[HN Gopher] The Magic of Alleyways
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The Magic of Alleyways
Author : silt
Score : 39 points
Date : 2022-12-29 05:50 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| kjrose wrote:
| I went wandering the alleyways in my small town in Alberta
| recently during the summer. And I was pleasantly surprised by how
| many garages had been turned into makeshift bars and patios.
| There were myriad garage sales and such but so many people had
| full on bars for themselves and guests.
|
| It was like discovering a hidden world where the rules that
| prevent businesses from forming were all tossed out and people
| could just do as they wanted. In toronto, this style of business
| led to so many of the street front businesses that are literally
| impossible to do in any city now.
| marban wrote:
| Came here for a story about my favorite Game Boy launch title.
| jdpigeon wrote:
| Lovely article. I wish the author would have spent more words
| explaining why he is so against laneway houses, though.
| latchkey wrote:
| Saigon, Vietnam is a massive massive city with something like 8m+
| people living there. When I was living there and couldn't sleep
| at night, I'd hop on my motorbike and just go explore all the
| little back streets and alleyways that cut through the whole
| city.
|
| As a foreigner, it is relatively safe to do this. Most people are
| just busy living their lives (or sleeping!), but seems super
| sketchy if you think too deeply about it.
|
| I never really saw anything too crazy (beyond the absolute
| poverty a lot of people live in), but the occasional illegal
| cockfight or overhearing screaming and yelling was always
| entertaining. One time, I had a gang of hookers on bikes chase me
| around for a bit, but eventually they realized that I wasn't
| interested in being a customer and left me alone.
|
| I'm sure in a few instances, I could have stopped and had drinks
| with the more than friendly locals. From what I understand, I
| probably wouldn't have been allowed to leave until properly
| lubricated. I never worked up the courage for that one though,
| mostly because of the language barriers.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Are there equivalents to alleyways in software? Things that were
| meant as pragmatic ancillary solutions, but have taken on a life
| of their own?
|
| For me, vi's _!_ springs to mind.
| carapace wrote:
| Hmm...
|
| "Surprisingly Turing-Complete" https://www.gwern.net/Turing-
| complete
|
| > 'Computers', in the sense of being Turing-complete, are
| extremely common. Almost any system of sufficient complexity--
| unless carefully engineered otherwise--may be found to
| 'accidentally' support Turing-complete somewhere inside it
| through 'weird machines' which can be rebuilt out of the
| original system's parts, even systems which would appear to
| have not the slightest thing to do with computation.
| bobthepanda wrote:
| Javascript was (in)famously hacked together in ten days.
| sys32768 wrote:
| This reminds of that delightfully charming episode of "Japanology
| Plus - Tokyo : Backstreets and Alleys":
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| https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7nkz3a
| nanomonkey wrote:
| Gumball Alley in San Luis Obispo, CA is equal parts magical and
| disgusting.
| snapplebobapple wrote:
| I kinda wish there was a separate news feed for these long,
| meandering but often interesting stories (I propose we call it
| hacker news after dark). over 3k words is kind of a big
| commitment for the kind of bathroom breaks I am normally reading
| hacker news on so wish the main feed was kept to sub 2 k word
| stories/news. The other problem also happens where I sit down to
| the kind of epic bathroom break where I could enjoy a longer form
| item like this and then only run into said longer form item after
| chewing up most of the time on 10-15 shorter articles (on second
| thought, we could rename the original feed to normal dump and
| this new feed to epic dump).
| aaroninsf wrote:
| Out of the box solution: change your diet!
| verisimi wrote:
| Right. How are your bathroom breaks going anyway? Plumbing all
| working well, I hope! Drinking enough water?
| snapplebobapple wrote:
| Right as chocolate rain most of the time but sometimes it is
| cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
| verisimi wrote:
| Good job!
| Biologist123 wrote:
| My request would be for a button which saves the article to a
| form which I can read on a kindle or remarkable at a good time,
| for example on the commute home.
| thedailymail wrote:
| If you use an ios device you can save webpages to Books
| directly from Safari. This creates a pdf that should be
| transferable to other e-reader devices.
| uoaei wrote:
| Firefox has something like that called Pocket. I don't know
| how easy it is to send the articles to an e-reader.
| antipotoad wrote:
| Kobo readers at least have Pocket built-in.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| Second that. I found myself thinking, "too many adjectives."
| midenginedcoupe wrote:
| Product pitch - an app that appends "now wash your hands" to
| the end of every article linked from HN. Subscribe by spending
| a penny whilst you, er, spend a penny.
| dejj wrote:
| "Liminal spaces" are another kind of alleyways, through which one
| ordinarily just passes through:
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| https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Liminal_Space
|
| That kind of space the FTL drive in Event Horizon passes through:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)
| tony-allan wrote:
| Celebrate your cities laneways
|
| https://www.visitmelbourne.com/regions/melbourne/destination...
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