> The young folks that I've talked to... Meanwhile the older folks are still freaked out from when they watched "The Tripods" in the 80's and can't abide big mechanical monsters looming nearby.
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
The Great Lakes span across hundreds of miles, but the deepest point is less than a quarter mile, and most of it is much shallower than that. I.e., it's a super thin film over that big surface area.
This looks great. I can't wait to dive in. Thank you very much for sharing. Formatting nitpick for the site: when viewed on mobile, the text width is set to screen width minus 1 margin, but the page is fixed at text…
Order of magnitude usually refers to a 10x difference. Two orders of magnitude would be 100x difference. (Sometimes the phrase is casually used to just mean "a lot", but here I think they mean 10x).
This is a story about urban public transit, not inter-city rail. The size of the country or spread between cities is not really relevant. (And the low density of post-war American city sprawl is a consequence of our…
Well please let's not just rebuild all our roads to accommodate the fastest and stupidest drivers. (See above about pedestrian and cyclist safety). I guess that's just always happening anyway. Except in a few cities…
JavaScript language and browsers have tons of facilities for dealing with date times in sensible ways, including displaying a `Date` object in the local time zone and local preferred formatting. SpaceX designed their…
My favorite was "North Korean propaganda or TED talk soundbite?" There are a few articles about it but the actual quiz doesn't seem to be up anymore.
No, the new demand is induced. Among the many things people consider when buying a house or choosing a new place to rent, is the commute time to wherever they might need to go. A suburb with an hour commute from the job…
When it comes to pricing products at absolutely outrageous multiples of material cost, the "audio community" seems to be in its own league. I don't think the desktop toy market is quite there.
90% of Canadians live in a "small" strip of land that is comparable in size to Europe. That area (along with several regions and city pairs in the US) could have excellent inter-city and intra-city transit. But we just…
Our dog (several years old at this point) sometimes puts her mouth around the edge of her bed and kneads it with her paw. Clearly a nursing behavior. We got her as a rescue so with her unknown history, it may be…
True, but keep in mind that verbing weirds language.
Millions of checks or millions of cards is "just as easy" as millions of API calls?
Another interesting system is the messy organic grid from Townscaper. https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
When I took driver's ed many years ago, the official state written material had it as fact that highway driving is "3 times easier" than city driving. It was actually on my written test. Multiple choice, and the other…
Along similar lines, I just made this library a couple weeks ago to describe data validations programmatically (i.e., one JSON to validate another JSON document). https://github.com/MalcolmDwyer/json-predicate
> The young folks that I've talked to... Meanwhile the older folks are still freaked out from when they watched "The Tripods" in the 80's and can't abide big mechanical monsters looming nearby.
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
The Great Lakes span across hundreds of miles, but the deepest point is less than a quarter mile, and most of it is much shallower than that. I.e., it's a super thin film over that big surface area.
This looks great. I can't wait to dive in. Thank you very much for sharing. Formatting nitpick for the site: when viewed on mobile, the text width is set to screen width minus 1 margin, but the page is fixed at text…
Order of magnitude usually refers to a 10x difference. Two orders of magnitude would be 100x difference. (Sometimes the phrase is casually used to just mean "a lot", but here I think they mean 10x).
This is a story about urban public transit, not inter-city rail. The size of the country or spread between cities is not really relevant. (And the low density of post-war American city sprawl is a consequence of our…
Well please let's not just rebuild all our roads to accommodate the fastest and stupidest drivers. (See above about pedestrian and cyclist safety). I guess that's just always happening anyway. Except in a few cities…
JavaScript language and browsers have tons of facilities for dealing with date times in sensible ways, including displaying a `Date` object in the local time zone and local preferred formatting. SpaceX designed their…
My favorite was "North Korean propaganda or TED talk soundbite?" There are a few articles about it but the actual quiz doesn't seem to be up anymore.
No, the new demand is induced. Among the many things people consider when buying a house or choosing a new place to rent, is the commute time to wherever they might need to go. A suburb with an hour commute from the job…
When it comes to pricing products at absolutely outrageous multiples of material cost, the "audio community" seems to be in its own league. I don't think the desktop toy market is quite there.
90% of Canadians live in a "small" strip of land that is comparable in size to Europe. That area (along with several regions and city pairs in the US) could have excellent inter-city and intra-city transit. But we just…
Our dog (several years old at this point) sometimes puts her mouth around the edge of her bed and kneads it with her paw. Clearly a nursing behavior. We got her as a rescue so with her unknown history, it may be…
True, but keep in mind that verbing weirds language.
Millions of checks or millions of cards is "just as easy" as millions of API calls?
Another interesting system is the messy organic grid from Townscaper. https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
When I took driver's ed many years ago, the official state written material had it as fact that highway driving is "3 times easier" than city driving. It was actually on my written test. Multiple choice, and the other…
Along similar lines, I just made this library a couple weeks ago to describe data validations programmatically (i.e., one JSON to validate another JSON document). https://github.com/MalcolmDwyer/json-predicate