Sorry mate Slashdot didn't speak Unicode and neither do I, so those hex strings mean little to me.

You have zero clue how hard it is to /build/ anything nice in Europe.

And yet mixed use developments are illegal in most of America, which is what I was referring to.

Copium in spades, for not being able to get a driver's license

Got my license at 17, passed first time after 10 lessons in London. Yeah boi. That was around 30 years ago. I don't presently own a car because it seems to me to be a waste of money, but subscribe to Zipcar for occasional use. I hire usually once or twice a year for holidays and a van more often for work.

I know it helps your view if the world to make up cute stories about people, but had it occurred to you that if those stories are wrong then maybe your view is off kilter?

independent on the bus (or some other equally poor*** dependent transit means) that renders you disabled to operate as a Western adult in a real sense.

Growing old is unavoidable. Growing up is optional. I have nothing against using the bus, I feel perfectly independent doing so. So does my apparently not adult 80 year old relative who cannot drive fro age related medical reasons. Is he not grown up enough for your liking? Ought he to have found a corrupt doctor and been a menace on the road until both he and an unfortunate victim died a fiery death?

Anyhow. I go to work, pay my taxes etc etc etc all without owning a car. It probably helps that of all the options for moving around, a car is one of the slowest. Glad I don't have to waste time like that!

ithout having to carry 96 shopping bags into a bus ... I live in civilisation. We have this thing called the "internet" whereby you can order "groceries" and have then delivered within a 1 hour slot of your choice. That takes less time than going to the supermarket. But honestly I rarely use that because I pass the supermarket on the way home and can simply pick up stuff ad hoc if I need, and I've got a smalller supermarket, a quality greengrocer, a good butcher and an excellent bottle shop closer than 5 minutes walk from my house.

That my fine fellow is civilisation.

And I bloody love it.

His life is a literal pinhole, centered around where he lives, where public transit goes, and wherever he can get anyone to take him (dwindling people as time goes by).

Well sucks to be him! If your idea of fun is slogging though tooting bloody high street at half four in the afternoon, or using the south circular ring troll at any time is your idea of enjoying life, well... No accounting for taste. You do you etc.

Meanwhile you know those car ads where some numpty in an overpriced, bloated car is cruising though a city with no traffic blocking them for mysterious reasons? That's my reality on my bike. Amount of time wasted in traffic? Zero.

Sometimes I stop on my way in in the park to watch the sparrows. Nothing like a good flock of sparrows.

I also find that it lifts a bad mood. If I be get out on the wrong side of bed, I'll usually be more cheerful by the time I arrive at work. Whereas drivers I find are always so angry. Angry at the road. Angry at other drivers. Angry at the traffic (they are never the traffic of course). Angry at pedestrians. Especially angry at cyclists who just refuse to pollute, kill thousands of people a year and get stuck in traffic.

So in summary. I can drive. Mostly, I choose not to because I live in a civilised place which allows me to make that choice rather than forcing one option on me. For that I am very glad.

South East London 4 lyfe.

Don't be an idiot.

After bulldozing city centers to make them car dependent, you then passed a bunch of laws that make our illegal to put anything you might want to walk to within walking distance of most houses. And then utterly inadequate enforcement of anti trust and anti dumping legislation resulted in the destruction of everything that remained.

End result is now most Americans have to drive everywhere, particularly to big box stores stacked with the worst kind of food optimized for addictiveness. It's much harder to have "personal responsibility" when all the good choices have been removed to benefit the largest of corporations.

This is why the adult obesity rate is lower in NYC. It's not because New Yorkers are a superior breed with stiffer backbones and stronger wills, it's because the choices to be responsible haven't been completely destroyed.

Eh?

There's plenty of car brained idiots in Europe, let assure you. It's just that for a variety of interesting reasons, they didn't get to win completely, bulldoze cities to make them car dependent hellscapes and then cement that with the force of law to prevent you building anything nice.

But you know instead of just being randomly angry at Europe for not completely prostrating themselves at the altar of the automobile you could just get on a plane from America and visit. You might even learn why some people prefer it.

I think part of the reason people hate RMS so much is because he's a miserable dirty hippy who has the gall to be right repeatedly about problems with software decades in advance.

Sorry I was being sarcastic.

My point is they put in crap falsely labelled as infrastructure (as you say paint isn't infrastructure) and that's actually more dangerous than nothing at all. Then no one uses it, so the claim is made that there's no demand.

Which is complete and utter bullshit of course.

Fortunately London is a lot better than it used to be. I read recently the majority of journeys on the road in the city are now by bike. It's not perfect and also they've utterly fucked the buses, but it's a different city from a decade ago. Incidentally that's when I (experienced town cyclist and sometime XC rider) gave up cycling as I don't have a death wish. I started again when the LTNs went in and haven't stopped.

7 miles into work for me. It's not unified infrastructure, but between parks, segregated cycleways, LTNs, modal filters and traffic calmed areas, it's good enough. None of the roads feels like I'm taking my life in my hands.

I agree with you that a brilliant cycle way than ends in the middle of nowhere dumping you onto the murder section of the A fuck you makes the cycleway basically pointless.

They're very old and we don't know if they still work.

No they are not and yes we do.

The US doesn't just make nukes and leave them standing around in the Siberian tundra in a puddle of water while the local staff sell off anything they can find for booze money. The properties of plutonium are well understood and the simulations are very good. There's a regular schedule of maintenance, removing, reforming and re machining the pits.

Plus, just to make sure the simulations are accurate, they still do sub critical tests, where they implode something and check the emissions are consistent when near criticality.

I doubt he would care about the bitter opinions of a nobody.

I'm not going back to Mr Pepper! I CAN'T DO IT, MAN!

For Quake III, he helped implement an ingenious hack for computing 1/sqrt(x)

I don't believe Carmack has ever tried to claim credit for that one. It was Kahan, the main person behind IEEE754 floating point.

No one is using a 30cm wide painted strip filled with gravel and missing drain covers, while cars thunder by speeding with a 20cm gap. Clearly that shows there's no demand for cycle infrastructure.

No no you see there are no problems with Wayland! Wayland is just a protocol which means the problems are all somebody else's fault. This is COMPLETELY different from X11 which is also just a protocol, but the wrong kind.

I think the other issue is that there just wouldn't be enough bandwidth with an AM modulated signal, not for reasonable quality video. A physical stylus just can't move that fast, and if they tried the pressure needed would wear out the disc very quickly.

I was originally imagining they varied the capacitance in some analogue encoded way so the capacitance value directly maps to the analogue signal (not via pulses), but now you said how it works, I can't think how one could do it without modulating the analogue signal onto a carrier of some sort.

I sometimes wonder how many people were using RF and how many were on composite.

One of the things that surprised me during my time in the US (early 2000s) was a complete lack of SCART. There was composite, sometimes. Sometimes component. Sometimes s-video. Sometimes a VGA input (rare). It was a mess and RF was the common denominator. Of course every techy had some variant of not RF due to the better quality.

[cds...]

This sounds pretty interesting. Sounds like it's a sort of hybrid with digitised analogue technology working without the aid of anything approximating reasonable CPUs. Fun transitional tech in some ways.

For sure. And that's why I think it's important to distinguish harm caused despite good intentions and reasonable practices being followed from harm caused because someone did not follow reasonable practices or actively chose to cut corners.

Even if they cancelled those groups, it's not enough, because it's about proving innocence against the Trump regime, which reasons much like you do. They'll yell and squeal and squawk about "woke" until the cots come home no matter how little sense it makes. Except in their case, they have the force of law behind them and that's too risky.

Hmm acknowledging that there have and are systemic biases is "hating men". You sound incredibly fragile if that's your bar for hate.