@attie I think that this would depend in there being significant patterns in the data that aren't identifiable by typical encoding schemes (eg LZW), which seems highly unlikely but not impossible for some types of data?
@mcc i won't swear to it, but when I've seen this it is people who explicitly uploaded content with black letterboxes so that it would play in the shorts player, so the black bars are baked into the video and YouTube doesn't have a great way to know better.
@mcc yeah, fair enough. this particular thing ("why can't the player fix this?") is just the first layer of about 7 that are all directly caused by decisions YouTube had made :)
There are 295 people signed up for public comment at the Cambridge City Council tonight, most of whom will be speaking on a policy order to delay the city's implementation of bike lanes.
Speaker #3 in opposition out of 205: I'm not comfortable biking, but most of the descriptions of incidents are at intersections, which are not made safer by bike lanes.
(this is a complete misunderstanding of what almost every cyclist describing an injury is describing: dooring is not gonna happen in an intersection!)
210: Lawrence Adkins, one of the hecklers. "We are not taking all stakeholders into account. I only found out about this tonight. We should go back to sending letters to residents, the digital world bothers me. This should be stopped, put it on hold, and do it right."
211: "Please don't equate bike lanes with increased pedestrian safety, that's not true."
[most are equating them with increased cyclist safety, which is certainly true, but pedestrian safety is also typically increased with most of these designs.]
speaker: I've moved to Malden, and my world is so much smaller than it was in when I lived in Cambridge. I can tell you about businesses I went to on safe bike routes, but not on Cambridge Street because I didn't feel safe biking there.
speaker: I work with children with obesity, and it makes me feel sad when parents don't feel safe letting their children bike, but understands that it's an understandable decision given the safety of our streets.
"I'm here representing the 400 people who support this delay."
Lady, you have 400 signatures, we have 280 people who showed up in person or waited 5 hours to speak. I'm pretty sure it's clear which side has broader support.
@bikepedantic@Will I think that accepting the fig leaf red herring of parking here is probably misstating it.
I would restate it as: The antis want to delay implementation of the remainder of the cycling safety ordinance, and they convinced the swing vote to side with them.
@20002ist@bikepedantic@Will Yeah; the 4 anti-bike people (who would like to just stop installing new bike lanes entirely) combined with the swing vote, who gave a 15 minute speech about how great it is that we have this world class ordinance with strict deadlines, so it's okay if we extend the deadlines and add more process.