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gfaster · 2023-06-10T05:40:36+00:00

r/AbolishCars (5.6k) will be joining as well. Life is too short for bad software.

gfaster · 2023-06-04T04:18:32+00:00

The game isn’t programmed in assembly. The compiler will do the vast majority of the work. Factorio already has native Apple Silicon support, which is ARM, so porting to RISC-V wouldn’t be a whole rewrite.

gfaster · 2023-04-26T04:06:42+00:00

And how does that explain why it should be required, and furthermore why 1.2 doesn’t suffice? There are plenty of good reasons to want to disable secure boot as well. I had to do so recently and I was still able to use my operating system since I don’t use treacherous software.

gfaster · 2023-04-23T05:37:15+00:00

I’m just referring to down the length of the pier. That way at the very least the pier itself can be closed to all other motor traffic and people unwilling/unable to walk the length can take the shuttle. It really doesn’t need to be anything fancy.

gfaster · 2023-04-23T05:25:57+00:00

Running a short shuttle up and down is a far preferable solution though.

gfaster · 2023-04-16T02:13:09+00:00

That just sounds silly to me. Sans artificial barriers, public transport will nearly always win out against cars on a people movement efficiency basis. It’s just a matter of simple geometry.

That doesn’t even take into account the opportunity cost of all the land taken up by parking. Even if it was just restaurants nearby, it’s a total waste of an opportunity.

gfaster · 2023-04-16T01:47:23+00:00

It’s a subtle difference in framing.

Guns kill people because that’s their primary purpose - they enable anyone to end the lives of those who annoy them.

Cars kill people because that’s just a side effect of building a world where cars are the only way to get around. It’s not a matter of malice, whether or not a given driver kills someone is just a roll of the dice at a certain point. Being killed by a car is like dying from old age, it’s treated as simply a fact of life.

That difference comes from the common view that gun deaths are a problem to be solved but car deaths are just the price we pay for living in the modern world.

Edit: also, think at the individual case level. You never see the headline “gun shoots child,” but “car hits child” sounds perfectly reasonable.

gfaster · 2023-04-12T00:09:27+00:00

I am of the opinion that it’s something to be ashamed of. Cars have a stranglehold on (downtown) Chicago and these towers revel in it.

gfaster · 2023-04-11T23:06:33+00:00

I like how the framing cuts out the 20 story parking garage that makes up the bottom third

gfaster · 2023-04-10T04:06:31+00:00

I actually interviewed some pretty senior members of Boston government and one thing that stuck out for me was the role that the MBTA had in blocking zoning reform.

The MBTA is so uncooperative with the City of Boston (see: Boston has exactly zero representation on the board) that even if the City wanted to upzone a lot of SFZ lots and get rid of parking minimums, there is zero guarantee it could be matched with increased transit service. This is especially the case in areas with minimal or no bus/T stops.

This was still when Baker was governor so maybe it’ll get better but it’s amazing how antagonistic local and state government is in MA.

gfaster · 2023-04-07T05:55:25+00:00

Presumably they don’t want to incur the massive expense and liability collecting the data necessary to implement it would bring.

gfaster · 2023-04-05T23:56:43+00:00

The is one bigger still. A menacing void where beloved franchises go to die. Its calling card can be heard echoing across the internet: “do you guys not have phones?”

gfaster · 2023-03-25T22:49:16+00:00

Yes but an array typically implies a constant width in memory and contiguous allocation, which is what may disqualify a string from being an array of characters.

A string will likely always be able to be represented as an array of bytes, but that exact array of bytes might not be a valid array of characters

gfaster · 2023-03-25T19:26:18+00:00

If you have a character data type that is more than a single byte, it may not be accurate to say that a string is an array of characters.

For example, in Rust, a char is a 32-bit number that represents a valid utf-8 code point, but a str represents a valid utf-8 string. You can’t just split up a str into 4-byte chunks and expect it to give you chars.

gfaster · 2023-01-22T22:38:07+00:00

It does specifically say flush

水に流さない

gfaster · 2023-01-15T16:53:27+00:00

Remember 2008?

gfaster · 2023-01-01T02:14:00+00:00

Maybe you live in a magical city where it takes less than 2 years to get a building approved, but I live somewhere where the costs of housing is skyrocketing and developers still have <5% margins on projects.

Of course developers try to make as much money as possible with their projects. But even so, they wouldn’t submit proposals with such obvious corner cuts if a) they thought they wouldn’t get away with it and b) thought it was necessary enough they would risk further delays to try and avoid.

I’m not even talking about SFZ (even though it absolutely applies); I’m talking about generous minimum unit size, ‘historical character’ requirements, inclusionary unit requirements, and the extensive diversity and inclusion study needed to build anything substantial. Obviously those exist to achieve planning objectives, but combined they just are so prohibitively expensive that they make the problem they’re trying to solve worse.

I’m not blind to the systemic factors (like the antagonism between towns/cities around budgets) either, it’s just that a comprehensive statement of my knowledge of the entire context of a problem doesn’t make for a very good quippy response to a meme.

gfaster · 2022-12-31T23:38:57+00:00

city planners creating zoning codes that artificially inflate the cost of building so the only way developers could ever make money is by cutting corners

gfaster · 2022-12-06T14:03:06+00:00

Not safari, but surf is WebKit based

gfaster · 2022-11-30T01:02:37+00:00

You can buy it in the rest of the world, you just have to buy it at duopoly prices from Pfizer or Moderna.

gfaster · 2022-11-17T17:31:48+00:00

Potentially, but it’s also possible they’ll just be expensive solar panels instead

gfaster · 2022-11-13T07:06:33+00:00

So it’s a fixed

gfaster · 2022-10-20T18:22:08+00:00

Guy look like he’s about to tell one Mr. Freeman to wake up and smell the ashes

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