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Certified heavy equipment operator at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.

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As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.

Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iQqogVmr8

djcapelis,
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@bouriquet @AdeptVeritatis @mekkaokereke @UncivilServant @McBeth @hazelweakly I didn’t work on the Shanghai maglev project but Chinese rail companies meet international electromagnetic standards all the time. I think your post here consists of a fact free string of words attempting to put your bias in the clothing of “just asking questions” “skepticism”.

—someone who worked on electromagnetic compatibility engineering analysis for rail systems including for Chinese designed and built rail cars

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Oakland Airport wants to rename itself "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport?" Seriously?

What in the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim yeah we're in Anaheim but nod-nod wink-wink think of us as LA but we're the red one not the blue one but we're better because we have Ohtani wait what do you mean he's a Dodger now whatever bro we're still claiming LA" is going on here?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IDRj5KUF4

Is this early April fools? Tell me this is a bit.

djcapelis,
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@scott @mekkaokereke To be a bit pedantic, it isn’t located in Millbrae. It is technically in San Mateo but the land is not part of another city and both the land and airport on top of it are directly owned and operated by the city and county of San Francisco, with an SF zip code and is functionally in many respects an exclave of SF.

The airport authority is a directly managed department of the SF government, police and fire services are part of their SF depts, & city laws apply to the airport.

djcapelis, to random
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China just sent a rocket to collect samples from the moon and if we had a better world we would all see more news in various languages following the mission as a group of folks try and grab some moon rocks from the dark side yet once more and get away with it.

May they have the luck they’ll need to succeed.

djcapelis, to random
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One thing everyone who goes to Burning Man knows but some people outside are less familiar with is that there's always a waitlist, each and every year, of people who want to join the resto crew to pick up trash in the desert. Yep, too many people want to pick up trash in the desert, so you gotta join the waitlist.

These are uh, their stories from this year: https://journal.burningman.org/2023/09/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/checking-in-on-playa-restoration/

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The leadership of the US House of Representatives is so in thrall of vindictive tiny handed cowards that they have created not just an earmark, but the opposite of one picking a specific project to ban from any potential federal funding designed to go to expanding trains in the country.

So that’s… weird.

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The reason every single website takes seven years to load and chokes oddly if there's an error or delay in any of the hundreds of connections is because some engineers decided their jobs would be easier if everything was a microservice and then that decision slowly crept towards the actual frontend code until everyone else paid the price for it.

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User agent - noun - a historical term from when web browsers focused on what and how a user wanted information displayed rather than what a web developer decided their computer should do

djcapelis, to random
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Anyone in or planning to be in Japan want to grab dinner in Tokyo on Monday evening? I gotta get back to HND before midnight or my plane ticket turns into a pumpkin, but am otherwise around.

Alternatively: restaurant recommendations for a jet lagged traveler welcome.

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In state media coverage vs out of state media coverage.

Out of state folks really seem to care about stuff that isn’t about them.

djcapelis, to random
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Small Niklaus Wirth appreciation note. Pascal and its "related" family of technologies held a broad influence in much of UCSD’s computer science department for many decades. Which is why one of my first encounters with Oberon was writing a compiler frontend for it since it was one of the languages used in the compiler classes. It is also where I finally learned that not every school assignment can be done the day it was due and a parser might take at least a couple of days.

So—thanks for that.

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We are having a wildly normal water year in California.

djcapelis, to random
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Some of the first long range weather models for eclipse day are up! Cloud cover model is unlikely to be accurate this far out but general pressure zones maybe give a vibe. This is going to get a lot more useful as the eclipse approaches but I wouldn’t make any plans based on the current runs yet.

A long range cloud cover model for eclipse day showing clear areas in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, the southern tip of Illinois, and the adjacent southwestern tip of Indiana, but cloud cover challenges most elsewhere along the area of totality.

djcapelis,
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Just to drive home the unreliability of the models at this point: CFS shows a completely different type of weather happening on the same day. The models are so far from converging that they agree on basically nothing.

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As the eclipse becomes closer the weather sites have started laying the eclipse track down on the maps for anyone looking at a forecast image within six hours of the eclipse time.

But the forecasts themselves are getting pretty grim for many favored locations.

The models are still in rapid flux though and won’t be worth planning around until <120h out.

djcapelis, to random
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It seems almost everyone I know who made an attempt managed to get some eclipse today! Even in the difficult weather places! Nice work all!

djcapelis, to random
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On 13 of the 31 days of March, the California power grid spent at least some time during those days below net zero emissions.

Every year this happens more often, for longer. We are going to decarbonize this fucker and ain’t nothing anyone can do to stop it.

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Slightly after midnight, sitting outside in a tshirt perfectly content in this clear warm night after a clear temperate day in what the stereotypes would have me believe is a fog stricken part of the city.

Music plays gently into the night while the breeze grazes the trees. To the west, an ocean under cover of darkness with planes above bound for destinations across the globe. The nearby birds opt for closer destinations. While a train rumbles down below.

Ah yes—the San Francisco hellscape.

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100 hour eclipse forecast:

Models are converging for:

  • San Antonio, South Texas through Torreón (high odds of cloud layers)
  • Montréal, Maine and points north (low odds of cloud layers)

Models remain diverged along the following parts of the path:

  • Mazatlán and Durango
  • Dallas through Upstate NY
  • Vermont and New Hampshire
skinnylatte, to random
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The last time I went to the Singapore consulate on market street was when I first visited SF, went on a tinder date, and some chick stole all of my stuff (wallet, credit cards, etc). Of course I didn’t tell them specifically what happened but they felt very sorry I had been robbed and they gave me consular assistance, cup noodles; and a map of the best congee in San Francisco. Today’s visit is much less chaotic (picking up a passport)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Now that’s some great consular assistance.

skinnylatte, to random
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being from a country that's 31 miles at its widest, it'll never not surprise me that i can get in a vehicle and go many hours in one direction and still be in the same country

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte it takes about four hours just to leave the state :)

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At a large LA park:

  • kids! Playing softball
  • grandpas and grandmas! Walking around, talking to friends, playing Chinese opera loudly
  • people of many diverse backgrounds and ages

Just some simple things I miss about real cities. San Francisco feels like a very weird, hollowed out city on many fronts. I think if I see a bunch of kids at once in SF I’ll be like ‘wow’. Outside of certain SF neighborhoods (Chinatown, Mission, TL), the city just feels very homogenous and bland to me :/

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte I was actually pretty pleased at the level of diversity I’m seeing in the sf scavenger hunt type game going on right now. :) Was a totally pleasant time today!

skinnylatte, to random
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I’m angry that I don’t get the same quality of restaurants and food trucks. I’m angry I don’t live in LA (yes cars.. but the food is exceptional)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte I am sad to agree with you entirely wrt SF’s food scene but hope we can bring back a better food landscape after fixing our town’s affordability problem that has everything but one industry in a stranglehold for continued survival much less revival. IMO is has gotten worse over the last decade and so this is not a constant of SF but a part of the cycle. I tell myself SF goes in waves and so it can’t be like this forever. We may one day have a better food scene here.

skinnylatte, to random
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first time flying without a passport. what a weird experience to be in a country large enough for that.

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Because I like weird truths about this weird country:

  • Around 80% of US passengers on any given day and a much higher percentage of flights are domestic.
  • You can fly from New York to San Francisco, fly another 4-5 more hours west to Hawaii and then fly 7 hours further west from there (Guam) and still are fine without a passport. And that’s not even trying for longest stretch.
skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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I’ve received invites to almost every queer Asian activism thing in the Bay Area this summer, so I think I’m going to be extremely busy. I don’t have enough ‘gala clothes’ but I am also excited that I don’t need to conform to the feminine expectations of such events in straight spaces.

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte rent the runaway

djcapelis, to random
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I have to say, having been in Hong Kong recently in the lead up to the latest district council elections… I find it extremely hard to be excited about anything related to disqualifying someone from a ballot.

djcapelis,
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The root of my discomfort lies in the fact the 14th amendment’s criteria is not objective enough, which means that we’re establishing more precedent that small groups of people can disqualify candidates from ballots.

I think the slope here is just too slippery. This case isn’t the one I’m worried about, but what happened in Hong Kong isn’t that far down the slope. I believe the most durable defense is in a near absolute right of people to elect the candidates they want, no matter how stupid.

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