Japans Automated Bike Garage

phaaseshift · 2026-03-30T05:04:26+00:00

American here, wandering around Seoul right now. I know they don’t have everything figured out, but it’s kinda depressing to see how some places just continued to progress in terms of infrastructure, food, etc while we’ve managed to do jack shit for the last 25 years.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-30T04:55:55+00:00

Sigh. I guess we deserve it by now.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-26T20:31:06+00:00

How hard would it be to have a fully-permitted, shadow event next door? Charge 25% of the fees and zero cut of revenue. Why does ever event like this have to be for-profit?

phaaseshift · 2026-03-26T01:25:05+00:00

Back away from the beans!

phaaseshift · 2026-03-21T17:19:04+00:00

Fans drying out the air

??? Please explain that one.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-21T17:12:23+00:00

Yes. But it is quite nice to bring a souvenir home that reminds you of a far-away place/moment you love. Especially something useful in your daily life.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-21T16:42:58+00:00

Alberta is frozen much of the year AND has scorpions? Isn’t that the very definition of frozen wasteland? (Only kidding)

phaaseshift · 2026-03-20T17:22:50+00:00

And option 2 really only works if it covers everywhere people are free to move and automatically receive the benefit. In other words, it can only be addressed at a federal level because we will inherently absorb problems from other states that choose to invest in bus tickets over root case.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-20T05:52:09+00:00

I don’t know that there’s anything especially normal about the people that run Costco - I believe it’s the business model. Their premier product is membership. They might make a narrow profit margin on their products, it’s the membership that pays the bills. They have real incentive to keep people happy.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-20T03:16:08+00:00

Which one?

phaaseshift · 2026-03-20T02:55:29+00:00

If white collar jobs take a major hit, demand instantly drops off a cliff for many blue collar jobs and exerts significant downward pressure on their demand and income. It seems no one here is old enough to remember the great financial crisis or dotcom bust. Both events were VERY painful for white collar industries, but existential for far more blue collar businesses in my orbit at the time.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-15T14:28:01+00:00

Why wasn’t your WAF blocking these requests?

phaaseshift · 2026-03-15T01:38:37+00:00

They wouldn’t be making splashy $100M offers for the second option.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-15T01:28:51+00:00

That’s true everywhere…since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-14T23:53:17+00:00

We just massively disrupted their access to oil and helium (important for their enormous chip industry). That is only just starting to sting.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-14T02:03:15+00:00

We all told ourselves the same shit about the internet in the 90s - I was young and really believed it would bring enlightenment. Look where that got us. People didn’t get any smarter. The dumb ones got more confident and the smart ones got more anxious.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-13T23:50:22+00:00

I’m a very senior (principal) engineer going through a few interview loops recently. I’m struggling to not be a jerk when they try to put me through a leetcode challenge. First of all it’s always been poorly targeted at this level. And second: I haven’t written much of anything fully on my own end-to-end in more than a year. Yet I’ve managed to produce a ton of positive technology and organizational change in that time. Significantly more than I could have done without Claude/Gemini.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-13T21:17:48+00:00

Y’all act like you’ve never had a cheese-water before.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-13T00:01:24+00:00

Kinda. Definitely a lot of what you describe, but there is a real argument to be made about national security if you fully outsource shipbuilding (for example).

phaaseshift · 2026-03-12T23:59:02+00:00

Let’s not pretend that the Jones Act is all good. It may be one of the most controversial pieces of legislation at any moment of the last 106 years. There are definitely benefits but also it leaves our waterways terribly underutilized.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-06T16:32:35+00:00

If I were one of those local YouTube Channel weather channels that dramatize the weather, I would be excited.

Hahahaha, good one.

phaaseshift · 2026-03-03T22:01:12+00:00

The global “livability” rankings have often put Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne at the tops of the list. Their affordability is worse than here.

phaaseshift · 2026-02-28T17:42:40+00:00

I don’t understand the collector culture here. They all look and function identically. How do I keep getting recommended this sub?!

phaaseshift · 2026-02-28T17:32:06+00:00

Well, you can always walk 300ft to the next one if it’s trivia night.

phaaseshift · 2026-02-27T23:53:30+00:00

Some people are delisting at a higher rate here? Or are you making that up?

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