git is genuinely one of the best tools ever created. It is an extremely simple idea with crazy effectiveness and a reasonable UX that is a bit off putting at first but makes a lot of sense later on.

That said, I’d genuinely be curious what you think jj has improved upon git.

I hate that rentable but not self-hostable gaming servers have become a thing.

I’m skeptical that enough games run on arm to make that work.

Yeah, I’m not sure why they’re so dead set on that one. It’s not even fun.

“Unused road” is ridiculous except in extremes. Unless people merge well over a mile back, 1 lane of traffic will make no difference. The only way “unused road” matters is for the people that haven’t entered the traffic jam yet who are getting off before they reach it.

Very few people (from what I’ve seen) merge more than 30 car lengths out. 30 cars is not going to make a difference.

What does make a difference is the fact that we can’t do a merge at speed because some people want to “zipper late.” It’s the zipper behavior that matters, the “at the very end” part never should’ve been added to that recommendation.

Looking at an actual research paper about this, the zipper merge demonstrated is not at the last possible point. A merge point forms ahead of that point and that’s what should be used. The pictures from their study show the zipper occurring over a wide area with many of the zipped cars driving in the middle.

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35694

I don’t know how studies like this have become the recommendations we have. They seem to me to miss critical bits.

Edit: based on my quick read, it’s worth noting the study finds only minimal support for the zipper merge and only in contexts not involving trucks largely based on visual analysis from their video feed as the quantitative data was not statistically significant. We need better transparency on recommendations like this frankly and the research supporting them. We should be able to have an honest debate on the merits of the papers.

I really like the idea of peertube, but until it finds a way to pay creators I’m not sure it will ever be able to replace YouTube.

YouTube is as good as it is because people get paid.

The old school YouTubers just did it for fun, but YouTube was a lot different back then … and as much as I hate how aggressively Google is monetizing YouTube these days, it’s honestly a lot higher quality than it was years ago.

The problem with zipper merges as this person describes them is a zipper merge is SUPPOSED TO get traffic back up to speed. However, when your take on the zipper merge is “up there where the wreck is at the last possible spot I can merge” there’s no time for a human to safely merge at speed. So everything has to continue at a crawl.

So the people jumping out of their lane and “zipper merging” at the last second instead of 50 feet out or so end up making things worse for everyone.

The zipper does not and should not be at the point of the physical problem on the road. Just like you should not just drive to the end of the on ramp and at the last possible second merge into the lane on your left without paying attention.

I really can’t more strongly disagree with this take.

Zipper merging is to interleave two lanes of traffic when there’s one lane of traffic available ahead.

It DOES NOT matter if it’s done with 3 feet to merge or 300 feet to merge. There’s no efficiency gain.

What does matter is some assholes trying to merge at speed at the last possible second.

The zipper point should not be the point where there’s NO ROOM to merge SAFELY without EVERYONE going 3 miles per hour.

The handful of times I’ve seen a zipper merge actually start to work, someone rushes down to the end of the line where the problem is, nearly causes a second accident trying to get over, and then everything starts moving at a crawl again.

You don’t need to zipper merge at the “physical barrier” causing the zipper merge to be necessary.

Why would a car alarm be a problem…?

Every place I’ve ever been, they take the keys and drive it into the garage to do any work they’re doing.

Car alarm should only be relevant if the mechanic locks the car, no?

I think it’s fine to have an opinion, just qualify it with “I’ve not been in that situation before, but … I think bla … because bla.”

It’s just about being honest.

I had a friend who’s latest and greatest dating advice was to go back and hangout at the college I graduated from (at the time already) several years ago.

I thought it was an incredibly disingenuous and creepy suggestion.

Him and his partner were like “it’s totally fine…”

Not a single female friend disagreed with me that, that would be very creepy and I absolutely should not do that.

He got mad that I would never listen to his (terrible) dating advice.

I’m surprised wheat buns aren’t more popular. If they’re good, they add their own charming character to a burger

Yeah, like the other person said this is normal for the borderlands games.

I agree with you, I don’t like it either though.

It shouldn’t but people (especially in the context of something “not important” like gaming) as a mass do not operate on logic.

So I guess I agree; but, you’re probably wasting your breath “yelling into the wind.”

I guess, put another way, I’ve done it many times/used to think more this way and I think I might have appreciated more nudges that “… yeah you’re right but people are going to people regardless of what makes sense.”

It kind of does, early reviews and sentiment can have a big impact on how well the game does long term.

Honestly, every thing they’re clawing back to the president is just something that a Democrat can use to fix things. The next Democrat that’s president will probably be one that acknowledges things have not been operating as normal and there will be a lot of people that need to be replaced.

It is not; it’s a distinctly British-influenced if not outright British term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container

So that’s why Oscar is always hiding in the trash can grumbling!

I think there is a certain amount of social media that is itself the problem.

Like, trolls and rage baiters are a menace; not to mention social media is often an assault on nuance.

Memes are still really popular but they undercut serious discussion … and often just make noise about depressing shit without even the inkling of answers to the problems they comment on.

You nailed it.