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biorach··on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
ok so very uncommon. why are you even bringing it up?
biorach··on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
> A <1% risk of loss, if catastrophic (e.g. thrown off the platform into an oncoming train),

how common is it for people to be thrown off the platform into an oncoming train in NY?

biorach··on Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
> Why would the filmmakers make the re-enactment though?

because, as you'll see in the article, people thought it was cute and funny to dress up very small children as chimney sweeps

> by the late '20 programs were running for the elimination of Gypsies and disabled children inside concentration camps

You've got your timeline mixed up

biorach··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
> Kershaw sees this rivalry as causing the "cumulative radicalization" of Germany, and argues that though Hitler always favoured the most radical solution to any problem, it was German officials who, for the most part, in attempting to win the Führer's approval, carried out on their initiative, increasingly "radical" solutions to perceived problems like the "Jewish Question", as opposed to being ordered to do so by Hitler.[65] In this, Kershaw largely agrees with Mommsen's portrait of Hitler as a distant and remote leader standing in many ways above his system, whose charisma and ideas served to set the general tone of politics.
biorach··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
> Is there really that much science to perform

yes

biorach··on What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?
> the design is simple and elegant

Kafka is simple and elegant?

biorach··on The Ghosts of Gaelic
> Side note: as an Irish speaker, reading Manx Gaelic, with its Welsh/English derived spelling system feels like what I imagine having a stroke feels like.

Ha! That's a great description for how completely unsettling reading Manx is.

biorach··on The Ghosts of Gaelic
> Irish and Scottish are very similar, but they are not mutually intelligible

Not true.

They are mutually intelligible to a high degree. Native speakers, speaking slowly and clearly can understand most of what each other are saying.

I speak some Irish and have personal experience of this.

biorach··on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
Yeah I dunno, having seen rotaries in action and knowing a little about the hygiene and efficiency requirements of modern dairy farming, there are several things in your description that don't add up for me
biorach··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
https://xkcd.com/1369/
biorach··on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
> it does usually take 3 or 4 people to run a rotary milker, 1 for udder cleaning, 1-2 for attaching milkers, and 1 for post-milk sanitizing. But of course the people working there are generally the most desperate of society because they get shit and pissed on all day and stink even after bathing, so only costs around $10 an hour.

Maybe things are very different in the US but in the systems I'm familiar with (UK, Ireland, New Zealand) rotary is usually done by 1 or 2 people, the work requires care and knowledge so they are generally paid well above minimum wage and are experienced agricultural workers, they generally dont get covered in piss and shit and they don't stink

biorach··on The dark side of the Moomins
To be fair, that's an uncannily accurate prediction of many visitors' experiences when visiting Ibiza
biorach··on Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts
You can read uv code too. Rust isn't that hard to read a lot of the time
biorach··on Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts
> he fact pip or mypy code is all Python makes it much easier to interact with and patch if needed

But how often in your career have you actually done this?

biorach··on Use Long Options in Scripts
You're confusing learning with memorization.
biorach··on Switching from Pyenv to Uv
How about just install a python version with uv and install everything into that?

Or better, do the above, then create a virtual env, set the virtual env in your.bashrc and install everything into that

Better still... use uv script --init See other comments on this post

biorach··on What made the Irish famine so deadly
We grow maize, which is what we call corn, here. In significant quantities, using modern agricultural methods. Even with that the climate is not totally suitable and it is mostly used for animal feed.

I very much doubt it would have been possible to grow sustainable amounts of maize up until recent decades

biorach··on What made the Irish famine so deadly
> I know many Irish people who are straight up racist towards the English

I'm Irish. I've spent a lot of time in the countryside and the cities. This is not true. It's very rare to find an Irish person who is racist towards the British

> secondary school "Up the Ra" was a common slogan shouted by my classmates.

These days its justa catchy rebel chant. It does not necessarily mean the people chanting it support the IRA

> There's still pubs in Dublin and other places around the country where you wouldn't want to go with an English accent.

No there's not.

I can think of maybe 2 pubs in Dublin you might get an unfrindly welcome. On a bad day.

> But for us Irish, holding onto this old identity of "the oppressed" is a part of our collective psyche

You're really really over stating how prevalent this is

> a quarter of the geographical landmass of Ireland still belongs to the old oppressors. But that's another thing we need to let go off.

We did. Remember the referendum? The one where we collectively voted to remove the territorial claim from our constitution?

Your whole comment is vastly exaggerated.

There's Americans reading. Don't be giving them the wrong ideas, they've enough to be dealing with.

biorach··on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
Claude code does this already
biorach··on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
git commit after each change it makes. It will eventually get itself into a mess. Revert to the last good state and tell it to try a different approach. Squash your commits at the end
biorach··on Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
> Where is the evidence that there is buy in from the actual people doing kernel development now?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007921/

> To crudely summarize: the majority of responses thought that the inclusion of Rust in the Linux kernel was a good thing; the vast majority thought that it was inevitable at this point, whether or not they approved.

biorach··on Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
you're trolling. please stop
biorach··on Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
> A) "fewer", not "less". Breaking changes are countable.

this just makes you look pedantic and passive aggressive

biorach··on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
Because you didn't see this rhetoric because you're talking shit
biorach··on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
So.. No links eh?
biorach··on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
> Archaeologists have for 30+ years noted that there is zero-evidence for mass-migration.

That's not true. Please cite sources

biorach··on Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
> popular science and journalism has not done any favours by framing the IE studies as "The Aryans brought the Vedas with them from Europe",

I don't believe any reputable journalist or popular science publication has pushed that view in recent decades. Please post links if you have them

biorach··on The State of Vim
/usr/local/bin
biorach··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Every few years I rediscover this fact and every few years I do my best to forget it
biorach··on LineageOS 22 Released
Is the kennel driver code not available for the Community to take over the process of mainlining? If that gets done then surely the user-side code will work with all future kennels that contain the driver?
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