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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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ascentale, to random
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Welcome to our BikeNite for the week of March 8th! 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:

Q1. Where are you posting from today? How are you feeling at the moment?

dr2chase,
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@fbaum @ascentale NICE. I hope you continue to like it, I ended up sewing a large bag (cotton duck I think) for mine to keep stuff from falling out of the basket. Would need to get it loose from the bike to recall the design, uses elastic cord from SailRite to hold it in place and/or act as a handle (and I am getting ready to travel, hence somewhat in a distracted+errand-y mood, so not likely to happen for another 2.5 weeks).

ai6yr, to random
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Hmm... attempt to haul a free compost bin through a driving rainstorm with the bicycle cargo trailer--strapping the thing onto the small trailer, somehow--or drive two blocks with fossil fuel burning truck. 🤔

dr2chase,
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@John @ai6yr 2 blocks? Not much risk in that.

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr How big is the bin, how big is the trailer?

dr2chase, to random
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"LLM Prompt Injection Worm"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/llm-prompt-injection-worm.html

This is so, so fine. Also good to see RTM getting recognition he so richly deserves, "Morris II", that's an audacious name for their invention.

dr2chase, to random
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Because spouse is out of town, I decided it was time to upgrade the (Tomato) router. What a clusterfuck. At every turn, you are exhorted to "clear the NVRAM settings!" without a clear description of what that will entail when you do it. Fortunately, my expectations were almost set low enough, and because I had access to the internet over my phone I could find out what the default router password would be when it woke up completely wiped. Seems like a really important thing to mention, BUT NO!

dr2chase,
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anyhow, internet is back, wifi is back, wholesale IP blocking is back (I think I block all of China and Russia IPV4) and all the usual ports are blocked and NO I DO NOT WANT TO RUN A TELNET DAEMON ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! WHAT CENTURY IS THIS? and admin ssh is key-only but I managed to lose one of my dyndns passwords, sigh.

dr2chase, to random
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It makes me downright queasy that private equity bought 1Password. I'm sure that's an overreaction, private equity has never bought companies and fucked them up just to turn a quick profit, have they? It's so tempting to put 2FA in there too, but, SPOF, that would suck.

capntransit, to random
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RT @NYCBikeLanes The NYC DOT is developing novel ways to prevent NYPD officers from parking on the sidewalk.

These leaning bars on Schermerhorn St are working as intended, but I would have installed them closer to the curb.

On Schermerhorn Street, a leaning bar is bolted into the sidewalk a few feet from the curb, so that it blocks a car from being parked with it wheels on the sidewalk, although the car's trunk extends over the sidewalk. The next two cars are blocked by a bicycle rack.

dr2chase,
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@capntransit @NYCBikeLanes Hostile architecture for the win!

tess, to random
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If your EVs aren't selling maybe that's because you're making giant fucking trucks and SUVs and hyper-expensive luxury sedans and the kind of people who want EVs mostly just want a compact car for getting to work and running errands.

Just sayin'.

dr2chase,
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@Stybba3019 @enobacon @schizanon @tess
To be fair, you didn't list any reasons, or any use cases. You just said you had some. Lots of people tell me they have reasons they can't use a bike, and when asked for details, list things that I do every single day. Many people have a very blinkered idea of what a bicycle is, or what you can do on a bike, if you buy a decent bike, and ride it often enough to know how to use it.

dr2chase,
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@Stybba3019 @enobacon @schizanon @tess
Things I do every day: bike 6 miles to work, with my work stuff, stopping for groceries and errands on the way to/from whenever I need them.

Things I do when I need to: bike in the cold, I am accustomed to the winter minimum were I live (near Boston). People here get snow tires for their cars, I get snow tires for my bike.

Things that are easier on a bike than a truck (that I don't have): trailer-towing a snow blower or someone else's broken bike.

dr2chase, to random
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Saturday at the beach (in FL), saw a (very) fat-tired wheel chair. Not sure this works for self-propulsion, but given the sand, wheels that large seem necessary. Maybe a hovercraft wheelchair (and eelchair!) would also work.

ascentale, to random
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And the last question is actually a new idea from @MartyCormack that requires homework for next week:

Q9. Homework: Watch this video titled "I Hate High Vis, But Should I Wear It?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33GpfTWdk8U

You don't need to answer yet - next week, we'll discuss: After watching the video will you continue to wear hi vis and if so, why? If not, why not?

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr @ascentale @MartyCormack
The research that I've seen on merely gaudy high-vis is not great, but for lights, they seem to help a lot. Reflectors only help if the driver has their lights on, and a lot of crashes occur around dusk when lights are not required.

My default answer is if we had good separated infrastructure, then inadequately attentive drivers would not be an issue, so let's do that.

ai6yr, to repair
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This looks so easy, LOL. (sanitized Home Depot tutorial on replacing a toilet flange). The lack of dirt and muck is impressive.

(It's like watching "MASH" and realizing there's NO BLOOD anywhere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5gzSccK_Tk

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr you sound like someone who's never blown up a toilet in college and had to drive across Houston to the used toilet store (it's next to the used tire store) to replace it before facilities noticed and billed us for it.

dr2chase,
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@mybarkingdogs @ai6yr bottlerockets make this really interesting "ping" sound when you shoot them into a toilet, until the bowl cracks in half.

dr2chase,
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@njwatt @ai6yr Houston's amazing, I wish there was some way to combine the best of Boston and Houston (I know the guy who repairs Yo-yo Ma's cellos, because why not? Our first dentist, was also Desmond Tutu's dentist. If I ever get around to selling the oboe I played in high school, there's a place in Boston that will buy it. When I needed an old speaker repaired, there's a while-you-wait-you-can-watch repair place in Stoneham.)

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr @njwatt I attended a standards meeting in Raleigh, the same week 20 inches of snow also attended that standards meeting. That was interesting. It took them a few days to clear a path into the airport, and get the runways (mostly!) free of ice lumps.

robpike, to random
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Wrote this up for a friend, thought I should share it more widely.

Fritz Zwicky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky was a notoriously difficult teacher and his assignments were brutal. We're in the 1930s or 1940s.

The students (Caltech) complain to the other physics professors, and they hatch a plan. The following year, the other profs create a fake student and the profs work on the assignments. The fake student does really well, but he never comes to class. Zwicky really wants to meet him but...

dr2chase,
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@robpike One of my ancestors was "the most detested professor Dartmouth has over known".

dx, to random
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Has anyone run the numbers on whether 15-minute cities are geometrically compatible with car culture, or to what extent? I have my guesses, but I’d be curious if anyone actually modeled it
#urbanism #15minutecity #bancars

dr2chase,
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@dx I think may-be, based only on visiting my parents' (recently deceased) home (now 1/3rd mine) in Florida. It is exactly 1/2 mile from a monster highway (US19) but there's restaurants, two (big) grocery stores, good take-out, hardware, a vet, UPS store, that sort of thing on that highway. I get around on a bicycle there just fine. BUT there's more housing further back, just houses, and for them it is too far.

The infrastructure tends anti-bike, but the distances from that house, are not.

dr2chase,
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@dx so to me it feels like it is almost a 15-minute city, if some of the amenities were located differently, or, viewed differently, it could be a 15-minute city embedded in car culture (but the further-away houses, they don't get the 15-minute city). It's intensely frustrating to see something that could be very improved with some small infrastructure tweaks that are unlikely to happen.

timbray, (edited ) to random
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Dear world, I need to hire someone expert in installing & configuring some open-source software on MacOS. Currently my blogging system breaks every time I type "brew upgrade" and I am out of patience. [EDIT: Problem solved.]

Tl;dr: I need to arrange that this 2-line Perl program works and survives updates:

use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

Will pay an appropriate hourly rate. Private-message or email me.

dr2chase,
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@timbray was going to try it with MacPorts myself, but I know nothing about the stuff you are running. Perl, some version? DBI? DBD?

Anyhow, I've tried nix, brew, macports. I use MacPorts. Make of that what you will.

dr2chase,
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@timbray
sudo port install p5.34-class-dbi-mysql
---> Computing dependencies for p5.34-class-dbi-mysql
The following dependencies will be installed:
libevent
mysql57
mysql_select
p5.34-class-accessor
p5.34-class-data-inheritable
p5.34-class-dbi
p5.34-class-trigger
p5.34-dbd-mysql
p5.34-dbi
p5.34-dbix-contextualfetch
p5.34-ima-dbi
p5.34-lingua-en-inflect
p5.34-universal-moniker
p5.34-version
Continue? [Y/n]:

dr2chase,
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@timbray
% perl5.34
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
ralph();
Undefined subroutine &main::ralph called at - line 3.

So, maybe?

dr2chase,
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@timbray There will be updates to the software from macports, I tend to update mine from time to time. There's a "process" for updating the OS on your Mac to the next major release, it is annoying but has not screwed me lately.

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Federal rules on zero-emission vehicle dates will likely be pushed back, as EV sales continue to soften. First adopters have mostly already bought in, and convincing others (especially persons without at-home charging facilities) to switch to EVs is an increasingly tough slog, even in California.

dr2chase,
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@lauren can't help but wonder if e-bikes might not be eating into that market from the low-end. An easy way to deal with electrifying the daily drives while not worrying about range is to keep the old car for the long trips, and add an e-bike for all the usual short stuff. Bike batteries are tiny compared to car batteries, charge on a normal outlet, spares are even an option. The guy running the local "e-bike library" says he's got most of his bikes loaned out, in February, near Boston.

dr2chase,
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@lauren nonetheless, they out-sold e-cars in 2022 and perhaps also in 2023. Someone's buying them.

Typical e-bikes come with more power than the typical not-already-biking person (250+ watts) and also provide a bit more cargo carrying capacity than a "typical" bike, e.g. this Aventon.

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