Another (often unspoken) issue with buses in many US communities is social class. Outside of major metro areas, buses are often seen as transportation for folks who can't afford a car or have lost their license for DUI. They're not seen as transportation of choice, but of necessity.
RIP declarative code I guess
just received my new o'reilly technical book in the mail but, maybe a misprint? the wood-etching illustration on the front is an unknowable, unnameable ancient beast — we have not words in our tongue for such a fathom-defying anticreature. when i open the book, the pages howl impossible octaves
This must be the "manufacturing consent" I've heard so much about. Breathtaking.
Representing San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito counties.
The Loma Prieta Chapter, specifically
I'd like to cast my vote for Winter's Tale as well, highly recommended. Steampunk magical realism in Gilded Age New York.
Text: Celebrating Engineers Week 2026 at BART
It is Engineers Week!
This week is an opportunity to celebrate the problem-solvers who shape the world. This includes the hundreds of BART engineers bringing to life ambitious projects that are redefining how the Bay Area moves.
My first thought upon seeing the original post was ah, just like .emacs, and then YOU TWO started responding
Yes it's gold medalist Alysa Liu promoting Muni's L-Taraval relaunch in 2024
❤️ ❤️ 🚋 ⛸️ ❤️ ❤️
I will not participate in this unwarranted and probably toxic celebration
Vendoring your dependencies is the best way to own the libs.
Where do we put Orinoco Flow in this hierarchy
Hotel guests are fleeing early because of the snowstorm. Traffic to the Bay Area and Reno is jammed due to gridlock, plows and crashes. Drivers are clearing snow off windshields and having to buy tire chains.
But not us. Our Amtrak is on time. We'll relax in the dining car. The smart way to go.
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
I just started playing Cyberpunk 2077 last night and this is a plot point
Found another connection describing themselves as a "Principle Engineer" online and I'm starting to take the liberal arts advocates more seriously
Super Bowl weekend is here and traffic is picking up! Avoid traffic, and ride with us! 🏈🌴♥️
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
We should get rid of cars in cities. If that's impossible, we should get rid of human-driven cars[1] in cities. Advocating for a situation that results in an incredible number of preventable deaths per year is just fucking ludicrous.
[1] Teslas count as human-driven
Makes sense, the two organizations were probably mortal enemies and rarely spoke
I bought this and didn't read it, either
Please tell us if it did. I read the first 100 five times.
I also note that there's research in software engineering going back several decades that proves developer productivity falls off a cliff after 40 hours a week in the office, with extra hours worked introducing so many bugs that devs make negative progress. Work longer to work longer in other words.
And the soundtrack! I already liked the acoustic blues but now I want to know more of this Dark Riverdance stuff
For people with tech background concerned about the Clipper 2 upgrade/migration, check out the Cubic slides being presented today at Clipper Executive Board. Many of the problems are failures of basic scaling and QA missing predictable corner cases. mtc.legistar.com/LegislationD...
Gödel, Escher, Bachelorette
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
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Speaking in our role as the ultimate arbiters of eliteness, CULT OF THE DEAD COW would like to express that far from being "elite", the Palantir app, and anyone/anything that supports the gestapo, are K-Lame R0dentz who must be crushed by any means necessary.
Another edition of oddly aesthetic debug output (this time for a graph drawing package using geometric algebra)…
An HO scale model of the German ICE (intercity express) train
The only ICE I support:
