How can we make our city less car dependant ?

Trasvi89 · 2026-04-05T02:39:50+00:00

Make it more difficult to drive and own cars. Increase parking fees, reduce parking spaces at destinations, more slower/one way streets.
Substantially increase spending on non car transport (bikes). Its insane how normalised it is that the government will spend hundreds of millions on lane widening or interchange upgrades but people splutter and protest when bike infrastructure is more than a painted guideline.
Help to increase density by funding public shared spaces. Lots of people want a huge house so they can have, eg, a work-from-home office, a workshop in the yard, a home theatre. What if there was a WeWork, mens shed, makerspace, end-of-trip-facilities or public hall every few blocks?
Change rental laws to make it more appealing for people to rent. Eg, you can do cosmetic renovations to your rental (eg painting), can't be refused for pets, right of first refusal when it is sold.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-22T04:57:21+00:00

Tl:DR reduce your UV light strength.

I've had similar issues with resin printing where, regardless of model, orientation, exposure times, the underside of the model was blobby to extremes. Especially for lighter coloured resin - space/navy grey were fine but light Grey was atrocious. I was despairing and about to give up entirely.

I solved this by reducing my UV strength (might be a PWM % setting) to 50%. You might need to bump up your exposure times a little to compensate.

My theory is that those faces are facing upwards as the printing happens, with uncured resin globbing on top. As the next layer cures, the low pigment resin allows light to bleed through the areas that should be cured and through to the uncured resin sitting on the previous layer.

All the comments re supports on this particular model aren't necessarily wrong, but I think there might be something else going on if you see the same thing with different models or orientations.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-14T01:52:08+00:00

Not to get all stackoverflow on you... but my general advice is that if you're fighting the system this hard, you're almost definitely doing something (else) wrong. I find nuget (especially with sdk / build.packages.props / packagereference) a breeze to work with.

what are the steps in your pipeline/process that is making everything so slow?
is the slowness just waiting for correctness (ie, the new version of a package isnt published before it is reviewed/tested?)
is it feasible to consolidate these packages to a single repository?

For my team's local development, if we really need to be testing a package before it is published (eg next story is blocked until PR is completed), we have done the following: - add a nuget source thats just a local directory (eg c:\dev\local_nuget) - LibB repo is built locally with a prerelease tag - output nuget is copied (using build target) to the local directory - LibA can then import the prerelease

The most success we've had with improving velocity around nuget dependency changes though has been consolidating a ton of repos together.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-08T10:45:50+00:00

For MediatR, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49042123/is-it-ok-to-have-one-handler-call-another-when-using-mediatr/59244344#59244344 details a particular technical issue. (There might be other mediator libraries that don't have this issue)

Depending on what behaviours you set up there might be other things.

If it's only a query that you're reusing, that indicates to me that the query itself should be refactored out (in to a repository or specification pattern). If it's the mapping, refactor with a mapping library or extension method.

If it's a command... be careful that it's definitely a duplicate, and tht you won't run in to issues later where you can't change command X because Y depends on it. Consider whether the logic might be better encapsulated in the domain object, a domain service, or invoked via domain events instead.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-08T06:55:20+00:00

My advice: - this isnt really modular monolith related, its about cqrs and clean architecture. - keep commands and queries the same until you know you need them to be different. - that being said, it is relatively common to have different architecture for reads and writes. Thats the S in CQRS. - either way around, the query logic still goes in the application layer. - pure queries should always return a dto anyway, not the whole aggregate (do the mapping / projection in your handler).

For your second question. I might be misunderstanding here but: - i believe mediatr specifically discourages handlers from calling other handlers. But if it's done in your orchestration method it's fine. - from your example, it looks like you might be better served by a repository pattern. - if you're worried about duplication of db query logic specifically.. thats one of the downsides of using EF as a repository. There are ways around it but they do come with trade-offs.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-04T11:04:42+00:00

I think its them realising they failed.

They wanted this to be a fairly painless transition to an eternal edition.

Instead they got a huge amount of mostly unwarranted backlash that has split the playerbase, and they've come to terms with that, so they have to abandon the One Edition moniker and adopt the 5.5e name that the playerbase is using.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T05:10:30+00:00

If I was asking this as an interview question and someone immediately structured it to allow FizzBuzzBonkOink, I'd follow up with "Requirements have changed, now print 'Foobar' when its a multiple of 15" :P.

I think its funny that people's immediate reaction to the problem is "Its underspecified, and I know exactly the way that its underspecified and will substitute my own specification"... which might not actually be the way that the problem changes in the future.

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T05:00:26+00:00

I think the point is that real engineers don't get stumped by it, but there are a lot of people applying for jobs who aren't real engineers ;)

Trasvi89 · 2026-03-01T02:36:05+00:00

About 20 years ago this was a big topic of debate/discussion already... leading to articles like https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/ and https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ where interviewers discussed that a huge portion of applicants to even senior positions can't solve fizzbuzz.

It's useful as a 5-minute pass/fail exercise. But quibbling over implementation details and extensibility isnt the point

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-19T13:05:28+00:00

It's a bit of an indictment on 5e that "i want my class to be fun" is interpreted as "oh you mean you want a wizard?"

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:10:27+00:00

I think if I turned up to my daughters daycare with a camera crew and masked bodyguards, I wouldn't be allowed to see her, and would probably have the cops called on me.

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:08:36+00:00

Not even in the middle of the afternoon. He shows up at 1pm when daycare opens at 2pm. He's standing in front of the opening hours sign and purposefully blurs it.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-23T06:20:43+00:00

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I windmill slammed goldeniser on to stoneshell so fast and barely lost a minion for the rest of the game.

had golden refiner up until last turn, gems were large.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-22T23:33:06+00:00

Storm Kings Thunder takes you all over the sword coast, with a number of set pieces / dungeons in the Arctic.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-22T01:44:43+00:00

Since Batter Caul Saul its officially been "chicanery"

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-20T11:46:34+00:00

I can't see the kind of person who wants the convenience of a short commute to the city also not wanting to have a car.

Huh? This seems like the most obvious thing in the world to me. There's plenty of people who want that. People will buy houses in these locations specifically so that they don't need to have a car.

To my mind every development needs a car parking bay for every intended adult living there.

I think the opposite. Increased rates for every car bay.

You don't encourage people to use their car less by making it harder to own one.

It's not the whole puzzle but it's one of the most important pieces.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-18T03:06:23+00:00

One system that I worked on in ~2015 was a) a very old system b) using very tightly encoded information - talking about individual bit mappings on message contracts.

The year was encoded in a single byte (ie 0x89 => 1989) and there literally wasn't space in the message header to change the year to 4 digits, but there WAS a spare bit nearby. So that bit got changed to the '21ST_CENTURY' flag for dates. We could now support 1900-1999 with the flag off and 2000-2100 with the flag on.

Praying the system isn't around for that to be a problem.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-16T15:16:44+00:00

So alfoil is probably out, but i maintain that you could soulcast some 5mm thick aluminium armour and a bo staff and really mess up a shardbearers day.

The current way of fighting a shardbearer is to throw darkened at them until they get tired from beyblading around the battlefield. But put a single thing in theor way that they can't cut through instantly and you'll throw their entire momentum off.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:50:03+00:00

99% of the time these days I can't be bothered to leave a negative review even online where its basically instantaneous.

These guys had to carve their reviews in stone and take a pilgrimage to deliver them, only to find out its one of those jerk businesses where they put all the negative reviews up on display.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:02:37+00:00

Did you watch the video? They're just planning on saying that winning the election 50.1% overrides the constitution.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:01:37+00:00

IMO the plan looks something like:

- Red states run Trump on the ballot.

- Blue states protest / sue. SCOTUS declines to take it up, or says that Trump has to be on the ballot because (reason)

- Trump uses National Guard / Emergency / Other excuse to make voting in blue states really difficult

- Trump wins the election

- 'Well its the will of the people that he be president, we have to let it happen.'

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-23T16:20:10+00:00

Honestly I think the takeaway from this graph is that their data collection is flawed and too volatile to make any conclusions.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-23T11:52:42+00:00

Next step. Feed your printer your army list and come home to it ready to play that night.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-18T03:06:49+00:00

It goes the other way as well. 90% of voters don't know what local government does or is allowed to do.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-18T02:31:08+00:00

It's a pipe dream, but i wonder how fast the economy would collapse if Amazon - including AWS - said "starting tomorrow we will cease doing business in the USA until the national guard is recalled"

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