[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Presta valve cores are removable, so you can remove the core to put sealant in through the valve without unseating the tire bead, and can connect a pump to the valve stem without the core in to inflate quickly to seat tire beads on diffucult-to-seat tires/rims.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    This only works if drivers take the u-turns at full speed. The first driver slows down to 10 km/h for the u-turn, and the whole thing gets backed up to the point merging is impossible, and it becomes worse than a 4-way light.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The best chance of getting a job is probably networking, but everybody is too burned out to do that. We need local neurodivergent-only casual tech networking meetings.

    But even if I find somebody I want to hire, it is almost impossible (see parent comment).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    The job market is such a shit show right now. You would think hiring would be easy, but the hiring process has been taken over by bean counters who think salaries should go down because their are so many people looking, HR drones trying to hold on to power as they offer nothing of value in the hiring process, sloperator managers whose heads and asses have become even more indistinguishable, and neurotypical extroverted tech-bro wannabe executives who want everybody in the office to stoke their egos. As a developer trying to hire developers it sucks, and as a developer looking for a job it is a nightmare.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    Story time. I used to have a house adjacent to a school. The city threatened to use eminent domain to take and tear down several houses on the block to add more parking for the school. One block away from a huge parking lot that always had at least 10 times as many open spaces as they were intending to build. At the first public meeting, the first question was "Why can't people just park across the street?", at which point they admitted that nobody involved ever came to the school in person, or bothered to zoom out on a map, and they didn't know about it. The plan was promptly cancelled.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In The Netherlands, just like everywhere else, the people who live in densely populated areas subsidize those who live in remote areas, and everybody subsidizes those who drive, both with the cost of car-centric infrastructure, and the externalized costs of destroying the planet. At least here in The Netherlands, most people have the option to live somewhere with good public transit.

    Why don't you move closer to where you work?

    Yes, NS is kind of expensive, but it could get more subsidies if we offered less subsidies to the drivers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Sure, you are responsible for your actions, but you are not always responsible for the results of your actions. Sometimes people/society force other people into situations where all actions will lead to bad results. And the people who force others into those situations love to blame the victims.

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