Kempeth

The tram supremacy doesn't lie in the inherent nature of the technology but in the way we treat it! Trams get:

• their own lane
• dedicated signals at intersections (often even priority)
• infrastructure money and thus planning effort

In short, they are (usually) treated like public transport. Busses on the other hand are too often treated like just another car that's thrown in with the rest but also has the obligations of public transport. If you treated trams like that (sharing the road, waiting behind cars) they would be even worse than busses.

You're missing the point of this. Right now all the aid Ukraine is getting is dependent on piecemeal decisions, which if Europe and America get bored, can dry up extremely quickly. Russia is banking on that and is investing heavily to try and produce this outcome.

A statement comitting to long term aid undermines that. And at least somewhat shores up Ukraine's aid. I don't know how binding this declaration is to any party but as the article says: it is a signal that the West intends to keep up the aid for as long as Russia keeps up the invasion.

Shouldn't be downvoted just for liking things differently.

The point is to tell an exciting story - there's no right or wrong definition of what that means for you.

The dice's purpose is to take you down paths you might not have chosen deliberately but the goal is still to have an exciting story. If the DM wants to be like "I recognize the dice have made a decision but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it" then he has my full support.

Maybe a cleaner way would be to decide up front: which outcomes am I ok with? and simply cap the roll at that. You know the paladin only has 17 HP left and you don't want the paladin to go down so the maximum roll you want is 16. So if you have roll 4d6 damage. You do: roll 3 roll 8 roll 12 roll ~~18~~ 16.

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.

No problem. Happy to gather some sweet sweet invisible karma in your place!

Swiss government isn't going to ditch twitter anytime soon. Nothing moves this quickly in the Swiss government. But it would be an excellent time to create their own instance and give it a try.

Once twitter truly goes to shits they can simply switch their primary focus.

I uncomfortably giggled way to hard at this.

You shouldn't be downvoted for this.

Busses are a great way to introduce some public transport on the cheap: All you really need is - well - the vehicles, enough road capacity to run them and some signs to indicate where the stop is. And you can easily tweak the network to try and optimize it as you learn more about the needs of the travelers.

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!