| jrwren | cmaloney: end.find isn't a thing, but everything in ruby is an expression. | 01:27 |
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| jrwren | the end is the end of the previous block expression. | 01:27 |
| jrwren | which happens to return a list/iterable, which is then .find being called. | 01:27 |
| cmaloney | Ah, that makes some sense | 01:32 |
| cmaloney | but the syntax is ugh. :) | 01:32 |
| jrwren | syntax only a rubyist could love. | 01:36 |
| cmaloney | morning | 12:49 |
| rick_h_ | morning | 12:57 |
| jrwren | Good Morning. | 13:04 |
| _stink__ | yo | 13:20 |
| Scary_Guy | yar | 13:20 |
| waldo323 | good morning | 15:49 |
| waldo323 | for a little bit longer | 15:49 |
| rick_h_ | gah! /me stomps around and old man rants at "The problem with ... Time for a thread" | 17:12 |
| rick_h_ | NO NO NO NO NO, I have something interesting thoughts to put down and share is NEVER "time for a thread" | 17:12 |
| brousch | What is the right time for a thread? | 17:16 |
| rick_h_ | there is no such thing | 17:21 |
| rick_h_ | seriously, a thread on twitter is what, seen across one day at most by folks? and then it's gone into the ether | 17:22 |
| rick_h_ | and if it's interesting/thoughtful enough for a thread is it really meant to have a fruit fly life? | 17:22 |
| cmaloney | So blog about it. :) | 17:40 |
| cmaloney | And yes, I really hate when folks take to Twitter to string together 5+ thoughts into a Twitter thread. | 17:41 |
| rick_h_ | I decided I'd rant in my safe place because clearly my opinion on it won't change anything | 17:41 |
| rick_h_ | but it's nice to get it outside your head | 17:41 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, it's great for stream of conciousness | 17:41 |
| rick_h_ | I deleted two different replies in twitter | 17:41 |
| cmaloney | but take those thoughts and put them into a blog post. :) | 17:41 |
| cmaloney | (assuming they're worth the trouble) | 17:42 |
| cmaloney | And if they're not worth the trouble then let them be ephemeral | 17:42 |
| rick_h_ | heh, the blog post I'm working on is a reply to https://twitter.com/samuelclay/status/975921660258803712 | 17:42 |
| rick_h_ | that one bothers me so much | 17:42 |
| cmaloney | Oh FFS | 17:43 |
| rick_h_ | it really bugs me on several levels and I have mad respect for Samuel | 17:43 |
| cmaloney | Go fart your way to work on your cloud of good intentions and smugness | 17:43 |
| cmaloney | and realize that humanity can fuck up at any time and you could trip on a crack and die | 17:44 |
| cmaloney | sorry, that came off rather strong | 17:44 |
| cmaloney | but I really love it when folks make not having a car a sign of privilege | 17:45 |
| cmaloney | Sorry that we live in Detroit and having a car is pretty much the only way to get anywhere in a reasonable timeperiod | 17:46 |
| rick_h_ | that's one of the levels. I mean in the USA to be able to live a productive life w/o a car is kind of a 1% thing. I'm really curious what that % really is. | 17:46 |
| cmaloney | I'd also ask how many Ubers, Lyfts, and cabs he's hailed in the past year | 17:46 |
| cmaloney | oh wait, if he's used Uber then I could probably get that data | 17:46 |
| cmaloney | :eyeroll: | 17:46 |
| cmaloney | sorry we don't have sherpas and rickshaws to cart our butts around | 17:47 |
| jrwren | lol. | 17:48 |
| jrwren | its not why I don't have a car, but look at the pic, the guy is amish. don't let religious views bother you. | 17:48 |
| rick_h_ | I don't think he's amish. He's SFO the guy behind newsblur and such. He was working on newsblur while I was starting bookie and his actually is a business lol | 17:49 |
| rick_h_ | why I can't shake it off as random dude said something stupid | 17:49 |
| jrwren | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_transit_ridership | 17:50 |
| cmaloney | 33.1% | 17:51 |
| cmaloney | Honestly I don't enjoy owning a car. It's kind of a pain in the butt | 17:51 |
| cmaloney | but it's better than the other options and I enjoy being able to hop in the car and go where I want to go | 17:52 |
| jrwren | Ann Arbor 11.2% !!! #31 on the list. hehehehe | 17:52 |
| cmaloney | if someone came up with a better way to take my will to be somewhere and transport my butt from point A to point B with reasonable safety and low ethical cost I would be quite happy to ditch the car | 17:52 |
| cmaloney | and quickly | 17:52 |
| jrwren | working at home, it made NO SENSE for me to keep a car. I can take lyft or the bus and still spend less than I was on insurance alone for a paid off car. | 17:52 |
| cmaloney | Until then I'll burn dinosaur remnants | 17:53 |
| cmaloney | Totes | 17:53 |
| cmaloney | for a while we only had one car | 17:53 |
| cmaloney | then I started at Morpace and we had to get a second car | 17:53 |
| cmaloney | I didn't enjoy that | 17:53 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: how much stuff does your daughter have to do? | 17:53 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: that was what killed me when we had one car in the shop | 17:54 |
| jrwren | rick_h_: wife has a car. | 17:54 |
| jrwren | we never have a car in the shop. | 17:54 |
| rick_h_ | was the kid stuff that had to be worked around for swim, shopping, soccer, etc | 17:54 |
| rick_h_ | jrwren: so either I had to take my wife to work and back each day or we needed that second vehicle back | 17:54 |
| jrwren | gymnastics, girl scouts, those would be expensive lyft rides for sure, but still less than the cost of keeping a car. | 17:54 |
| rick_h_ | but when she's rotating between hospital/office/etc she needs a way around | 17:55 |
| jrwren | Yeah, it is not for everyone for sure. | 17:55 |
| jrwren | I'm not trying to shame you or say, you should try this. | 17:55 |
| rick_h_ | I guess that's the advantage of the lyft being in a more densely populated area | 17:55 |
| rick_h_ | no, I'm generally curious as I know you have a kid and are pretty active in stuff | 17:55 |
| rick_h_ | e.g. you seem to get around and post to instagram well enough, curious if that's all full family time or what | 17:55 |
| jrwren | yup, i'm never more than 2mi away from a lyft driver, and usually less than a mile. | 17:55 |
| jrwren | rick_h_: I've taken the bus to at least one of those games at crysler center that I posted to IG this year :) | 17:56 |
| rick_h_ | I had thought about one day trying to be a one vehicle family | 17:56 |
| jrwren | but mostly it is full family time. | 17:56 |
| rick_h_ | I think the big thing is less that it's cheaper but the time involved to organize 3rd party transit and the unknown on if you can get it or not | 17:57 |
| jrwren | You are dead on right re: kid stuff. My Kid's 2 best friends from school live outside of our school zone, they are school of choice, and so instead of being a 20min walk away at most, they are a 20min drive away :( | 17:57 |
| rick_h_ | so we pay more for that second vehicle for predicability and more time at home vs managing the transit | 17:57 |
| rick_h_ | yea | 17:57 |
| jrwren | yup, I worried that unknown was going to be an issue for me, but so far it hasn't been. | 17:58 |
| jrwren | But I can also walk home from downtown in about an hour, so it really is not an issue. | 17:58 |
| rick_h_ | yea | 17:58 |
| rick_h_ | that's where I'm curious what percent of the US population lives in a place large enough to do that | 17:58 |
| jrwren | and the bus stop is 1/8mi from here. I can hear the bus use its turn signal, sometimes even when the house is closed up and the air is right :) | 17:58 |
| rick_h_ | lol | 17:59 |
| jrwren | It is a good question. I think you'd only need to know what % of US Population lives in areas with good public transit. | 17:59 |
| jrwren | IIRC most of USA population does NOT live in NYC, LA, Chi, Hou, Pho, Phily, SanAn, SD, Dallas, SanJose, Austin | 18:00 |
| jrwren | just looking at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population I don't know about public transit in some of those top 10 cities, but when I visited Austin and Jax (admittedly a while ago now) they were NOT public transit cities, adn CBUS is #14 on taht list? pffff... no way. | 18:01 |
| jrwren | sheesh I didn't realize cbus had grown so much! | 18:01 |
| jrwren | bigger than detroit by population now?!? | 18:02 |
| rick_h_ | well not sure if it's grown or DTW has shrunk :) | 18:03 |
| jrwren | yes, i think I was misinformed on cbus size. I thought it was much smaller. | 18:04 |
| cmaloney | For those of us who aren't familiar with acronyms: CBUS=? | 18:08 |
| cmaloney | Ah, Columbus | 18:09 |
| cmaloney | yeah Columbus is hopping | 18:09 |
| brousch | cmaloney: Mastodon is getting some press due to the latest Facebook scandal | 20:01 |
| Scary_Guy | good | 20:10 |
| Scary_Guy | https://asciinema.org this seems useful | 21:29 |
| cmaloney | brousch: Awesome. :) | 22:57 |
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