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That one is specifically for Paris as seen by a Parisian. I would not argue that's the case globally, and there are certainly studies showing otherwise in other contexts.

Usage of e-scooter and e-bikes decreases car traffic yes. But does banning rental e-scooter (not personal e-scooters, and not e-bikes) lead to an increase in car traffic? In Paris, I argue that no it won't, or if it does it will be negligible.

> There are other points though, "last mile" is a difficult problem

That's not true in Paris. Paris has very good public transportation. There are bus and subway stations everywhere. It's not the case outside of Paris intra-muros, but here I'm specifically talking about Paris intra-muros, because the ban only apply to that location.

> it's not solved with rental bicycles either (they are usually very few and far between).

That's not true in Paris. The city rental bicycles are omnipresent and cheap. Even though I own a good bike, I use those as well, in cases I don't want to take my own bike. And there are other rental e-bikes (by the same company that do rental e-scooters)

In general, personal e-scooters are considered fine. Their owners don't behave nearly as bad as rental e-scooters.

The speed limit, as far as I know, is the same for any e-bike/e-scooter: 25km/h. Otherwise it's in a different class (same as a moped) and is no longer allowed on bike lanes (which doesn't prevent people from doing so, but so far they are few and far between).

Parisian here, for context I've been cycling to work for about 10 years now (before Paris transformed into a cycle-friendly city).

There are a lot of speculations and hypothesis from people who don't live in Paris and try to apply their experience in a different city to Paris, so allow me to offer the experience (obviously I'm biased) of someone living there.

The first big misconception is that this ban is only due to elderly going to vote. While the 90% percentage is indeed skewed, recent polls from before the vote showed that about 60% of the population approve of this ban. It's not as overwhelming, but still a majority.

People are fed up with rental e-scooters, but why? Not because they are littered everywhere. It's not longer the case. There are dedicated e-scooters parking spots, that are overall used properly (though they are often on the floor due to wind or being knocked down). The article talks about "tightening regulations", I'm pretty sure there are rules enforcing that.

The real reason is that anytime you see someone egregiously disregarding rules in a way that endanger others, it's more often than not a rental e-scooter, with rental e-bikes coming behind. They are perceived as dangerous, plain and simple. And it's not a lack of cycling infrastructure. While it's not up to Netherlands-level of bike-friendliness yet, it's quite good lately overall.

Now a last misconception is that this ban is bad because people will revert to cars. No they won't. In the first place, people riding rental e-scooters do not replace a car trip by a rental e-scooter trip, they don't even own one for the most part (or even have a driving license). What is replaced is a subway, bus, bike, or walking trip. Perhaps on some rare occasions a taxi/Uber. Apart from that last rare occasion, all other alternatives are MORE eco-friendly than the e-scooters.

My solution is to:

* use a virtualenv, so that dependencies are installed per project and not globally

* only specify my top-level dependencies in a requirements.in file, and let pip-compile (a dependency, part of pip-tools) compile my requirements.txt

So far it has served me well and I've not encountered any error due to this method.

I cannot claim it is "the right way" though, just something that works for me.

I'm not seeing anything in what you quoted that would make it violate Open AI's terms of service.

From the articles you quoted, the question asked to ChatGPT was: "What is the jurisprudence on bail when the assailants assaulted with cruelty?"

My reading of the terms and the situation:

> >Engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, or offering tailored legal advice without a qualified person reviewing the information

This was authorized practice of law, not tailored legal advice (the question was generic), and there was a qualified person reviewing the information.

> >OpenAI’s models are not fine-tuned to provide legal advice. You should not rely on our models as a sole source of legal advice.

This was not the sole source of legal advice.

> >High risk government decision-making, including: [...]

That one is tricky. Is the judicial system considered "high risk government decision-making"? Not too sure.

In my opinion, it was still a bad decision to ask a jurisprudence question to an AI instead of asking to a paralegal, whose job it is to research that, because there is no guarantee the response was accurate. On the other hand, since it was accepted by a judge, it has been human-reviewed and can probably be considered accurate.

> But where?

The GP already address that "We’re a clever group of people. The oil drilling to gas available on every fourth corner in the country system is vastly more complex than installing chargers on light poles."

On the other hand, yeah, it's time to get started for real to install plugs.

> Add some studies that electric cars are even more expensive to charge than gaspowered ones are to refill, and it's even worse - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/electric-shock-study-found-ev...

That studio shows US prices. Keep in mind prices are widely different in Europe. For example, gas is about twice as expensive where I live (about 1.9€/L currently, but it varies by country) than in the US (looking it up, it's a national average of $3.4/gal today, or $0.9/L).

It doesn't have to be price or ideology driven (though it can be). It's the rational choice for a lot of people. When a car is the slowest form of transport, costly to own, and you can rent/borrow a car for the very few occasions in the year you need to have one, it doesn't make sense to own one.

Add to that that a lot of young people in big cities don't even have a driving license.

Obviously it depends a lot on where you live. A lot of places in Europe still require you to have a car to get around.

The above comment exagerates based on anecdota.

From what I gathered, it's a lot less of an issue compared to the US, but scam calls & SMS do happen.

My anecdota: I'm French, and receive scam calls from time to time. They are different from the ones you see in the US. Here it's mainly "CPF" scam calls, which is training credits every working person automatically get and they are trying to scam you into paying for a illegitimate training with those (don't ask me for more details, I've not researched it further).

In France, it tends to be less of an issue because the government is at least somewhat invested in fighting such scams, and because the language isn't as universally spoken as English (which is true for most of Europe). You can usually spot a foreigner speaking French miles away, and it's a red flag for any sane person when an incoming call has an accent.

What has worked for me is to do it as a hobby on my spare time. Of course that only applies to fields you can do as a hobby and place some heavy limitations.

For physics / real engineering, you can take classes after-work. For more physical jobs, you can do that in your backyard/driveway/other space. Obviously this place limitation: no super heavy machinery, and the scale has to fit, you can't exactly keep a full-sized plane or ship in your backyard.

Provided you have enough money, it's a matter of picking the right budget.

Some examples of itches I scratched doing that:

- photography (10 years ago, when smartphones weren't that good). I bought an entry-level professional camera and got started. Quickly realized I loathed picking and editing photos, but I now have a basic skillset about that.

- electronics. I have a box full of random bits, built a few random contraption that work for me. But getting to a real product requires lots more skills I'm not really interested in. I'm happy just having that box for anything I want to tinker with (and the occasional device repair by changing a blown capacitor, which makes me look like a wizard).

- bartending. I have a ~70 bottles bar in my apartment now (it covers a 2mx2m wall mostly) and can do pretty much any cocktail you want. I also bartended in a non-profit bar. I like the actual bartending, but the "bad customer" part is awful. Plus I know full well actual bartending is not well paid and has horrible hours.

- auto mechanic. Latest I'm currently in. I bought a 20yo car, rent a closed underground parking spot to keep it and my tools (big city, I don't have a driveway) and do the maintenance, repairs, and try to get it back to factory state. I also work on friends & family car whenever I get the chance. It's not the flashy things you see on Youtube, but it gets your hands greasy and you get to do it. There is no way I'd take that job professionally though: low pay, low consideration, nearly always unhappy customers because you're the bearer of bad news.

Anyway, that's my suggestion to scratch those itches without actually changing your whole life.

I took 10 years of piano. I wanted to when I was a child (and I chose the piano).

The problem for me has not been the kind of music I had to play. My problem is I only learned to perfectly play a song with sheet paper, by repeating it over and over again in the course of a few months until every tiny little detail was perfect. That's because I was prepared to play in front of a large audience, where you are supposed to play perfectly.

What I never learned was how to improvise a somewhat-okay song, or play somewhat ok a song from sheet paper. Those skills could have made it enjoyable to play piano for myself or in a social setting where perfection is not expected.

But since I never learned those skills, the piano in my family house sit unused, and even the keyboard I bought for myself is collecting dust in a closet.

Changing oil is specifically allowed here, and I'm pretty sure every first world country has rules against dumping oil and other polluting elements.

If this is the goal, it's really backward as it is only loosely related.

I do have an engineering degree in France, but even then I think the "software engineer" title is just wrong. There is little actual engineering going on in most development jobs (most. Some do have actual engineering).

At least in France, the biggest difference between an engineering degree and someone who learned by themselves are going to be:

* the engineer should have more general knowledge about databases, algorithms etc.. and generally how things work. Someone who didn't get that training might not have as deep an understanding in those fundamental concepts (that gap is sometime very very visible when working together). That's the most important part in the day-to-day.

* the engineer will have at least a decent English level. Not an issue in English-speaking country obviously, but that's actually the number 1 reason some students don't get their degree in schools I know.

* the engineer should be able to present well his ideas, and generally be at least good in communication. There is formal training to speak in public. If you are shy by nature, this may not come easy without formal training.

That's about it. There is no special skill that someone determined cannot acquire by themselves with freely available training and experience, but when you are a teenager with little self-motivation, it helps to get all this drilled into you. On the other hand, I wouldn't hire most people coming out of my own school, so take it with a grain of salt.

(1) Yeah, though I definitely forgot. In my country, it used to be really hard to find a plan with mobile hotspot, which used to be a x€/month (don't remember the number) option that would just hide the setting. That was a very long time ago since I saw on but I think some plans still have those restrictions and use that method to enforce it.

(2) Changing to a device that doesn't have that feature. Which probably means no Android and no iOS. I would not be willing to do so, I'd change carrier instead if it was problematic enough to me.

(3) I don't mind when it's to set settings for a good reason. I assume some settings are configured that way for the phone to properly work on the carrier network. On the other hand, I hate it when it's to enforce a stupid thing or extract more money from a built-in feature.

I feel you, but unless you really want to experience the game without any outside resource (in which case, good luck, and I understand being turned off), I really encourage you to try again while using guides, the wiki, and asking questions on forums/discord.

The community is overall very welcoming, and it's an old game by now, with most things figured out.

It definitely is more emergent than most games once you get past the early stage.

A few examples to make that clear:

- to get petroleum, you have to refine crude oil. There is a building that does that, but you only get 50% of the mass out. On the other hand, if you boil it yourself (raise its temperature to 402°C), you get 100% of the mass. Cue furious designing of an efficient boiler. Then you gotta figure how to efficiently burn it to get water out to produce more crude oil.

- if you think that's cute, you can instead continue the boiling to 510°C and get Sour Gas. Then you freeze it to -162°C (not an easy task) and get Methane. Heat it up again and you get Natural Gas that you can burn for power. That comes out to 6X the power of the previous petroleum boiling.

- you have some salt water provided by a geyser (an infinite source at a fixed output). You can use a building to get water out. But that means Dupes have to operate it. What if instead you boil that salt water to get steam, then cool that steam back to get water in a fully automated setup? Turns out it can be more power-efficient too!

Oxygen Not Included is filled with unexpected behaviors, way more than meet the eye (there is a dedicated wiki page, which is lengthy but still far from complete) that enables to make all sort of crazy contraptions.

I prefer to consider Oxygen Not Included as 2 separate games : the survival game you get at the beginning, and the engineering game you get once you overcome the survival issues. Unfortunately, many people drop off before reaching the engineering stage, or don't expect it and drop off because they only wanted the survival part.

I guess I can be considered a "lifer". Co-founded a startup nearly 10 years ago. Nowadays my job description can be considered "senior developer" with no managerial responsibility (my choice).

The job has a social impact, pays more than enough for my modest standard of life (lower than market rate, but that's expected for a job in a social impact startup, and I'm at peace with that), colleagues are nice, boss is bearable, and short of the company failing, I can't really be fired. The job is also interesting, with new challenges all the time.

Long story short: it's the right situation for me, and I know for a fact the grass is not greener elsewhere.

I could have phrased it more carefully : "If it's for fun and none of it feels fun and all of it feels like work, maybe it's time to consider you don't really want to do that for fun".

Of course any creative endeavour is not only fun, but I know the feeling of trying to do something "for fun" and it ends up feeling like work. Some people like to hustle, and that's fine. But just not doing it and finding something else you find fun instead is something to keep in mind.

I thought the "maybes" and several questions made it clear, but I'll state it regardless: there is no one-size fits all answer, and what I said is just a possibility that should be kept in mind. While it happens to be the one that worked best for me, I'm aware it's not the answer for everyone.

If it's for fun, it shouldn't feel like work. While others have some good suggestion, I'm going to ask the hard question: do you really want to be coding as a hobby?

The fact that you ask that question suggest you already code enough during work hours and you need to do something else after work.

Did you used to code for fun before it was your work? Then maybe it's a good idea to accept that you are not going to find in fun as long as your job is mainly coding (but it might become fun again if you don't mainly code as a job)

Did you drink the kool-aid that a developper is supposed to code for fun after work? Then maybe it's time to question that belief. A lot of professionnal developer that used to do that came to term with the fact that they'd rather do something else from their free time after coding all day.

After 10 years coding professionally, the only times I'm going to consider coding after work is as a mean to an end. There has been some occasions, but I wouldn't consider it "coding for fun". I wanted the results badly enough to dedicate some of my free time to getting that done despite not really enjoying the actual "coding" part.

Most of my free time is now used for anything but coding and I'm cool with that.

The decor system is something you can safely ignore for all the game. The worst you can get is a -1 Morale malus, which is laughably low and doesn't have any consequence (as long as you keep Dupes Morale high enough, which is easy: don't overskill them).

I'm going to respectfully disagree. ONI is not hard. At least the first asteroid with normal settings (called "Survival") is not hard.

What's hard is the steep difficulty curve when you are first picking up the game, especially if you play without outside resources. The game itself does a poor job at explaining what you are supposed to do and in which order, which means frequent restarts because you didn't anticipate something you didn't know about yet.

When you overcome that initial curve, the game is actually quite easy, though it can become a bit boring after a while because there is no random event to spice things up.

Yes. GDPR is not focused on storage only, but on data handling as a whole. No matter where the data is stored, it's still collected and handled by Discord, thus they are responsible for what they do with it.

It's much more complicated in practice, but in theory, it's pretty simple: convert existing car lanes to bike lanes. Chaos will ensue as the construction work and reduced road throughput inevitably generate huge jams.

That chaos is a feature, not a bug. It's meant to discourage people from using their car. If you keep car usage convenient, people will continue to use their car. Any measure that makes using a car inconvenient is a good thing. Low road throughput, high parking cost, low number of parking spots etc...

I've seen it played out in Paris, which was very much a car city two decades ago, and can now be described as a bike-friendly city: it's far from being on-par with Netherlands standard, but good enough that lots of people chose a bike over other methods of transportation, and cars are generally one of the slowest form of transportation in a city (behind public transit, bikes or other 2-wheelers).

Another +1 for Sertraline. It worked wonder for me after 2 years of depression (classified as mild to severe using some clinical test).

I've been taking it for 4 months, and since my life has gotten back to normal my doctor has advised tapering off of it, starting today. We'll see how it goes.

I thought it was standard procedure to advise trying tapering off if your life got back to normal, and see how it goes (at least that's how my doctor presented it). I guess that's not a worldwide standard though.

I wasn't aware of that, thanks!

Replying to sibling: that 30-pin connector predates the Memorandum. It's exactly such chargers that the EU wanted to regulate at the time. Every company had their own incompatible charger.

Saying there was no mandate is only technically true. The EU gave an ultimatum to phone companies to make a compatible charger "or else", which led to a "Memorandum of Understanding" [1] deciding on Micro-USB.

Apple didn't follow that Memorandum, the EU got pissed, so now we reached the "or else" part (it took quite some time considering the Memorandum was more than 10 years ago).

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...

Honest question: what are the service intervals like for the ICE part of plug-in hybrids?

Considering they are unused most of the time, I'd expect very infrequent maintenance, and even some parts switching from X years to lifetime.

Edit: a short Google search [1] shows that for actual cost, plug-in hybrids have the same cost per mile than EVs, which is half the cost of ICE cars. It makes sense to me because batteries are a lot smaller/cheaper, the ICE doesn't get used all that much, and there is regenerative braking.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129728_plug-in-hybrids...

I had the urge to get into car repairs (despite not owning one) and so far Youtube and Google has served me well to do some simple repairs/maintenance.

While manuals are good, there is nothing better than a video precisely showing how it's done. Even better if it's a good quality video where the author explains all the details you might not know that are not mentioned in the manuals because a mechanic reading those manuals is supposed to know that.

I also love ChrisFix videos to acquire some general knowledge about repairs/maintenance, but if you can find videos for your particular model and job, it's much better.

Thanks for the feedback! I've not had the occasion to try gravel tires.

For me, the main reason to use road tires is grip on asphalt, not rolling resistance improvment. On your commute, you may need to stop in an instant, and more grip = quicker stop = safer (I've had a few close calls, especially downhill under rain).

Obviously, that's also dependent on your regular commute road condition.

I'm in agreement with almost everything except the tires. Unless your commute has a significant portion of rough surfaces, you definitely want to use some road tires. Not the super skinny ones used on road bikes, so you don't have an issue with tram lines/pot holes/curbs, but good reinforced road tires (so you don't have flats when going over glass/nails/whatever).

I've been commuting daily on a mountain-bike (chosen for the comfort of a full suspension and the braking power of disk brakes), and switching from the factory all-terrain tires to road tires about 2/3 the width has been a huge improvement: a lot less rolling resistance, and a lot more grip, especially when it's raining (despite less width).

One possible future is that the increasing pressure to have data out of reach of the US under the Patriot Act will lead to powerful competitors outside the US, starting from domestic market and then expanding internationally.

It's already well under way in China, where US big tech isn't as prevalent and one big example of this is Aliexpress, which is known outside of China borders. Russia is known for having local competitors as well.

The biggest push though is currently the GDPR, which makes it illegal to handle EU citizens data in a way that allows the US to access it. While enforcement is super slow and non-compliance very very high, it's slowly having an impact, where EU businesses now try harder to choose EU providers to avoid that non-compliance.

While I don't know of a specific success-story to point out right now, I think there are good odds there will be some in the long term.

Note that I only talk about GDPR because I'm European, but there are similar initiatives in other countries around the world. I heard about Brazil LGPD for example.

> For decades, tailpipe emissions — both the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and the particulates that cause air pollution — have overshadowed the tire problem

This is no longer the case with EVs (no tailpipe emissions), so the next thing to tackle is tire pollution.

EVs also produce more tire pollution than ICE vehicles because they are heavier (because of the batteries) and accelerate quicker (because electric engines have instant torque).