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> Each to their own,

> I used to ride a dirt bike 30km to high school every morning

I true bogan. I appreciate that.

There is no doubt that it's co-opting baja or rally, but it's bringing the sport and suspensions (so to speak) to non-arid places. It's almost a manifestation of Excitebike but with 3000lbs baja trucks on F1 tracks. I love it, personally.

> Surely the difference is that F1 is a sport, and Monster Trucks are entertainment ? Not better, just different.

There is a middle ground, called super truck, which is (predictably, and perfectly) most popular in Australia that is about both spectacle and sport. It's an intensive race (requiring the shutdown of urban areas, like F1) but it also seems like pure uninhibited childish joy, ala monster truck. I would not be surprised if in 10 years it is a staple of childish fun in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkiV59cdR3M

I think what the author is interpreting as Japanese style is often just code that was written 10-20+ years ago when conventional ruby just looked a bit different than it does now. Enumerable was less featureful, the use of `and` and `or` was more prevalent. More people wrote in "Seattle style" where they omit parentheses, etc.

Contemporary ruby is less adventuresome and more homogenous in it's style, which I consider a good thing.

I'd gladly go back to the office if the company did away with Slack in favor of email and meetings.

Yes I was going to bring this up. The NYC airport taxi fares are fixed price ($70). There are additional smaller fees applied based on time of day, tolls, etc, but a ride to/from Manhattan to JFK shouldn't be more than $85 or so inclusive of tip.

In tears laughing. I skipped this movie but I'll be watching it tonight.

Depends on whether that "private platform" is more or less a commons.

One of the most insidious phrases we have in our hyper-online society is that the "internet is not real life".

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc have profound effects on society and the notion that they are "private platforms" that have no responsibility to uphold our broad collective values is perverse.

I've worked with Ruby for over fifteen years off and on and the last seven exclusively -- in a large codebase with a fair amount of metaprogramming. We've onboarded engineers, junior and senior, who previously have never used Ruby and it's been interesting to see who does and doesn't have a hard time with it. It doesn't seem to match overall experience and skill level. It's more of a sense that people with patience and a kind of outcome oriented approach (over fixating on why something is done a certain way) will have an easier time unwinding the complexity.

One thing I've noticed, and this is something that seems to bother non-Ruby engineers, is the people that flourish in a complex Ruby application prefer to read code over documentation.

It's little wonder that javascript is such a fraught, inferior language and ecosystem given it was so heavily influenced by Crockford and Eich. In a way I'm glad that the future of compute in the browser (such as WASM, et. al), will be dictated by corporate overlords so we don't have to deal with such mercurial personalities.

I agree as well. On top of that I won't use a keyboard where the interior side of each command key is not flush with the interior side of the key above it (x or ,). Even that extra little bit of travel for my thumbs to press the alt key bothers me.

I don't really care for typing on my Macbook but I do think Magic Keyboard with numeric keys is probably as good as it gets for me. I don't really miss mechanical keyboards at all.

Yeah I'm seeing issues loading tweets too.

True, but Maine (and NH/VT) have the distinction of having implicit/legal trespass. So if you are in the know on where there are large tracts of unposted private land managed for logging (not talking about the North Maine Woods, which is amazing - and vast - but requires a fee to enter) you can have really great experiences in wilderness-ish places.

In the White Mountain National Forest, unimproved camping is 200 feet from water sources and trails, 1/4 mile from roads. If you have OnX (not sure if Gaia supports this, worth checking), you can drop a pin on the road and create a radius to get an idea of how far you need to go.

I have boondocked in my truck in turnaround/parking areas on little traveled forest roads and never had an issue, but the rangers have been known to knock on windows at the really busy trailheads (really really busy, since covid) as people are known to sleep in their cars to get an alpine start and sometimes they'll overflow into the shoulders of the road.

Next up is the new number one complain, lack of PITR. When that's ready I can finally realistically propose moving to PlanetScale to my team. I cannot wait for the day.

If I were substack I'd start figuring out how to ban AI generated content on their platform. Trust in content on certain platforms being non-AI seems like a significant selling-point going forward.

The entirety of Canada has the population similar to that of California -- a single US state. Probably has the road miles equivalent of the western United States.

This is a very interesting comment. You seem to have a firm grasp on the physics of this situation. Out of curiosity, beyond common sense, does adding pressure internally on something with a significant load of external pressure create a compounding/exponential amount of force/pressure on the material overall?

Agreed. The argument of "we've always had XYZ and we've done fine" always conveniently ignores acceleration/rate-of-change as a factor -- as if the printing press, radio, tv, internet, computing, mobile revolution, AI etc are distinct events that we "got through" with no relation to each other, when in reality they are just cycles in an ever tightening feedback loop.

> Too much implicit magic, too much memorization, too opaque to tools that might help overcome those first two problems.

If you are a senior level Rails developer none of this is true except maybe memorization and that seems to be a pre-requisite for any senior engineer in any language. It's trivial to debug rails applications with debugger and reading the underlying source code. Everything you need to solve problems is a binding.pry or `bundle open` away.

I live in an area of New England where property values have basically doubled in the last few years (since spring of 2020). Yeah I get that people moved up here in a kind of reactionary moment during covid, but it doesn't completely explain how housing costs increased at such a rate and keep growing even as we are in a quote-unquote lull in the housing market during higher interest rates. You cannot buy a home here without offering cash at over asking price.

I hate to be conspiratorial but there are times when I think this market is so irrational that there is some kind of larger force at play. It's not like the pandemic created more demand for homes -- if anything (and I hate to be morbid about this) there should be fewer buyers in the market and yet everything continues too tick up. And on top of that the rental market is completely irrational as well.

It's really hard not to give in to the idea that the market for housing isn't being manipulated by larger forces.

> There was a brief window at the beginning where it would have mattered to know the origin of the virus.

This is such a fatalistic and cynical way of looking at the world. It mattered then -- as it matters now -- because we can act on information. Everything that happened after that "window" was not overdetermined.

There is land throughout the west that encircles (or otherwise makes it difficult to access) public land that it borders that goes for obscene amounts of money for the very reason that it, defacto, has exclusive access to this land. This landowner purchased this land for that reason, and it was almost certainly marketed that way by the real estate listing.

I have replaced the pads on my Bose QuietComfort 35s 3 times in the last 6 years of wearing them almost daily. It's pretty easy to do. Beyond that they've just worked, even though I've dropped them a bunch of times. Still have excellent battery life. One of the best products I've purchased in last decade.

The Instinct is probably the most practical smartwatch on the market. They did a great job with it. I had the first generation for a year and a half before making the jump the Fenix. The full GPS came in handy a handful of times (paddling down a river) but it was nothing I couldn't have used my phone -- other than that I think I probably could have been just as well off sticking to the Instinct.

> There’s a lot of narrative and comparison and context

There's not though. Most of what is narrative is cutesy jokes. Comparisons are just... stats. If you re-watch with a critical eye you'll see it's basically a formula: in these X games he pitched this well, then he'll compare him to some historical figure on stats alone, over a clip or a screenshot of baseball reference. At some point he just reads passages off wikipedia. There really isn't any subjective thought being put into it, it's just a clever packaging of google searches in a lot of ways.

Over the christmas holiday I was surprised you couldn't purchase youtube premium as a gift card for someone else. Seems like this would be a non-trivial source of revenue for YT.

Watching kids watch youtube is like watching zombies.

I know a kid who is a big fan of any kind of sports. He is constantly watching youtube videos that are basically stats and clips packaged up with some slight humor but very little analysis. This kid has basically an encyclopedic knowledge of sports... stats. All from youtube. I was also like this to a degree as a kid, but I got my info from stats books/magazines/newspaper sports sections. So in a way the outcomes are the similar -- young kids love looking at the numbers -- but I can't help but feel icky about the way youtube can just lock a kid in for hours and hours.

* Example video about Tim Lincecum that basically enumerates the stats of his career but doesn't discuss anything else -- his personality, his pitches, his unconventional delivery, etc. Just clips (that repeat) and stats. It's bizarre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaPKJIF_Zo

In 2021 Maine cancelled all of the registrations for these vehicles, so it's a local regulation. Sounds like it was a wording issues. Looks like there is a bill introduced to fix this: https://gearjunkie.com/news/maine-bill-reinstate-revoked-del...

Can you expand on what you mean by DOA in this context?