RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116908359337948457 The usual paywall-dodgers work fine and the piece is absolutely essential reading if you're a software person. #genai

Prompting is the new cut-and-paste programming style.

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

I've been microdosing "thinking" lately. Every hour for one minute I "use my brain to think about stuff.". I believe this will put me at a competitive edge over 99.6% of the human population, if my calculations are correct.

It really is like this, at least in the off-season. A great road trip.

It’s wild how much of cars-in-cities discourse boils down to: if the city at any point accidentally subsidized my lifestyle (at the expense of others!) that it owes me continuing to do so forever.

They think they’re going to vibe code Mastercard? Doordash? They think the ability to wave a small plastic rectangle almost anywhere in the world and be loaned a car is just about some code? Come on. Fraud, compliance, infrastructure, etc. etc. bsky.app/profile/rupe...

My local highschool's athletics teams are The Spartans <sigh>

here you need this

The results are clear. Painted lanes lead to more cyclists being killed or seriously injured. Cycle tracks (i.e. protected lanes) are much safer and lead to huge increases in cycling. This is data from Vancouver. Our politicians should stop ignoring it.

I finished that thing I've been writing. It looks like I've taken on some big questions. The conclusions are what I’ve been trying to say for several years, but I believe now I've explained it better and with more context. terikanefield.com/whyextremism... For a blog post . . . 1/

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Philosophers can argue endlessly over the nature of identity, but at the end of the day the software engineer must implement the equals() method.