The reason is most likely that English isn’t phonetically consistent (i.e. you don’t say stuff the way you write it) while other languages like German and Spanish are, so it doesn’t make sense for those.

with today’s overwhelming and constant information and notification overload

If that’s the reason, I think there’s an issue with managing notifications. Limit them to important people and there won’t be much more mental clutter than in the past.

Ghosting people for other reasons if completely fine though and is not the same at all as ignoring them in real life.

The glass ones are so nice and you can use them to heat things in the oven (without the lid) in a pinch as well

That’s quite an interesting take. I also noticed that it’s magnitudes better at coding with common frameworks and often sucks with more niche applications.

Not when it comes to cars

Yes, the infrastructure should be better in the first place, i.e. do not have parking spots there. But I guess the whole reason these parking spots are there is because people would just park there regardless if there are parking spots or not and if there weren’t parking spots and people still parked illegally, they should absolutely cover the damages they caused. Keep in mind, that 2 ½ hours was the longest recent delay which caused whole chunks of the city center to be inaccessible.

One of the biggest issue with cars is that as a society we are subsidizing their external costs way too much. Owning a car entails a lot of responsibility and yet most people operate it with very little regard for their surroundings.

Meta is also planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version soon, in what looks like a move to simplify WhatsApp development.

So they are just going back to what they had before, probably to save money.

But don’t they have AI now which makes development so much faster, easier and cheaper? It’s these things where you can see these companies are full of bullshit.

Still seems somewhat low but maybe a good start. Looks like the longest delay here in Bremen has been 2 ½ hours which would only be around 3000 CHF if they applied that here. Yes that’s a lot for a parking violation but it doesn’t make up for diversions, overtime and the delay caused to the hundreds of passengers.

Nope, this is an official parking spot. The guy just parked recklessly and is sticking out too much. But of course you need to have parking spots in this street as to not inconvenience drivers one bit.

I don’t know about the specifics but a friend who is a tram driver said that they always need to call the police first. This might be a legal thing or just company policy

Subscribed! No idea why I wasn’t in this community yet

They’re trying to do that right now with blue dots but for some reason this is not road legal and needs to go through some unnecessary paperwork before it can be approved

There are a lot of legal challenges to solve for this kind of stuff, as far as I know they’re trying to do two things right now:

1. they mark the parking spots with blue dots to indicate when a vehicle is sticking out too much (in trial runs this reduced issues significantly) but even that appears to be hard to implement legally
2. the transportation company wants to be able to tow the offending vehicles themselves. They already have emergency response vehicles to repair damaged trams and power lines, they could easily add one or two tow trucks to their fleet

And yes they should definitely introduce fines that go far beyond the ridiculously low fines for regular parking offenses in Germany which are like 15€.

Yep! Here in Germany many of the big political parties are bought by the car industry and car centric thinking is very widespread. Any measures to limit these issues like cutting free parking spots will cause a big uproar.

If you buy a car, do not buy German. I certainly won’t.

The car was parked poorly. The parking spots can even accommodate construction vans. Here’s an angle where you can see it a bit better.

The car is parked almost half a meter away from the curb (at least at the back wheel).

I do agree that it’s a planning issue though. There is no reason that this street needs free parking spots and if they REALLY need to be there, there should be a better indication if your car is sticking out too much.

I think the issue is that you can only bill the drivers for the towing plus any costs caused by it. The towing company will not get paid extra for patrolling the area and the 1 hour delay is usually caused by the police that needs to arrive and make the decision to have the car towed.

I‘m working as a freelance web developer with creative agencies to create websites or applications and maintain existing projects. Mostly in PHP with a frontend written in HTML / CSS and some JS.

I also had trouble getting into coding initially since I’m a pretty visual thinker but a university course called „coding for designers“ that taught programming in Processing finally got me into it. In it you didn’t start with a boring ass calculator but make pictures and later games with a simple IDE.

HAD seems about right. It’s sad to see Mastodon accounts just getting abandoned

I read the BBC article but why would she even have to prove anything? That dumb ass conspiracy theorist should be obligated to prove their bullshit made up claim and lose the case.

Edit: I get it, they are suing and therefore need to provide prove. Still pretty fucked up.

I was wondering about that with some of the recent removals as well: Why not just a PWA?

Something like Voyager or Phanpy runs excellent when installed as a PWA and especially with Phanpy I‘m not even missing a native app or „wrapper app“.