[hardwaregeek]

Never underestimate cultural momentum I guess. NBA players shot long 2 pointers for decades before people realized 3 > 2. Doctors refused to wash their hands before doing procedures. There’s so many things that seem obvious in retrospect but took a long time to become accepted

[hshdhdhehd]

Hey and you can use both lanes in a zip merge!

[eru]

Isn't that the law anyway?

Morale: follow the rules.

[tehnub]

>NBA players shot long 2 pointers for decades before people realized 3 > 2

And the game is worse for it :')

[terminalshort]

This is a fundamental problem in sports. Baseball is going the same way. Players are incentivized to win, and the league is incentivized to entertain. Turns out these incentives are not aligned.

[yla92]

Is it ? I, for one, enjoy watching the 3s raining down!

[peterfirefly]

They did wash their hands. Turns out that soap and water wasn't quite enough. Lister used carbolic acid (for dressing and wound cleaning) and Semmelweis used chlorinated lime (for hand washing).

[msla]

And Semmelweis is a perfect case against being an asshole who's right: He was more right than wrong (he didn't fully understand why what he was doing helped, but it did) but he was such a horrible personality and such an amazing gift for pissing people off it probably cost lives by delaying the uptake of his ideas.

But this is getting a bit off topic, I suppose.

[hrimfaxi]

Was soap often used prior to the mid 1800s?

[Ferret7446]

That was later; earlier in history doctors (or "doctors" if you so insist) did not wash their hands.

[ipaddr]

People paid 100x more for their hosting when using aws cloud until they realized they never neded 99.97% uptime for their t-shirt business. Oh wait too soon. Save for post for the future.

[terminalshort]

People paid only 100x more than self hosting to use AWS until they realized that they could get a better deal by paying 200x for a service that is a wrapper over AWS but they never have to think about since it turns out that for most businesses that 100x is like 30 bucks a month.

[frde_me]

People spent half their job figuring out self hosted infrastructure until they realized they rather just have some other company deploy their website when they make a commit.

[sethops1]

kubernetes

[IMTDb]

Usually when someone comes with that argument, I ask them to pick any week date in the past year and then I take a random item on my calendar on that day; I give them the time and address of where I need to be as well as the address of my home and I ask them how long it's going to take me and how much it's going to cost. That's usually enough to bring them down a notch from "train work" to "sometimes train work". (But they tend to forget very often, they need to be reminded regularly for some reason). Do you want to play that game with me to get your reality check in order ?

Western Europe in a VERY dense city BTW.

[trueismywork]

People in Europe spents years with people dying due to heat stress before they discovered ACs....

[MobiusHorizons]

This is not people’s fault individually, but rather in aggregate (ie government). The places that have good train infrastructure that is legitimately an alternative to driving are very few and far between in the US. It’s just not an option for most people. And people can’t just all move to the places where it is an option, because housing and jobs are already strained in those places negating many of the benefits.

[taneq]

Have you considered that the repeated attempts to reinvent what's basically trains are not, in fact, evidence that people don't know about trains, but evidence that people like the advantages of trains but that the downsides suck so bad that people will pay literally tens of thousands of dollars a year to avoid them?

[bongodongobob]

Yeah all you need to do is raze and rebuild every city in America and it will work great!

[rustystump]

Wrong kind of cheek my friend

[DarmokJalad1701]

People in Europe spent years walking to the store everyday for food until they discovered that mechanical refrigeration exists...