Alistair Gray 🔸

the world is beautiful and deserves your love

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

british person who's also a New Yorker and is waiting to exit a brighton line local train: I'm on queue

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

I think we have to assume that if occam owned a razor, the simplest explanation is that he was clean shaven

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

so :one-sec-cooking: has made it to every bigco slack by now right

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

rorschach horseman

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

vindication! https://t.co/MTgZAAcwve

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

America has too many bus stops. Removing excess bus stops speeds up bus services, makes them more reliable, and reduces transit costs, all of which boosts ridership.

For example: San Francisco has an average of eight stops per mile, whereas European cities tend to have only four stops per mile. Moving to a European model only adds 1–3 mins of extra walking to get to a stop.

Portland saw a six percent increase in bus speeds from a project which increased average stop spacing by just 90 feet. SF boosted ridership by 14% by removing some stops. Other cities have used limited stop services to boost ridership by 25–33%!

New at Works in Progress, @nithin_vejendla on a rare example of a transit reform that is at once fast, cheap, and effective.

https://t.co/JH8A47xdqo

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

goofus, looking at pittsburgh bus routes: how can this system be at all efficient, the stop spacing is tiny

gallant: every unused flag stop on a route has zero dwell time. this is maximal efficiency

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

probably my strongest opinion is that kicking in american football (especially extra points, but also field goals) is a counterproductive vestige of ancestor sports that actively undermines the fundamental dynamics of the game

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

I saw this with mine own two eyes

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

surely it wouldn't be that hard to make the paper towel dispenser detect your hands in the expected position

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

why don't they let me tip the waymo

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

system 1 is udp, system 2 is tcp
or whatever

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

going upstate (to manhattan)

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

concept: good cop, bad cop, and neutral cop

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

game about optimally arranging dishes in the dishwasher. northernlion would love it

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

*playing 90 bpm* not quite my tempo

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

whiplash but they're making him play a normal rhythm at a normal speed

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

enshitification is the paperclip problem

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

not a lot of shows that aren't ultimately talk shows

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

"where is your moat"
I've got my best engineers out there with shovels around the office right now buddy

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

anti-socratic interlocutor who disagrees with everything you say. "it is not as you say, socrates." "that is precisely incorrect, socrates."

[Alistair Gray 🔸 @alistairgray42]

been in europe less than a day and already firmly of the opinion that the worst thing about this place is the cookie stuff not being a browser-level preference