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What part of "if we are talking about accessibility in general that a whole different problem"?
walkable means walkable, not staircaseable.
Stop bikeshedding.
Are streets or bike lanes the right solution for wheelchairs?
I seriously doubt that...
They are the same thing.
Bicycles have wheels, they should be on the streets.
> Cities with lots of steps or staircases are only accessible for pedestrians, but no one else.
And that's good!
BTW, you can walk the bike.
Just like you do when you have to jump on a train or take the subway.
If you're talking about accessibility in general, that's a whole other problem.
Bike lanes on sidewalks aren't accessible either, there are deaf pedestrian, blind pedestrians, handicapped pedestrians, that are put at risk by sharing the same space with bikes.
> I guess it depends a lot on what you consider "bikers"
[1] is very young [2] is expert bikers, people that dresses for biking
the percentage of the population that can bike regularly in a large city is quite small and Copenhagen is a very small city.
The point is that you don't solve anything with bikes, just like you don't solve anything with skates, kick scooters and whatever you are thinking of
You're over optimizing for a small percentage of the population.
You solve a lot by removing cars from the streets (think about underground parking lots) and giving way more space to walking lanes, hardly separated from wheeled vehicles (cars, public transport, motorbikes, bycicles, whatever...)
If you improve the walkability, you also improve the mobility: people can easily switch from bike, walking the bike for a bit on a sidewalk, take the public transport, get off, walk a bit more, jump on the bike again.
If you cannot walk easily, safely and fast, you're packing pedestrian on very small areas, you're making their journey uncomfortable and leaving them at the mercy of wheeled vehicles, because they can be obviously faster and demand precedence.
And those who use a vehicle are encouraged to leave it very close to where they are going, because walking, even a little bit, is painful.
That's how we end up with cars parked in handicapped spots or on double lines or on the sidewalks or bikes chained to school gates or road signs or bus stops as you can see in cities like Milan [1] (where they use the bike a lot)
Ironically the road sign in the picture says "bikes chained here will be removed"
The majority of people in large cities walks, even if you don't notice it, even in cities terrible for walking like Rome, it's what people are good at.
Biking is like running, playing soccer, playing tennis, swimming, many people don't do it because they don't do any sport.
Biking requires skills that normal people usually don't have, but that they believe they have.
It is in fact more dangerous than driving (compared to the driver, not pedestrians)
As soon as older people could not bike anymore, they started buying electric scooters and in Holland they have now more deaths caused by scooter accidents than cars.
France is going to ban them because they are too dangerous.
People than cannot drive anymore because of age or because they had their driving license revoked, started using less "law encumbered" vehicles and the number of accidents began to rise.
People on bikes are less controlled,they are not forced to use safety measures, they are not inside a "secured box", they don't have anti intrusion bars, air bags, safety belts, etc. etc.
Very few wear an helmet, many of them don't follow street rules, they bike on the sidewalk, very fast, they are very quiet and many pedestrian don't hear them coming.
They pay a lot less taxes (and fines), taxes used to implement mobility politics.
In Italy, for example, the money that cities earn from fines, cannot be used for anything else than mobility.
City planning is complicated, you don't solve problems just by changing few rules, you have to carefully plan for them
Changing a model that has been THE model for at least half a century and that have become so popular because freed people from the task of commuting or having to go somewhere, fast, without having to share the ride with other 150 people, just like the washing machine freed women from the task of washing clothes, it's not an easy task.
EDIT
I don't want to give the idea that cities are doomed, but biking is not the solution, biking is just like cars but with different problems, THE solution is walkability.
Walkable cities are for everyone.
Bikeable cities are just for bikers.
91 km2
Counter-counterexample
Rome, 1,285 km2
I'm from Rome
Rome is particularly bad regarding cars (we are probably the western city with the highest number of cars per capita, 73 every 100 inhabitants, if I remember correctly), but it is also a very complicated city for biking.
For two reasons
- hills: they are not a problem for the majority of expert bikers, they are if the average age of the citizens is 45 years, most of them are not expert bikers and there are hills everywhere. Add to it the road surface which is less than optimal for biking in large areas of the city, including the city center (for many reasons, historical in primis, but also political, even more so lately that we have the worst major in the world).
- distances: many people live very far from where they work, 1.5 million people everyday come to Rome for working, but live outside of it, most likely in the range 30-50 kms from the city, not counting the distances you have to cover when in the city (it's easily around 10kms, or 20kms total in a day). How many people can bike 100kms a day and make it alive? How long would it take?
Remember this is used by police to find suspects, not to replace the judge.
It means that just looking at a picture, 2 suspects every ten are successfully recognized
Compared to the system we have now, were to find who's guilty police have to go trough a list of suspects were all of them except one (or a few) is innocent, 2 every 10 is very good.
We're not talking about considering people guilty until proven innocent, but helping police to investigate in the right direction.
In UK almost a quarter of murder cases are still unsolved.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/almost-quarter-all-murders-are-sti...
Are you a WASP? I guess you're safe in US.
Are you black, latin american, native american, foreigner? I'm quite sure you are safer outside of the US.
There's a field on emails called subject.
Linux kernel is still developed using mailing list, I can imagine only a few things harder than that, still the kernel team manages to work on it just fine, without being in the same physical space.
Channels are just another way of labeling stuff...
> (even more when I'm working from home)
emails have been distributed, async and remote-aware since the 60s.
I'm really genuinely curious to understand why people keep making this point, while that's one of the most irrelevant feature of Slack.
I'm not saying email is perfect, just saying that your points are not a unique feature of slack, anyone of them have existed for decades.
> Yes, e-mail could be used for all of that, it would also make my inbox completely useless.
Just like channels on Slack after a while.
BTW https://www.mattermost.org/ offers the same features Slack offers, but I guess people are not switching because mattermost is not a recognized brand.
Just like people don't buy Nike shoes to ditch them for equally comfortbale but brandless flea market shoes.
It's a shame that tech people are so fashionable.
EDIT: formatting
We'll talk about it 10 years from now when Slack is gonna be "old cruft" while IRC still gonna be there rocking.
That's a very high expectation.
In reality the opposite is true, the less human interaction there is, the more people polarize around their ideas.
do I absolutely really need to know that a Docker build has completed on the project channel?
Do I really care?
But it gets rewards points to those involved in that build: "Look! I did something good! I deserve a treat"
People also love cocaine.
If many companies are falling for this, it actually means it is not good for workers, only for the company.
Isn't what you are describing the de-facto use case of a mailing list?
I've been able to introduce the BEAM in a large company (where I work) but the barrier has been they don't know it, they know very well the JVM and they don't care about the language if it can produce a runnable jar.
I would really use the JVM more if I could program it in Elixir.
http://www.burdigala-encheres.com/upload/biens/7186/191833.j...
> The Clio also had the horn button on the indicator stalk. The in-car UX was super on point
Yes, that was the Renault trademark :)
> Good quality stereo, too.
Probably one of the best for the price tag.
There is no passport check if you are an EU citizen, but the border still exists.
Be sure to not bring anything that may cause troubles, but don't worry if they treat you like a troublemaker, it's just their job.
You're on a van, packed with stuff, you dress weird, you look weird, you probably haven't slept properly the night before, they are going to search you, no matter what.
Even more so if you have merch with you, for example in Switzerland they want you to pay taxes on the merch you sell, so they try as hard as they can to get an idea of how much money you're going to make so that they can charge you on the way back, when you leave the country.
That's what crossing borders with bands (mostly american) taught me.
True.
Another thing that might not be obvious is that they are fixed on the steering wheel, so they are always in the same position relative the your hands, just like the gear levers in a modern Formula 1 car.
We usually smoke everything we have a couple of kms before the border, just to be sure we have nothing when they are going to check on us, after all that's their job, they're gonna check anyway.
It also happened on the border to Slovenia, with my girlfriend, they separated us and told me they had a new test that detected every known drug and could charge me on the account of using.
I laughed so hard that they let us go.
Some things are controlled by the helmet movements.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e6311865f9688fdb18cb69...
The first car I bought with my own money was a Clio and the ability to control the integrated radio system without looking at it or having to take away the hands from the wheel made that car my favourite place to listen to music.
As a matter of fact I miss it so much that nowadays I almost don't listen to music while driving anymore.
EDIT
for reference the whole music controlling part was like [1], the source button switched from FM radio/AM radio/CD player and it had a wheel on the back that skipped CD tracks or radio stations, according to the current source.
If I remember correctly the lower button ejected a CD in CD mode or changed from saved station to manual tuning in radio mode.
If you pulled both the volume buttons at the same time, it muted the radio and paused the CD player.
[1] https://www.proxyparts.com/car-parts-stock/information/part-...
IE6 had just different users than Chrome has.
But MS did listen to them, even too much actually.
MS had their customers intranet developers to make happy, Chrome has its giant father, Google, the AD company.
Chrome is much worse in perspective for users freedom.
They are not
Or, if they are, they are in the same way of a custom XML templating language that can be translated to a specific javascript library implementation and then back to XML
In the same way, is Mustache isomorphic?
"{{title}} spends {{calc}}"
`${title} spends ${calc}`
"{{title}} spends {{calc}}"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9gaEiQAxY
people should be paid to work to a product under some direction, if you want some professional outcome
teams where people come and go rarely have built solid products
Take for example the Linux kernel, Alan Cox has been working on it non-stop from 1991 to 2009, and even after resigning as TTY maintainer, he was still heavily involved up to 2014
From 1999 to 2009 he was employed by RedHat and after That by Intel until 2013
I can't honestly say he did RedHat or Intel interests more than he did Linux community as a whole interests
He's a big advocate and activist for free software, but he also said "Yearn for the good old days when you knew every contributor by name and the source code fitted on a single floppy disc ?"
In a way or another, a small group of "directors" is always better for the good of both the product and the users
But in my case my network is configured to always reach the in house DNS first, to keep latency low
[1] https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/blob/8167abd5e3c7a142...