Riddle me this, Batman: I have rear wheel hub motor from the original Swytch bike indigogo campaign. 36v,22a controller. It was on a 700c wheel and I could regularly get up to 26-28mph on max PAS on a flat. I had the motor re-laced into a 20" wheel and can barely get above 16-17mph. After looking closely at the motor, it seems likes it's a Shengyi DGW22, which is nearly identical to the sx2 from GRIN, standard wind. 1/2
@Karstan@driusan whatpressureyourunning, rolling resistance etc? You could dial all of those parameters into the motor simulator to match, but I would expect wind resistance between 20-28mph to be significant vs at 18-20mph, tuck and lycra or not. All other things being unchanged (hard to match the tire performance when the rim size is different though), you should get 20/28ths of the prior speed. Sounds like 10% higher losses though?
@enobacon Yeah, too high for tire variation and riding position to account for. I'm essentially trying to dial in exactly what this motor's specs are so I can decide what to do with it going forward.
Just heard NPR describe Barbara Lee as "really far to the left" and then support that description by playing a sound bite of her saying "killing 25,000 civilians; it's catastrophic and it will never lead to peace". 🤦
I'd like to live in a world where "killing innocent people is wrong" isn't an extremist view.
@Karstan@seachanger The new cute thing for the murderous moderate is to refer to Black people and their allies as "Far Left" and it shouldn't be a surprise. Rev. Dr. King was considered a communist because reasons too.
NPR desperately wants to be everyone's pal, and that's one of the central weaknesses of the culture they reflect. If it means making Black folks look extreme, they would call that serving the audience.
@Karstan Just have a float valve that stops before it is empty. Valve at the outlet/ lower point would be the most effective at holding the siphon, and most prone to freezing, and is it mechanical or pneumatic or... Maybe just a small-ish tube and lower sump that stays full, needs to be primed once per rain event, that could be done with a pump, or fill a garden hose with water and close valves at each end, get it in place and open them.
@enobacon I like it! I'll definitely investigate and test something out this summer. The biggest hurdle is going to be finding a spot below the elevation of the sump pump but still on my property. Not a deal killler but could drastically simplify things during an event like this.
Of course, there's a sewer line not 4 feet away and definitely lower than the pump well... 😬
@Karstan oh I was remembering wrong, except at the west end on one side? The network is so patchy right there. I think 11th might have been one of the annexation boundaries, where there's curb and sidewalk on one side but not the other.
Look at this absolutely gorgeous vintage propane stove I got yesterday at an estate sale!! It was still in it's original box!! If this was ever used, it was only used once or twice.
Alright, I'm beginning to actively resent Linux or maybe it's just the distro I'm on? Nothing works. It does work briefly then will randomly stop working. I then spend hours troubleshooting to get nowhere finally giving up in frustration.
I just want a simple OS that works and doesn't constantly break. I want my touch screen to function and I want my bluetooth speaker to connect. I don't want to spend hours learning terminal commands.
@Karstan well I haven't tried that, though I did run mint kde for a few years. Kubuntu has been fairly low hassle, granted kde jumped the shark a decade ago when they discarded the working code and never quite recovered. My next install is going to be in 2005, apparently.
The English language does not contains words sufficent to describe the depths of my loathing for the Shimano 105 5500 front derailleur.😡 I feel like the Shimano engineers asked themselves "How unpleasant can we make installing and adjusting a derailleur" and thus the 105 5500 was born. #BikeTooter
I'm obviously not the arbiter on what is or isn't antisemitic hate speech. But I keep seeing vague claims that the protests have been making antisemitic chants, etc. I can't find any details on these supposed chants.
Clearly antisemitism is bad and wrong. But is this just one of those cases where anti-zionism is being mislabeled? Or is there seriously a problem with antisemitism in these protests?
Much probably comes down to how you define it. If you believe "from the river to the sea" is antisemitic, then absolutely.
I am not fully sure about the history (though I have looked into it a little) and can see arguments on both sides. That said, all of the people, the students, I have talked to seem to be using it a support of Palestine rather than an attack against Jewish people.
But it lives in the gray area where one can interpret it whichever way fits their views, it seems.
@FantasticalEconomics@Karstan “From the river to the sea?” I remember Netanyahu using that in a speech recently. I guess he must be antisemitic. Oh, wait, it’s not antisemitic when you use it to mean exterminating the Palestinian people. My bad.
This is my first year in a LONG time that I'm not using one of those bullshit tax filing services like Turbotax. Just finished filling out my tax forms myself. Fortunately I'm getting refunds for both state and federal taxes because a) there's no way this is gonna be postmarked today 😆 and b) it just occured to me that I don't have a checkbook so I would've had to go get a cashiers check if I'd owed.
I dunno why they don't just bring back airships and fill them with hydrogen. It's cheap and plentiful, our technology is FAR beyond what it was 100 years ago, and I can't imagine hydrogen is any more dangerous than JET FUEL.
I'm trying to figure out when there's gonna break in the rain to make my bike trip to the grocery store less damp. My weather app is telling me that it's not raining outside. But it is most definitely raining outside. 😡🌧️ #orwx#pdxtst
@Karstan it looks like (in merry sky + rainviewer) it's blowing to the north/east and we're just skipping along the west edge for the next hour or three . What app are you looking at?
@enobacon "Weather," an open source app from F-droid. It pulls the data straight from the national weather service so I don't know why it's wrong so often.
Edit: scratch that. Everything I just said is wrong. Not sure where this app came from?? Privacy friendly weather app that pulls from OpenWeatherMap
As the caregiver to my wife who has been disabled since having a virus 10 years ago, I sincerely hope that this doctor gets long COVID, has to medically retire and therefore cannot hurt patients anymore.
Fell down a rabbit hole of Mike Burrows interviews and articles. For those who don't know him, he was a quirky bicycle designer. One of the world's most influential and innovative designers in the last 50+ years. (He sadly passed away from cancer last year.)
I really like Burrows' 2D design that was adapted by Giant for their Halfway folding bike. It's a shame there aren't more innovative designs like this.
@Karstan We have one of his Tricycles - a wonderful beastie and still going strong after 20,000 k and counting. I met him at a number of cycling events, very approachable and a great laugh.
It'll never stop being weird to me that frozen produce is often cheaper than the fresh versions of the same thing. For example: brussels sprouts at $1.50/lb frozen vs. $3.50/lb fresh.
@Karstan frozen vegetables and fruit are seriously underrated. The logistics of getting fresh produce to you perfectly ripe and unscathed is very expensive. So much so that it’s pretty much unprofitable for grocery stores. Frozen produce is easier and cheaper to transport, and results in much less waste and spoilage. It’s ironically often ‘fresher’ as well, since it can be harvested at its peak and sold all year long.
@db@Karstan assuming flash-freezing, and then not storing it in the self-defrosting freezer for too long, or the ice crystal formation skewers all of the cells. I also wonder what the cost of transportation and refrigeration would be if we weren't borrowing the vast majority of energy costs from our children.
I generally prefer #StarTrek over #StarWars 9 times out of 10. HOWEVER, one thing that the Star Wars franchise has done DRASTICALLY better at: refraining from retconning the entire look, feel, and defining characteristics of technology or species every time some fucking mediocre, white dudebro is put in charge and decides they need to "refresh" the franchise.