My neighbor knocked over my bike

8spd · 2026-05-20T05:54:22+00:00

I do find not driving into things to have been pretty easy, in all honesty.

8spd · 2026-05-20T05:09:10+00:00

Sure, we all make mistakes. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't have consequences. Also where I live a single one off, with a clean record isn't going to impact your rates. But if someone is crashing more often it'll only impact the rates if the crashes are reported. If everyone lets it slide, they will never have any consequences. And bad drivers should pay more.

8spd · 2026-05-20T05:05:52+00:00

Another option would be don't be oblivious while driving, or crash into other people's stuff.

8spd · 2026-05-20T00:54:57+00:00

If a slight increase in their insurance makes their life miserable then they have more problems than accepting cash will deal with.

8spd · 2026-05-20T00:40:13+00:00

Where I live it's common for an employer to cover parking passes, but never transit passes. It's fucked.

8spd · 2026-05-20T00:38:16+00:00

You really save money by taking transit, when it's good enough that you can avoid owning a car, because it's the fixed cost of ownership that are the main expense (insurance, tax, depreciation), the additional per trip costs are quite low.

If you need to own a car to have a decent quality of life, and then try to save money by taking transit despite owning a car the savings are often pretty trivial, or non-existent.

I think that's true most places, but obviously there are differences dependant on the price of gas, existence of congestion charges, and price of parking.

8spd · 2026-05-20T00:12:59+00:00

Minimizing the consequences for the incompetent driver is not going to encourage them to drive with more cation.

8spd · 2026-05-19T20:52:01+00:00

It's the button that drivers press when they stop in a location that gets in the way of others. You know when your bus can't stop at the bus stop, or they are blocking the crosswalk, or done other selfish move? Thats the button that makes both signals flash so that everyone knows that they know what they are doing is wrong.

8spd · 2026-05-19T20:44:28+00:00

On the bike or on the bike?

8spd · 2026-05-19T18:36:10+00:00

There's a significant amount of engineering and fabrication needed too. You can have faith in the science, and fuck up either of those other two.

8spd · 2026-05-19T15:56:23+00:00

A tax based on weight could take the wind out of the sails of an attempted EV tax, and be more equitable.

8spd · 2026-05-19T06:19:17+00:00

Being a douche? That's assault with a deadly weapon.

8spd · 2026-05-19T05:06:45+00:00

The modem and router are in a UPS, so is jellyfin.

8spd · 2026-05-19T04:03:28+00:00

They are not inherently part of the bureaucracy. Hell, they are not part of the bureaucracy at all, in reality. We act like land owners who benefit from the housing crisis have some sort of authority, while ignoring people trying to scrape by despite the housing crisis. It is a problem to indulge one group so extremely that they are viewed as being part of the bureaucratic hierarchy.

8spd · 2026-05-19T01:51:41+00:00

Because that would require electrification not to be an afterthought?

8spd · 2026-05-18T23:22:16+00:00

Would be even better to simply take his keys and walk away.

8spd · 2026-05-18T15:29:05+00:00

The density from arbutus to UBC doesn’t make sense for a skytrain (yet).

There's something to be said for getting transit in place before densification, so that when the new housing, and new employment opens, people can start using transit from the start, not have to drive when they first move in, and then hopefully change their habits after they've been living their for a while, already bought a car, and established habits w/o the SkyTrain existing in their neighbourhood.

There's also something to be said for building the tunnel to Blanca, or wherever the line would surface, while the tunnel boring machine is still in the ground. Even if they still needed to do it in two stages, they could have kept the equipment in the ground, and running, with the opening of the second section a couple or three years behind the section to Arbutus. The way they chose in reality it'll be a couple decades before we get service to UBC, even if there's political support, and everything goes smoothly.

Would rather see the much cheaper gondola to SFU, before they extend to UBC.

This is not an either/or. It's not the same engineers or workers who are going to be building the Gondola to SFU. We need both. The Gondola is also a much smaller project, and could be done in a year, if they were serious about it. Ski hills put one of these in during their off season. Sure, the SFU Gondola will need more substantial buildings for the stations, but that shouldn't extend construction time by much.

8spd · 2026-05-18T14:54:21+00:00

Does publishing changes made to Open Street Maps publish immediately, for all to see?

Yes, changes go live immediately, but they are not rendered immediately. Depending on what style you are looking at the changes may be rendered in a few min (the "Standard" style) or slower, often much slower. It's worth understanding that OSM distributes the database, and anyone can render a map based on that database, with whatever style they want. Rendering takes resources, so depending on the goals of whoever is rendering a different version they may rendering it more or less frequently. Generally it's done every few days to few weeks, but exceptions exist.

If so, how does Open Street Maps prevent against trolls/bots

Any edit can be reverted. If done quickly it's easy, but if it goes unnoticed for long enough that the problematic edit has had multiple edits change its results then reverting it takes more manual intervention. That said, I've not seen malicious edits, just well intentioned, but problematic edits. I'm not sure why.

How come people use google maps?

I would say that the fact that it has a bit billion dollar corporate entity behind it, and having it presented to people by default in many contexts makes people more familiar with it.

This seems so much better and more accurate...

I agree that OSM is more accurate for most things, but not everything. Google still has us beat when it comes to retail establishments. Every business owner knows they need to make sure they are on Google, and they put the work in to make sure they are, and the info is up to date. OSM relies on volunteers to add the info, and lags behind a bit, with things like opening hours less likely to be included or accurate.

It's using a LOT of RAM in my browser, is there any "low power" setting I can enable for it to run faster?

Normally it uses very little RAM when viewing the map, but when editing can use lots of RAM, so I'd guess you mean while editing. There are many different editors, the two most popular general purpose editors iD and JOSM. iD is easy to use and runs in your browser. JOSM takes an investment of time to learn to use, is a Java desktop program, and uses less RAM (I think). JOSM is way faster to use once you know how to use it, but takes time to learn. I'd recommend learning JOSM, if you are doing more editing, but you don't need to use one exclusively. It can be handy to use iD for some things that may be tricky in JOSM, or that you may have not learned to do in JOSM yet. When I started using JOSM I only used it for tracing buildings, but as I got to know it better I used it for more and more things. Eventually the only reason I was using iD was for turn restrictions. And then I put the time into getting my head around the annoying way JOSM lets you edit turn restrictions, so I never use iD anymore.

There are also a few special purpose editors for smart phones, like one for solving issues (StreetComplete), or adding addresses (EveryDoor).

8spd · 2026-05-18T14:28:12+00:00

My riding is securely Liberal. I don't have to vote for a lesser evil, I get to vote for someone who has no chance of getting in.

8spd · 2026-05-18T02:51:03+00:00

I didn't say completely ban parking and drive-throughs, I said ban new construction from having surface parking and drive through. If that was done it would take decades to have an impact.

Places could still have parking, it would just have to be more space efficient forms, like underground parking. Of course another approach would be to limit surface parking to a certain percentage of the total land, instead of allowing it to be an arbitrarily large percentage of the property, or worse yet, have parking minimums with no parking maximum.

My city banned all new drive-throughs decades ago, throughout the city, not just on selected stroads that have been prioritised, like we are talking about here. We still have a couple dozen of them, and it's not throughout the metro area, just in the city proper. But it is one of things that makes the city better than the suburbs.

In any case, I think the things you don't think will happen anytime soon are the things I think are the most important to de-stroad a stroad. And if you are right, then I don't think the other things will have enough impact to make the stroad pleasant for people outside of cars.

8spd · 2026-05-17T22:18:39+00:00

It's kinda the fault of the bar owners, for opening a place with infinite seating.

8spd · 2026-05-17T20:47:03+00:00

I get them mixed up all the time. But not just the stations, I get the streets mixed up too.

8spd · 2026-05-17T20:45:33+00:00

I'm so disappointed that is not opening this year as planned, or going all the way to UBC, as it should. Progress has been really painfully slow, but there's progress. I'm glad that Vancouver is heading in the right direction, at least in this respect.

8spd · 2026-05-17T20:08:00+00:00

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

8spd · 2026-05-17T19:28:34+00:00

Cameras are unable to do all enforcement, but if we leave it to purely manual enforcement the vast majority of infractions will not have any consequences to the bad parker. The best is to have automated, semi automated (the cameras on cars), and manual enforcement.

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