I love that I can easily correct and annotate bike lanes

At least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.

They mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.

My experience with it on Android had several weird bugs

• Consumed a lot of battery
• Crashed on swapping focus to another app
• Opening the app would get stuck connecting to the game state server (even though the app works fine offline) so I had to use airplane mode to launch the app

These seem resolved now

This is a game I keep coming back to. I love it, and it’s got great replayability. I’m glad the phone version works well now.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

But… We are all fish

Why not put the bridge somewhere internal, then? It’s not like it needs windows.

“well actually” room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! … But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.

Yeah. It’s also a lot easier to put in cameras then rip out a stroad.

Yeah. It’s also a lot easier to put in cameras then rip out a stroad.

Speed cameras in NYC are extremely effective at reducing speeding.

Legal changes enabled NYC to issue tickets from speed cameras at night and on weekends starting in August of last year. This provided a great natural experiment because they were recording speeding events before and after.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/03/17/drivers-getting-nabbed-with-fewer-speeding-tickets-data-show

Speeding dropped 40% by March.

You’re in for a treat!

I’m playing a bit of totk, and building out a version of https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/06/18/assume-normal-costs-an-update/ in Nimby Rails!

It’s important to not only engage with theoretical economics but also look at studies in practice.

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/rent-control-regulation-studies-to-know/ is a good overview with four papers on the effects of rent control in different locations in the US. They don’t always find that it harms construction! That means something else is going on. We should figure that out and fix that problem while at the same time having rent control to keep people housed.

I live in NYC and looking around me it’s clear that sky-high rents that have doubled in a few years are not meaningfully driving new construction. With one exception that is: nearby New Jersey. Jersey City has one of the strongest rent control laws around and is booming.

Why is that? I can’t say for sure but I think the biggest one is zoning. NYC almost doesn’t allow new construction, so builders don’t do much of it, especially if you look at it proportionately to the current population. NYC suburbs in directions other than New Jersey nearly don’t build at all because they’re controlled by single family homeowners who refuse to allow densification.

So in this context, we can impose rent control and not harm housing because we’re already not building in NYC. We should also figure out how to build the housing we need! Maybe once we do that we can reexamine rent control, and maybe it will be needed less. Maybe by then the revolution will be here and we won’t need landlords at all…