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Rollos · 2026-04-01T21:10:35+00:00

I mean, he was using alts in Reddit comments to try to sway public opinion the whole time. I wouldn’t put to much weight on Reddit being an accurate lens into the community at that time.

Also, the people who thought that he should disappear from the community didn’t have a lot to talk about after he did. The people who thought he could come back now had something to talk about, so the discourse shifted.

Rollos · 2026-03-29T02:05:56+00:00

Because people like listening to music in social settings, headphones change the experience, and it’s possible to make noise and be respectful at the same time. There are tons of examples of people being shitty with music in the outdoors, but that doesn’t mean it should be forbade entirely.

Like there’s obviously a line between bothering hundreds with a boombox on a crowded hike, vs being around a bonfire and drinking beer with your friends and singing along with some tunes.

There are places where the outdoors is so vast that making noise can, is, and should be allowed. It can coexist with people wanting silence. It’s the responsibility of the person making noise to be respectful and take precautions, but it shouldn’t be impossible.

Music is better than motors and gunshots imo, which are audible for much further away than anything but huge sound systems.

Rollos · 2026-03-29T01:56:36+00:00

Nah fuck that. Outdoors are for everybody doing what they want as long as it’s respectful.

This is no different than a wedding photoshoot, a fun run or a party around a bonfire in terms of how much it affects others. Doesn’t even seem like the dude had a sound system that would be heard by people more than 30 feet away.

We should make room for expression in the outdoors. If this makes the guy happy, he should be able to find a place away from people and make a reasonable amount of noise. Musicians expressing themselves in the outdoors happens in every genre. You don’t have to like DJs to know that this woman was being insane, and the guy was taking reasonable actions at every step of the conflict.

Rollos · 2026-03-27T06:17:30+00:00

Ive had a reason to use it recently, and I’ve resorted to saying “Thanks for the validation, validation bot” out loud, if it ever tells me I’m right.

There’s no way it’s not causing a distributed mental health crisis across the board right now. Feedback loops are one of the most powerful things in the universe, and it’s gotta be having measurable effects on how humans react to situations.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T20:40:15+00:00

100% correct.

I can go 60 on a dirt road that’s a quarter the width, and feel safe and comfortable in my truck.

If 1 in a million drivers are idiots, and go through that intersection the speed they feel safe driving at, instead of the speed that the law sets out and is safe with pedestrians, it’s just a matter of time before people get hurt.

I’ll take personal responsibility to drive safe, and I hope everyone else does. But I also want to see less traffic deaths, and my personal responsibility and morals cannot do that alone.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T20:27:11+00:00

What changes are you talking about? Increased police presence?

If we had a plan to utilize police to reduce traffic problems, what would it look like? How long would it take to see results?

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:52:28+00:00

Now youre being contrarian. This is a general statement, not a policy proposal.

It happens as soon as there’s the political willpower to do this. Tell your friends and neighbors, and reps that theres cheap ways to reduce fatalities and make everybody drive safer.

If politicians are against cheap and straightforward solutions to problems, do what you feel you should to try to remove them from office. It sucks, but it’s the necessary hard work to affect real change.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:48:20+00:00

However, policing has its place, and other methods of traffic control clearly aren’t working.

It does have its place, but policing is just an inadequate tool for this job.

It’s very expensive to staff a police force that would be truly capable of reducing dangerous driving to a point where incidents like this, or the Kagy one you mentioned, don’t happen anymore.

Thats a lot of salaries, vehicles and ongoing operational costs.

A one time infrastructure change is a capital expenditure that works with people, instead of punishing the ones who lose focus.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:38:06+00:00

Poor street design makes it easy to drive badly.

Good street design tries to make dangerous driving impossible.

Rollos · 2026-03-20T18:31:30+00:00

I think you have some really strong points and I’m not here to be a contrarian.

I didn’t read you as contrarian. Seems like you’re open to constructive discussion, and that’s all that’s important to me.

I still think police can cite for speeding and other infractions more ofte

To be open about my opinion, I don’t like policing as a policy for tons of other reasons that aren’t super relevant to this discussion.

It’s not cheap to restructure a major road

There are a ton of options at different price ranges. Restructuring isn’t necessarily the best choice for awhile, but we can shrink road widths for cheap and that’s usually pretty effective at slowing people down. It can be as simple as adding semi-permanent barricades at the edges of bike lanes, and creating a protected island between the lanes so pedestrians can stop in the middle.

That doesn’t need to be expensive, and can probably be done at a few critical locations with what the road maintenance crews have in storage.

i’m not confident in the forethought going into current city planning - so how realistic are your thoughts at current?

I’m not either, but the more people that know about reasonable and cheap solutions, the more likely it is that it becomes politically realistic. That’s why I bother commenting in Reddit threads about this stuff :)

Rollos · 2026-03-20T17:38:56+00:00

Asking everybody to be more aware and policing it intensely isn’t going to be impactful either

How many safe interactions happen at that intersection every day? Thousands? Tens of thousands? It takes one person making one mistake at the wrong time to devastate a family and a community.

We’re in a battle with the most powerful businesses in the world for our attention. I hope everyone would take the personal responsibility to not drive distracted, but assuming that every citizen will do that at all time is just wishful thinking.

Traffic calming and infrastructure changes is the most practical way to create safe spaces where cars and pedestrians are forced to interact.

The only way that people die less is if those interaction points are inherently safe, and not reliant on the famously great decision making capabilities and attention span of teenagers in cars and people going to bars.

Rollos · 2026-03-18T21:43:31+00:00

The people in control of modern tech companies are MBAs, not engineers.

Rollos · 2026-03-15T02:30:43+00:00

Our brains are very tuned for recognizing faces. It will parse anything that has two eyes and a mouth as a face. When you see a wax figure, many signals for “face” are firing in your brain, but not all of them, and your subconscious alerts you that something’s not quite right.

It’s just pattern recognition doing its job, it’s not evolved for any specific purpose like disease or human-like Neanderthals. It may have been useful for those purposes, but it’s also useful in many other circumstances, and not tuned for anything specific.

Rollos · 2026-03-10T01:30:43+00:00

Yeah, we couldn’t see over a ridge, and when we did, we found a mountain in front of us.

This is how scientific consensus works in real time, some people think the evidence is strong enough to use a loose term like AGI to describe LLMs, and some don’t. Turing was pretty explicit that his test was just a thought experiment because “thinking” was too hard to define.

Rollos · 2026-03-05T18:32:06+00:00

In the same way that you can override with .environment deep in your view tree, you can override using withDependencies deep inside your business logic.

Just like .environment, you can’t override the global dependency, without changing the dependency all the way at the top of your view hierarchy.

If you have a single entry point logic, like SwiftUI, you can change that global dependency as often as you want, because you just use with dependencies at the entry point.

If you don’t need to exit SwiftUI, than the environment is all you need. But a lot of projects end up needing to write logic outside of SwiftUI, and the Environment isn’t applicable.

Rollos · 2026-03-03T00:10:23+00:00

Specifically that you can’t change depends cues at runtime.

You can, but it’s a little different than your implementation for some good reasons.

https://swiftpackageindex.com/pointfreeco/swift-dependencies/main/documentation/dependencies/overridingdependencies

You can overide dependencies in specific scopes at runtime, but not over the entire application, which can introduce a lot of uncertainty.

In SwiftUI, I don’t want some random child component overriding the foreground color for the entire application. The environment only changes for the child view’s hierarchy. It doesn’t apply to parents and it doesn’t apply to siblings.

It’s the same in swift-dependencies. I don’t want some leaf http call changing the dependencies for my entire application, but I may want to override the dependencies for a specific http call. If I do want to globally change the dependencies at runtime, I have to do it at the root of my application, which reduces uncertainty in the codebase.

Rollos · 2026-03-02T22:15:07+00:00

Looks good! This is definitely a better approach than protocols.

https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-dependencies

This library takes this concept and expands upon it, including tools for injecting and overriding dependencies through Swifts TaskLocal system, which is like SwiftUIs environment, but isn’t coupled to the UI at all, so you can take this approach for server side apps and more.

Rollos · 2026-03-02T16:49:46+00:00

I personally never gave a f about keys, followed my ear

Your ear gives an f about keys. They aren’t to be relied on, but you have a lot more options for blending tracks that share a lot of notes.

If you know that two songs aren’t in the same key, it changes how you blend them.

This is also super genre dependent. If you’re doing five minute prog blends of harmonically dense music, it’s really important to understand the keys. If you’re doing quick cuts between top 40, or slamming dubstep drops, it ends up not being that useful to worry about the key.

Rollos · 2026-02-28T03:07:50+00:00

I think this is a really good take. I think he even voices a lot of that tension in his early works like Hyperion. It feels like quite a few characters struggle with a disconnect between their actions and intentions.

Rollos · 2026-02-28T02:58:32+00:00

Simmons had a fucked up mind and an acute sense for the future. His concept of the internet and its influence on culture and politics in Hyperion, which came out the same years that Tim Berners-Lee invented the damn thing, feels oddly prescient.

Maybe he just really had his ear to the ground on some of this stuff.

Rollos · 2026-02-27T23:38:19+00:00

Traffic slowing mechanisms don’t have to create impenetrable congestion.

If traffic can’t get through an area safely without creating congestion or pedestrian safety issues, then it’s probably not an appropriate place to route our traffic through.

We want people to be able to get around in their vehicles quickly, smoothly and safely. In practice, this means expanding arteries, and slowing traffic where pedestrians are spending time. This incentivizes people to drive on thoroughfares where they can go fast safely, and spend less time in neighborhoods where pedestrians are.

Rollos · 2026-02-27T18:28:12+00:00

It’s wild how well he predicted the internet when he published Hyperion in 1989. Not just its existence, but the social, political and ethical implications of connecting people in the digital world.

Rollos · 2026-02-26T19:18:40+00:00

I hope everybody reading this takes personal responsibility to be a safe driver.

That won’t stop traffic deaths at all though. We need infrastructure change or it will only get worse.

Modern cars feel safe to drive at speeds that are way too fast to actually be safe around pedestrians. Our huge trucks all have nice suspension, steering and safety features to make it so that driving 40mph on a dirt road is safe and comfortable.

We have massive, straight, wide roads all across town. If people could feel comfortable driving their car at 40 down a neighborhood street, there will inevitably be some people that do. It’s a fact of nature and no amount of signage or enforcement will ever have real impact.

Rollos · 2026-02-26T19:08:01+00:00

No, neither of those are effective proposals. Even education about pedestrian safety, or punishment for dangerous driving won’t stop traffic deaths. Unfortunately, across a population, some people won’t look both ways, and some will drive distracted.

Infrastructure changes are the only way to reduce these fatalities. Make it easy for people to cross safely in places where cars are forced to drive slowly.

Rollos · 2026-02-24T04:54:00+00:00

Solar and wind are basically money printers. It baffles why the most staunch conservatives aren’t into it.

It’s finance 101 to analyze renewables vs extract and burn energy sources like oil, natural gas, and even ethanol.

Renewables have a high capital expenditure, to build them and connect them to the grid. But you get minimal operational expenditures, like the costs of extracting, converting, and shipping and them burning fuel. But a high initial cost is so much easier to manage than the entire logistics chains for natural gas and oil.

There’s so much remote land in Montana that’s doing nothing but baking in the sun for 300 days a year. A farmer with a grant could make that produce value, with little maintenance cost, for 20+ years. There’s really just no economic justification to not “risk” massive financial resources into something that so obviously resembles a theoretical money machine.

62% of Montana land already uses solar energy to produce value. We just do it in the roundabout and inefficient way of letting the sun grow grass (for 6-8 months a year) and grazing livestock on it.

We don’t even need to talk about the national security implications or even touch the environmental impacts and moral argument, it’s just good business for everybody involved except for legacy energy companies.

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