Most of Manhattan is north of 59th street and most of the day is not rush hour. It is so bizarre to me that I would be accused of lying about something like this. I hear complaints about cyclists from all kinds of New Yorkers, especially those who are cyclists and bother to follow the rules to the best of their ability.
Edit: I am abandoning this account. I was downvoted below for refusing to specify where I live. This community is not worth being a part of.
I removed that level of specificity out of an abundance of caution. I still use the internet by the rules of the 90s, except that I no longer ask my parents for permission to visit AOL keyword “kids”.
> it was uncertain whether New Yorkers who aren’t used to cycling on the city’s inconsistent network of bike lanes —which are frequently clogged by parked or idling cars and trucks — would take the mayor’s advice
The notion that New Yorkers use bike lanes is funny. I live on a major Manhattan avenue with a bike lane and there is at least three times as much bicycle traffic on the sidewalk right next to it. Even motorized scooters are more commonly seen on sidewalks than the road. When I lived in Brooklyn I learned to peek my head around the corners of pedestrian bridges because motorists and cyclists will speed around them recklessly. The food delivery gig industry has put this behavior into high gear. It’s illegal, but New York laws are more like guidelines.
From my fire escape I can see a vacant lot that is used to store stolen bicycles while they are advertised on craigslist. I guess I wouldn’t have to go far if I decided to buy a bike.
> Übermenschen – machine-men, aerialists and space-bound conquistadors – tantalised philosophers and beguiled fascists
Articles like this seem to take advantage of the misunderstanding of Nietzsche without directly endorsing it. The actual concept of "ubermensch" would have no place in this article.
The term was coined by Nietzsche and referred to a futuristic human who was raised without the influence of religion or superstition and without having interacted with anyone who has such influences. In his view these people would be liberated from what he saw as the oppression of Christianity (and other Abrahamic religions), which he felt encouraged people to accept meekness, suffering and poverty in exchange for a pleasant afterlife. He called Christians "preachers of death" and encouraged people to abandon complacency for a "will to power". It is an appeal to a superior type of person but it is intended to encourage rational cultural development. The term itself has nothing to do with technology or ethnicity.
By now everyone knows that his work was bastardized by the Nazis but many seem to prefer the controversy of the Nazis' version over what he actually wrote. He spoke out in defense of the Jewish people and even stopped doing business with and publicly rebuked a publisher who was an anti-Semite. We have gotten really good at remembering the hateful and forgetting the rational.
I like classes. But you must understand your code, even before you write it. If the syntax that you use (the author is using TS, and JS/TS classes are syntactic sugar) matches your mental model of the program then I would say that you are choosing the correct syntax.
If it’s your library and your responsibility then I will try to read it your way. Comprehensive testing and consistency in style are more important than any specific syntax or abstraction.
This is the exact attitude described as being destructive in the article. It is also plainly illogical. It is so obviously illogical that it is boring. By doing normal things one spreads the virus, killing people and grinding businesses to a halt. This argument boils down to stopping deaths by increasing infection rates.
Keychain Access is good if you can accept an Apple solution. Apple software of course requires their hardware, which is a deal-breaker for many.
RememBear is made by the company that runs TunnelBear, which is a performant, permissive and reasonably transparent VPN platform. I have not tried RememBear but I would start there due to my positive experience with TunnelBear.
I like it, but idiomatic symbols are tough. When I look at some functional languages they seem so dense with operators that I have to use some inference (which I probably get at least partially wrong) to glean the meaning. This is a good operator that, in my opinion, should be in a dynamically-typed object-oriented language. But it is not as universally understood as most of JavaScript.
There is a place for languages that use more keywords and fewer operators as a design choice. Of course there also need to be languages that don’t have the undefined/null value and don’t need this.
Freedom of speech is not the freedom from consequences. One has the right to be rude and the inextricable burden of being judged.
Intentional rudeness is an expression of emotion. Fundamental truths and well-reasoned arguments, despite the article’s claim, do not require emotional expression. Open source contributors are neither punching bags nor therapists.
“Option” is the operative word. A type that does not implement the correct trait cannot be used in a way that requires the trait. If you are writing anything non-trivial that would probably be preferable. It requires nothing, that is the default behavior, so I did not bother to mention it.
I really like this about Rust, implementing equality is just another trait. The same is true of comparison operators. If you don’t want a type to be able to be compared by == you can make it always evaluate to false or even panic and give a message that the type cannot be used in that way. That might aggravate coders who do not test comprehensively but it is an option.
Edit: This is a response to the concerns of the article. For general info on this it’s a great introduction to Rust’s awesome documentation.
The article seems to miss the concept of criticizing an idea without criticizing the individual. This approach is ineffective as a means of communication. It just looks like mud-slinging and it always comes off as a defense mechanism. Even when one is genuinely interested in addressing the issue this obscures that intent.
Edit: Also, thank you for posting the text. I came to the comments hoping this had been done.
> That some people associate the style with adult content probably says more about themselves than the style.
The logo is in active use and that makes it confusing. I have no interest in making moral judgments of adult content or strangers who may or may not consume it. Doing so is unproductive and off-topic.
I am guessing that the logo was generated from a website that mimics well-known logos. This is probably the best argument against using such a logo. I kept wondering why the creator wanted this to be associated with adult content.
Kubernetes is supposed to make distributed computing more reliable. Of course a non-distributed system will not be magically made simpler by using an inappropriate tool for the job.
The concept of a single filesystem as the source of truth for not just a program but also the systems that run the program will be the lasting legacy of Kubernetes.
Right. That is what I’m saying. You are taking my comment as a general statement rather than a response to the article. The article is about the lack of companies making a product from the research.
Technology is driven by starting companies. VCs don't care about what a company does, they care about the price of the company's stock. Stock pricing is based on confidence in the value of the stock. Even if people want clones or cloned organs, nothing can be done until the slow-thinking world of finance finds a way to make money off of the ethereal premise that a company may one day do something of value.
No company will even scratch the surface of human cloning until there is at least an inkling of an immediate profit from the stock of such a company.
Edit: I am abandoning this account. I was downvoted below for refusing to specify where I live. This community is not worth being a part of.