I'd love to agree with this but almost every experience I've had with an open source project that has a complex GUI has been painful. Tried to switch from Sheets to Libre Office Calc and it's like going back to an incredibly buggy Excel, with a downgrade in UX/UI.
PS. Why is this post a .txt file? I can't even click the links.
I found it ironic. The reason I avoid FOSS alternatives is because of the UX issues. I get wanting to be small and unobtrusive, but at least make your links clickable.
While I definitely recognize there’s a cycle, I also can’t but feel that old media is regurgitated because the state of what we are creating now. I don’t think we’ll be doing the same 20-30 years now with Marvel movies.
The public appetite for genres comes and goes — superhero movies were big in the 90s, too — but I do think you're right that the recent development of "everything (mostly), all the time (mostly), on-demand (mostly)" availability of content at least partially confounds this cultural rhythm. My kids are nearly teens and have never intentionally listened to radio, which drove and reflected popular music tastes when I was a kid.
Although there are still certain broad pop culture phenomena, it is certainly a much more fragmented landscape than it used to be. I'm very aware that I'm pretty ignorant of the current music scene for the most part. When I was still going to large tech events pre-COVID, I definitely started seeing bands at parties that I had never heard of (and mostly wouldn't listen to by choice).
And while I watch some shows that are on the pop culture radar to a greater or lesser degree, I'm not necessarily watching them when they first hit streaming. Certainly there's very little that's the equivalent of Must See Thursday on NBC where most(?) people were aware of certain shows even if they didn't regularly watch them.
A question for all those in favour of street parking: If parking right in front of the store is so vital for business, why don't they do it in shopping malls? Why do you have to park your car somewhere else and then walk to the stores?
I don't know what bizzaro world those people live in where they will actually find a parking spot in the front of their destination. A given block has what like 10 spaces for cars? In a city with thousands of road users your odds of finding a parking spot that's truly convenient to the destination are going to be so low. I bet most everyone currently parking on the street is parking in some compromised somewhat inconvenient spot. That's why I find the strongest voices of people keeping the street parking are usually the abusers: that neighbor who has some hardly functional car they roll out three feet to take up two spots while they are away with the other car, and roll back when they get home, or that mechanics shop that parks customer vehicles out there at 4am when the spots are actually available and holds them in perpetuity or to use them for their own employees convenience.
Where I live, small shops often have 5 or 15 minute parking time limits directly outside so there's usually a space available when I want one, despite the rest of the street being full.
Sounds like your city needs to write and enforce its parking rules better.
There are loading zones and such but still, how many spaces are going to be like this? What are the odds you roll up and there is a car there already taking advantage of that spot? Now what, you sit on your hands for 14 and a half minutes? Street parking is never a guarantee, and banking on it usually ends in frustration. Getting that convenient spot in the right place right at the right time when you happen to be there circling to park is always a stroke of luck if your area is somewhat busy.
We managed to save our local mall before it completely died, and now it thrives. They turned it mostly inside out, there's still halls inside but all of the popular stores now face outward so you can park right in front of them.
In denser areas they do, but honestly most new development malls are looking like that now a days with huge garages and an effort to maximize the developable land. I think Easton in Columbus, OH is a fair example of one of these newer malls with garages, and outside of a big city too way out in the exurbs not too far from cornfields. There are some lots but as the area has been infilling they've been adding garages.
Probably because customers aren’t going to malls for a short trip and taking 5-10 mins extra to park isn’t a big deal compared to them going to a small shop for 5 mins and getting out of there.
I don't know why you've come to that conclusion? I do the exact opposite. I got to malls to buy something specific, but there's no reason to spend anymore time there than necessary. City centres are the opposite.
1. Find out why you are overweight. For me it was comfort eating junk food and large meals.
2. Start working on what’s causing the first step. I very gradually changed my approach to eating, shifting from unhealthy foods to healthier ones. Now I have an pretty easy time to either not eat or just pick something healthy.
3. I cut out breakfast and just drink coffee or tea, then light lunch followed by healthy snacks and a large dinner. I use whatever amount of fat I need to cook dinner and make sure my food is tasty. I don’t avoid carbs.
4. It all mostly just boils down to cutting out sugary snacks, huge lunches, breakfast and eating “normal food”.
5. Oh, I also try to get 20 min of walking or cycling or something a day in. Then some push-ups , maybe a chin-up. Excercise is important but only like 20% of the whole thing.
What hasn’t worked for me:
Diets. Calorie counting, KETO, whatever. Weight always comes back after a while because it doesn’t address on why I eat.
>This makes a lot of unfounded assumptions about what the police can and would do.
In a lot of places they do absolutely nothing. A lot of bikes show up on sale on places like FB Marketplace shortly after they're stolen, cops could easily go set up meetings with these thieves if they wanted to. You can have god knows how much evidence or pictures or whatever of the thief but they do nothing. If I was selling stolen cars online, they'd be allover me, but bikes don't matter apparently.
>There's not a lot the police can do after a bike is stolen within proportion to the value of the stolen bike and bikes are both easy to steal and easy to scrap for parts (that are practically untraceable in most cases).
Sure, if you look at the value of a single bike this is true. But generally professional bike thieves steal multiple bikes and it ads up. Here in Finland, in 2020 insurance companies paid 11 million euros worth of compensation for stolen bikes. And that's just the ones which were reported & still worth something.
So what do you do when the lock breaks and you can't cut it open?
Look, I could list a dozen reasons why this is a bad design but I won't. Besides the U-lock, there has never been a widely adopted tech solution to combat bike theft. Locks which release OC gas when sawed, GPS tracking, bike registers, camera surveillance etc., none of it works as well as a solid U-lock through the frame and rear wheel attached to a solid object. Only frame-based solution I'd like to see is some universal mount standard for U-locks.
The problem with reducing bike theft is that you can't do it just by inventing new locks. You need to do all of the following: reduce the need to steal bikes (eg. sane substance & welfare policy), actively police and punish bike theft, teach proper locking techniques and make online marketplaces responsible for selling stolen goods.
Out of those, teaching proper locking techniques would be the easiest to implement. People seem to have no issue leaving a 1000$ bike locked with a 20$ cable lock unattended while they go shopping but would probably never do the same with a 4k flat screen TV. Put a $40 U-lock on it properly and you just increased the difficulty of stealing by a lot: instead of using pocket fitting cable cutters, the thief now needs to make two cuts with a noisy angle grinder. Chuck in another lock and the thief will probably just find something easier to steal.
“A statement from Austin’s Transportation Department says it had provided a list of groups Refraction AI should reach out to ahead of launching service here. The list of groups included the Bicycle Advisory Council. The company provided no briefing to the BAC ahead of the launch, although it was planning to speak to some members Wednesday.”
great. let’s dump a bunch of experimental AI tech on already scare bike lanes without consultation, which, if successful, will decimate both the only easy to enter low skill job pool AND clog up bike lanes. just look at the massive PITA rent scooters have caused in city centers around the world, this has the potential to cause even more disruption.
PS. Why is this post a .txt file? I can't even click the links.