Tokyo has a population of some 14 million. Dallas is about 1.3 million. Did you pick cities with populations exactly 10x apart on purpose or something?
this is the west, we can afford to spend more marginally on transportation to:
- have a financial and physical barrier between the riffraff and paying customers
- spend less total money (for real, the cost of second ave subway alone is about 1/3 the market cap of waymo)
- sit down in comfort with door-to-door air conditioning
- go faster
wheverever the density justifies, autonomy will make "dollar van"-style minibuses financially viable too, since unionized drivers have made full-sized buses a money pit
> I’m convinced public transit is a major reason for the birth rate collapse in east asia.
Sure thing. Just so we're on the same page, mind backing that up with the obvious basic research? You know, just a simple breakdown of birth rates vs public transit usage across the world. Rudimentary stuff.
A lot of obviously positive things correlated with lower birth rates, like not having half your kids die before they reach adulthood, being able to treat infections with antibiotics, not needing a crazy amount of labor to keep subsistence farming going.
Birth rate collapse itself is a positive thing, this planet can’t ecologically sustain pre-industrialization birthrates combined with modern medicine and life expectancy. Back in the mid-century there was a lot of academic concern about overpopulation.
Right, it's not the geopolitical situation, but cars. Natural resources + every potentially powerful hostile country is across entire oceans = success.
What exactly does specifically engine efficiency have to do with horse usage? Cars like the Ford Model T entered mass production somewhere around 1908. Oh, and would you look at the horse usage graph around that date! sigh
The chess ranking graph seems to be just a linear relationship?
> This pink line, back in 2024, was a large part of my job. Answer technical questions for new hires.
>
> Claude, meanwhile, was now answering 30,000 questions a month; eight times as many questions as me & mine ever did.
So more == better. sigh. Ran any, you know, studies to see the quality of those answers? I too can consult /dev/random for answers at a rate of gigabytes per second!
> I was one of the first researchers hired at Anthropic.
Yeah. I can tell. Somebody's high on their own supply here.
There's a huge difference indeed — uBlock + SponsorBlock are superior. Not only do I not see any ads at all—including self-promotions of the video creators and their sponsorship segments—I also get to skip content-free intermissions, tangents, etc. and jump straight to the highlight of the video.
Sponsorblock exists and is absolutely marvelous. It's a crowdsourced database of sponsored segments + an add-on that queries this database and automatically skips the sponsor segments. There's also Sponsorblock plugins for MPV if that's more your thing.
> the stdlib does things like assume filepaths are valid strings
A Go string is just an array of bytes.
The rest is true enough, but Rust doesn't offer just the bare minimum features to cover those weaknesses, it offers 10x the complexity. Is that worth it?
You could have done that in Rust but you wouldn't, because the allure of just typing a single character of
?
is too strong.
The UX is terrible — the path of least resistance is that of laziness. You should be forced to provide an error message, i.e.
?("failed to create file: {e}")
should be the only valid form.
In Go, for one reason or another, it's standard to provide error context; it's not typical at all to just return a bare `err` — it's frowned upon and unidiomatic.
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