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This is all the yikes 😬
@hazelnot @delroth (Which means that some municipalities are comically large and aren't necessarily named after any one of the towns or cities therein, because they tend to get scaled by "population count at which government and admin can be efficiently conducted" rather than anything else, so many small mostly-unrelated towns are likely to group together into a municipality for example)
@dumpsterqueer 'auto scaling' is such an immediate red flag to me now. like 'we have no idea what actually happens in there but we gave the problem a blank check already'
redot
@zvava Ah yes, the reactionary fork that has *checks notes* made 0 of their own commits so far, just a merge to try and keep up with upstream
@delroth The only way I could see that someone might consider Hook of Holland to be part of Rotterdam's urban area is because there's a metro line running there, and the only reason for that is cost-cutting of the train line that that previously was... so yeah, that's a bizarre classification.
This "scientific" article from Sony CSL about 15 min cities has been making the rounds in the news those past few weeks, and uhhh
As far as I can tell it's really bad research? It's based on OSM data without trying to compensate for disparity in coverage. It's based on some weird definition of urban areas that in some cases include several acres of uninhabited mountains, which reduce city averages. Basic mistakes.
https://csl.sony.it/project/the-15-minutes-city/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03794
Municipality of Rotterdam this morning: we want to make people aware of the consequences of using drugs, so we rename some streets to have drugs references.
Citizens of Rotterdam this afternoon: oeh, hilarious new street name signs, we want that on our walls at home.
Conclusion: tax money well spend 🤨
@jonny (Heads up, both alt texts seem to be for the first one)
@aetios @whreq Als ik de achterliggende paper goed begrijp (die het overigens niet over weersomstandigheden heeft...) is dat specifieke effect volgens hen sterk afhankelijk van hoge density en zou het dus juist moeten *verminderen* als de effectieve veiligheidsafstand groter is, zoals hierboven gesuggereerd wordt bij slecht weer (want: voorzichtiger rijden en meer afstand dan "nodig" voor de snelheid).
De reden dat een verklaring o.b.v. menselijk gedrag niet genoeg is, is omdat dit soort "dat kun je zelf toch ook wel beredeneren" dingen precies is waar de meeste verkeerde aannames doorgaans huizen, en ik het onderwerp graag zo volledig mogelijk begrijp voordat ik definitieve conclusies trek.
Ik kan nog wel een heel verhaal afsteken over waarom ik specifiek bij dit onderwerp extra "skeptisch"/voorzichtig ben, maar dan zitten we hier morgen nog en daar heb ik nu echt de energie gewoon niet voor.
@archeokluit Typfoutje denk ik, dat had vermoedelijk "de brand" moeten zijn 😅
@whreq Je kunt een heel eind komen door de ANWB-filemeldingen en wegstatus.nl te combineren! Als je er snel genoeg bij bent, althans.
@whreq Het klinkt plausibel, maar ik ben niet helemaal overtuigd; want als ik in het verleden heb gezocht naar de oorzaak van een file bij slecht weer, was het eigenlijk altijd een ongeluk. Dat is een beperkte sample size natuurlijk, maar het is wel opvallend.
@aylamz Not any one specific thing, I've just been noticing a lot of good things; where the ecosystem has some sort of problem, and it's promptly addressed in some way that is consistent with its ideals.
The latest case of this is https://godotengine.org/article/godot-sdk-integrations/ but it's a general pattern I've noticed, and even in that article there are some interesting remarks that imply a pretty solid foundation of governance
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