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Re:How People Use Bike-Share Spaces vs. Parking Spots on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:21PM (#14705353)
> Oslo tried to ban cars, but there has been a huge backlash, without the right sort of support some of the most vulnerable (i.e. people with physical disabilities) just cannot live successfully in cities.

The backlash is pretty dishonest, though. The car-free area (a small part of downtown) will have more handicap parking spots than it does now, sidewalks are being improved so they're larger and universally accessible, and the disabled benefit from cycling infra too—I see people riding mobility scooters in bike lanes in Oslo, much as in this video, but not so many specialty bikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGx3HSjKDo

It's generally the Joe Schmoes who cry "but what about the disabled" and "but what about people who NEED to use cars for their work?", blithely ignoring the points above, and the fact that trade and service unions welcome the change because they'll be allowed too, just like in pedestrian streets, and they'll have an easier time of getting around when they're not trapped in car traffic by people who drive through downtown just because they can and they don't want to use the tunnels.

Which means more wilderness & biodiversity, or more farmland, depending on the area. In Oslo you can ride the subway to the edge of the forest & hiking trails. Some people want to replace the hiking trails with suburbs and detached housing. They're not popular people.
Re:“Curl Bash piping” wall of shame on Saturday October 22, 2016 @11:23AM (#12769027)
Packets can arrive out of order, yeah. TCP includes ordering information, so lost packets can be retransmitted and in the end everything'll be in proper order.

As for UDP, I'd tell ya a UDP joke, but get it you might not.

Re:Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:55AM (#11118200)
> Rust does not really have an RTS per se. libstd is just a standard library.

And if you don't want to use the standard library, you just say #![no_std] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/using-rust-without-the...

Re:The ethics of modern web ad-blocking on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @02:34PM (#10043360)
The assembly / bandwidth / cpu / etc argument really shines for limited platforms. E.g. if you're on metered internet, loading ads costs you money. If you're on a small device, playing ads costs you power, meaning you have to find a charger sooner.

Computer ads aren't free for the people subjected to them, since we're the ones that have to do the work of displaying them. Compare that to paper / magazine ads add a few grams of weight and a bit of volume, but rarely in noticeable amounts, and billboard ads that don't cost the recipient any resources by being there (except maybe having to step around them).

Re:Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:16PM (#8331473)
Linus is Finnish, not American. And I suspect he's aware of what it means, given the quote "I name all my projects after me: First Linux, now git."
If few dependencies are your thing, you could try rox? http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer

My package manager tells me it depends on sh, libsm and gtk2. That's not much.

Re:Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @08:21AM (#6126436)
> Maybe the people who could remember 7 items felt they worked hard so they deserved to be rewarded with a chocolate cake.

That would be what depleted willpower feels like, assuming you like chocolate cake and prefer it over the other option. Depleted willpower doesn't really feel like much in itself, just an increased likelihood of thinking "oh wow, chocolate cake" over "cake? doesn't fit my macros".

Re:Soylent: Gruel today, gruel tomorrow on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:09AM (#5779732)
There are some people who just don't seem to enjoy food, and who go for repetitive and bland meals. It's sort of like people who don't enjoy music, or books, or films, or ... you get the idea. Generally they're perceived as a little odd.

Even here in Norway, where food is advertised as "mild" (euphemism for "bland" if there ever was one) people have some concepts of tasty food. You probably know some people who don't enjoy spicy food? Now imagine someone who thought plain bell peppers were too hot (there's no capsaicin in bell peppers).

As for the origin of this culinary anhedonia, Idunno. Maybe poor people who were able to live off gruel without grumbling had better reproductive fitness in the past?

> In the future, you will be able to go online, fill out a questionnaire, and for a small monthly fee receive one of several pre-programmed diet and exercise programs, complete with local gyms that are part of the program and can help you perform your exercise requirements.

As opposed to present-day, where people have to join a gym, and then receive a programme?

> A local food store will also be part of the program, with a special aisle of diet food for you to buy from.

Eeugh, special diet food. Unless that "special aisle" is known as the "vegetable section".

Re:FireFox continues gains against IE on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @12:20PM (#106909)
That was three years ago. Everybody knows that since then Firefox and IE has closed shop and that the only browsers on the market are Opera and something that runs in Emacs.

Well, ok, not really. But it's been three years and FF doesn't have just ~5% of the browser market any longer.

Re:Trying to set Linux up is making me feel like a noob on Monday January 14, 2008 @02:58PM (#98266)
Dude. Buy a dell with ubuntu, or one of those wal-mart computers wit gOS. Or call up a computer dude to fix your computer for you. Or order correctly-burned ubuntu cds.
Re:Ask YC: favorite books on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @12:58PM (#86338)
The Ego and its Own, by Max Stirner. The Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper. The Illuminatus! trilogy.

Robin Hobb books (with special mention of the farseer trilogy), Neal Stephenson, Alan Moore, Terry Pratchett.