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chopsuey5540

84 karma · joined April 30, 2022

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chopsuey5540··on 'Sesame Street' Faces Uncertain Future Amid Funding Cuts and Layoffs
What do you think they are going to do with all that money they’re going to “save”?
chopsuey5540··on Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
Sure, but traditionally only the man’s name gets passed down to children
chopsuey5540··on Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment
In Paris, most people who are now biking are people who would have taken public transportation before, so the amount of cars on the roads is roughly the same as before.
chopsuey5540··on Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment
I've also been a daily cyclist for over 10 years in Paris and paradoxically, I feel less safe now when I'm riding on shared infrastructure (that is roads without a separated cycling lane). I attribute it to the fact that people driving, and especially people who HAVE to drive (taxis, deliveries, etc...) are facing insane levels of congestion and are lashing out on cyclists because they blame them for being stuck in traffic for hours every day.

Now of course as a cyclist, I applaud all this new infrastructure but I'm wondering if there's a way to appease this growing atmosphere of violence (and I'm not exagerating, I've seen several fights break out between motorists and cyclists). Given the very limited space available in Paris centre, I don't really see an easy way unfortunately...

Curious if that's also something you noticed / experienced ?

chopsuey5540··on Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
This looks interesting but I’m a bit worried about the CSAM / illegal stuff part, could a user get in trouble because he has traces of that in his crawled index? Also, how large is the index after indexing for a few months?
chopsuey5540··on You are never taught how to build quality software
You might be correct today but that’s a pretty sad state of affairs, don’t you think we can do better? Most other engineering domains can deliver projects without bugs, with various definitions of “bug” of course
chopsuey5540··on Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
Yes indeed, they are being deceptive to the local community to try to rip them off.
chopsuey5540··on Young people are flocking to astrology
I’m far from being antivax but if you look at the thousands / millions of deaths caused by religious wars and / or strict societal control in history and up to today I’m not sure I agree with your statement that antivax people are way more dangerous than organized religion.
chopsuey5540··on Electric bike, stupid love of my life
Where are you getting your numbers from? I got my new e-bike insured for 2 years for 10% of the purchase price
chopsuey5540··on Ask HN: What are you going to learn in 2023?
Spanish! Open to any tips on the best way to do that :-)
chopsuey5540··on Burnham, Elon, and the Revenge of Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Aha of course, the democrats would have applauded brutally laying off 75% of the workforce had he been “toeing the party line”.
chopsuey5540··on Is the Ride over for Uber?
"Just fucking create a killer product and work on refining that product to the best of your abilities".

I'd argue that that is the exact reason why Apple is where it's at today.

chopsuey5540··on Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
Probably France
chopsuey5540··on Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?
The thing that did it for me was building a "web browser" in VB6 using a printed book and copying the lines one by one. It was just a wrapper around a webview with a few buttons and text fields to navigate.

I think what I found amazing what that it was relatively easy to rebuild something that I used every day and that was immensely cool/useful.

So maybe help him rebuild a basic instagram / TikTok clone app on a mobile device?

chopsuey5540··on Ask HN: Teach me something new
The book "The Unfolding of Language: the evolution of mankind's greatest invention" by Guy Deutscher explains this very well and has numerous examples. As a language noob, I found it fascinating!