I use a similar flow with the technical team to avoid unencrypted credentials in SCM. The vault (or other secrets) are encrypted with a common passphrase and then only this passphrase is whats encrypted with GPG for multiple recipients.

Mostly because business apps have to appear similar to the platform UI. Games do not, they have to look the same regardless of the platform in use.

And making a cross platform app framework which looks like native UI is much harder.

In contrast, Unity's UI systems are all terrible and looking native isn't even one of their goals.

GDC videos are great. Maybe too specific and also more related to technical artist but I found the videos Martin Donald put together really nice: https://youtu.be/KfphtLRoUB0?si=FkYb5F8Wui79mQzb

Unfortunately there are only a handful, but quality over quantity right.

They need a new vehicle category? Why does an electric bicycle need a driver license in the first place?

Part of the problem here is that it seems like you can't actually pedal this thing, which is to me (and a lot of lawmakers in the US) sort of foundational to the concept "bicycle".

The other problem here is that with ever-increasing electric motor technology, old standards like engine displacement, or even power supply (gas vs electric) are not great indicators of the maximum speed of these things. As it stands, while 13 km/h is not that fast (its a reasonable jogging pace), it is very fast if the user is zoned out on their phone, which happens all too often in e.g. airports or tourist zones.

I see a lot of scooters around here with vestigial compliance pedals, mostly driven by gig delivery drivers. The form factor looks more like a moped. No one would ever use those pedals. Clearly they're there to skirt some kind of regulation. I'm not sure what the fix is, but "able to pedaled" is kind of a ridiculous compromise.

Vestigial pedals, LOL. Many deliveristas in NYC are seemingly competent riders. I noticed that an increasing number of them have bright red and blue blinking lights the exact color of police car emergency lights. That is distracting and bothers me more than a lot of their riding.

In 60s/70s France 14 year olds could ride motorised bicycles, so Vespa sold a Pedalo - a regular (but lower-powered I think) Vespa scooter with pedals as well as 2-stroke engine - you had to put the engine in neutral to pedal (I bet not many 14 year olds did this).

Here’s a picture of that Vespa with pedals for anyone else interested in seeing it: https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/models/1-vespa/25-50-pedali-v...

Isn't that what a moped is?

Whole terminology is pretty mixed up and messy. Moped is that, but then again speed limited scooters like Vespa without the pedals could also be moped. And so could speed and engine limited motorcycle of other style...

In general I understand moped as anything with limited speed/engine size.

So long as the pedals are hooked up to the drive train in such a way that they actually work, I don't actually have any complaint.

If the user can easily switch to backup-pedal power to traverse e.g. Millenium Park in Chicago, then I don't really see the problem. Certainly, failure to use that function is a problem, but I don't think its good for society if we allow police to stop actual bicyclists on suspicion of riding a pedal assist vehicle. These things are pretty obvious when in use: bikes don't coast, unassisted, uphill at the speeds these things frequently achieve.

NY state has three classes since 2020: pedal-assist only, pedals with independent hand throttle up to 20 MPH, pedals with independent hand throttle up to 25 MPH (NYC only, slower than standard class 3).

In the UK the pedals are supposed to provide the assist. Handlebar mounted throttles are not allowed.

None of this is enforced.

Whether a "treadmill bicycle" counts seems on the level as asking "if the impossible burger is a burger" or "if a hotdog is a sandwich" in terms of failure to gain any clarity by asking.

On the literal sense every dictionary definition of "bicycle" is going to include some variation of "pedal driven". In the practical sense whatever functions enough like a bicycle is going to count, typically alluded to by being called a ${thing} bicycle, but "it moves on wheels and you go on it" isn't going to clear that bar on its own in this "electric suitcase".

In all 3 cases, the forward motion is ultimately provided by human power. So, even if you (for some reason) decided to motorize an elliptical bicycle or treadmill bicycle, the straightforward requirement is that its still mostly functional without power provided to the motor. I feel like an electric-assist handcycle should already exist, but its ultimately the same question. "Does it still work nearly as well after the battery is discharged?" I'm not super fit, but I can definitely hit 30 km/h on my road bike, so pedal assist to get me to 30 km/h is not beyond the reasonable limits of the average user.

You can certainly put a motorcycle into neutral and sort of scoot it around, but to make it usable in that configuration, you'd have to mess with the overall geometry to the point that its not comfortable to ride as a motorcycle.

The first two don't go anywhere and therefore aren't a problem. The third is just a variation of bicycle. What is your point here?

The first two are probably more literal than you're interpreting them at first glance. E.g. imagine taking a bike and putting a literal treadmill in it to replace the pedals/seat. It's a (niche) thing separate from a treadmill and definitely moves. In the end I think you're right but your conclusion "it's just a variation of a bike" really applies to all 3, hence "${thing} bicycle" instead of something like "electric suitcase".

> The first two don't go anywhere

They're probably talking about e.g. an elliptigo, which does go somewhere. Although I can't imagine it ever making sense to motorise one.

I think that part is wrong. You don't need a license to ride an e-bike in Japan.

However, what would be an e-bike in some other country would be classified as a moped in Japan, requiring a driver's license. In particular, the amount of assistance an e-bike can provide is limited, some power has to come from the rider to be classified as an e-bike. So it is possible that because of some quirks of the Japanese regulations, an electric suitcase would be classified as a moped, therefore requiring a license.

I think the classification is pretty standard. A bicycle has pedals. A motorcycle/moped does not. Legal definitions start drifting by region about things like can you ride an e-bike without using the pedals or maximum speeds. So I doubt anywhere would consider these bicycles. What is more interesting to me is if it fits into the same category as mobility scooter, wheelchair or golf buggy. Over here in my state, mobility scooters are only legal in public if you are injured, have difficulty walking or other disability. Electric scooters were entirely illegal until recently, unless they were under powered enough to be classified as a toy (which was so low they where incapable of transporting a teenager or adult)

Unsure where you are, but in most of the US ebikes that can go over 28mph are not ebikes. They are electric motorcycles, and must be registered as such.

You're not mad at ebikes, you're mad at people with unregistered vehicles, and potentially drivers driving motorcycles without motorcycle licenses.

IMO this can be solved with education and enforcement in equal measure.

This is not the first example of there being an easily-abused commons of some sort, where we all benefit from using something within reason but a few bad actors can make things radically worse for everyone.

Radio comes to mind. It's very easy for anyone to prevent their neighbors from using their wifi, by trying to boost their own signal strength beyond legal limits.

But people don't, despite the equally easily removed power limiters. Because the FCC will come down hard on them.

Let's add more enforcement. Speed cameras everywhere, for cars and bicycles.

>Speed cameras everywhere, for cars and bicycles.

How do speed cameras help stop speeding bikes when they don't require a license plate?

I would support legislation requiring license plates on electric bicycles, if it came alongside legislation that would make cyclists radically safer from cars, such as ubiquitous speed cameras.

Do you know of an example where this is done? I didn't know that and we are currently using a customized wire format (based on a patched Thrift), so I thought gRPC wouldn't be an option for us.

I have done it in proprietary settings. Nothing off the top of my head. The gRPC libraries themselves are pretty straightforward. You just need to use thrift IDL parser to output stubs that use gRPC under the hood.

The C++ one may be slightly more challenging to replace because extra care is needed to make sure protobuf message pipeline is zero-copy. Other languages are more trivial.

One place to start would be to look at the gRPC protoc plugin and see how it’s outputting code and do something similar. Pretty lean code.

Just run it in LXC. Then the container is not immutable but the process will still be isolated with it's dependencies. And infrastructure as code, with Ansible etc, all possible.

Also the talk about docker being itself a dependency I can't really follow. I guess you would have many other dockers also running, otherwise being nxing the only thing within docker.. that doesn't make much sense..

The section about the "Docker as an additional dependency" didn't transmit the message correctly which I tried to convey.

It is about:

Everything that something depends on makes it a little more likely to introduce failures which I want to minimize if reasonably possible.

I corrected the section.

That has nothing to do with bluetooth. It's scans for tags, but the location is still reported constantly by the phone.

Works for the employees, because maintaining a service in as-is state doesn't bring promotion opportunities, so who would want to be part of that?

Not sure if anyone at Google really cares about Google in general. And who could blame them?

Of course they do... but also the first time I hear that, didn't know.

Sure you can, you just have to complete the OAuth2 login on a different device (e.g. phone) and then forward the token to the device which has no web browser.

On the phone itself the WebView limitation is worked around via deep linking (start Browser from App and once logged in start App from Browser with token).

There are tons of different ways how to do this actively being used.