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dr2chase

@dr2chase@ohai.social

Not a physician, utility-bikes a lot (~5000km/year), DFH, works on Go compiler. (I do not speak for my employer.) Sometimes know things about programming languages, (cargo) bicycles, lilies, Florida.

He/him. Ex(?) Florida Man.
Now near Boston, MA, USA.
Married to a sociologist.
Tootfinder searchable.
#nobridge

Biased towards following people unlike me but with overlapping interests.

I'm aware that not everyone can ride a bike, it's been mentioned once or twice in the past.

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msquebanh, to random
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Has anyone here taken a golf cart, made changes to it & turned it into a street legal electric vehicle?

In my dreams, last night, I was driving around roads, on an upcycled, electric golf cart with a trailer attached to back, with my cat in a backpack windowed carrier in passenger seat. We were heading to a cats cafe.

dr2chase,
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@msquebanh @moira e-tricycle rickshaw with fat tires?

Here's a couple. Might want enclosing or something like that, but at least it starts out street legal (in many states).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZ0voMhhz4

https://www.bpmimports.com/shop/bike-model/r-750/r-750z-750w-21ah/

dr2chase,
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@msquebanh @moira shoot, sorry about the different laws.

BenRossTransit, to random
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NYT: Have E-Bikes made New York streets a nightmare?
Not mentioned until end of article: The automobiles that make New York streets a nightmare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/nyregion/street-wars-e-bikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE0.x-6m.qS78uuD5VSwU&smid=url-share

dr2chase,
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@BenRossTransit best hits of NextDoor.
What's wild is the NYT thinks this is a Covid phenomenon; there were e-bike delivery guys in 2015, I saw them with my own eyes. Given the lack of noise about it at the time, pretty sure most people don't pay that much attention to the finer details of bicycles.

attie, to random
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This is utterly wild... am I a little smooth-brained, or is this totally unrealistic?

  • 200 Mbps compressed to under 1 Mbps
  • Realtime, i.e: ~1ms latency or better
  • Encode and transmit in <10mW (yes, including radio)
  • Lossless
  • High-entropy input

... if you succeed, just email them your solution - no mention of any reward or Nobel Prize nomination.

https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

dr2chase,
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@robryk @crschmidt @attie I went straight to "completely full of shit". I'm somewhat more interested in the process that let that ridiculous request ever see the light of day -- there must be somebody there who knows that this is flat impossible, and either they felt speaking up would not be a winning move, or they were overruled by fucking idiots, or they were excluded from any comment. Or maybe nobody there has any clues, really should list all the possibilities.

ai6yr, to food
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Well, let's try boiling the nopal today versus just eating it raw or quickly cooked...

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr @meganL Prickly pear makes a good firebreak, and perhaps it would be edible afterwards.

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr @meganL as long as you're eating things, if your hillside isn't too cold in the winter, I recall an article in California Rare Fruit Growers about white sapote doing pretty well with (surviving) small amounts of fire. And it's tasty, and not sold in stores. Sort of a homely looking tree, if I remember properly.

w7voa, to random
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OpenAI hits pause on the Scarlett Johansson soundalike voice it calls Sky. https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/

dr2chase,
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@w7voa What this needs is a judgement large enough to make an example to others. A million here, a million there, that's not enough. Make it a nice, round, billion dollars, a nice financial 2x4 to the face, so as to make it clear they should quit fucking around like this.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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I often brag on tumblr about how "on the fediverse I never have to ask people for image descriptions, why is tumblr so terrible at this?" etc.

But, I've made the mistake of re-sharing a few images without descriptions recently! I was lulled into thinking it was not a problem.

Just FYI I'm going to get strict again about not re-sharing undescribed images. (You should too, it keeps the feed readable.)

If you forget? If this is new? Don't feel bad, just stop doing that.

https://www.tumblr.com/aspirationatwork/750857131588304896

dr2chase,
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@futurebird @stefan @promovicz As a #phanpysocial user, the UI makes a big difference. If you want something to happen, make it easy. Phanpy makes it obvious and pretty easy.

kellogh, to random
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the #gpt4o news is cool, but now i want to see an embedding model that i can use with a streaming interruptible conversation

dr2chase,
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@kellogh AFAIK (which is not that much) all the LLM crunching is done in C++ or GPU/TPU languages. The Python/Go/whatever is directing traffic. I work on Go, so of course would love to have people trying that, but Python is where a lot of people are now. I have some reasonable connection to Fortran, and while it might be the right language for crunching the numbers, it is not usually preferred for directing traffic.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

dr2chase,
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@InkySchwartz @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic @CelloMomOnCars E-bikes are still a reliability risk, depending. A fair number of people, if they get a flat, aren't able to fix it themselves. US Bike shops, still catering mostly to the US recreational crowd, have crap turnaround. I've got money, space & skills, my answer to this problem is a "winter bike" & a "summer bike" & because I deserve it, a "fun bike" that works perfectly well as a commute. Also, no e-assist, because I don't need it (yet).

dr2chase,
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@jbenjamint @CelloMomOnCars it-would-be-nice, if road safety permits, if they started running short-distance errands on those bikes. I do relatively little recreational cycling; my several bikes are all set up to be nice to ride running errands, so that's what I do. My best guess is it displaces around 100 gallons of gasoline, or about a ton of CO2 (round numbers). The cost of the not-gasoline is a little more than I spend on bike maintenance, maybe.

dr2chase,
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@NewNordicNormal @InkySchwartz @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic @CelloMomOnCars This is why I do winter/summer bikes, and favor longtails -- they're large enough for almost all errands, and I can tow a bike with a bike, so that's how I handle the shop. I think for the bucketbike case, and the e-bike case (where the bike might not be rollable), a flat trailer works, if you have another bike (it can be a small bike) to tow the trailer. A trailer feels like huge overkill, but it's far cheaper than a car.

dr2chase, to random
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It is a little amazing to me to see people who have been rendered incapable of seeing any difference between Biden and Trump because Biden has taken the slow-centrist-Democrat approach to Netanyahu's destruction of the Gaza strip. There's a lot going on there, Netanyahu is barely in power, the best goal is "how quickly can the atrocity stop?" not "how quickly can we claim we're no longer involved in the atrocity that has not stopped?" There's a difference. And yes it is awful./

skinnylatte, (edited ) to transit
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I’m interested in a lot of transit activism in N America but I swear people would think you’re a total weeb if you talk about transit in places with good transit. Trying to imagine talking to people in Singapore or Hong Kong or Seoul about.. loving trains

I think they would back tf away from me and run away.

Like my friend always says ‘I don’t want to be a transit fan. I just want great transit’

dr2chase,
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@skinnylatte @danluvsbeer You mean car fans are metaphorically crapping all over shared spaces, resources, etc? That works for me.

dr2chase, to random
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Yesterday morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJZLrkHGMU (Cambridge Bike Bus + Band, me with a photographer sitting backwards on my longtail). The ride was slow and nearly technical, given the low speed, load, kids to not hit, and the parked cars that I managed not to scratch.

Apologies if it comes with advertising, I'm over my weekly upload quota at Vimeo so that will happen next week if I remember.

laurahelmuth, to random
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Does anybody have a good term to describe people you used to respect who turned out to be horrible? Like Steven Pinker, J.K. Rowling, Richard Dawkins. It's like a milkshake duck but more consequential and even more disappointing

dr2chase,
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@dannotdaniel @tantramar @laurahelmuth Johnny Rotten / John Lydon. Did so enjoy Public Image Limited, and now he is terrible.

Thus far, Annie Lennox has never disappointed, and I am thankful for it.
In fact, here, something to make you feel better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1OZstfCrY

meganL, to cycling
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I was reflecting yesterday on how many cyclists on the UC Davis campus I saw doing the same self-centered, unsafe things I see drivers do.

And I know it's because most are drivers who are self-centered, and reckless.

I reflected on how, if we want more people to leave cars at home, we're going to be dealing with exactly this unless we find a way to educate, carrot & stick safer, more community-minded culture in new cyclists.

dr2chase,
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@meganL @enobacon Saw this conversation go by yesterday, came to add My Valuable Opinions. I generally favor infrastructure, because (retail) enforcement seems corruptible, and education depends on people wanting to be educated. HOWEVER, biking in Amsterdam was eye-opening in several ways, and one was how the biking default there was to not-yield to pedestrians.

dr2chase,
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@meganL @enobacon A Theorem Of Mine is that the division of public space into car lane vs cycle lane vs foot lane is an offshoot of car culture, and car size/speed/danger requiring reserved space, and everyone else's reaction to that (this theorem fails for streetcars). And if I could educate cyclists, it would be that they should get over their reserved-space view of the world, and instead adopt don't-collide and don't-bother the lower-energy modes (i.e., yield to peds, pass behind peds).

dr2chase,
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@enobacon @meganL didn't see any down-mowing, but to me it looked like it was approximately rude, and the peds were definitely delaying their forward progress before crossing, and bike stops for them would have been easy.

dr2chase, to random
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I have a modest fucking proposal. When the subway is down and shuttle buses must connect the stations instead, BAN CARS ON THE ROUTES BETWEEN THE STATIONS. We've been stuck in traffic behind a clot of lazy fucks who can't be arsed to do anything other than roll around in their armored rolling sofas and block the roads. WTF are they protesting, anyway? If they're going to block traffic like this they had better have a good reason. Can they even articulate their demands?

meganL, to cycling
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I sewed this shirt 15 or so years ago. Luckily I made it extra-big at the time so it still fits.

In honor of #BikeNite today, 4pm Pacific (US) Daylight Time. It's (a)synchronous so you don't have to be on at that time to participate. #Cycling #BikeTooter @bikenite

dr2chase,
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@HayiWena @meganL team pogies and face masks here, also.
Oh, and a large bag for the front basket on the Cute Cargo Bike

dr2chase,
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@HayiWena @meganL PS the cute cargo bike and bag.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Java has a interface* called “Set” but the documentation is nebulous & ominous. “may throw an exception” what? does no one even know? There isn’t even a method for intersection & union?! What is the point? I taught my students to use the set object in Python. It was an elegant beautiful experience— Thought we could do it in Java but I think I will just use arraylist, write my own damn methods.

I’m biased, but Java is always more annoying like this. ugh. (*this explains part of my confusion)

dr2chase,
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@futurebird Isn't it (technically) an "interface", not a "class"? Not helping with the annoying, but the reason it feels underspecified is that it wants to allow very simple things to be sets, and so the requirements are as loose as possible.

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"Heat pumps that fit in an apartment window could make a big impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-fred-gradient-new-york-city-queens-b2510714.html

dr2chase,
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@Thebratdragon @CelloMomOnCars there actually is a proposal for some of that, not sure it will happen. The idea is that (in US at least) nat gas companies own rights to dig in roadway. They convert those into geothermal wells, and circulate fluid from those to customers, managing the heat delivery, temperature of the ground sink, etc. We get more efficient heat pumps (the ground is always a better temperature than the air), no noisy-ish exterior units, no need to maintain those units.

dr2chase,
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@CelloMomOnCars @Thebratdragon Plan B is a dramatic contraction in their business. Their choice, is the way it looks to me.

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