Ha. The traffic curb example is actually a good one. I don’t think it’s an excuse to build a potentially dangerous ramp because you aren’t a cyclist yourself. People who design ramps should be capable to do it properly.

Imagine it were a ramp for wheelchairs and they would have decided that a 20 degree slope is doable.

This may be intentional.

Road to sidewalk is a speed transition point. The transition from street to sidewalk via a tight turn here is an effective traffic-calming component to slow down bikes from road speed to walking speed. That's done on freeway off-ramps, where there's a curved section or two of decreasing radii to force vehicle speeds down before they reach a stop sign or traffic light. Same problem.

This is the most likely reason. They should have put a sign, but the ramp looks right to me if you want them to match pedestrian speed when merging into a pedestrian space.

Yes, this is most likely the reason.

Which means that the author didn't "care" enough to think through what the reason might have been or didn't "care" enough for the pedestrians.

Yeah, that's why we have raised crosswalks and stop signs everywhere that a pedestrian has to interact with a car.

Or that we have safe and separated bike lanes instead of paint to keep cyclists safe, right?

Do you really think a pedestrian feels safe here with this design?

Its the same reason many dont walk places. Too many half passed attempts by people who don't care designing crosswalks and intersections for cars and not pedestrians.

I don't get what you're getting at here. But, yes, I feel safer with a cyclist going slow on a shared sidewalk rather than going at full speed.

For some reason, cyclists like to close their eyes when their fellow cyclists run stop lights, cut people off, hit pedestrians. Oh but cars are more dangerous! Yeah, no shit, but that doesn't excuse cyclists not caring about pedestrians.

This reminds me of Tempest in a Pothole, an episode of The Paper Chase TV show from 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFBX4M5LCQ&t=2896s

The thrust is that standards of accountability are (or should be) higher for a professional than for a random reasonable person.

I don't disagree with you that people who design these things should be capable. That isn't what the post is about though, it's about whether or not they care.

I agree people should be able to design things property, but I'm not sure this ramp is actually a good example. It might be! But no one is talking about an obvious issue for any ramp that would exist in that photo: it is merging bikes in to pedestrian traffic. So I'd think that you specifically want a ramp that forces the bike to slow down.

Yeah, not doing one's job well because they don't know how to (and won't bother to figure out) is an example of not caring, fundamentally.

People who aren't competent to do a job also generally aren't competent to teach themselves the job. That's why we the whole idea of qualification, competency testing, supervision, training, etc., exists.

Windows 10 EOL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

Also a lot of very capable machines cannot run Windows 11.

I have a windows machine (windows 10) that I will never upgrade to windows 11, that’s the end of the line for me as far as Windows goes. I also have an old laptop that still runs windows XP, I turn on once in a while but I do keep it offline.

At work windows reigns. Im not looking forward to but soon they’ll install windows 11 on our dev machines. I’m really not looking forward to that at all.

Same procedure as every year.

A lot of the talks are actually dubbed in English and French (and sometimes in other languages).

Edit: the dubbing (like everything at the conference) is done by volunteers.

You can also contribute the language filtering yourself: https://github.com/voc/voctoweb

Addition: At least last year, they would often reupload videos with more languages later on. So if the talk you are interested in is not available in a language you speak, check back later.

Are subtitled versions coming too, or perhaps just transcripts?

They do make subtitles, although some talks from 37C3 are still marked as TODO so I’m not sure what the timeline is. You can help! https://c3subtitles.de/

And by the way, here’s the language filter issue – not a lot of discussion since it was created in 2019, though: https://github.com/voc/voctoweb/issues/399

Kudos in the launch! Looking good!

One benefit of Google Translate is with languages like Hebrew and Arabic, you can enter in those languages phonetically or with on-screen keyboards.

Oh, big official orthographic reforms happened in 1944 and then in 1996. So that happened in the 90s, and a few minor revisions after that.

A lot of English vocabulary (technology but also every day life) had an influence on German, especially in Eastern Germany post-reunion. An example: Most people born after 1990 probably invite you to a Geburtstagsparty instead of a Geburtstagsfeier.

Compared to the after-war generations, hyper-local dialects probably faded out as bit as well. If I talk to people from my grandparents generation, there were sometimes difference in terms even though people just lived a few villages apart.

Biggest development I am happy about, is that the capital ẞ is probably becoming official during my life time.

We rented a parking spot in our underground garage.

If you don’t mind me asking, how do you keep track of eating healthy?

It’s not one app but a mix of different things. Alarms to take supplements at meal times, Amazon subscriptions set to the right intervals so I always have oatmeal for my breakfast, supplements before they run out etc., alarms that tell me when to stop eating and start eating again after a 14 hour gap for IF, shopping in bulk at Costco and making sure there is nothing in the house that’s “bad” for me.

I’m not tracking my meals. I did use MyFitnessPal for a bit but I didn’t find it useful.

Two things to keep in mind:

I have had interactions with support in the past where “wait-a-second-it’s-a-long-nonsense-string” was good enough for them and they did NOT ask me to read it out.

I also had the interaction with a bank that asked me to read it out, and I was glad that my nonsense string was a list of 8 hyphenated words rather than a barfed up random string.

8henna-Such-Brain-Civil0-Grown5-modified8 is better than gpqmxsc5utowduc8fhqvntsXsgvMDzs0rclsiwzt

I use something similar to the hyphenated words now, as well. I use to make up random things like "Error Invalid" answer or missing input until I had to get support on one and the guy started his "I just need to ask you a coup...wait a second....hold on sorry, I'm getting an error, I need to put you on hold" and put me on hold before I could say anything, I waited and jumped in the moment he came back because I felt bad (the support center didn't make the system). He found it funny at least.

If the support staff can compare what you said with what's on their screen, it's obviously stored in plaintext. And they probably won't even distinguish uppercase from lowercase letters, or 5 from S.

So it's a waste of time to insist on a large amount of entropy for these things. Battery horse staple is where it's at. :)

Yes, always use a fake but plausible answer.

Q) What was your first pet's name?

A) Peachtree

Also performance.

foo could mean foo/index.js, foo.js at the minimum. So you have 2x the lookups. Oh no, wait we also potentially have mjs, cjs, jsx, ts and tsx.

So 12 times the stat checking for each import.

> foo could mean foo/index.js, foo.js at the minimum. So you have 2x the lookups.

Only in the worst case. If it's foo.js there's only one lookup.

> Oh no, wait we also potentially have mjs, cjs, jsx, ts and tsx. So 12 times the stat checking for each import.

Again, you're only taking into account the worst case.