We should spend more time and energy improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and stop the growth of urban sprawl which makes you incorrectly think you need to solve this problem. A great book on this topic - Carmageddon
Readit Newssiamese_puff commented on How big is carpooling market? · Posted by u/rutvik2601
Any reason why you want to swap sunshine of California for the grey skies of London? :)
Jokes aside, but just curious what is bad about California that makes you want to go to London?
Life is short and it seemed fun
siamese_puff commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
Tangentially related: I had the disconcerting experience of reading a Wired article about his arrest[1] while unknowingly sitting about six feet from the spot where he was apprehended. When I read that the FBI agents had stopped at Bello Coffee while preparing their stakeout, I thought, huh, interesting coincidence, I just had a coffee there.
Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me, and suddenly as I was reading I could look up and see exactly the chair he had been in, where the plainclothes police had positioned themselves, how they had arranged a distraction.
Having this tableau unexpectedly unfold right in front of my eyes was a fascinating experience, and it certainly made the article suddenly get a lot more immersive!
[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/
EDIT: to be clear, I was not present for the arrest. I was reading the magazine, some years after the arrest, but in the same place as the arrest. (I didn’t qualify the events with “I read that...” since I thought the narrative ellipsis would be obvious from context; evidently not.)
I understood exactly what you meant and that is an awesome experience
siamese_puff commented on Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture petapixel.com/2024/12/12/... · Posted by u/philip1209
Sad story
siamese_puff commented on Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing? · Posted by u/lucadidomenico
None and the problem I see is we have too many tools
siamese_puff commented on Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job sibervepunk.com/digital-c... · Posted by u/siberpunk
Then stop consuming! A champion has discipline. A champion athlete doesnt grow morbidly obese off pizza and then complains it’s the pizzas fault - stop, or drastically reduce, eating.
“It’s not easy”, of course it isn’t, all greatness requires sacrifice, are you going to go to the gym (learn new programming skill) or sit there eating donuts?
This comment kind of nails it. I don’t have any social media at all and often my friends tell me I live under a rock for not knowing the latest meme. The decision is trivial, I just don’t have social media (except Hackernews which does waste a disgusting amount of time).
Anyways - people gravitate toward the simple and assume the difficult is impossible. I’m training for a marathon with some friends and some are already making excuses to do as much as possible that _does not_ involve running (weight lifting, biking). I think humans just do the easy thing and complain about their situation because it’s.. well easy.
siamese_puff commented on Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs? · Posted by u/oogwayy
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