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I really enjoy the way this is put together. I have written a number of javascript game engines, to play with over the years, and this hit a really nice spot between, I need to throw this whole thing to gether in the next 2 hours to entertain the kids, and the subsequent I really want to do a deep dive into the nitty gritty of this thing.

Looking forward to slapping a few quick games into this and distract the kids in a low bandwidth type style.

I generally agree with the thesis here.

Adjacent points: I also think that selecting mature projects for your dependencies matters significantly. My old couchdb or early node work is generally defunct. On the other hand, I have some dotnet projects that are still functional with zero updates from a decade or more ago.

Additionally, it's reasonable to keep a copy of your dependencies somewhere in case the vendor dies, the licensing changes, or something else catastrophic happens. Even if you just image dev's machines when they offboard. There have been a few times this has prevented permanent project death or rewrite emergencies for me.

I think the issue is that when you look at it from the modern perspective of profit the economics don't work out.

If look at it as a way to spend huge piles of money to subsidize a lifestyle it suddenly is less charming

While micro plastics are a problem climate change is the train coming down the tracks at civilization as a whole.

I agree the EVs don't fix everything they are in theory buying us time to make the choices that get rid of cars in the long term.

What is the advantage here vs a polarization filter and a standard camera?

At cold temps you lose range a few different ways: First heat in an EV isn't free, this is usually where it gets you. People get in go "oh man its cold" and crank up the heat and there goes range. When you see one of the "this person ran out of power waiting in line at the Tesla charger in winter time" pictures this is how they did it.

Second battery efficiency goes down.

Finally, the battery usually is constantly doing the regen breaking thing but in cold weather it doesn't to save pack wear until you get the pack warm again

I have to say that the "fun facts" included here are actually pretty cool. They are exactly the sort of thing one would want to use to explain the whats and whys of the ship to your kid.

I think the key here is mostly to go slow. Right now,if I'm bike commuting I need to keep up with cars or risk getting rear ended or tailgated or shouted at. Setting things up so you don't have to worry about cars while on your bike means you can bike at a more reasonable speed instead of 25mph.

Think beach cruiser bikes not guys in spandex on race bikes

This is the fundamental problem. One an individual basis moving to a 8k square foot house in the suburbs is the thing to do. For the aggregate this means the mass transit gets worse, the traffic gets worse the emissions get worse, the tax base gets smaller.

The solution is policy. Use public money to make that 2 hour transit shorter and everyone wins, not just those of us with cash

As city dweller, I really would like less parking in my city.

Turns out surface parking is a better $/sqft than garages once you count maintenance. This means that the core part of the city where density is greatest is ringed by a 2-5 block wide wasteland of surface lots. Its not great. Especially now that work from home is a thing and the divide between people who live here and people who drive here to work is obvious because the suburb people aren't here any more but their parking spaces still are

I have js disabled by default on my phone for these reasons.

It also eliminates most the incredibly annoying bits of the web: cookie banners, modal dialogs asking me to subscribe to newsletters, auto play videos.

On my phone 90% of the time I'm looking to read your content not interact with your spa. Enabling js is a 2 touch process if I need it.

I think it is fairly stupid on my part but it does add another layer of effort between me and doom scrolling

I actually think we should also include a hood height limit.

I would be for a CDL for any vehicle that is tall enough that an aver age pedestrian standing on the street cannot see over the hood.

I'm over 6 feet tall and I regularly have trouble doing this as a pedestrian in the USA. I can only imagine how it is to be smaller.

The city I live in added "transit oriented development" a few years back along with a bus rapid transit along the same area.

The results appear to be a full bus, the whole sale replacement of one and 2 story buildings along the bus line and a general consensus in the city that it worked pretty well.

We just approved ending parking minimums and by right auxiliary housing units, read anyone can put in an apartment over their garage, this summer so the jury is out on it as yet city wide.