Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast.
Biking infrastructure is only useful in big cities where your distance to work could be quite short (within 5 miles or so). The average American commute distance is 41 miles. It just doesn’t make sense to build out bike infrastructure very many places in the US.
Trains and changing the roads to make it easier for cars to drive themselves make a lot more sense.
The closest thing to a universal word is a scream. After some experience nearly all humans–regardless of region or native languages–can tell the difference between a scream of sudden fear and the scream of a mother who’s child just died.
The scream of pain is a bit cultural/regional (“ow!”, “fuck!”, “damnit!”) but I’m guessing most humans could tell what someone means when they shout any given sound or word after accidentally banging their finger with a hammer or stepping on a lego brick while barefoot.
Building online communities takes time. Migrating from one site to another takes a little less time but it’s still a long-term thing.
It’s not so different from moving a retail location. Your store is moving from address A to address B down the road. You put up a sign at the old storefront telling customers, “it’s just down the road!” with instructions to get there and yet businesses that do this see massive sales drops. It’s not uncommon to lose half or three quarters of your customer traffic in the first three months after changing locations. It usually takes a year or more to stabilize to a new normal.
I see no reason why the migration of communities from Reddit to the Fediverse will be different since this type of migration is based on basic human behavior. We need to view it as a new location getting a great big lucky bonus surge because of people angry at our competitor and not some on/off switch.
The key is to maintain quality at the new location so the “customers” start to realize they’re getting a better experience here than they did over at Reddit.
I’m not having any problems at all with my dopamine fix. The Fediverse has reached that critical threshold where there’s no shortage of typos to make fun of with snarky replies and people willingly walking into dad jokes.
So yeah, I’m good 👍
most Reddit employees spend most of their time playing Freecell and jerking off
To be fair, if that’s all they did Reddit wouldn’t be in this dumpster fire of a situation right now.
I second this. I haven’t got a certification in like decades but an accessibility certification sounds fantastic.
There hasn’t been an IT certification I’ve seen in forever where I was like, “yeah I can’t just go and learn that on my own” but one that’s all about accessibility does sound like something I couldn’t just learn on my own… since I’m not disabled/blind and don’t know anyone who is.
What I really want is to learn about accessibility testing. Oh man that’d be like having a superpower! With a skill like that I’d be useful to literally any and every FOSS team that exists!
Aside: I am blind in one eye so I’m one accident away from actually being blind some day. I should learn this stuff now just in case!
Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL
This statistic is true but incredibly misleading. Firstly, a huge chunk of those trips are trips to the supermarket or other shopping which is not something you’re going to do on a bike. You can only fit so many groceries in a bike trip… Even with a trailer. (Aside: I wonder if frozen foods would even make it safely all the way home in the South if you loaded up a bike with a trailer and had to travel 3 miles?)
The second reason why it’s misleading is that it includes trips after you’ve gone to work. So you commute to work: 41 miles. Actually, you stop at Starbucks on the way and that’s only two miles from your house so that counts as a single-destination car trip. Then for lunch you take a short trip from the office to a restaurant/fast food place. That’s a single-destination car trip.
You go out to dinner some nights at a restaurant 3 miles away. That’s a short trip that certainly could’ve been done on bike but are you really going to get the whole family on their bikes to show up at the restaurant all hot & sweaty for dinner? In the South you’d be so sweaty it’d be worthy of taking a shower and in the North you’d be trudging through snow, freezing your face off.
Then there’s the fact that the weather doesn’t matter when it comes to cars. Rain or snow is no issue: You’re still going to the supermarket but you would not make that same trip on a bike unless it was an emergency and you had no other option.
The reality is that while the majority of trips are 3 miles are less it’s also true that the majority of trips are not trips you’d want to make on a bike.
There’s another problem with that statistic: The majority of people in the US live in big cities! I wonder how much that statistic would change if you removed big cities/metro areas from the data. My guess: “<3 miles” would jump to “<10 miles”.
I live in Jacksonville, FL and we have two supermarkets that are ~5 miles away (in different directions) and we have bike lanes! Nobody uses them. It’s just too fucking hot! For about 9 months out of the year it’s >90°F with ~90% relative humidity (in the morning; late afternoon it can drop to a mere ~60% when it’s not summer! haha). The only time of the year it would be comfortable to do something like ride your bike to get something done (as opposed to just for exercise) is December through February. Any other time it’s just not realistic unless you plan (and have the time) to take a shower afterwards.
https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Florida/humidity-annual.php
It also rains pretty much every single day in the afternoon during the summer and sometimes off/on all throughout the day. Rarely rains at all in winter though so that’s a plus I guess.