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But lots of people _do_ already ride buses! There are already current riders, and potential riders who are making these marginal decisions. Occasional riders will decide between tr…

It's amazing to me that in the official Gemini app on Android, the hamburger menu on the left does not open on swipe - only if you click the hamburger button. A basic native UI int…

This is so disappointing! When they added the command palette, that actually gave me the final nudge I needed to start trying to minimize mouse usage and keep my hands on the keybo…

StreetComplete is a really easy way to start contributing!

In 2023 I moved into an apartment across from a school in Chicago. The room I work in looks over the street. It's shocking how many drivers are looking at their phone as they appro…

I can only find data up to 2021, but in urban environments in France that year, 165 pedestrians were killed in crashes involving a passenger vehicle. 2 were killed in crashes invol…

A minivan is a lot better for society than an SUV! It's a far more efficient use of space and weight, and isn't unnecessarily lifted so your visibility is better and your vehicle i…

I'll take the theoretical chance of an "epidemic of minitruck highway deaths" over the current reality of an epidemic of traffic fatalities made worse by cars and trucks getting he…

> At a high level, Cicero combines a dialogue module with a strategic reasoning module, along with a filtering process to reject low-quality messages. The strategic reasoning modul…

I don't want to discount that you're largely content with the the suburbs as they're built today - that's fine and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it. I do want to point out th…

There was a cool challenge in the Code Golf community in Stack Exchange, where participants wrote python scripts to compete in this problem over 1,000 rounds. The bots had access t…

Riding a bike doesn't need to be the only or primary way that people get around in every city, all the time, for it to drastically improve quality of life for people living in citi…

My company uses Imgix, we're overall pretty happy with it. I'm not sure how we feel about pricing - that's not in my wheelhouse - but it works well for our needs. Our contact there…

If that syncing is done through Plaid (or maybe even if not), it might be fixed now. I use a similar product, Lunch Money, and syncing didn't work for a long time but within the pa…

From the start of the article before the paywall: "the 3,800-person Uber engineering group could be slashed by nearly 800 people in the coming weeks under the proposed job cuts." T…

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I'm only moderately familiar with this topic (mostly from following racing, where many major series have integrated hybrid powertrains), but this doesn't seem accurate to me. All t…

So what should a junior developer do with this knowledge in mind?

I assume Google doesn't request the image until the email is opened.

From the article: "Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, a process that leaves steam and water as the …