is in development and I can't wait for it. Installments are also coming. Our Banco Central is really pushing it and the big banks are not liking it, at all. Good.

A nice side-effect of it all is that many credit cards are offering great rewards without any annual fee. I get year-round access to VIP lounges at any airport here, car/travel insurance AND cashback/miles for $0, it's a very different scenario from say 5 years ago.

[1] https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/pix-e-mais-bara...

[2] https://febrabantech.febraban.org.br/temas/meios-de-pagament...
I wonder if there are low noise tire tread designs? Of course there are probably trade offs. Snow tires are known to be louder than the tires you use in climates that don’t get snow.
European debit cards work as debit cards, the distinction is the network used.

My Danish debit card supports both Visa and Dankort, the Danish network. Danish companies will generally put the transaction through Dankort, as the fees are lower, but it's still a debit transaction if it goes through Visa's network.

Dankort only cards begin with the number 5019. Visa+Dankort with 4571.

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Indeed, the video says that: the tire noise for ICEs becomes louder than the engine at about 50 kmph. This means that for speeds slower than that, the more important component is the noise of the engine.
If by "software support" you mean "people provide ready-made SD card images with project X already installed", then yes, no alternative to the Pi.

If you mean "gives me a standard linux distro I can install software on that can talk to the network and maybe show a UI on a screen", pretty much anything works (and a lot of things people do with Pis are just that - running things like network-wide adblockers, 3D printer servers, small python scripts for whatever).

If it's somewhere in between, it again depends. E.g. if I wanted a MIPI camera, I'd probably track down a RPi and use that unless I could find someone documenting a precise setup on something else.
I see this take about Japan all the time and do not understand it. No offence, but have you spent any time in Japan? Rural areas might be quiet for sheer low population density, but the cities are disgusting.

PM2.5 levels in Tokyo yesterday were like 6x WHO limits and absolutely no one on the local news was talking about it. Every morning I see pregnant and new mothers with infants or small children squeezing between belching diesel trucks, relentless car traffic, construction sites and smokers areas and wonder what the cost of all of this will be.

This is not a model for the future. It’s a relic.
> so instant kill for that demographic(iphone is status symbol and most people have it so they'll not switch to android)

I'd wager that if TikTok got banned in the US and Apple did not immediately follow with allowing sideloading, iPhone would quickly lose its status value in the teenage demographics. After all, status matters most when comparing equivalent goods - it's what justifies spending more for the same thing. In the scenario above, iPhone would immediately become painfully inferior to Android phones, along the dimension that matters a lot for the teenage cohort.
I'm in Norway. There is no real way to avoid knowing what the VAT on things are.

I have to pay it if I order from Amazon or Etsy, for example. If I order from the US, I pay later.

Every sales receipt has the VAT right on the receipt. I can see it every single time. If I order from inside the country, I can see it before I pay.

It isn't hidden. It isn't secret.

It wasn't even secret to an immigrant that didn't yet understand enough Norwegian to know.

What I do get is to be reasonably certain what I'm going to pay when I get to the cash register. I don't have to do mental gymnastics with a total if I'm tight on money - like I have many times in the US. It won't change if I'm in a different part of Norway. There simply aren't as many price surprises like that.
What makes you think the plugins are running in the browser?
In some countries, citizens have the right of opening a bank account though
So, what, do you just not look before jumping into the road if you can't hear anything?
>even if it might not be needed

Most of his songs are not commenting on the original so permission is definitely needed. "Smells like Nirvana" and "Perform this way" are making fun of the original songs, "Amish Paradise" could be argued either way.
> It's so weird that the 'noise' of petrol cars is considered a safety feature. I've heard from the older generation "Yeah but EVs don't make noise which makes them extremely dangerous.

It's enough of an issue that early Priuses beeped while backing up.

I'm a look both ways kind of person, so I don't really "get" it, but I can also understand that not everyone prioritizes situational awareness.
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I still appreciate the precision of being able to explicitly describe what I want to type. I also appreciate that this is all running on your machine.
Where I live motorcycles are usually the loudest vehicle I hear everyday.
Flatcable pitch, disk sizes, screen sizes, passive SMD footprints (0805 is in use in EU as well ).

Usage of "Mil" in PCB design ( 1/1000th of an inch ).

If you look into an average computer or electronics device, lots and lots of stuff is imperial.
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> Someone who needs 3000 units a year is more likely to have the resources to redesign around a different SBC

So, you're a 5 person company that makes a widget for some specialised industry.

over the last 4 years you've spent 30% of your turnover building an enclosure, getting the moulds made, and have orders for 3k devices.

They need to be delivered inside 3 months.

A new enclosure mould will cost 5 months turnover to produce, and god knows how many man months to prototype.

The software, sensor package and PCB will need to be re-designed, certified and tested from scratch.

bankruptcy.
Not sure where the rail with no fencing is, but it's pretty common around the world to not have fencing on long stretches of track in unpopulated areas.

I just read the article you linked, and while I am just taking the article interviewees word for it, it sounds like they are concerned about pedestrian control at intersections in suburbs. Fair enough concern, but that is going to be up to the state to regulate I think. Rail companies will cut where they can, it's still a heavy industry, not exactly the poster children of ethics.
Isn't biometrics only on-device?
This situation let's the contract between Apple and the fabricators be results based and Apple can focus on Apple things and the manufacturer has the burden of spending the factory budget and getting results.

This helps keep crisp lines of delineation between design and production.
That is my understanding.

The processes that Apple is outsourcing are considered disposable as the technology changes. The oral traditions and cultural knowledge are in the software/hardward/design ideals.
Rust is OOP, regardless how many try to sell it as not, there are many ways to skin a cat.

You can enjoy my Rust version of Raytracing on one weekend, then again maybe not.

Just like being an FP language doesn't mean does it like Haskell. Many of which even predate Haskell's birthdate.

Plenty of ACM, SIGPLAN, IEEE, and EUROCOOP papers on the matter, including a few ones from a certain Simon Peyton Jones.
> but the cities are disgusting

Which non-Japanese cities are you comparing it to here?
> Our state pension is paid out of contributions made over a lifetime, it isn't remotely close to a good deal

It's a great deal for the people receiving pensions now because they massively underpaid contributions compared to the total pension they'll receive.

> ...if it is so good, would you have all your contributions paid into the state pension? No.

Of course not, because our contributions now are really going to pay the pensions of current pensioners. We are paying for the previous generation.

> Brexit? Zero cost. Corruption? Zero cost.

What? Ok this is some weird humour!
Are you referring to asking anyone who replies to include the word ‘shape’ to prove they read to the end?

I think that many people would either forget to do that when formulating their reply, or not do it deliberately because asking it of them is an obnoxious thing to do and they’d rather not encourage things like that.
It is easy to miss the forrest for the trees, which I think is what is happening if your users can't get into immersion because it's not instant Retina focus. Good enough does not need to be perfect once the experience kicks in and you are actively engaged in doing something you otherwise could not do in the real world. If I'm at the theater; yes, if asked, I might tell you the seat could be more comfortable this way or that way, but it should not matter so much once the show starts.
The only time I hear a honk in my home country of Finland is when someone's asleep at the wheel when the light goes green, or a drunken pedestrian stumbles in front of a bus.

When visiting Alicante, Spain, I couldn't believe the constant honking all around the city. I caught an ambulance on video, sirens blazing, stuck in a roundabout for like 10 minutes right outside a hospital. Something about the driving culture just seems so wildly disorganized and impolite to me.
That's where a ton of the pollution comes from as well, the tires break down and fill the air with particulate. Road and brake particles as well
> I'll happily support a total cash ban

So if you say something negative about the govt and the govt bans your access to e payments, would you still support that?
Signals have become enough of a buzz word that they may catch on just for the hype, regardless of whether they are particularly powerful or ergonomic.
>I have nothing against gentoo but the least that can be said is that his rant against slackware is not a good representation of the reality and uncalled for.

I could not get into the article, if this is true, I agree with this. But I do remember lots of Gentoo people spamming the aols (USENET) and I think other forums about how much better gentoo is.

I ignored them and I hope the project leaders do not feel the same about Slackware.
I remember writing a few obj loaders in the 90s. Eventually I abandoned it for md2/md3 (but I don't remember why).
IME you're right, but the cars we hear in a city are the outliers, not a nice modern quiet car. It definitely, in my experience, reduces overall noise to have a lot of electric vehicles.
It depends a lot on weather and materials used to make roads.
> The object of the charity is to further the advancement of education of adults and children, particularly in the field of Computers, Computer Science and related subjects

That is the purpose of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the registered charity in the UK.

I'm not sure how that fits with having so many non-educational customers.

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari...
That assumes zero barriers to entry. Social media apps are pure network effect, making them the opposite of free market. You can't compete directly with TikTok without quickly matching its userbase and content volume.
If you're in the UK, most of the noise comes from "the kids" buying cheap compact cars (Fiat 500s seem popular) and modifying the exhaust to sound like a very, very poor man's Ferrari, or on Sundays, motorbikes.
thats the compute module.
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But what is your rebuttal to that? Seems obvious that it's safer if you can hear it than if you cant.
Maybe a cynical take, but if a customer redesigns a product around a competing SBC due to Pi supply issues, that customer is likely lost forever - for rational and emotional reasons. So there's maybe some protection of the Pi reputation and business with SME customers thrown in there?
A while ago someone was driving my hybrid car towards me in electric mode. They passed an older lady going in the same direction driving ~10KM/h (6MPH), until the elderly lady made an abrupt 90 degree right turn and walked into the rear door. I guess there is something to say for modern EVs making some kind of artificial zooming noise, though I'm not sure it would have helped this lady as the car was already making noise on the cobblestones.
Same logic created the "Loud pipes save lives!" mantra among motorcyclists despite the fact that there's no evidence to support this. By the time a car driver hears the bike it's already too late to avoid an accident.
Yep, I've updated GitHub pages sites from my phone with the editor many times. Not ideal, but works in a pinch.
I can't provide that here. But the idea of an app to make escape rooms is very cool. Unfortunately, I don't have an iPhone. But I think you should post a video of how it looks...
Having started cycling recently I think people use sound to cross more than you expect. I've had people step into my path multiple times without looking purely because they can't hear me.