It’s Europe, not a fairy tale. We do in fact renovate and change our streets occasionally. A clear indicator are the fancy cut grey slabs and the metal disc. I can guarantee you those are not there since the time of horse and carriage. Also the red bricks would be waaay more worn down by now if they were that old.

There are multiple additional parking spaced behind the car. Replacing one spot with bike parking still allows both modes to visit the shop but provides an increased number of visitor spaces.

It’s not an old video game. They’re not immovable parts of the level design. You can likely move or bump them out of the way enough to pass through.

Meanwhile right next to them is a huge metal box that stole 4 times as much sidewalk, transported half as many people and is literally un-moveable if you’re not in a heavy motorized vehicle.

When I learned to drive there was a pretty big emphasis put on paying attention to cyclists in round abouts. Nowadays the official rule for how a bicycle should go through a round about is: in the middle of the road. Even as a car driver I love the boldness of this approach.

I find this post hilarious in a really sad and aggravating way.

Everyone complains how the bikes block the path for pedestrians, strollers, wheelchairs. But pictured on this very same image is how the entire sidewalk is narrowed to make room for cars. That one car takes up twice as much space as those two bikes and likely transported half an many people. And if you’re on foot, in a wheelchair or pushing a stroller you can push the bicycles out of the way. You can’t push the car out of your way.

I mean it’s JS. I’m not touching that if I can help it. But what you describe is less of a problem with the concept and more one with an immature technology.

but it’s less portable and more verbose

you misspelled “less obtuse and more expressive”

Also it doesn’t compete with regex. It’s an abstraction layer. You know, the thing programmers have been building since the dawn of programming to make everyone’s lives easier. There’s a reason why everyone who has the option to has stopped working directly with assembly and C.

I disagree. Anyone familiar with regex can debug these statements post conversion. Anyone not familiar with regex is going to have to learn something in order to debug the statement. I’d rather learn something that’s expressive and easy to visually parse.

regex syntax is a vestige of the old “as few bytes as possible” era where every character of code had to be written personally. It’s an obsolete way of thinking for the vast majority of programming.

hey hey! Regex are awesome! Fuck regex syntax!

When you want to get better using a hammer, just treat everything as a nail.

Sure. I just very rarely need just basic regexes.

And once you go beyond these the syntax gets very obtuse. Which means I’m spending an hour+ googling something close to what I need and then using a sandbox to try and tweak it until it does what I need. Then I paste something into my code that I won’t understand anymore 5 minutes into the future - which isn’t exactly great for maintainability.

me for example. I don’t write regex often enough to be really familar with the cryptic syntax. But I do use them every once in a while and dread the occasion every time. Having a more expressive way to write pattern matching instructions would be really useful to me.

I am very much in the market for a way to do regex without resorting to incantations that look like someone spilled a bag of special characters. Just not on JS…

You seem to be the author. A suggestion to you. You should really rethink your playground. All it currently does is turning melody into regex, which is important to have for comparison. But you’re specifically courting people who DON’T want to deal with regex syntax. What you desperately need is a way to run melody expressions. And - if possible - a way to translate regex into melody wouldn’t hurt as well.

Many (most?) of us tend to google regex on the web and pasting them in our code. Having them converted into a syntax that we can better understand would be hugely helpful.

Off course, fellow human!

I feel personally attacked!

sheesh! I’ve read newspaper fortunes with more specificity.

Even the tomato slices recognize they do not belong into a sandwich!

For the people who don’t want to squint at a weird format image:

• Communism: You have two cows. The state takes both and gives you some milk
• Fascism: You have two cows. The state takes both and sells you some milk (someone here has a very benign definition of fascism)
• Socialism: You have two cows. You give one to your neighbor who had none.
• Bureaucratism: You have two cows. The state takes both, kills one, milks the other and then throws the milk away.
• Tradition Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one to buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the profit.
• Venture Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother in law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option to buy one more.
• French Corporation: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want two.
• Italian Corporation: You have two cows. You don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch
• Swiss Corporation: You have 500 cows. None of them belong to you. You just charge for storing them.
• American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one and force the other to produce milk like 4 cows. You hire an independent consultant to determine why the cow died.
• Indian Company: You have 2 cows. You worship them.
• Irish Company: You have 2 cows. One of them is a horse.
• Australian Company: You have 2 cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
• Iraqi Company. You have no cows. Noone believes you. The US bombs the crap out of you and invades your country. You still have no cows but at least you have a democracy now.
• British Company: You have 2 cows. Both are mad.
• Greek Company: You have 2 cows borrowed from French and German banks. You eath both. The banks call to collect their milk but you cannot deliver. The IMF loans you 2 cows. You eat both. The banks and the IMF call to collect their milk. You’re out getting a haircut.
• Chinese Company: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment and max bovine productivity. You arrest the journalist who reported the real situation.

MacGyver already discovered it. (We literally had a TV ad for that movie with the a sentence that roughly translates as “MacGyver, the adventurer who shows Indiana Jones who’s boss”)

Don’t have the leaving early part down yet but I’m making a conscious effort to be more accomodating on the road? For a long time I’ve been annoyed with some road behavior. People squeezing in before me with what feels like half a meter to spare. People not letting me join the passing lane. Until I realized that I contributed to these myself. Because I didn’t want anyone to squeeze in in front of me I kept a short distance to the next car which means that other cars were either not being let in (which I hate when it happens to me) or force it by squeezing into way to narrow gaps.

So I decided to deliberately let anyone join the passing lane that wants in. I’m not gonna drive slower as default but if I see you stuck behind a truck I’ll fall back enough to make it clear that you can hop over. This solves both problems for me.