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Yes.

That colour scale can get in the bin.

Just the word syntax? Sure. You teach coding at first by example, not from first principles. At some point, explaining the concepts helps in the teaching but not at first.

That sounds like a level of detail it is not necessarily useful to go into with most people. I never experienced anyone non-technical complaining about cloud products, so it would just be proselytising about what to me is a hobby/passion project.

(Not that I’m big into self hosting, but to the extent I am)

Tylenol is paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, not aspirin.

This is sad, not humorous

Agreed. And a lot of it is working around limitations of whatever version of Java was common at the time.

“Visitor pattern” is better implemented as an implementation of Iterator or whatever your language calls that. Everyone knows what “for x in thing” means, but wtf does it mean to “visit” something?

I think Ousterhout’s observation that deep interfaces are more useful is a very astute one. There is a kind of programmer who finds it satisfying to write lots of boilerplate but it doesn’t make the code maintainable.

Short functions can be good because you then name each short section of code, but a comment can offer that more flexibly.

Maybe.

All of this means that your proposed method requires toilets every couple of hundred metres between city centres and suburbs. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of resources.

Yeah, so the idea that you can have enough toilets to prevent this involves having toilets every few minutes, or every few hundred metres. That’s kind of insane. We should try the paint, or deal with the mess.

I don’t know the details, but as soon as you break up the stream it will not reflect cleanly.

Peeing in a city is always going to affect others - there will be people nearby who don’t want to see and hear it, and unless it is raining at that moment, it will leave a mess that affects people. I believe even peeing in the countryside can cause some negative effects due to nitrogen run off.

No, just a regular toilet in a public establishment. I don’t know anyone who’s thinking “this toilet is gross, so I’ll piss in the fucking street”. I guarantee you noone is wiping down the street with anti bacterial spray.

Toilets can get busy, yet queuing for one is very normal. Have you noticed that no-one sees the queue and goes on the corner?

That’s because this is caused by drunk people failing to plan ahead and then when caught short not having any inhibitions.

I have been walking home with someone who pissed in the street less than a block (I don’t live in the US, we don’t have blocks, but it was a couple of minutes) away from home.

Cmon, use that imagination of yours to go beyond what you have directly experienced.

Remember too that all drunk people have come from somewhere with a working toilet, because places that serve alcohol have toilets.

So to you it is axiomatic that the problem is insufficient toilets. You cannot understand that there are people - usually drunk - who will not use a toilet unless they are already inside it. It is not feasible to blanket a city in toilets sufficiently to eliminate public urination, so maybe a multi-pronged approach including discouraging people from doing so is more sensible.

“The transit”? There is transit all over Hamburg and there are three directly outside the Hauptbahnhof.

When they piss on the piss-splashing paint, it splashes them with piss, so they stop. I believe the point is that it sprays back at all angles.

I’m not claiming it’s a magic bullet, but I am claiming that if you think this is about homeless people you are not thinking about drunk people and tourists, who are the genuine target.

The answer is drunk people.

I was once walking home with a drunk housemate who pissed in the street a few minutes away from home. Also “clean” does not enter into it. The street is not clean.

They have walked out of a club with a toilet five minutes ago. How frequently do you want there to be toilets?

The idea is that by putting the risk in people’s minds it’ll be a deterrent, or else by giving people a natural consequence (and also protecting the wall from being stained with piss) it’ll deter repeat offenders.

Well I didn’t spot that

I mean maybe it’s just some other formula