Infrastructure like this is mutually exclusive with the urban density of a real city.

If you have a highway like this, all you get is a highway, instead of a city.

Double it and pass the problem to the next generation

So what?

Living in a city with actually good public transit, it is used to achieve exactly that. To get any one passenger from any one point within the metropolitan area, to any other. To work for everyone, even though every single person is starting from a different point, and going to a different destination.

It doesn’t matter where you’re going or from where. There is a public transit stop nearby at both ends.

The fuck do you mean “a small segment of the trip”? I share this city with a stupid number of other humans, only a small number of which I go to work with every day, yet a significant portion of of the entire city population travels to work, entertainment and shopping, using the exact same transit network.

Your trip may overlap with a varying number of entirely different individuals along each segment of the route, and at each end it might just be you walking a few dozen meters… But come on! The fact that it adds up is beyond obvious!

Your argument is only valid for mass transit, that isn’t actually mass transit.

And as density goes up (read less roads and carparks), the overlaps INCREASE and the whole thing gets more efficient.

There is a train station in Tokyo, that serves the same number of people every day, as there are citizens in my entire country.

Can you even imagine what a highway interchange that could serve 5 million people within 24 hours would look like? No, because it’s a physical impossibility.

The only reason the number can get so high, is because transit systems consolidate travellers even when they aren’t going to the same places.

Your sister isn’t doing her female cats a favour.

Neutered cats statistically live longer and healthier lives. Fertile animals have health risks. Unless you actually intent to breed your cats, there is no reason to leave them unfixed.

If you can’t afford it, don’t get a cat. It’s like adopting a pet without first figuring out whether you can even buy the food to keep it alive.

How TF was neither cat neutered?

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Not just murica military, but still.

I honestly freeze almost all my bread. I don’t go through a loaf nearly fast enough to finish it off before the remaining slices start going fuzzy.

In the freezer I can take out slices as and when needed.

But if my tiny freezer box is full, the fridge will also buy me several days.

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I’m not sure whether you’re kidding, but I wouldn’t complain either.

Five and six are not good games, but played in co-op, slightly drunk, they are a riot of cringe, ridiculousness and camp.

We laughed our asses off in the Ada story sections where the second player constantly pops into existence as a faceless “agent” because Ada doesn’t normally have a companion, but they had to make her sections somehow playable in co-op.

The games are top tier material to laugh at.

sigh of relief

2016

They key for gyro aiming on a console where the screen is attached, is to get the movement to be as one to one as possible, to make it work as if the screen is a portal into the game world that turns in a matching direction as you move the device.

I had this revelation back with the PS Vita, where Killzone Mercenaries worked this way by default. It was magical for an FPS game to play that well on the tiny vita with its miniature analogue sticks.

The joystick camera input and gyro also worked in concert, I’m fairly certain the game hybridized the input signals such that if you moved the device to correct your aim, that would override any current input signal from the stick, making it possible to correct overshoot and undershoot in a way that almost felt like the console was reading your mind.

I’ve not been able to get that with steam input, but you can get close.

Messenger is just crap.

She thought they were shoes made out of babies, rather than for babies.

I’ll say the same thing about teams as I did messenger.

The format was introduced 13 years ago. MS had the time, and we know they have the resources.

This is 200% on teams being shit piece of crap software.

Short of answering any questions about a product I ask, all of them.

If I want or need something, I will come looking. Anything beyond that is the market trying to solicit demand where none need exist.

So much waste could be eliminated if that just… Stopped.

Hugging time

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Indeed. Ready for websites, not everyday media files.

As is webp. Animated webps have been a thing this whole time.

Cinnamon hasn’t been keeping up for years. When I tried Mint again when I went full-time linux last year, and found the same unfixed bugs from three years prior, I ditched it forever.

The format has been around for 13 years, and is objectively superior to its predecessors. By now it is actually set to be replaced by avif and jpgxl which are even better.

At this point running into cases where it doesn’t work makes me question the software, not the format.