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I really enjoy the way this is put together. I have written a number of javascript game engines, to play with over the years, and this hit a really nice spot between, I need to throw this whole thing to gether in the next 2 hours to entertain the kids, and the subsequent I really want to do a deep dive into the nitty gritty of this thing.

Looking forward to slapping a few quick games into this and distract the kids in a low bandwidth type style.

I generally agree with the thesis here.

Adjacent points: I also think that selecting mature projects for your dependencies matters significantly. My old couchdb or early node work is generally defunct. On the other hand, I have some dotnet projects that are still functional with zero updates from a decade or more ago.

Additionally, it's reasonable to keep a copy of your dependencies somewhere in case the vendor dies, the licensing changes, or something else catastrophic happens. Even if you just image dev's machines when they offboard. There have been a few times this has prevented permanent project death or rewrite emergencies for me.

I think the issue is that when you look at it from the modern perspective of profit the economics don't work out.

If look at it as a way to spend huge piles of money to subsidize a lifestyle it suddenly is less charming

That's the dream here in the states too. Our issue is that we have built our cities as enormous suburbs with such a low density that rail/transit isn't viable from a cost/person perspective. We tend to think of public transit a a business rather than as a service and our tax payers don't want to spend billions on not driving especially as our cost per mile is insane[0]. So, for the states EVs are basically the only way for us to ease out of 4000+sqft home on 4 acres and a 40 mile car commute and back into an built environment that does not require a car for all trips

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/the-u-s-g...

While micro plastics are a problem climate change is the train coming down the tracks at civilization as a whole.

I agree the EVs don't fix everything they are in theory buying us time to make the choices that get rid of cars in the long term.

What is the advantage here vs a polarization filter and a standard camera?

At cold temps you lose range a few different ways: First heat in an EV isn't free, this is usually where it gets you. People get in go "oh man its cold" and crank up the heat and there goes range. When you see one of the "this person ran out of power waiting in line at the Tesla charger in winter time" pictures this is how they did it.

Second battery efficiency goes down.

Finally, the battery usually is constantly doing the regen breaking thing but in cold weather it doesn't to save pack wear until you get the pack warm again

I have to say that the "fun facts" included here are actually pretty cool. They are exactly the sort of thing one would want to use to explain the whats and whys of the ship to your kid.

I think the key here is mostly to go slow. Right now,if I'm bike commuting I need to keep up with cars or risk getting rear ended or tailgated or shouted at. Setting things up so you don't have to worry about cars while on your bike means you can bike at a more reasonable speed instead of 25mph.

Think beach cruiser bikes not guys in spandex on race bikes

This is the fundamental problem. One an individual basis moving to a 8k square foot house in the suburbs is the thing to do. For the aggregate this means the mass transit gets worse, the traffic gets worse the emissions get worse, the tax base gets smaller.

The solution is policy. Use public money to make that 2 hour transit shorter and everyone wins, not just those of us with cash

As city dweller, I really would like less parking in my city.

Turns out surface parking is a better $/sqft than garages once you count maintenance. This means that the core part of the city where density is greatest is ringed by a 2-5 block wide wasteland of surface lots. Its not great. Especially now that work from home is a thing and the divide between people who live here and people who drive here to work is obvious because the suburb people aren't here any more but their parking spaces still are

I have js disabled by default on my phone for these reasons.

It also eliminates most the incredibly annoying bits of the web: cookie banners, modal dialogs asking me to subscribe to newsletters, auto play videos.

On my phone 90% of the time I'm looking to read your content not interact with your spa. Enabling js is a 2 touch process if I need it.

I think it is fairly stupid on my part but it does add another layer of effort between me and doom scrolling

I actually think we should also include a hood height limit.

I would be for a CDL for any vehicle that is tall enough that an aver age pedestrian standing on the street cannot see over the hood.

I'm over 6 feet tall and I regularly have trouble doing this as a pedestrian in the USA. I can only imagine how it is to be smaller.

The city I live in added "transit oriented development" a few years back along with a bus rapid transit along the same area.

The results appear to be a full bus, the whole sale replacement of one and 2 story buildings along the bus line and a general consensus in the city that it worked pretty well.

We just approved ending parking minimums and by right auxiliary housing units, read anyone can put in an apartment over their garage, this summer so the jury is out on it as yet city wide.

As someone who is not at all excited about passkeys, I think they are just moving the average user into an existing enterprise. The enterprise being whatever Big Tech Company you trust the most. Then you gotta pass through one of the "trustworthy" tech companies to access anything, which is simultaneously great and also a huge ask as most of them are data vacuums.

I believe that vs code is the way they want you to do .net on windows as well.

The tooling is all CLI based anyway so do what feels best. :)

I thought the biggest driver in The USA for truck v pedestrian deaths is the hood height issue and not really weight. There just isn't enough difference there to matter while hood heights approaching 6 feet are becoming standard in new trucks.

I have been really tempted to sit down and write a ot version of edotor.net so more than one person could edit a graph at the same time in a meeting/ discussion.

We have been trialing using it to draw graphviz graphs for discussion and it has been working very well both as an in meeting tool and as a reference later on.

Would be interested to go the Wacom route but my my handwriting is very bad and only getting worse

What is the advantage here compared to cert auth which is already supported in most browsers? Aside from ease of installing a client cert.

Oh man, That is 100% amazing I am considering buying it for the pure unadulterated sillyness. It's like a v8 motorcycle.

This is the way.

INSERT INTO [FROM] ([SELECT], [WHERE], [EQUALS]) VALUES( 'WHY YES', 'IT DOES', 'WORK')

It's a crisis in the sense that we, the industrialized west, are blowing past all the guard rails and in the name of comfort and profit. The crisis is that somehow we can't really wrap our heads around how bad it can be.

There are quibbles about stuff like precisely what year do we kill the oceans entirely or ho much will melting the artic will really do to raise sea levels. Along the way we appear to be so busy debating the specifics that that we have missed the point That as a planet we need oceans. We are animals who eat and breathe and we can't live if we decimate the biosphere in the name of burning fossil fuels in constantly increasing numbers.

I also think that it's important as a remote worker to set boundaries and communicate them. It's really hard to know when you are working from the other side of the monitor. So, you have to be like: "Okay, it's 4:30pm, I'll take a look at this in the morning" and then leave like you normally would.

As someone who has been tooting the ev horn for a while, generally most arguments against EVs are couched in "I do x now and don't want to change" or they are I heard about x and am afraid of it.

People who are willing to look into the situation on the ground tend to react positively

It is 1850-1900 average per the article

We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Full stop.

Hitting the 2100 target 70 years early should be a wake up call to us all.

I see little evidence we will even attempt to cut our output and less that we will pay money to solve this issue before we have global disaster.

One of the neatest part about ns2 development is that the source is the product you are just distributing lua files that the engine runs.

The uwe implementation of combat for ns2 was last stand and the source is here https://github.com/unknownworlds/ns2_laststand

Looks like the combat mod is there too https://github.com/AlexHayton/NS2Combat

This genre of article is starting to get to me.

It seems like we can either try to address climate change through carbon emissions by changing our relationship with cars or we can ensure nothing changes and ensure that by the time my kids are my age that the world is a fundementally worse place.

If the casualty is old parking garages, it seems like a fair deal

Edit: it's been a few years since I looked at the numbers but any conversation about ev fires is statistically FUD. Full stop

Walmart recently signed a contract to buy a bunch of ev delivery vehicles. So worst case they can charge their own cars with them

Thanks for this, just spent a week playing with their older xml api and that looks really developer friendly in comparison.

Older api: https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/