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For most local trips (up to 5 km), I will either walk or bike as my default option. For longer local trips (up to 50 km), I use the public transit we have in my city, which is world-class. A third option I use from time to time for local trips is taxis, but this is a very rare occurrence. Finally, for longer-distance trips, I take the train.

In rare circumstances, I will rent a car, but this is an almost never-occurrence for me.

Your ability to do the same will be highly dependent on what kind of infrastructure is available where you live. A large part of the message in this community is pointing out the need for this type of infrastructure, such that more people can enjoy living life with less cars for transportation.

I think we all know it actually stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

You can quite literally buy him on Cameo, is this a joke or something

In all honesty, the protocols and structs-thing they talk about in Swift-land is the way to go. Interfaces and data classes in JVM-land

Why even use DI if you’re not planning on faking dependencies for unit testing purposes

I managed to organically create a StrategyFactory at work once.

It was a good design, but it felt extremely wrong

When you’re sufficiently rich, you don’t even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

I don’t think you are mature enough to have a driver’s license. You should probably turn it back to where you got it from and leave driving to the adults

Sound the alarm - we need to broadcast a dumb motherfucker alert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Very_Light_Rail

This has a certain gadgetbahn-smell over it and I remain skeptical.

Ditching catenaries for batteries make the vehicles heavier, requires them to be out of service for a part of the day to recharge and increases capex per vehicle instead of taking the capex on catenaries.

The claims of autonomous driving seem dubious - this usually warrants a level of separation that’s rarely afforded to trams. It’s possible, but it for sure requires not cheaping out on the infrastructure.

Ditching timetables in favour of some kind of demand-driven dispatch reduces the predictability of the network, and also seems unnecessary if the claims of autonomous driving are actually true. Maybe they have to cheap out on the amount of vehicles when making each vehicle more expensive with the batteries.

Who knows, maybe the numbers work out better than what we can see here, but until then, I remain skeptical. I hope to be proven wrong.

Mexico has breakfast tacos at home, they’re called Tacos de Canasta

Using k as short for kilometer is not without precedent. For example, when talking about running or cycling distances - 5k, 10k, 100k, etc

Spotify and Major Music Labels

RTOs are most often a “one free layoff”-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

It’s not going to be a 100% effective tool, but it doesn’t have to be. We have other means of dealing with criminals.

In this scenario, a long prison sentence along with a permanent ban on operating vehicles seems warranted.

Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.

This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.

So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.

There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.

It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?

I put off buying a bidet for years because of being worried that having only cold water would be a highly unpleasant user experience. Then I decided to just try it, and I can confidently say that you really don’t need the water to be heated for a bidet. You simply don’t experience the cold water in the way that you would imagine. This is coming from someone in Sweden - our cold water is properly cold, especially in winter.

Get a basic one, you’ll be just fine. Mine cost ~€75

good benefits and perks.

Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?

Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer