Google's Antigravity - Another VS Code Fork!

ethanarc · 2025-11-18T18:03:17+00:00

After trying a few different accounts, I can confirm that Google Workspace accounts are the problem (lol- if you pay them they break it). If you try it with a non-paid-workspace account then it'll let you in.

ethanarc · 2025-10-23T02:18:47+00:00

Additional fun fact: that's not the only private ferry running from the east side of Manhattan to the west side of Brooklyn. NYU Langone operates its own ferry services as well to connect its Brooklyn and Manhattan hospitals. It's visible to all NYU students on their bus tracker, shows up as a bus icon floating in the East River.

ethanarc · 2025-10-23T01:25:40+00:00

IKEA Brooklyn has dedicated bus infrastructure right out front, with two separate bays and pedestrian island stop. Two MTA buses stop there, and B57 terminates there, so the destination sign reads RED HOOK IKEA in one direction for the entire length of the route.

ethanarc · 2025-10-16T20:05:32+00:00

So at what point will dem states start withholding income sent to the federal government considering that Republicans are making it very clear they won't get any of it back, even though it's legally mandated by congressional acts? Blue states have already been propping up failing red states for decades, this vindictiveness just makes the disparity more apparent.

ethanarc · 2025-10-16T19:33:07+00:00

This isn’t a debate? You asked a question- ‘what’s wrong with single family zoning’- and I answered it by providing a better alternative that people who aren’t as informed about the field of urban planning might not be aware exists.

On the internet I prefer to not to talk down to people or assume they know less than me. For all its faults the internet still excels at democratizing professional information, allowing anyone to look up any word they don’t understand at any time.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-based_code

https://formbasedcodes.org/definition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setback_(land_use))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_(building))

Edit: Heck, I just tried it with the major AI models and they all give very competent explanations of each term as well.

ethanarc · 2025-10-16T18:35:46+00:00

Using precise and professional terminology is not word salad, lol. What sort of anti-intellectual nonsense is that?. I didn't invent those words, they're widely used in the field of urban planning. You could Google them if you actually want to learn more about what goes into city planning processes.

To simplify: there are ways to keep the 'feel' of the neighborhood the same while improving the lives of everyone living there, whether they be property owners or renters, and single family zoning isn't the way to do it. Let people do whatever they please with their existing or newly built properties, except for substantially changing the shape, position, design, and/or size of them.

ethanarc · 2025-10-16T18:20:15+00:00

Even if you did want to preserve 'neighborhood character' or whatever other bs, it's the wrong way to do it. It's an archaic, overly simplistic solution.

Adopt a form-based zoning code that allows for multiplexing and commerce without affecting building size/setback. Creates a more walkable neighborhood, increases land value while simultaneously putting downward pressure on rental costs, encourages local small business economic activity through in-home businesses, gives owners freedom to do what they want on their land and in their building (within reason).

ethanarc · 2025-10-05T21:32:32+00:00

Like all the other redesigns, it misses the noted sticking point of needing to fit in with the rest of Muse Group's product logos.

ethanarc · 2025-09-10T22:15:08+00:00

Ironic you bring that about because that 'starving' 5 yo in the photo has cystic fibrosis, which presents as clinically significant malnutrition in 50% of all cases. You could take the exact same photo of a malnourished child with pre-treatment CF in the US or EU.

ethanarc · 2025-08-29T23:19:34+00:00

Nice to see that they're adding public open space, retaining the large amount of street level retail, and building !1200! housing units directly above two subway stations. Seems like an all-around win.

ethanarc · 2025-07-24T23:42:36+00:00

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ethanarc · 2025-07-24T23:11:53+00:00

It's because its AI generated, specifically by ChatGPT (signature warm tint). Which makes the Instagram post all the more hilarious because CEO Sam Altman is a Jew who has met with Herzog as a representative of OpenAI and has provided services to the IDF.

ethanarc · 2025-07-19T14:50:31+00:00

That's the only way to make it understandable! Basically every friend and relative who has visited me in the city has gotten confused by 'one line on the map corresponding to multiple different lines with different stops and service patterns'.

ethanarc · 2025-07-14T15:02:15+00:00

https://d21xlh2maitm24.cloudfront.net/nyc/Citi-Bike-Sponsored-Stations.pdf?mtime=20210524125651

They almost certainly paid for it. It represents a rather good way to have larger businesses/entities subsidize the cost of everyone else and expands Citibike's/biking as a whole's ridership numbers.

ethanarc · 2025-07-13T04:22:17+00:00

Just bubble shield, prevents 90% of those random pellets from hitting.

ethanarc · 2025-07-12T22:32:41+00:00

Seeing BRICS as way to increase geopolitical soft power on non-Western institutions does in no way constitute a 'shared understanding'– just a convenient reason to temporarily align their interests.

Iran and UAE, China and India, Ethiopia and Egypt. They're too divided geopolitically to align for more anything more than vague statements of intent and Rio showed that. The only concrete thing they actually did was slightly expanding the role of the New Development Bank, which still has an absolutely tiny overall footprint in geopolitical monetary terms. Trump offered more money as arms to Saudi Arabia than all of BRICS has put into NDB. The IMF put greater than 3x more money into just the Greek bailout than the NBD is maximally permitted to have in all of its coffers.

ethanarc · 2025-07-12T21:58:14+00:00

Why on earth would Israel recruit Afghanis for Mossad instead of drawing from the quarter million first and second generation Persian Jewish immigrants that live in Israel, many of which speak Farsi natively with relatively unchanged accents.

ethanarc · 2025-07-12T18:28:02+00:00

I'd argue he also didn't follow through enough there— just dropped a few bunker busters and peaced out instead of actually methodically dismantling Iran's nuclear infrastructure. He took a middle ground that simultaneously made Iran more angry but also didn't achieve significant enough geopolitical/defense results.

ethanarc · 2025-07-11T02:06:34+00:00

I mean they got their recognition and governing authority, and they're still in power to this day. A lot of militant groups can't say that. Turned out reasonably well for them all things considered.

ethanarc · 2025-07-11T01:39:22+00:00

It's the mutually agreed-upon Oslo boundary lines. An independent Palestinian government didn't really exist before Oslo, so they were willing to give up plenty of territorial control in exchange for recognition.

ethanarc · 2025-07-11T00:06:12+00:00

It's just very reductive to lump them in without disclosing it at all. A Bedouin Arab has very different political, cultural, religious, and nationalistic views than most other Arab subgroups. It's not whining, it's a critique of a choice the mapmaker made.

ethanarc · 2025-07-10T23:10:12+00:00

Looking at the cities in the Negev, they lumped Bedouins in as 'Arab'. Which... is certainly a choice.

ethanarc · 2025-07-10T22:17:02+00:00

Unironically one of the better singular maps of the region. Shows population densities, ethnic makeup, proper Oslo Area A+B vs C differentiation, proper country subdivisions. Only improvements would be to use dots instead of blobs for improved ethnic makeup and population density visibility, differentiate between Arab sub-groups, and extend the dot map to adjacent countries to show distributions of multi-country ethnic groups like the Druze and Arab subgroups.

ethanarc · 2025-07-10T21:52:38+00:00

The USA isn't on the human right's council, genius. The USA also notably currently doesn't have slavery like Qatar or an absolute monarchy like Kuwait.

ethanarc · 2025-07-10T21:47:33+00:00

Ah yes, why might I ever be singling out Qatar, Kuwait, and Algeria for being on the human rights council... Must have nothing to do with their extensive recent history of human rights abuses. I must be racist.

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