I love this. As another poster brought up, plenty of people buy enjoyable cars and motorcycles for the pleasure of driving. Why not add a little spice to life?

Spice is fine - but you still need to get places and that is the primary goal of most cars. People who have the car/motorcycle for fun only nearly all have some other vehicle they use as the "daily driver" to get places. I might take a train on a sunday drive myself once in a while.

The majority of uses should be for people trying to get someplace. If the trip is also fun that is a bonus, but if it is only fun but otherwise worthless (that is something else is enough better) your system won't get many riders.

I'm not sure, the thing is, a vehicle is also a place. I had a great time working for a company using camper vans. You get almost everything a brick house offers.

A lot of people have recreational boats. They go places but the destination isn't half the fun. With cruse ships the destination is perhaps 5-10%?

Maybe we got it all wrong. Perhaps trains should have lan gaming. Have some exclusieve game that one can only play in the train with some exclusive content for the specific trip.

One could also do exclusive interactive educational material. There is a lot to learn before you become a train driver, train manager, mechanic, engineer, cleaner, etc etc

This was very confusing!

I meant it’s easy to inspect your script’s logic — look it. Bunch harder to audit the code in dependencies though…

A download and a cat away?

Sorry I was half asleep! Meant that you can easily look at the code in the script and audit what it does – you can just run `cat` in it and you’re done!

But it’s much harder to inspect what the imports are going to do and be sure they’re free of any unsavory behavior.

Having replied in good faith already, I also want to call out that your jab about trucks and rifles adds nothing to the conversation and is merely culture-war fuel.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

It seems like a fair point to me. You can't bring your rifle on the train but you can bring it in your truck. Whether or not that shapes Atlanteans choice of transport I can't say though.

Fair point perhaps, but was clearly intended as sarcasm:

> a society that glamorizes everyone driving the biggest trucks and carrying the largest rifles

I'm not following your logic. Having nearly triple the population density in Rheinland makes trains way _more_ feasible, not _less_. That means on average you have a train 1/3 the distance away from you. That's a big difference.

I live in NYC which has 29,000/sqkm in Manhattan and 11,300/sqkm overall. Public transportation is great here and you don't need a car.

but at 240/sqkm, that's really not much public trans per person!

Rule 35 of the internet? Every discussion will eventually devolve into the United State's horrible usage (or lack thereof) of public transportation.

This needs more than just an upvote — that's one of the best software engineering books I've ever read!

I'll start:

Nuclear fission delayed 25 years.

WWII fought without atomic weapons.

No decisive end to the war instantly cementing the US as the undisputed global superpower and ushering in Pax Americana.

No mutually assured destruction fundamentally altering the calculus of major warfare.

Yet the discovery was inevitable, and they start appearing in the 1960s under a different world order. What happens next?

Most of that money goes towards the driver, last I checked in on unit economics. It costs quite a bit of money to pay a person to go to the restaurant, wait around, and then bring it to you — far more than the "delivery fee" that you see and that customers would pay.

Customers are cheap and they're (partly) to blame. My theory is that Amazon conditioned people to view delivery as a free commodity and pizza places who had delivery baked into their model cemented it.

So if Doordash listed a delivery fee that covered their true cost of delivery, customers would balk. So they instead have to find creative ways to get enough. Maybe it's changed and Doordash cracked the secret, but when I'd looked into it years ago these companies barely got by — many of them actually losing money.

With pizza delivery you typically (should) tip the driver $5+ ($10+ for larger orders) so idk if that really tracks specifically, but I do largely agree that part of is people being cheap for one reason or another.

I know people who drove for DD and they roughly earn minimum wage ~$15/hr. You can easily deliver 2 orders in an hour. So I don't really buy that either.

I’m not sure I’m understanding your comment exactly so if this response is off let me know: I’m talking about traditional calling pizza in, not app delivery. At least when I was growing up that’s what we typically tipped.

It's the opposite — you're legally protected to resell anything you buy and the seller can't stop you. I'm not sure if food has any caveats, but in general, IP law cannot stop you from reselling an item.

It's called the First-Sale Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

In my experience the em dash is still correctly used, the modern style has just evolved to put a space around it.

So:

* fragment a—fragment b (em dash, no space) = traditional

* fragment a — fragment B (em dash with spaces) = modern

* fragment a -- fragment b (two hyphens) = acceptable sub when you can’t get a proper em to render

But en-dashes are for numeric ranges…

em dash plus spaces is quite rare in English style guides. It’s usually either an em dash and no spaces or an en dash with them.

Apologies, now that I've been Beider-Meinhoff'd, I've realized you're correct and I've been misreading en dashes and em dashes. Thank you!

Poor article.

Chose worst-case images to make Messages look as bad as possible.

Same with the stacked, floating UI items.

And the "search bar" change causing us to re-learn habits? NOT TRUE. The old way works too; but now there's a discoverable alternative.

You literally just need to pull the notification drawer down to see how horrible Liquid Glass is. You know, one of the most common gestures on any smartphone today.