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New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:26:20 +0000

So are you also arguing that pedestrians crossing at arbitrary places and times across a busy bike path is also something that is sensible behaviour?

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:23:16 +0000

Contrary to your characterization of me, I’m a cautious driver. What in my post led you to believe I’m entitled?

> Their environment is unescapable and every time you interact with a road as a ped. there’s a huge chance you might die.

I’m not excusing bad driving, but when I walk, this is plenty enough reason for me to be doubly cautious. I don’t trust any driver until they’ve stopped.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:12:56 +0000

Here in Vancouver, I see bad drivers, cyclists who don’t abide by the rules for cyclists, and pedestrians that are also a careless.

I don’t disagree that there are bad drivers, but unfortunately it’s the cyclists and pedestrians who pay the highest price for either their or a drivers negligence.

So if I’m a pedestrian, I’m going to make sure the cars are stopping before I step into traffic. Doesn’t matter if I’m right or not, I don’t want to be dead.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

jeremy_wiebe — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:38:48 +0000

My issue, as a driver, is that more and more pedestrians walk wherever and whenever they want with complete disregard for their environment. I’ve had to hit the brakes pretty hard on several occasions when I had “right of way” (right turn light, for example) and a pedestrian stepped off the curb with their face buried in their phone.

I see the fines for jaywalking as a function to encourage safety rather than criminalizing sensible behaviour (ie crossing a completely empty street probably won’t yield a fine but crossing a busy street while holding your arm out to stop traffic will, and should).

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code (2022)"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:10:38 +0000

FWIW: My hunch when I read the title was that it would be about “overly smart” programmers who tended to write code that was too dense/tricky to be maintainable by anyone but themselves. Hence smart programmers writing “stupid” (aka unmaintainable/inscrutable) code.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

jeremy_wiebe — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:29:17 +0000

Thank-you! Now I need to find a Windows machine to play it on. :)

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

jeremy_wiebe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:05:39 +0000

If I find a Total Annihilation remake, I’ll have to kiss my free time goodbye. That was the one strategy game like this that I really got into.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax"

jeremy_wiebe — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:46:45 +0000

Good for you. The problem is that today’s smartphone is essentially built to be an extremely addictive fidget spinner. Those who don’t succumb to that are the exception, not the rule.

And before you say that it’s the apps you choose to install, not the phone that’s the problem, I’d say that’s a distinction without a difference.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Rust 1.72.0"

jeremy_wiebe — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:54:21 +0000

It seems like the Rust team isn't saying that compatibility is broken, just that there is no testing or effort to ensure compatibility. In the end it's similar, but like any project, it comes down to allocation of time and resources. For something like Windows XP, I'd guess the pool of folks interested in targeting it is extremely small.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "How do we pay for parking?"

jeremy_wiebe — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:13:17 +0000

My personal pet peeve is lots that show you the apps you can pay for parking with, but then make it extremely difficult to find the lot ID.

Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Why project-based learning fails (2018)"

jeremy_wiebe — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:52:42 +0000

> > Had she followed that advice in the 60s, she points out, her students would have spent their time studying JCL

> That’s kind of irrelevant.

To be fair, I graduated from a small college in 2001 and I still had a course on JCL. Local industry used it and my program was basically a factory for graduating programmers who could help fix Y2K issues.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection"

jeremy_wiebe — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:05:58 +0000

> Since it's only implied how it works and there seems to be some confusion in the comments.

Seems like a lot of TLDR; :)

The article says exactly how it works.

> The usage is very simple: Insert the tool into the payment terminal’s chip card slot. If it can insert fully, the terminal is safe. If it gets stopped, there might be a skimmer!

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves"

jeremy_wiebe — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:54:40 +0000

Sounds like a VW: behaves differently under test.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

jeremy_wiebe — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:07:37 +0000

I often have multiple terminal tabs open. Sometimes I’ll run a command that ends up taking a while and switch away and forget about it.

So I added a fish command completion script that plays a beep with afplay if the task took longer than 5 seconds. It helps me get back on task for those “just long enough” tasks that I run.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Tintin, Hergé and Chang"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:34:58 +0000

I remember borrowing Tintin books from my local library in rural Manitoba, Canada! I would get every one that I could transferred to my branch. That was in the early ‘80’s

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "100 Days of SwiftUI"

jeremy_wiebe — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:18:04 +0000

Currently we only share Perseus (our exercise and article npm library). We do hope to begin work to share more code at some point but it hasn’t risen up in the priority list just yet.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Apple subreddit reopens after moderation team threatened with removal"

jeremy_wiebe — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:03:36 +0000

Reminds me of Saturday Night Live’s Celebrity Jeopardy where one contestant famously mispronounced “ThePenIsMightier” category. (Just lowercase the first “I”)

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "100 Days of SwiftUI"

jeremy_wiebe — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:27:48 +0000

The problem is that developer experience (and often user experience) aren’t always the highest priority. For many businesses that want to ship a mobile app, cost is by far the biggest constraint. And “writing once, shipping everywhere” pushes out native development.

We at Khan Academy have moved much of our app to React Native and overall it’s a great experience and much easier to maintain than two native apps.

Of course, the constraints and requirements vary by business and so what’s right for us may not be right for you.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, files for bankruptcy"

jeremy_wiebe — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:07:50 +0000

I’m not too surprised. Since introducing the Instant Pot there has been a lot of competition on their main product (pressure cooker). It seems like a race to the bottom for cost and so they must have faced shrinking profit margins. Also, they were diversifying their product offering into products that seemed like they were grasping and not really aligned with their main offering.

New comment by jeremy_wiebe in "Why do cats knead?"

jeremy_wiebe — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:10:44 +0000

So basically, we don’t know?