Yep, CO2 is a problem but pm2.5 pollution made many cities hell to live in - and much (not all, of course) of that comes from rubber tyres and asphalt roads.
I used to cosplay as a bike messenger in Seattle. I did not follow the rules at all on my ride to work. There were few bike lanes, and a lot of morons rode on the sidewalks.
I have only been to Paris once, but the cyclists were much more sane in my experience. The bike lanes were clear, and for the most part they stopped at a red light.
I would wager it's the usage of payments and ignoring of pedestrian lights by cyclists is a big factor.
As a pedestrian, I've had FAR more encounters with aggressive cyclists than aggressive drivers (also anecdotal). Makes walking downtown more stressful.
So one sample from somewhere in Germany completely undone my argument. I guess all of my lived counter-examples of aggressive cyclists on payments or running through red lights while my kids and I were were trying to use pedestrian crossings were hallucinations.
Many cyclists really are incapable of introspection, it's fascinating. It's less of a mode of transport for some, and more of an idealist crusade. They are hilarious.
Not going to lie, I’d rather be poor. Not destitute - I’ve been poor but not destitute and I’d rather not go desperate - but poor? As in (because “poor” is very imprecise and can imply anything between utter poverty to “not owning three homes”) like having a low paying job but still enough to pay rent?
I’d rather be that than do AI assisted software development. Genuinely the only thing stopping me now is that there’s actually way more skill and qualifications in most low-paying jobs than a typical software developer imagines, and acquiring those takes time and money itself. But by now I know multiple people who made the jump even before the latest madness, and they’re all happier. Some still code, but don’t even publish. Some are like “I haven’t used a proper computer in _months_ this is great.” All work hard jobs at odd hours. None regret.
Doesn’t matter. There’s no world where a multiplayer action game is worth it, and anyway this is a classic example of trying to solve a social problem with technology.
The reason cheating is a problem at all is that instead of playing with friends, you use online matchmaking to play with equally alienated online strangers. This causes issues well in excess of cheating, including paranoia over cheating.
> There’s no world where a multiplayer action game is worth it
To you. I’m perfectly happy to run a kernel level anticheay - I’m already running their code on my machine, and it can delete my files, upload them as encrypted game traffic, steal my crypto keys, screenshot my bank details and private photos all without running at a kernel level.
> trying to solve a social problem with technology
I disagree. I’m normally on the side of not doing that but increasing the player pool and giving players access to more people at the their own skill level is a good thing
Its not just for multiplayer games, considering one of my employers has been a victim of a supply chain attack, I would say it's super important that you can check and verify the authenticity of every piece of code that runs on your infra (checking that a binary/docker image can be traced back to an artifact, which can be traced to a git commit, and making sure the server running it hasn't been tampered with in any way)
> Well, admins (or anybody other than the developers / deployment pipeline) having permissions to alter the JS sounds like a significant vulnerability.
It's a common feature of CMS'es and "tag management systems." Its presence is a massive PITA to developers even _besides_ the security, but PMs _love them_, in my experience.
> It’s counterintuitive but I learned this best by playing RTS games. If you don’t spend money your opponent can outdo you on the map by simply spending their money.
OK, hear me out over here:
We are not in an RTS.
Edit: in real-world settings lacking redundancy tends to make systems incredibly fragile, in a way that just rarely matters in an RTS. Which we are _not in_.
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