It’s generally conspicuous consumption, where the main point is to flaunt wealth.
Functional aspects like how well an engine runs or a clock displays time are part of that, as poorly functioning but expensive-looking stuff is generally derided, but you also can get great-working stuff that doesn’t look flashy.
Yeah, road wear scales with mass⁴ afaik, so if the average bike with biker weighed 100kg (it doesn’t) and the average car weighed 1000kg (it doesn’t) you’d need 10000 bikes to make as much impact as that one car. Since cyclists are generally lighter and cars heavier, the ratio is much higher.
I would also imagine that the lower speeds and acceleration a cycle is involved in contributes—the tyre just isn’t subjected to as much force.
I think it’s far more likely that the article that doesn’t know what “sweep under the rug” means also got other stuff wrong.
Yeah, but there’s also no way anyone in the Nordics would be fine with a nine-hour workday. There’s something clearly wrong here.
I’d rather guess that they’re working a five-day workweek but have cut the hours per day from 8 to 7.2, or 8 hours Mon-Thu and 4 hours on Friday or the like. The article just comes off as weird.
There’s nothing probable about the combination of a Nordic country and a 9-hour workday.
How does a 36-hour workweek work out to a four-day workweek?
Here in Norway everyone in sneezing distance of a union deal has a five-day workweek at 7.5 hours a day, for 37.5 hours in total. (The law says six days at 8 hours; the half-hour difference is in practice lunch, which is your own time with a union deal and the boss’ time without. I think we could go down to 7h a day and get an hour of lunch like our neighbours.)
The induced demand part involves a cycle of expanding roadways and then building detached housing to use that roadway.
This would happen with buses, trams and bikes as well but for them the matching housing is a high-density urban fabric, and this is much more frequently blocked by zoning than detached houses. So we get essentially housing crises with incredible prices for quality urban areas as the demand is pretty huge, and some absolutely jam-packed bus and train routes, but following up on that is politically much harder than destroying some farmland or nature area to build suburbs.
I do like the idea of having an intent level character. And once we have that, we don’t need AltGr7 etc (curly braces) to denote which level we’re at either, the whitespace has all the information we need.
But ultimately I just use whatever is default for the language formatter these days. My own personal preferences on that isn’t actually that important, and I find that’s a common feeling once someone just works with the default for a while.
Yeah. I think the first one was a GSM phone; the NMT ones were too expensive to be handed to kids. But it was before Nokia became dominant.
To be a bit more generic here, when you’re at government scale you’re generally deep in trade-off territory. Time and space are frequently opposed values and you have to choose which one is most important, and consider the expenses of both.
E.g. caching is duplicating data to save time. Without it we’d have lower storage costs, but longer wait times and more network traffic.
Yes, I agree. It appears to have worked on the leftpondians though, and thus we get headlines like this.
That’s my opinion as well (I think of “ebike” as “EU-conformant pedelec”), but that opinion doesn’t seem to be universal.
I get the impression a lot of leftpondians use “bike” to mean MC, so to them saying “ebike” when they mean “electric motorcycle” is pretty natural.
It’s been widely studied in other cities already. Studying it more is ok, but at some point you gotta wonder whether we need all that many studies about whether water is wet, or if the resources and manpower could be better spent elsewhere.
Yeah, that’s how we do it in Oslo. The road tolls mostly go towards funding transit and investments in bike and foot infra.
This is kinda three different problems, or three effects from one problem:
The solutions, of course, are a mix of negative incentives to drive like congestion and parking pricing, and positive incentives to not drive, like investing in transit, cycling, mixed use and at least a certain level of urban density to be able to support transit, services and not have biking and walking be unfeasible or undesirable because of long distances.
Nearly done with Trails in the Sky. Apparently it’s getting a remake in 2025, which I guess might make it more attractive to Kids These Days, but really I suspect is money and effort that could have been better spent elsewhere—the remastered version is pretty good IMO
I think my usecase of curl is entirely covered by hyper (I just use it for http/s with a small handful of flags); but I also have absolutely no idea what goes on inside curl or how my distro chooses to build it.
Rebuilding curl to use Rust here and there (it still supports rustls and quiche) seems like an interesting undertaking, but yeah, I suspect most curl users don’t build it themselves and have no idea what experimental features it could be built with. Guessing the curl survey has data for that.
Stenberg seems like a cool dude and this seems like an amicable split.
I generally agree, but
Also plenty of countries aren’t all that hung up on marriage. It is possible to have kids and government recognition without a marriage certificate.