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by rogerdb 1y ago
I'm not an expert in the genre, but I am a big fan of Neuromancer. I skimmed the article, and while I agree that the "cyberpunk" aesthetic has practically evolved into self parody, I'm not sure I agree about the analysis
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by rogerdb 3y ago
Taxis are complementary to the higher-priority parts of the hierarchy. It's easier to commit to walking/cycling/public transport knowing that you can always take a taxi in a pinch. SOVs have the inverse effect - it's har
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by rogerdb 3y ago
The hierarchy isn't so much about how green each individual option is, but rather about how trips should be distributed to reach an overall optimum. For short trips or connections, walking should be more convenient because you don&#x27
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by rogerdb 4y ago
Not seeing it mentioned in the other replies, so I'll mention that (at least the way I read it) "our massive car addiction" should be taken as a societal addiction to cars rather than addiction of any individual. If someone l
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by rogerdb 5y ago
These shouldn't be thought of as orthogonal issues. You can dramatically improve the walkability of a place by reducing the amount of space reserved for parking.
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by rogerdb 5y ago
It's mostly impressive from a technical standpoint, since the programming of games from this era would be strongly tied to the display resolution, eg. a programmer could know which background tiles or entities could be shown in the vie
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by rogerdb 5y ago
Depends on your definition of "highly valuable" - from that time period, there's a very short list of cards worth >$1000, quite a few in the $100-$999 range, and a ton in the >$10 bracket. What they're actually wor
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by rogerdb 5y ago
I don't think it's too surprising - cards from this era are primarily collector items, so among equal rarity cards, the most "iconic" ones are the ones that demand the highest price. Charizard had a pre-existing (and con
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by rogerdb 7y ago
FWIW, I did RTFA (top to bottom) before commenting. I chose to reply to some parts of the article and not others, especially the parts I felt were particularly hyperbolic. Anecdotally, in my career I've never had to compile something m
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by rogerdb 7y ago
I'd argue that of any software project on the planet, Windows is the closest to having unlimited resources; especially when you consider the number of Windows customers for whom backwards compatibility is the #1 feature on the box. And
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by rogerdb 7y ago
This is definitely an interesting take on the car analogy so thanks for posting it! I don't know that I agree 100% (I think I could 'settle' for a car that needed be be fueled once or twice a year if it came with some other n
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by rogerdb 7y ago
> Would you buy a car if it eats 100 liters per 100 kilometers? How about 1000 liters? I think the analogy here is backwards. The better question is "how much would you prioritize a car that used only 0.05 liters per 100km over one
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by rogerdb 7y ago
Haha, that's a great link. I actually laughed out loud at how ridiculous his comment sounds. I used to work on a team at Amazon that was _very_ relieved and happy to move away from Oracle and onto the AWS databases. I wasn't direc