That’s a good point to illustrate the importance of banning cars for personal transportation; all of the traffic is making your partner’s job slower and more stressful

I prefer Micromamba since it’s faster at solving environments.

I see, my favorite podcast (“A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs”)[https://500songs.com/] has no ads. I’d strongly recommend if your interested in that kind of music

I don’t understand what you mean. I just skip the ads with my skip 30 seconds button.

If you’re doing it over an app, without the chance for the person you’re dumping to respond, I see no risk of things turning nasty

In the US you sometimes hear that phones in class are necessary to see if your kids are OK in a school shooting scenario.

I think this isn’t a good argument, since school shootings are rare, and it’s unclear if each student having a phone would do more harm than good in that kind of situation.

I don’t see the connection between neurodivergence and phones

Short haul flights should probably be high speed train rides anyway

I’ve been using Rofi for a few years. I can’t think of anything to look out for, pretty much does what it says on the tin.

How would virtual environment software, like conda, work without $PATH?

The goal of the zig language is to allow people to write optimal software in a simple and explicit language.

It’s advantage over c is that they improved some features to make things easier to read and write. For example, arrays have a length and don’t decay to pointers, defer, no preprocessor macros, no makefile, first class testing support, first class error handling, type inference, large standard library. I have found zig far easier to learn than c, (dispite the fact that zig is still evolving and there are less learning resources than c)

It’s advantage over rust is that it’s simpler. Ive never played around with rust, but people have said that the language is more complex than zig. Here’s an article the zig people wrote about this: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

The point of a gas tax is to have the people who use and degrade the roads pay for the repair.

We want to discourage car driving, so the tax should be related to how much you drive a car. Otherwise, you are making people using more sustainable forms of transportation subsidize driving

By nonmarket housing, i mean housing that’s either own and run by the government, owned and run by nonprofits (probably funded by the government), or owned and run by coops.

In my part of the world, public housing is a bad word, (due to bad examples caused by government disinvestment) so I try to use other words.

I’m not banning landlords I’m banning vulture funds, pension funds, agencies, conglomerates, multinationals etc. from owning homes.

I guess i missunderstood you. As far as I’ve seen, vacancies are quite low in places where housing is scarce. Investment properties are usually rented out.

would be lower, but you could buy a house and sell again in five years when you move on.

Closing costs are very high. It would be difficult to make housing cheap enough that the benifits to owning a home outweighs these costs. Also, you would need to sell the house quick, so that you don’t pay for two houses at a time. But if housing was no longer scarce, it would be hard to sell the house quick.

I cant imaging a future where it makes sense for everyone to own their own home. We should always consider renters when making public policy, even though they have little political power.

Corporations owning land is the current way many young / low income people get housing.

Renting is cheaper for people that might move in ~5 years. Moving citys is an important way to gain income.

I think baning cooperate ownership of “residential land” would be another government handout to owners at the expense of renters. Id prefer policies that increase housing supply instead. For example, investment in nonmarket housing, and permitting reform favoring infill development.

A walkable neighborhood does not mean a neighborhood where you can “go for a walk”.

It’s a neighborhood where you can use walking as a form of transportation to get the things you need. Unfortunately this is impossible when the neighborhood was designed for cars. Car centered design requires large parking lots and wide roads. This causes the places people need to go to spread out in order to make room for all the car infrastructure. This puts these places outside of walking distance.

This means de-emphasizing the car is a requirement for walkability.

I find redirecting output hard. I always have to copy and paste from stack overflow

Did you watch the talk?

They aren’t saying a game engine is an art. They are saying game engines should be thought of as a tool for game designers instead of the ideal minimal code to achieve the design goals of a games runtime.

They broaden this argument by saying:

• beginner programmers tend to neglect big picture design, which leads to code that’s difficult to read.
• intermediate programmers naively apply patters and best practices at the expense of productivity
• advanced programmers focus on making their code simple and avoid abstraction, which is sometimes an overcorrection from the plight of the intermediate programer.

I thought the talk had some interesting insight, though I’m personally still trying to get over the pitfalls of the intermediate programer.

Sounds like these policies would make rent more expensive.

I think America already does enough to financially reward owners over renters.

Encouraging everyone to buy a home is not a good option given that renting is cheaper for people who need to change cities every ~6 years. And forcing low income people to stay in the same city prevents them from pursuing better opportunities.

This isn’t the kind of source code I’m interested in studying