Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22646593

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They do it the dutch way.

Things you wouldn't do anywhere else, like leaving babies in their strollers in the streets outside shops when they go shopping.

Denmark is really a big village.

Source: my girlfriend family is Danish and I had saw them last time 4 days ago.

> * Trains to rural areas

It's more easily said than done.

Rural areas are also resistant to things that would make the area less rural, like high speed train.

Look at the fights happening in northern Italy against the TAV (the Italian version of the TGV)

> * Park-and-ride garages for people to drive in, and park next to transportation hubs

Many cities in old Europe cannot do that. Think about the central areas of Paris, Rome, Milan, Madrid.

And those that could are reluctant to do it, because it would immediately lower the value of the buildings around.

Imagine you bought a house for 100 and its value drops to 70 because they made a giant parking lot just below your window.

> * Underground parking garages at the edges of pedestrian zones, or even underneath them, coming up directly above them

In most cities in old Europe digging is very costly and sometimes impossible (most Italian cities for example)

> * Ubiquitous bike storage and bike attachments such that yes,

That would steal space to pedestrian transit

> a mom with 3 young kids can tow them from a single bike - moms in Amsterdam and Berlin do it all the time.

Compare the average street in Berlin[1] or Amsterdam[2] with those of Milan[3]

You will immediately notice a few things: in Milan trams railways are in the middle of the street, they are very slippery and dangerous for bikers; Berlin sidewalks are much larger on average; much of the transport in Amsterdam happens along canals, where cars are usually not allowed.

Things are in a certain way not because people are simply stupid or ignorant, but because the surrounding environment poses a lot of limits.

[1] https://lets-travel-more.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ryke...

[2] https://i2.wp.com/www.amsterdamredlightdistricttour.com/wp-c...

[3] https://live.staticflickr.com/205/495030650_6d7bf355b8_b.jpg

none of this is a creative tool

they are all just iterations of the same idea: streaming content

the last creative tool was, sadly, flash

sadly because it could have been the beginning of an era of open content creation platforms, but it was its end

> But have you considerer how much more accesible the internet has become?

much less

my mom could have browsed the internet 20 years ago, today she can't

she doesn't know how to signup, she doesn't even know what "login with facebook" means

> You heard of Viber? Super popular in non-western countries on-par with whatsapp. Skype you say? Zoom,webex,logmein

Iterations of the same idea.

Nothing new.

> The past always looks shinyand guess what,the internet is even more mysterious now for those who get curious enough!

It is really not.

There is just more content of lower overall quality.

> pluralsight,udemy,cybrary and MOOCs

NNTP and IRC worked well enough and they were free

In the book Kelvin accepts that he's standing in front of a godlike creature that the human mind will never understand, he surrender, lands on the planet's surface hoping that "time of cruel miracles was not past".

The acceptance is not of the illusion itself, but of the fact that we would never understand the whys, the rational thinking and scientific positivism have become the real illusion, all is lost, Solaris won, there is only the hope that Solaris will keep making "cruel miracles".

Actually there is.

People deal differently with the loss, but eventually they all get over it, because it is a natural process.

A severe refusal to move on is not what one can call a good thing.

Think about the people around you and the consequences it could have.

For example: what happens if I run this code?

    public class Main {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
        Object[] o = null;

        while (true) {
            o = new Object[] {o};
        }
      }
    }

What Erlang programming style tries to teach is not to avoid crashes by being very defensive and trying to prevent every possible error condition (it's impossible), but to detect them by being fault tolerant and restart the process from a good state.

If you read his 2003[1] thesis, at page 36 he quotes a paper from Jim Gray (who worked at Tandem computers and was a Turing award winner)

    Although compiler checking and exception handling provided by programming languages are real assets, history seems to have favored the run-time checks plus the process approach to fault-containment. It has the virtue of simplicity—if a process or its processor misbehaves, stop it

    The idea of “fail-fast” modules is mirrored in our guidelines for programming where we say that processes should only do when they are supposed to do according to the specification, otherwise they should crash.

    Error handling is non-local.

    When we make a fault-tolerant system we need at least two physically separated computers. Using a single computer will not work, if it crashes, all is lost. The simplest fault-tolerant system we can imagine has exactly two computers, if one computer crashes, then the other computer should take over what the first computer was doing. In this simple situation even the software for fault-recovery must be non-local; the error occurs on the first machine, but is corrected by software running on the second machine.

[1] http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

For example if your dev machine is Debian it won't work if the deploy machine is Alpine (similarly Windows builds won't work on Linux or Mac).

Much like what happened during French revolution.

UBI removes that risk.

I'm in favour of an UBI, but one that's really universal (rich and poor get the same amount of money, forever) and one that goes together with a real public system including public universal healthcare, public schools, public infrastructures - roads, railroads - and trasnportation, similar to the ones we have in many European countries, but improved.

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/elixir-and-io-lists-part-2...

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

Elementary's Pantheon is very nice until you have to consistently work for hours a day on something Same goes for Gnome/KDE with KDE coming second just after XFCE for its ability to set the scale factor to decimals

If the code is guaranteed to work with the current version of the dependency and packages were built to not break their API, there would be no problem

I disagree with the idea that sticking with a specific version of a dependency is a good solution, it creates more problems than it solves

If the community cannot agree on a simple thing like the package manager, imagine what'll happen if it was in charge of evolving the language

In Europe it makes a lot of difference

In Italy, were I come from, streets history can go back centuries, some of them are thousands years old and many span across regions from South to North uninterrupted

Via Aurelia, started in 250 b.c. with a length of approximately 700 Kms is not gonna be replace by a triplet of random words anytime soon, I can guarantee it

It already exists, you don't have to invent it.

It's not like the Nazis taking prisoners to the camps...

If my cats were human, they would both be in jail

One of my cats is pure breed, has never lived outside of a house, loves eating plastic, olives and chips but shows no care for fresh meat

The other one was a stray cat, she still hides food that she doesn't eat, because that's what she's been doing for the initial part of her life

In a way she adapted to live in a house, but she never learned that she's not been living in the streets for the biggest part of her life

So yes, they have their personalities, very different from each other They get bored, they enjoy snuggles (until they do not and scratch you for no reason), but can they process their feelings beyond reaction?

I'm not really sure they do in a very complex way

It happened to me for not being nice with the U.S. while bad talks about EU is widely accepted

After two years I'm still shadowbanned for no real reason...