ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

“We found that there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” One of the earliest, and still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads just leads to more driving. Call it #InducedDemand, or #JevonsParadox, or the #LawOfCongestion. Via WIRED, it’s worth a read and share.
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
#cities #transportation #urbanism #city #cars

I don't generally crosspost, but...

I don't suppose any of you are reading the privacy policy before handing over your PII inc your phone number to OpenAI, huh?
It's a very hard pass from me.

For reasons I can't fathom, Internet Archive Scholar got attention today, a mass of it, painting it as a "new" service. Actually, it has been out there for about a year. BUT....

If beautifully structured access to academic citations by the millions is your bag or desperately needed tool, especially ones that are ONLY left in the Wayback Machine, you are in LUCK. And this will be your favorite day. Try it.

https://scholar.archive.org/

Happy DEC-10 Day!
#36bits #pdp10 #dec10 #retrocomputing

Dennis Ritchie's lost 1968 PhD thesis is notable not just for its contribution to mathematics, but for its mysteriously and impossibly perfect typesetting. And the fact that it was never actually submitted, possibly due to a snit over library fees.

Fortunately, Bell Labs hired grad school dropouts.

See https://dmrthesis.net/ and https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/ .

HT @joakinen

MILAN has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.
Strategy & leadership.
https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375
#milan #cities #urbanism #BikeLanes #cars

CEO of crypto media outlet The Block resigns after it's revealed he took tens of millions in loans from Sam Bankman-Fried

December 9, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ceo-of-crypto-media-outlet-the-block-resigns-after-its-revealed-he-took-tens-of-millions-in-loans-from-sam-bankman-fried

I saw this on Etsy today and I can't stop giggling.

a debugging manifesto

When I was in college i got into flight simulators for a minute, and discovered there was a whole community of people who roleplay as air traffic controllers on a multiplayer version of MS flight simulator. There was specialized radar and comms software and you could sign up for classes where you learned real-world lingo and techniques for directing air traffic. I tried it for a couple weeks and realized it was basically "having a stressful job" as a hobby

anyway now I'm a moderator on mastodon

I've been programming for 40 years, 35 of that professionally. I've built my own compilers and entire game engines and I don't think I could pass a programming test for a job interview these days. We never gave programming test for RtMI, we just talked about programming with the candidate and never got a bum hire.

I think I've found my new favorite Japanese word...

#Kuchisabishii

Here we go, it’s #introduction time:

I’m currently a second year #neuroscience #phd student at the University of Pennsylvania! Broadly interested in #vision and #computation with my current research studying higher-level vision in the #treeshrew with the goal of learning about visual #development 🧠

I also love talking/reading/posting about #environmentalism and #sustainability 🌎, hanging out with my dog 🐕‍🦺, and playing soccer ⚽️

Looking forward to (re)connecting with other scientists on here!

@itisiboller @ShaulaEvans

“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

Terry Pratchett, Snuff (a Discworld novel)

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Show your age if you can spot what's wrong with this photo 😅

Just finished a very very VERY small Door program because I got bit by the #RetroComputing nostalgia bug.

Back in '89 I wrote several doors for my #bbs Lithium City (serving the El Paso area 😋). It was how I started messing around with Turbo Pascal, eventually ALMOST getting hired to write a UI frontend for an Unzip utility until the company discovered I was just 13.

This simple door just displays your name and then asks you to press a key.

#bbsing

> After FTX declared bankruptcy, the entire FTX.us domain was redirected to a page providing information on the bankruptcy proceedings.

> NFTs that had been minted on the FTX platform relied on metadata from an API at that domain, meaning that the NFTs are now pointing to broken links. Owners of these NFTs can still see that the NFT exists, but images no longer work—even when viewing the NFTs in their own wallets, or when listing them for sale on other platforms.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/ftx-hosted-nfts-break-after-website-is-redirected-to-a-restructuring-page

🤣

Like I said, the door is very simple. I'm just trying to remember TP and how to use stuff. Here's a screen cap (love the borland colors!)