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matttproud commented on David Klein's TWA Posters (2018)   flashbak.com/david-kleins... · Posted by u/NaOH
netsharc · 3 days ago
matttproud · 2 days ago
I presume this is hat a based on the ribbon.

Note: That link's (actual) photographs seem to suggest that the topic was not adequately researched or generatively produced.

Namely the photo with the caption "The Origin of Swiss Traditional Dress Photo by Cabinet Card Gallery" contains a sign within some words that indicate that even though these are Swiss people in the photo they are actually wearing costume to celebrate Austrian traditional costume of the region of Styria. The hints are "Steirisch" (Styrian) and "Buachstoana" (looks like a phonetic spelling of a Bavarian/Austrian dialect word as opposed to Swiss German and "Verein" (club/association). If someone could expand the "erh." abbreviation in a period-correct way, that would probably be definitively telling. This also doesn't resemble much of the Tracht I have seen worn at festivals in Switzerland either (regionalisms aside).

matttproud commented on Speeding up my ZSH shell   scottspence.com/posts/spe... · Posted by u/saikatsg
matttproud · a month ago
I don't have anything against ZSH or similar shells. I think they are great, but they are not my thing.

Latency is a deal-breaker for me, and this is where autocompletion engines generally introduce surprising user-interactive pauses. I've generally settled with using mksh (or OpenBSD's KSH depending on the environment) with little configuration outside of aliases, variables, and few local functions. I'm not left with this inkling feeling like accidentally running find(1) over an AutoFS file system backed by NFS that needs to authenticate, mount, and then run the operation.

When I need something more sophisticated, I lean on using Go or Elvish and potentially delegate some UI elements out to https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum.

I'd rather keep my shell simpler and delegate out any other complexity to these other programs. Autocompletion and these other features simply aren’t free.

matttproud commented on Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs   businessinsider.com/flori... · Posted by u/pseudolus
matttproud · 2 months ago
Coming soon (again) to a Florida near you: Liberty of Contract and Lochner Era jurisprudence.
matttproud commented on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer   waymo.com/blog/2025/05/wa... · Posted by u/prossercj
JumpCrisscross · 4 months ago
I totally agree that grade-separated bike and pedestrian lanes would be better. What I’m arguing against is that this behaviour by Waymo is less safe than San Francisco’s human drivers given the rules as they are.
matttproud · 4 months ago
Don't think for a minute I want human drivers anywhere near bicyclists or pedestrians or assume they are anywhere better for general-purpose driving. Human drivers are awful, but I'd posit the behavior of these automated vehicles isn't much better toward making a welcoming road environment as they are programmed. The laws — particularly for California and what is treated as standard in North America — don't help matters at all.
matttproud commented on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer   waymo.com/blog/2025/05/wa... · Posted by u/prossercj
JumpCrisscross · 4 months ago
Neither of the examples you cite strike me as particularly dangerous nor even illegal. The pedestrians were given the right of way. And entering bike lanes is fine for crossing or short distances where merited unless grade separated.
matttproud · 4 months ago
A vehicle that becomes blocked in a crosswalk is unsafe for pedestrians who want to use that crosswalk if it forces the pedestrians to walk around the blocking vehicle. There are crosswalks in SoMa that provide for 45 seconds or more of crossing time. A Waymo that enters one of these crosswalks after 15 seconds into the 45 seconds allocation blocks the crosswalk for the remainder of the 30 seconds. This presents an unsafe situation for all existing and future pedestrians (e.g., a pedestrian who inadvertently steps into the intersection while trying to go around the blocking vehicle).

We also know that in North America that the municipal services skimp on grade separation for bike lanes for budget and political reasons. I did bike in San Francisco when I lived there, and these non-shared colored lanes never ever felt safe.

I can guarantee that if you leave your North American context for a couple of years and come back to it you'll find CA Vehicle Code § 21453 unsatisfactory.

matttproud commented on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer   waymo.com/blog/2025/05/wa... · Posted by u/prossercj
femiagbabiaka · 4 months ago
Anecdotally, as someone who bikes a lot in SF, Waymo's are a lot safer than human drivers simply because they follow the letter of traffic laws. Stopping at stop signs, waiting for pedestrians to clear the box, following the posted speed limits, etc.
matttproud · 4 months ago
I was just on a business trip to San Francisco for a few days, and I observed the near opposite of this from the Waymo fleet in SoMa:

* Waymo vehicle creeping into the pedestrian crosswalk (while the pedestrians had right of way to cross), which caused someone to have to walk around the car into the intersection ahead of the Waymo.

* Waymo vehicle entering a dedicated bike lane and practically tailgating the bicyclist that was ahead of it.

These might be safer than human drivers in aggregate and normalized by kilometer driven, but they drive like humans — greedily and non-defensively. I wouldn't want one these anywhere near a high-pedestrian traffic area ever, and I feel the same about human-driven cars, too.

matttproud commented on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule   fuelarc.com/cars/only-tes... · Posted by u/abduhl
kurthr · 4 months ago
Exactly, corruption is legal. Only your competitors will be fined.
matttproud · 4 months ago
Give the U.S. ten years and "clientelism" will have become a household word.
matttproud commented on Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub   infosec.exchange/@wdorman... · Posted by u/N19PEDL2
pentagrama · 5 months ago
For anyone else who didn’t know (like me):

> inetpub is a system folder on Windows that gets created when you install IIS (Internet Information Services) — which is Windows’ built-in web server.

matttproud · 4 months ago
IIS: Talk about a throwback.
matttproud commented on US tax return filings drop by nearly 1M, extension requests rise   cnn.com/2025/04/04/politi... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
rogerrogerr · 5 months ago
I’m aware of some people who _always_ file an extension, but I haven’t pinned them down on why. Does anyone here file an extension in most/all years? Curious the reason.
matttproud · 5 months ago
If you are an American who lives abroad, you still need to file a tax return and possibly pay an obligation (two countries do citizenship based taxation: U.S. since Civil War and Eritrea).

To properly file taxes when living abroad, you usually file a tax return in your country of domicile first and then transfer select facts to the American one for credits, deductions, and other offsets.

All of this means minimally doing two tax filings. So: there you go. Heaven help you if you ever live in a place where the tax window is incompatible with the American ones.

matttproud commented on xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster   github.com/learnk8s/xlsku... · Posted by u/pabs3
matttproud · 5 months ago
Talk about taking declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to a whole new absurd level.

(Or more like putting the manager back in the management plane.)

u/matttproud

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