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Designing for public transit and cycling benefits far more people than designing exclusively for single passenger cars.

Who do you think are on bikes and in buses?

The pathfinding section reminded me that there's a YouTube steamer, Marcel Vos, who goes into a deep dive of how the pathfinding works.

https://youtu.be/twU1SsFP-bE

He has lots of videos that are deep dives into how RCT works and how things are implemented!

Such a great game! I got as far as implementing all the CPU instructions and can't wait to get back into it!

You can use a garbage email address, you don't have to verify it

Probably my favorite description so far

https://anycrap.shop/product/broken-clock-that-s-right-thric...

This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.

Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.

Bike licensing has never and will never work. Plenty of cities have tried it and it doesn't make a difference.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/why-bicyc...

Your stats are backwards. Motorists do not follow the law 95% of the time, it's more like 34% of the time. It's cyclists who follow the law 95% of the time.

A new study from the Danish Road Directorate shows that less than 5% of cyclists break traffic laws while riding yet 66% of motorists do so when driving.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists...

Cyclists break the law to avoid being killed by law-breaking motorists who think they're the only people who belong on the road and refuse to share it. Oh and if you want to talk just traffic signals, 84% of cyclists stop at red lights. It's nowhere near your made up 95% figure and there's no data to support that number. It's just a myth drivers tell themselves to hate cyclists.

“The popular press portrays bicyclists as reckless and a pervasive problem with potentially dire consequences,” said the trio, noting that other studies have shown that the “red-light running bicyclist angers drivers more than any other road user behavior.”

(A Transport For London camera study of 7,500 cyclists at five junctions found in 2007 that, contrary to popular perception, most cyclists do not run reds: 84% of the cyclists stopped at red traffic lights.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorist...

So if you have Neuralink (or anything similar that gets released in the future) you can be convicted of thoughtcrimes and that's a-ok?

What exactly is "on you" in this scenario? In your world is someone with Neuralink allowed to take their brain images and use that as an outline for a sketch they're drawing or you're not allowed to think of anyone naked ever again?

I've been in the exact same scenario twice and what I've learned is that internal tools (especially in big companies) only get "deprecated" but it's hard to abandon them completely.

I've found the decision to "deprecate" tools, especially long established ones, comes along with political shenanigans and especially so when the tool is used by multiple teams with competing interests. One team usually can yell louder than all the other teams and force the new tool to be very specific to their workflow, but because other teams have different workflows the new tool won't work for them. So you're in this limbo of supporting both forever until everyone can agree to switch to the new tool or someone important enough decides to completely turn off the deprecated tool.

California and Washington are amongst two of the most regressive tax systems in the United States.

They punish the poor more than the rich in both those states. That's why they flock there and the size of their economy is a side effect of that.

It's hasn't been a conspiracy theory since the Panama papers came out. Everyone is now aware of the extent rich people go to use tax havens and are rightfully upset. They make record profits, encourage irresponsible consumerism, and don't even pay their fair share for the damage they inflict upon the world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/panama-paradise-pandora-pap...

Furthermore there's a reason rich people flock to places like Delaware, Washington, or California. Those states all have tax schemes that allow the wealthy to pay the least amount of taxes.

Hell us rubes even suffer through coach so that the ultra wealthy's luxury jets are subsidized.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ultra-wealthy-private-flyers...

We understand exactly what they're doing, just because we don't agree with it doesn't make us ignorant or uneducated.

TempleOS feels a little different because Terry was fairly well-known in the community and didn't try to hide his identity. I'm pretty sure he went to conferences and has met with actual people who could verify his identity.

I haven't seen proof that Jia Tan is a real person and to me that's the most malicious part of the attack. I'm pretty confident that whoever is hiding behind the Jia Tan identity is a well adjusted individual (or group) and knows exactly what they're doing. It feels far too coordinated and careful to chalk up to a psychotic episode or manic behavior.

Probably no data. China will not make data publically available if it makes them look bad.

That sounds easy to solve - tell them to go pound salt. If it's a private mailing list where you're judge, jury, and executioner why would you cater to people who are looking to cause problems? Let them leave, there's a billion more people out there to join your list.

Moderation is easy. Moderating without hurting the feelings of anonymous strangers is hard.

Can't tab cycle through minimized windows

This drives me absolutely NUTS and I thought it was a me problem. Where the hell do things go when they're minimized on macos!!? There's all these questions asking about cmd+tabbing to minimized windows and the answer is to hold option while you hold cmd after selecting the minimized window and then let go of cmd.. but if there's 2 Chrome windows and one is minimized this doesn't work at all.

Does Apple have a rule that says beta apps aren't allowed on the app store?

As far as I'm concerned Microsoft cloud gaming is like a 1.0 version and works fine on Windows and Android. I had no idea it was a beta product until just now.

Whether he is in the right or not is decided in a court of law.

Legally, sure.

Disney is an awful company and anything people do that hurts their bottom line is morally right though.

Copyright law is BS and Disney is solely responsible for the BS. It's all a complete farce and Disney can take their all their propaganda, brainwashing, and whining about copyright and shove it. Nobody should be feeling sorry for this company at all.

It's also hard to explain this difference in life to somebody who doesn't want to live that life.

When I tell people I hate driving so much that I'd rather sit on public transit (or even walk!) for 1 hour if the alternative was a 20 minute drive they are flabbergasted.

I go to the grocery store 3-5 times a week and that amazes people because the default assumption is a grocery trip involves getting in your car and buying a cart full of groceries for a week. People find it so hard to believe that I actually enjoy my 30 minute outings to the grocery store and carrying my groceries home. I got a granny cart for Christmas one year because my family thought "oh hey we can save him time if he can bring a bigger load of groceries home" but it doesn't occur to them that I don't even want that.

Even unpredictable NPC needs to have a predictable personality on some level, total randomness isn't fun

tongue in cheek counterpoint: Rimworld players love Random Randy :P

I think it really depends on the game though, but you're right 100% random in an RPG could be really annoying.

Right now I'm into games like Factorio and Captain of Industry and they've both recently had blog posts about how they do terrain generation and CoI stuck out because you can manually plop features like mountains and then it procedurally generates the mountain range[1].

There's been a lot of games recently that seem to be doing procedural land generation, is there not a way this can be applied to AI personalities as well or is there no overlap between them? It kind of feels like procedurally generated personalities should be do-able but it sounds like there's something more going on that complicates that?

[1] https://www.captain-of-industry.com/post/cd-42

I think maybe the games are a bit different and it wasn't viable? I was pretty into the original WC3 Dota and starting with tangos for healing was a pretty popular strategy for supports and solo lane players.

caveat: my Dota 2 knowledge is lacking because I haven't followed the game for about a decade now and I have essentially 0 experience with League.

Why are we working in human timescales? It's like saying the sun will never burn out because humans won't be around to see it happen.

To me, that's a pretty bold and naive claim.

I want to see the proof of: bots, Russian trolls, and bad actors that supposedly crawl all over Reddit.

Everyone who disagrees with the hivemind of a subreddit gets accused of being one of those things and any attempt to dispute the claim gets you banned. The internet of today sucks because people are so obsessed with those 3 things that they're the first conclusion people jump to on pseudoanonymous social media when they have no other response. They'll crawl through your controversial comments just to provide proof that you can't possibly be serious and you're being controversial to play an internet villain.

I'd love to know how you dispute the claim that "you're parroting Russian troll talking points so you must be a Russian troll" when it's actually the Russian trolls parroting the sentiments to seem like real people.

You can't choose NOT to expose it because you can't stop Amazon from exposing it.

Amazon says it's not secret, so it's not secret. They make no attempts or guarantees to keep it secret so there's always the threat that Amazon themselves can expose it on your behalf. You can't stop that no matter how wrong you think it is.

You can't keep it secret because Amazon doesn't keep it secret.

So if Amazon doesn't keep the account ID a secret how can you as a user of Amazon be expected to keep your account ID secret? There's no way for you to stop Amazon from exposing it.

It's not even sensitive or confidential though, Amazon says that themselves in their docs.

How is it possible for a user of AWS to keep the account ID secret if Amazon doesn't even consider it secret? If Amazon leaked your account ID they could point to their docs and say the account ID was never meant to be a secret, sensitive, or confidential.

This is posted in other places but Amazon explicitly says they're not secret, sensitive, or confidential.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage...

While account IDs, like any identifying information, should be used and shared carefully, they are not considered secret, sensitive, or confidential information.

5 words: Google search eu durable medium.

https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/durable-medium

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=788714a1-d7b6...

Why did you need a source for this?

If you've never heard of it why not Google "eu durable medium"? Looks like the claim is true and I didn't need to ask for a source to figure it out.

https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/durable-medium

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=788714a1-d7b6...

here's a few examples

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/100j6md/new_year_n...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/10t393y/final_upda...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/17i5x9u/posts_rela...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/17tszml/free_pales...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/18jctpk/propalesti...

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1apxrbc/torontos_m...

Not even allowing discussions of crime and city-wide threats is completely asinine and the mods reasoning is that everybody who visits r/toronto is racist and can't be trusted to discuss these issues in good faith. Yet .. it has NEVER been tried and this "experiment" has been going on 2 years now. What I think is really going on is that the Toronto mods are lazy and using that to implicitly pushing an agenda based on what they allow to be posted.