eksb

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[–] eksb@programming.dev 84 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] eksb@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There is no reason why the message sync that works from phone to phone could not be implemented on the desktop client as well.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because she works for billionaires, not for the people. Vote blue no matter who.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 211 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I feel for the hundreds of engineers at Microsoft who have been yelling about these security issues since day one, but cannot say "I told you so" because they'd get fired.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Albany control of and intervention in local transportation decisions screws NYC just like it screws small towns with a state highway running through the center.

This is even worse than Hochul's decision to give a billion dollars of taxpayer money to billionaires to build a head injury stadium.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The noise is the worst part of race cars. Why do people want more of it?

Hearing damage is cumulative and permanent.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear, it is four times that pedestrians have to cross, not four times that drivers are encouraged to not slow down. Drivers are not explicitly encouraged to not slow down, but the point of the diverging diamond is to make drivers not have to slow down.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is expensive to address because you have to separate cyclists out to the right before the right car lane splits for right turns before the crossover. And then you have to build a bridge or tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians. On each side.

Really, any road busy enough to justify a diverging diamond probably already needed separated bike lanes. But in America (motto: "If you aren't in a car, you don't matter"), there almost certainly was not any cycling infrastructure there before.

There is one of these near me. Their solution for pedestrians is to make them cross the high speed outer lanes four times (where drivers are encouraged to not slow down). Their solution for cyclists is take the lane and pray or get off and do what the pedestrians have to do.

Edited for clarity: pedestrians cross four times, not drivers are encouraged to not slow down four times.

[–] eksb@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Diverging diamonds are great if your only consideration is car throughput.

If you are considering people walking or riding bicycles, they are shit.

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