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knuckleon Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016)

Thanks. And, that is sad to read.

knuckleon Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016)

That appears to have been published almost a decade ago, on September 12, 2016 if I'm reading this right: https://xkcd.com/1732/info.0.json

That makes me wonder how the science and predictions have changed and how much worse off we are now.

knuckleon I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)

If I'm being honest, software was a hobby before it was a profession. I just thought computers were fun from about age 10 or so. In college I wanted to study Civil engineering, but shifted to Computer engineering and then it turned out the world wanted software so bad they'd let me do whatever I wanted as long as I gave them a little software along the way.

I see my sons tinkering with software now in the same way I did. They want to play games and make games and build their own tools. I don't know whether they'll wind up building software as a profession, but I'm sure they'll have the base skills needed to.

knuckleon Using AI to write better code more slowly

Stop being reasonable! This is a hypecycle!

knuckleon Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

I think you're 100000% correct.

These problems will continue as long as it is legal to operate in an unsafe way.

We've learned this in every other industry, but we can't seem to accept it in software. One of my hopes for AI is that it reduces the cost to behave responsibly to a level where this absurd resistance to acting responsibly erodes.

knuckleon Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta

From the paper:

The micromobility ban was implemented in the city of Atlanta on 9 August 2019. We use high-resolution data from 25 June 2019 to 22 September 2019 from Uber Movement to measure changes in evening travel times between 7:00 p.m. and midnight

The data was very specific to evenings in certain areas.

knuckleon Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta

Atlanta is huge. It can take two hours at highway speeds to get through it. Most routes do not allow for scooters. I think it's obvious that banning scooters cannot have had impact on most commute routes. This conclusion needs to be more specific about commute routes impacted to help folks learn from the data.

I think they also need to discuss other projects which impacted commute times at the time. For example, major work on the GA400/I285 intersection began at that time. Changes to I75 and its dedicated pay lanes was underway. Those two routes are used by huge numbers of commuters every day and the impact was huge.