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flukus commented on An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/contingencies

keyboard_slap · 2 years ago

What problem is this system trying to solve? It seems to be, in this initial deployment, that the office park is too far away from the restaurants its employees want to visit, compelling them to drive there. I feel like a better solution would be permitting denser and mixed-use development, so employees can walk to their favorite restaurants on the ground floor instead of driving >1km to them or paying for a delivery tunnel.

flukus · 2 years ago

If something like this is financially viable (doubt) then it sounds like the density already exists and the problem is the restaurants aren't near the people. All the replies are focused on the density you mentioned but mixed use is probably the bigger and far more easily solved problem.

Letting restaurants open nearby to where there are clearly a lot of people is a tried and proven solution, not gadgetbhan for food.

flukus commented on Why are things expensive? why-expensive.com/... · Posted by u/gmays

glitchc · 2 years ago

Housing prices increasingly reflect labour costs, as those represent a higher percentage of the BOM year over year. North America has high wages and so the minimum threshold for a new 2000 sq ft hovers around $250K, bulk of it being labour cost, the rest materials.

flukus · 2 years ago

Probably quite circular too, the labor costs are high because the housing/COL was allowed to become so high.

flukus commented on Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? retrocomputing.stackexcha... · Posted by u/SeenNotHeard

mschuster91 · 2 years ago

> The Navy didn't actually do away with all-caps until 2013.

And aviation still is full with it. For better or, in my opinion, worse... but aviation is so stuck of outdated and inconsistent crap in general...

flukus · 2 years ago

Flight booking systems still seem to be stuck with it, even newer fields like email are always in all caps.

flukus commented on Three Decades of HTML meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/tosh

jdorfman · 2 years ago

1999 for me. My friend Brian showed me view source in IE and there went my social life. It’s amazing how things have progressed (with the web platform in general). Thank you Tim.

flukus · 2 years ago

Mine was around then too, mostly because the geocities page builder applet was such a dog.

flukus commented on FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell cnn.com/2023/10/31/health... · Posted by u/rntn

saulrh · 2 years ago

The cynic in me says that it was probably priced to cost exactly the same as the expected lifetime expense of treating of the disease.

flukus · 2 years ago

A more charitable interpretation might be that getting under the cut off is why it's one of the first treatments available. More treatments will become available as the overall costs start beating out the costs of living with $disease.

flukus commented on Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

nostromo · 2 years ago

73% of antibiotics globally are used for livestock production, not for human use, and yet we tend to only hear about how humans need to cut back. How about we require ranchers to decrease their animal density so they don't need to use so many antibiotics?

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/us-livestock-industries-persi...

flukus · 2 years ago

> yet we tend to only hear about how humans need to cut back

There's also financial reasons to do so, with livestock the financial reasons are likely reversed.

Beside that, anti-biotics also have side effects that can make you more sick, their use is not just unnecessary but counter productive. Some of the side effects can be serious and long term, like changing your gut bacteria.

flukus commented on HTML Web Components blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

joshstrange · 2 years ago

That's understandable. Though I actually can see some logic in it. It's got to be way easier to hire Angular developers than it is to hire someone who wants to eek out the maximum performance with this lightest-weight approach (and do it in a maintainable/understandable way).

I'll never say Vue/React/Angular are "light" and I'll fully admit we give up some performance for DX (and UX) but it's a tradeoff I think is worth it (I understand if you don't agree).

In the same vein, I know cross-platform frameworks like Ionic/Quasar are nowhere near as good as native apps. That said the skill set you need (and dedication to actually embracing the platform idiosyncrasies) to make _good_ native apps is not cheap or easy. Cross-platform apps might not fit in as well and might be heavier but they allow fewer people to do more with less. Heck, I have a side-business that relies _heavily_ on apps and it would not exist if I couldn't write them in HTML/JS/CSS as much as that makes some people's stomachs turn.

flukus · 2 years ago

> It's got to be way easier to hire Angular developers than it is to hire someone who wants to eek out the maximum performance with this lightest-weight approach.

I disagree, at least around here. Frontend developers with react/angular experience are a hot commodity and really hard to hire, yet just about anyone from any tech tech can knock out html and some minimal css.

flukus commented on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly blog.paavo.me/cities-skyl... · Posted by u/paavohtl

cipheredStones · 2 years ago

> Microsoft has a similar problem where nobody gets promoted from fixing bugs or maintaining stuff, everyone gets rewarded for new innovative [thing] so every two-three years there's a completely new UI framework or similar.

Is there any big (or even medium-sized) company where this isn't true? I feel like it's just a rule of corporate culture that flashy overpromising projects get you promoted and regularly doing important but mundane and hard-to-measure things gets you PIP'd.

flukus · 2 years ago

It seems endemic, especially everywhere that's not a product company. I think it was mythical man month (maybe earlier) that pointed out the 90% of the cost of software is in maintenance, yet 50 years on this cost isn't accounted for in project planning.

Consultancies are by far the worst, a project is done and everyone moves on, yet the clients still expect quick fixes and the occasional added feature but there's no one familiar with the code base.

Developers don't help either, a lot move from green field to green field like locusts and never learn the lessons of maintaining something, so they make the same mistakes over and over again.

flukus commented on We are investigating reports of degraded performance githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/contingencies

agilob · 2 years ago

It should load faster if there's nothing to load

flukus · 2 years ago

If nothing loads nothing gets cached and you can get in a cycle of very slow 404s.

The current abomination I'm working on avoids this by caching the errors and serving them for several hours...

flukus commented on Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/edward

foobarian · 2 years ago

My problem is, if EV is not going to work for 100% of my use cases, I need a second car. But if I need a second car then it doesn't make sense to overthink the EV, any will do. What would be really awesome is if I could have one car and swap the power train easily, but that's just fantasy talk.

flukus · 2 years ago

Hiring a car for specific trips is probably much better, depending on the % of those use cases. That goes for other factors like towing capacity too.

Cars are already very expensive for something with such a low utilisation rate.