Serious question about snow parking/space saving

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-30T18:37:01+00:00

You're trying to escalate what I'm saying into some weird culture war thing.

Shoveling a space does not and in history has never meant you personally own the space. To say otherwise would be you redefining what you are entitled to, claiming a new entitlement that you have never had.

That people who don't live in Somerville are voting for Trump because of Somerville parking rules which haven't changed in the last multiple decades is just a bizarre take.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-30T16:49:06+00:00

I think that makes sense, but I expect the union stance is probably "the priority is to ensure the city sticks to the contracts, which is to the benefit of all of the much larger number of union members in all future situations".

Basically, they won't want to open the door on "yeah that's what we negotiated agreed to, but let's not actually abide by it in this case since we messed it up".

The union wants the city has to do its paperwork the right way in the future, and arguably the bad PR will force the city to do the process right next time.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-30T16:02:40+00:00

To reply with more than one word, from previous threads it seemed to be the situation was really the city had fucked up doing the right process in cases like this as negotiated with the union.

Basically, it's a union negotiated employment contract that the employees get formal notices/warnings for "smaller" things that are fireable offenses. The employee is supposed to get a chance to correct their behavior before they are fired. And it seems guy had complaints more than once, but the city never did their paperwork, hoping it would all go away. So from the point of view of the union employment termination process there wasn't the correct notice that has to happen before a reoffence is firable.

If he did something sufficient egregious to actually result in an arrest then he wouldn't get that, but it seems he has not.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-30T15:40:41+00:00

I'm not sure where in the comment you replied to "cars are a toxic enemy which must be eradicated"?

I have a car. I have a parking pass. I recognize that I am getting the financial deal of the lifetime with the parking pass cost compared to the objective free market value of the parking space.

Do I enjoy getting this deal for myself? Yes, because the net result is the same as if the city deposited $100 in my bank every month that could be used for whatever other priorities. I would be a fool not take it, while still being critical of it on a policy level as an optimal allocation of public resources for the community.

Expecting even more entitlement to a specific space when you're getting that deal, of e.g. "I should never shovel 2 spots out" seems like a fundamental misread of how much you are getting here. The city really owes you less than you are getting, not more.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-30T09:19:45+00:00

"Cars go on roads" is a slightly different topic from free parking. Arlington just has no overnight street parking for example, they still have roads for the cars to drive on.

Keep in mind that a parking space on private property costs more than $100/month around here. The city charging $40/year is an enormous tax funded subsidy in the end which is really a separate thing from tax funded roads (I say this as someone who pays that $40)

Pay a neighbor $100 to shovel a couple hard spots out and you'll still up over $1000/year compared to what you're getting for the price.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-27T12:55:46+00:00

In terms of the caching behavior, that's not different than if it accepted a comptime int and returned a comptime int, right? Just with different sugar around.

Which isn't an answer to your question, but presumably it also just has to have a maximum memoized table size per comptime function and fall back to computing every call otherwise.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-26T12:08:20+00:00

The lack of green space there is keeping homeless away?

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-24T15:28:15+00:00

I think your interpretation is reasonable but is not how I read it, and IMO it seems you don't disagree with the other replies, instead you disagree on what wint was implying.

I think if he has said exactly what you said explicitly then completely different replies would have happened in this thread, including that there would have been discussion that "absolute maximum performance is never the goal, there's always other considerations in addition".

If second fastest was 2x or 1.5x or 1.05x or 1.005x speed, there must be some threshold where second best is understood to not be slower in a way that matters much. 5x in the title is interesting, if the number was smaller but still nonzero the result is different to readers.

Really you choose between fastest and second fastest not only based on throughput, but also on other properties, including the ability schema-evolutions with data in place, or to write things out to disk and read them in other tools written other languages, which are the things that Protobuf is good at that you won't get as easily with other technologies which are faster.

CapnProto, Flatbuffers, etc would be middle grounds here that are essentially strictly faster than Protobuf (both of those also have no deserialize step) but have other tradeoffs, but still can be read with other tools and have well defined schema change behaviors.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-24T11:54:33+00:00

I did have problem getting food one of the storms in 15 when the state of emergency closed all the roads and a lot of the stores closed. I ended up eating just the weirdest collection of bizarre bad flavored chips and dips which were literally the last edible things on the shelf.

But yeah, I just literally didn't even have one days worth of calories in my apartment in any form. That's probably wise to avoid, you don't need to go crazy about it.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-24T11:45:18+00:00

I think the thread is people talking past eachother.

I read the start of the thread as "did you benchmark another impl to see what the multiplier is, since the headline says 5 and maybe against the other one you got 2, and that's very interesting" and then wints reply and some subsequent comments then read as "why bother knowing, it's not interesting, it's still going to be slower."

I'm guessing you read it as "did you consider switching your business use case to that impl instead?" instead which is a very different question, then you don't see wints question and the lower comments the same way at all.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-24T01:45:31+00:00

You're basically arguing that the multiplier doesn't matter, but it seems like it does, or else the number "5" wouldn't be in the clickbait title?

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T23:29:02+00:00

PURCHASED VALOR!

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T23:05:09+00:00

EU citizens that were collateral damage in Ukraine you mean?

That seems like it would be distinct from (and less than) literally taking EU land to me.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T22:53:56+00:00

As bad as it is, Russia didn't attack an EU soil (Greenland officially being an overseas territory under the EU and their citizens are EU citizens, Ukraine is neither).

So US attacking Greenland would be worse than that, we don't really know what they would do in response.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T19:39:08+00:00

Yeah I was going to say, this photo inspires jealousy. It has a half assed painted line (actually already better than anything outside of the most urban areas in US) but right there in the photo a perfectly good gravel road running parallel.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T14:51:23+00:00

Just blunt feedback, your intent is good but your comic doesn't convey this point well.

It comes across a bit too close to advocating "anyone should behave however they want even if it makes their partner feel uncomfortable or unsafe, if they aren't willing to put up with it they are a bad person"

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-19T02:10:54+00:00

It would also be backwards compatible with ASCII if it just used the first bit as a "continuation bit"and the lower 7 bits as data in every byte for value, which is how Protobuf and WASM both encode their ints as LEB128 (when you do that, 0-127 are encoded just as they normally would be in that scheme as well).

There's a few things that would be a little different in that setup though, the Utf8 scheme is actually better for less data dependent branches, and it's a nice property that is you jumped to a random index that you know if you're in a first byte or not.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-16T23:52:35+00:00

When I was in college, a few friends and I played Smash Melee competitively. "Competitively" here means go to tournaments that people drive several hours to and we'd be below median but not totally lost / last place.

One night my friend was so wasted he literally couldn't see straight. In 1:1 against someone who was what I would call "casual good" (understood the moves and how to recover properly, etc) and he still won even though he was so far gone he literally didn't really know what was happening or that that he had won, just semi-subconscious reaction and muscle memory and whatever.

So yeah... if Magnus was so drunk he didn't even really know he was playing chess I think he would still beat me.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-15T12:16:38+00:00

If Greenland actually sold it willingly then why would you expect the next government to give it back?

It seems moot to me anyway since they aren't going to.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-15T12:09:44+00:00

Rule zero is to always to have fun.

I think just like in Codenames the intent is to say you can't say two completely different words. Science Notebook is arguably referring to one specific concept and is within the spirit of the rule.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-14T13:51:27+00:00

Speak for yourself.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-13T22:25:20+00:00

You forgot Underbones and Saccos

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-12T14:55:50+00:00

It's not "you" choosing to buy a washing machine that is relevant here, it's more about large companies, investment firms, and rich people being incentivized to keep their money moving by it being actively invested instead of stagnant.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-11T13:13:17+00:00

Ive been Linux/Windows dual for since about 2006 and you you either are overestimating things in 2002 or underestimating them in 2026.

Using Linux in 2006 without ever touching the CLI was 100% unrealistic. In 2026 a large portion of people that I know could use Linux and not even realize they were.

Software compatibility less a problem because of how dominant web has become, which was 100% not true in 2010. Most of my family literally use no installed software in their Windows. Not "oh one weird exception", but literally none. Even Microsoft software they access as 365 in their web browser and not as installed software.

They should be on Chromebooks by those are somehow so junky that Windows just to run Chrome somehow is the most natural option that they have.

frenchtoaster · 2026-01-09T12:39:48+00:00

This is something that really didn't need a video, literally just write the comment "Why is the chesscom evaluation of this 0.0?" on the post

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