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Overlapping zigzags quickly trap them. Since ‘trapped’ appears to be determined by the rate of bounces, you just need to divide the area as much as possible.

Reminds me of the Brandon Sanderson novel, The Rithmatist, where creatures are also trapped in drawn shapes.

I would support re-testing on some interval like every 5 years. That said, so much could be done to make the environment safer. Lower speeds, more traffic calming, safer intersections, safer alternatives (public transit, walking, bicycle).

Better to design a street that can generally be crossed safely, than to make a road so dangerous that pedestrians have to use tunnels and bridges. People should be able to cross a street safely anywhere.

I'd be happy if whoever built the road (municipality, state, etc) had civil liability for deaths and injuries, in cases where it could be shown that an inadequate effort was made to protect pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists (nearly all roads in Canada/US, unfortunately). Maybe that could be a positive incentive for safer design from the people with the power to change the situation.

Who builds five lanes of high-speed traffic where people live and would want to cross the street? The problem is the design that puts danger where people want to be.

I was looking at the Wikipedia article for the "Global Organized Crime Index" today, and Myanmar is #1, above Colombia and Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Organized_Crime_Index

> You either need to have a designated driver, find a taxi (which doesn't exist in most rural areas), or just not drink.

Or live in a place where you don’t drive to get around.

Or walkable neighbourhoods, or public transportation.

> And don’t even get me started on logging into accounts at the Canada Revenue Agency.

At least they support standard TOTP now. https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...

> The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them.

> Long since debunked

I mean, the linked article says horses were introduced in the 1600s (brought by Europeans), and then spread throughout the Americas without requiring further European distribution.

Depends what your community needs. I'm part of a dance group that only needs to communicate events, so most communication happens by email (BCC from organizer to everyone). Then, anything more complicated happens in-person or through other channels.

This should be about what you want in your career now, and not about your age. Once you can clearly answer the first question, it will be easy to find the right place.

Some of my favourites from this year:

* The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Classic urbanist book that changed the way I see my city, and elegantly described so many things I didn't know I knew.

* A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Short, beautiful sci-fi story.

* The first four Dune books by Frank Herbert, so full of intrigue.

Even if kei trucks imported from Japan perform poorly in crash tests, they demonstrate that there is a market for smaller, more utilitarian trucks in North America -- a market that could be filled with something a little bit bigger perhaps and with more safety features.

The “Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean” podcast is excellent. It’s mostly cut-up university lectures by the author, who teaches at York University in Toronto. https://www.philipharland.com/Blog/religions-of-the-ancient-...

The release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/relnotes/

I have no specific experience with Waterloo, but sometimes towers follow a Corbusian ideal of a tower surrounded by nothing; or worse, a tower surrounded by high-speed roads/highway — essentially a stacked bedroom community with no walkable amenities.

About $100: dynamo-powered light setup for my bicycle. Never forget lights, and they’re always bright.

Nice to see in-kernel webcam support coming in. Bad webcam conferencing support (along with slow WiFi) was a big factor in moving away from FreeBSD on my laptop a couple years ago.

> As pennies are gradually withdrawn from circulation, price rounding on cash transactions will be required. This will have no impact on cheque payments or electronic payments, such as credit and debit cards, only cash transactions will be affected.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publi...

I paid $2.88 for something the other day by card. Only cash transactions (should) round.

If this reduces vehicle-vehicle collisions, that will be an improvement. However, much more needs to be done to prevent pedestrian-vehicle and cyclist-vehicle collisions, and installing transceivers in pedestrians is not a realistic option.

Cities aren't going anywhere. Building and maintaining roads and cars is expensive. Essentially you can either pay for endless freeways, or pay for a subway system. People need to get around.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366204

If an individual had somehow done this, I expect that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would be used against them. With Meta, we'll see.

> The Phase III trial has just read out, and Relyvrio shows no hint of actually working.... It did have a very good safety profile, fortunately, so it seems unlikely that anyone was physically harmed.

Phase II trials are more about safety than efficacy, so I'd say the system worked as designed.

I've known several people who, when they got signed out, couldn't remember their password and access their email, and so made a new account. I'm sure Facebook will see a spike of this.

Same in Canada, though, if I understand correctly, you have to visit a customs checkpoint in person to make a declaration: https://goingawesomeplaces.com/how-to-avoid-paying-ups-broke...

Apple's software won't let you do that, you'll need something third-party. If you're lucky, the device will be old enough to jailbreak to get full access to the file system.