chromebook unlock screen... WTF is it doing that it can't take input? If you just woke up and the screen is still locked, you only have that one job. Yes there are 150 tabs in the background, why are they activating first?
There's plenty of research out there showing that when you add a protected bike lane, a street becomes safer for ALL road users.
However, I'm not convinced that the traffic calming effect that made it safer actually continues to work if you don't bother to maintain the "protection". I fear it's actually the opposite; without the protection, drivers see just a clear lane and drive faster than they did before (where parked cars used to slow down cars, prior to PBL installation). #SafeStreets
Welcome to the May 24th BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction (with help from @jfparis)
Q1. Where are you posting from today? Where we are, Spring semester is over or almost over for many students. How does this affect your riding?
@kevinschaper@graham_freeman@ascentale@jfparis how much are you modulating the throttle? I'm assuming the Bosch drive is your main motor and this is just full throttle when you need the boost but maybe partway for long climbs? Braking seems harder to control by the throttle (I'm using lever switch + throttle signal on mine), gets more forceful as the speed drops. Like I would rather have a speed limiting algorithm that the controller modulates torque with.
I'm thinking air-to-air heat pumps are not actually a great answer to the heating problem. Blowing around warm air isn't terribly comfortable to start with, and even if you have an inverter, you can't lower the outlet temperature so much or it feels chilly, so it has to run hotter in cycles, which means short-cycling, which means not running when you have free power from solar & also needing higher currents (for the hotter cycles) while running when you don't have solar, and the source is cold
with outdoor temps ranging ~50-60, this window heat pump seems to be running at around 300W, but only for a short time. In cooling mode, on an 80°F day, it will run at like 80W continuously. Seems to be using around 1.5kWh / day right now, check back tomorrow night.
I've been running ubuntu with the default gnome desktop for a week on one computer, and the clock in the top middle of the screen... cannot be moved? I cannot ever find it without looking at the bottom right, top right, and top left corner first. 😒
