> Point is that this tactic works only when the downtown is so established and so dense that people are going to go anyway even if parking is hard, like Manhattan.
Or the facilitating of cars has now made it more unattractive for people to go and hangout there even if it is easier to drive to.
I didn't take the parent comment to be dismissive or false advertising or that the parent commenter is even that upset about anything. It's just constructive criticism. The original comment says they will "probably read it"! I think we should all be more generous of each others comments.
Of course the book can't talk about everything but it claims to be maintenance of everything, and in general, there is a tendency to overlook the role and impact of marginalised communities in the histories. It's fine that the author hasn't done it, it's their book, but it's important to mention here because it could help the author go deeper into their point. Do you not think exploring those topics would be interesting in this book given the blurb? I certainly think it's an interesting point.
> No mention that for millenia we were mending our clothes, cleaning our houses, maintaining our food systems.
The omissions that the parent comment mentioned aren't arbitrary by the definition that we have been doing them for thousands of year.
It’s definitely a bit annoying and verbose in Java but I think creating an interface to support testing is a net positive. That interface is the specification of what that concrete class requires it’s dependencies to do.
I think all the dependencies of a class should define behaviour not implementation so it’s not tightly coupled and can be modified in the future. If you have a class that injects LookUpService, why not put an interface LookUpper in front of it? It’s a layer of indirection but we have IDEs now and reading the interface should be easier or at least provide context.
The idea that LLMs are amazing at comprehension but we are expected to read original documents seems contradictory to me? I’m also wary of using them as editors and losing the writers voice as that feels heavily prompt dependent and whether or not the writer does a final pass without any LLM. Asking someone else to re-write is losing your voice if you don’t have an opinion on how the re-write turns out
I never gelled with how SQLC needs to know about your schema via the schema file. I'm used to flyway where you can update the schema as long as it's versioned correctly such that running all the sets of flyways will produce the same db schema.
I referred go-jet since it introspects the database for it's code generation instead.
Bringing up these points when talking about improving urban transit is harmful.
These points always appear in reaction to urbanist policy and all of a sudden care about the minority transit user.
The problem is that the assigned proportion of road space is unfairly weighted to cars and is impossible to shift because people often say things like “cars make it easier to shift things around” and “some people have mobility issues”. Yes, this is true. What is also true is that people with mobility issues can more likely ride (cheaply) modified bikes than drive motor vehicles and people regularly haul heavy loads on cargo bikes (couches, refrigerators) in places where bike infrastructure makes it safe to do so.
If you care about speed in a densely populated city, you’d bike or walk. Flip it around; comfort isn’t the only reason why people prefer to use a car over walking or cycling. You said it yourself already, it’s because you can literally get hit by a car all because drivers won’t give up 1 lane out 4 for a segregated bike path that would stop you getting hit by a car.
Is their existence just speculation or is there mathematical / empirical observations that suggest they exist we just don’t know about them? Is it guaranteed, or highly likely, that one exists we just haven’t found it?
There is definitely space for an opinionated set of libraries and boiler plate code for golang projects like this.
Having said that, I’d bet that the go community consensus is that you build one out yourself and reuse it. So most times I end up copy and pasting the same logic rather than recreating.
You guys are lucky in the NL that you have the _option_ to bike, drive, public transport. Maybe driving is still the fastest but the others are still treated as first class citizens.
In the US you couldn’t realistically bike anywhere nor does public transport go everywhere. Not to mention the 10 minute walk to the bus stop is probably much worse, especially outside of big cities.
Slightly off-topic and maybe against the typical viewpoint of the site, but if they spent this much money on bike lanes, e-bikes and public transport, self driving cars (and all cars) would get much better.
How do you enforce that rule? It’s not always easy to pick your flight and aircraft like that (without a lot of money). I’ve got a flight with a national carrier and it’s on a 777; a tried and trusted aircraft and airline so that’s decent reassurance.
I think the big thing out of this is that 737s specifically are just outright scary to see on your flight. You should try to avoid any new (2014 onwards?) Boeing aircraft.
I don't think you read the article, or if you did you didn't understand it.
The idea isn't books themselves are good or bad, it's that the same book can be good or bad depending on who you are. Maybe that's a surface level view, but it doesn't relate to the second half of your comment?
The only trouble I have with all of this is that I became who I am by being obsessed with my computer. I’m fairly confident many people on this site would not have become software engineers if not for playing hours of counter strike for mouse skills, mmos for touch typing and editing files and installing scripts.
The computer (and the internet) is different now, but the new things are additions. We definitely can nurture the same wanderlust we had growing up. I’m getting more and more convinced the solution is to ban all short form content.
As much as all the suggestions of us not existing before and that our selves are an illusion etc. are comforting. They don't answer the fact that I find being alive really really really good. I don't want that to stop; I don't want to age; I want to keep going on forever and ever. At least until I decide that I'm done!