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New comment by tuna74 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

tuna74 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:30:52 +0000

Barf and shit are two very different things.

New comment by tuna74 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

tuna74 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:26:43 +0000

There are taxis and they are pretty cheap (compared to western Europe and the US). It is not a replacement but you CAN get home if you are out late.

New comment by tuna74 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

tuna74 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:24:16 +0000

And you also realise that for most things a van is more practical than a pickup truck.

New comment by tuna74 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

tuna74 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:22:32 +0000

There are family restaurants in Japan as well. You would not bring your family to the place described above, you would go with your spouse, friends or colleges or other adults.

New comment by tuna74 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

tuna74 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:08:41 +0000

There is ample parking everywhere in Japan, you just have to pay for it.

New comment by tuna74 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tuna74 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:22:43 +0000

"People die in wars, there is always collateral damage, but sometimes war is just. Sometimes the ends do justify the means."

What exactly is this "ends" you are describing?

New comment by tuna74 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tuna74 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:12:55 +0000

More than half of the people who voted in the US voted for Trump. A lot of people in Iran most probably liked the old leadership there.

New comment by tuna74 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tuna74 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:09:04 +0000

"This attack on the school comes up all the time as a talking point. And I will tell you exactly how most Iranians react: they find it weird that you’ll talk about this school, but you won’t talk about the thousands of protesters killed by the regime."

The US government is not in any way responsible for the murder of protesters in Iran. That is done entirely by the government in Iran.

The USA and Israel ARE responsible for the murder of the kids (and adults) in that school. If you are American or Israeli you can care about the murdered protesters, but it it not really your responsibility. The murdered kids are however.

New comment by tuna74 in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

tuna74 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:01:39 +0000

They don't have to sell their properties if they don't want things to change.

New comment by tuna74 in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

tuna74 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:59:08 +0000

There are reasons to have some kind of building rules. Noice, smell and shade are valid reasons to limit certain types of buildings (or activities within those buildings).

New comment by tuna74 in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

tuna74 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:56:32 +0000

Has anyone ever assumed that all people want to live in urban cores? However, current planning in the US seems to assume that most people want to live in car dependent suburbs.

New comment by tuna74 in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

tuna74 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:56:27 +0000

If you don't want to live in an apartment, buy a house outside of the urban core. Are you arguing that cities should not build infrastructure or make it nice for the people living there?

New comment by tuna74 in "Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies"

tuna74 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:34:20 +0000

You won't capture identical frames to old footage. If you want to do AI slop, just do AI slop.

Old media will have flaws, errors and low resolution (both spatial and temporal). Putting an AI filter on top of that will only make it less correct.

New comment by tuna74 in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

tuna74 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:10:02 +0000

"Generally yes (or GLFW, or SDL), but the Wayland project shouldn't delegate the job to burned out hobbyists (who will think twice before wasting their time with bad APIs)."

Who do you think work on the various parts in Wayland if not "burned out hobbyists"?

New comment by tuna74 in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

tuna74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:50:04 +0000

It is impossible to know how may Iranians want the IRGC gone. But bombing schools (and bombings in general) will definitely increase the support for it.

New comment by tuna74 in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

tuna74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:47:30 +0000

Or the US could just stop bombing Iran? Then there would be no reason for Iran to attack American cities.

New comment by tuna74 in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

tuna74 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:27:54 +0000

"Energy doesn't appear immaculately from the heavens."

It actually does. There is a big fusion reactor up there that gives us a lot of direct energy, if you don't live near the poles it is enough for everything.

New comment by tuna74 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

tuna74 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:16:38 +0000

If you are expressing your judgement based on experiences from more than 10 years ago you are not really contributing to the discussion.

New comment by tuna74 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

tuna74 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:10:59 +0000

Linus T explicitly licensed Linux under a license that allows anyone to run it but requires people who modify modifications to share those modifications.

New comment by tuna74 in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

tuna74 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:05:33 +0000

If you build good infrastructure you reap the rewards.