Sorry, not a linguist by any means, I initially thought you meant there is no 1:1 mapping to the meaning ("outlook", "glance", "sight").

Are you talking about the v-z-g-l sequence of harsh consonants? That looks uninviting in print, but in practice it's just a quick puff of air.

Yes, exactly, there's no equivalent cluster in english, so it's hard for english speakers to even hear it, let alone reproduce it correctly

Is using headphones on a bike with music on or not somehow different from driving in a Lexus with music on or not?

Yeah, it’s definitely higher risk.

When riding a motorcycle, you’ll encounter people that don’t see you almost every trip. The same is not true in a car.

Riding a bike is just a 100% engagement thing with higher risks and lower margins for error, for all kinds of reasons. And it’s not just traffic, minor pavement imperfections become relevant, the necessary skill floor is also higher. It just demands more attention, straight up.

In a car, you shouldn’t, and it’s not without risk, but you CAN occasionally get away with minor distractions: adjusting the radio, seat, etc. That just doesn’t work on a bike as well. I’m failing to properly articulate the why, but it really is fundamentally different in some ways. I’ve spent many years doing both, and the bike just demands more of your attention resources, independent of your vulnerability in the event of an accident.

I’ve been over handlebars a couple of times. The last time was riding a bicycle no faster than 10 mph, I hit some loose sand, the rear wheel swerved and I panicked. My MIPS saved my scull but I still looked beat up 2 weeks later, cheeks, chest, shoulders .

This is to say - I am aware of the dangers:) My state doesn’t even have a helmet law for motorcyclists.

Driving a car is a higher net risk than riding a motorcycle. The problem is that drivers externalize much more of the risk. People die riding motorcycles all the time - way more than people driving cars. But you know what people driving cars do? Blow holes into buildings. Smash cars. Kill pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and other drivers.

A motorcycle demands your attention because the risk is mostly on the rider. Drivers are pacified by how externalized their very existent risk is.

Noise cancellation headphones that will block out loud things or ambulances approaching you, sitting exposed on a motor strapped to two wheels at a high speed? Yes. That is different from driving in a Lexus.

They don't block out loud things or ambulances approaching you. They block out constant loud background noise. This is why they're good for airplanes, lawn mowers, motorcycles and being out in public, and not good for shooting or as industrial hearing protection.

As I mentioned in another comment, on an airplane, my airpods in ANC mode make it easier for me to hear announcements.

I drive a car and ride a bicycle and an e-bike in Miami. The ANC isn’t that magical, I hear plenty of out of the algorithm noises (ambulances, etc). Head on a swivel and look straight.

+1, but add a motorcycle to that list too. Not Miami, but a large city, and now a smaller city.

All the assertions I'm seeing in this thread are bizarre to me. One can easily hear a siren over noise cancellation and over wind noise, and it's even easier to hear if you have noise cancellation for that wind noise.

As a related example, when I'm on an airplane and I have noise-cancelling headphones on, the pilot announcements are easier to hear than without them.

Sure, if you keep the eyes in the back of your head peeled, you’ll be fine

well, one comes with a pretty strong safety cage, so there is that difference.

In the States, they tow your car to a yard and hold it ransom until you fork out a $1K or so (depends on the state/municipality), with accrued daily surcharges. And, good luck finding the yard. They also only take cash or debit so that you cannot run a chargeback later on. I'd rather just pay a $300 ticket, don't tow my car.

Can you sue them for not telling you where your car is and then to recover all fees resulting from you not knowing where your car is?

I suspect you could but you'd be risking a car - better try it with the clunkiest clunker you can find.

You can try, but you won't be the first and they are going to have lawyers for this exact scenario with decades of legal rulings and legislation often in their favor already. It's not usually worth the time unless you are willing to risk losing many thousands in lawyer costs if you don't win.

I was at CUNY/Baruch in '91, discovering Usenet, Gopher etc at the campus' VMS, getting the thrill of using GameDoctor on my SNES. Then the civilians came onboard and all stopped feeling ... exclusive? How dare they voice their thoughts on comp.*, I am out...

It's all pure nostalgia for the times long gone. I get an urge once a year to get a thing from that era, and I do but I don't use it. That 90's Zelda does nothing for me anymore, but TOTK does.

It has an unfortunate name though, maybe a short shelf life. Rust++ doesn’t seem inviting either.

Rust does not have a ++ operator, so that name would make no sense.

Not yet.

I can assure you that Rust will never have a ++ operator. Not only is it semantically bizarre, it's entirely unnecessary in a language where iteration is overwhelmingly performed via iterators rather than via manually incrementing array indices.

Is that a bullet point in the Rust manifesto? :) In any case, ++ has taken another meaning outside of operator loading and such some.

The “Rust” branding, to this rando, implies corrosion, oxidation, decay, regardless of the true origin of the name. Swift is “quick”, Java is “caffeine”, Rust is something I need kerosene for.

Yes, it is pretty universally agreed upon that a ++ operator in Rust doesn’t make any sense. += 1 is barely longer, not special cased, and does not make users memorize odd precedence rules.

It doesn’t matter, I was speaking in terms of branding. There is ++ in C, but C is not C++.

Right, but the whole reason C++ is named C++ is because ++ is a valid operator in C. Without the operator in Rust, making the brand of a successor based on a feature from an entirely different language doesn't make any sense.

Rust isn't named after what you think it is, but after fungi.

Every podcast I listen to has a member/pro plan. TWIT, MWB, GoG, Connected, Upgrade, ATP, Rebound etc. $10/month each to round up. If I paid for all, that'd be about a $100/month.

I don't feel that's worth it, so I listen to the ads. The problem with ads is that they are on repeat. Leo Raporte's ads are "obnoxious" in their length and breathiness, 5 mins long seemingly each. I don't know what the solution is, because I like his network, but I can't pick just one!

These "buy me a coffee" buttons make me feel guilty, similar to being shamed into tipping. I'll make a buy/don't decision when I see the cost upfront. Everyone makes choices on how they earn their living, I'm just saying these things make me uncomfortable and I wish there was a better way.

Who are these Europeans with these sentiments? I recently spent about 10 days in France and the UK, I saw no sentiment in gen pop, at least towards my own person. I also saw no AI anything anywhere, which was also very refreshing.

He's got barely tapped reserves in NK and PRC.

>Another was using SF as a ticket system. Those folks we moved >to FreshService. $180k down to $15k/yr.

When does this end? Next year, there will be "ReFreshService" at $1K/year, so migrate again, re-train again? There is a lot be said about stability and continuity, wouldn't you say? I have no dog in the hunt, SF-wise, I've used it like 3 times in 20 years. If it continues to exist because if its predatory tactics (I've no idea) that's a different narrative.