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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm just as annoyed by the overuse of the Mercator projection as the next guy, but no, I don't think we can blame it in this particular instance. Consider the similar case of a day/night map, which pretty clearly reads as 50/50 even when it's Mercator:

day/night map using Mercator projection

(Upon further scrutiny comparing these two maps, I think the missing Antarctica might be a factor too.)

Also, relevant XKCD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Look, you're not wrong from a moral perspective; it's just that your sentiment isn't useful either.

  • When roads are designed appropriately, the vast majority of people don't speed and the ones that do are incorrigible. In this, case, trying to shame the latter group to stop speeding is ineffective.

  • Conversely, when roads are designed inappropriately, the vast majority of people do speed. In this case, successfully shaming a few of them into driving the speed limit only makes the situation worse because having a wide disparity of speeds is even more dangerous than everybody uniformly exceeding the speed limit.

The bottom line is that, from a traffic engineering perspective, trying to shame people into not speeding simply doesn't ever improve the situation. Moreover, bringing it up in a discussion of how to fix speeding is actively unhelpful because it's a distraction that serves to dissuade policymakers from forking out the money for the solutions that do work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've been surprised that hasn't happened already since even before Jan 6.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Nobody cares about your condescending non-solution that ignores human nature and is therefore worthless.

Traffic engineers have to design for the reality of how people actually act, not some theoretical Platonic ideal of how they "should" act.

Edit: that first sentence is harsher in tone than @[email protected] deserved, in retrospect. I'm not going to rewrite it because I still mean what I wrote, but please treat it as being addressed towards people who make that sort of argument in bad faith instead of at Pablo. (Sorry, I guess I've still got some leftover cynicism from Reddit.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I'm running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven't actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The name of that island is "South Georgia," not just "Georgia."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Nah, exactly 50% "of the world" is closer to Georgia than Georgia because the dividing line forms two perfect hemispheres. It just doesn't seem like it because more of the world's land area is closer to Georgia.

The fact that the map fails to color in the oceans doesn't help, of course.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shit got weird with the “hanging chads” but we moved on fairly well.

That's an understatement! People think that Jan 6 was the only coup attempt in the United States since the Business Plot in 1933, but nope: not only should the Brooks Brothers riot count as a coup attempt, it was a successful one!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pro tip: the arguments to main() don't have to be named argc and argv.

Also, you forgot to #define an alias for atoi, and number, n, and i could've been named something more on fleek.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Reduce, reuse, recycle" is listed in order from best option to worst. Bandit has improved the outcome by reusing instead of allowing you to recycle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bicycles won't solve the climate crisis

Not with that attitude!

More specifically, not with that disingenuous attitude that implies giving folks bicycles and changing nothing else, trying to shame them into using a mode that's worse for them in order to altruistically help everybody else. Of-fucking-course that's never gonna work!

Instead, what actually has to change is the zoning laws that shape the built environment the bicycles are operate in. We have to stop limiting density and mandating parking requirements, which not only physically force destinations farther apart (putting fewer within walking or biking distance) and cause the space between to be filled with car-infested asphalt (making walking and biking unpleasant), but also subsidize driving by forcing an oversupply of parking, driving down the price.

Removing the regulations and allowing developers to build as compactly as the market would dictate would cause people to freely choose bicycling because it would become more convenient than driving, and that is what would help solve the climate crisis!

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