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mattblaze, 1 month ago to random

About six months ago, I made multiple sets of refundable plane and hotel reservations at different places along the path of totality for Monday, every one of which is now forecast for heavy cloud cover.

Sorry, everyone in those places.

ai6yr, 1 month ago to Futurology

Some startup has built a million dollar robot to do the job of wildland firefighters being paid a mere $15 an hour. 🤔 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/burnbot-raises-20-million-to-build-technology-for-wildfire-prevention.html
#wildfires #robot #firefighting

danderson, 1 month ago to random

Ah, good, I think I may have achieved the "first proper dispute with borrow checker" part of my journey of learning. I'm down to 3 compile errors, but every time I fix one a different one takes its place 😂

tk, 1 month ago to cycling

Analog Simplicity: Rene Herse Floating Chain

Now that the Nivex derailleurs have been in production for a while, Rene Herse is taking analog shifting to the next level with the Floating Chain. This system is lighter, has less resistance and costs far less than all derailleur systems available today.Jan Heine, head of R&D at Rene Herse Cycles, explained: “One-by drivetrains have simplified bicycle gearing, but it’s time to go a step further. Most cyclists need only three gears: one for uphills, one for flat roads, and one for downhills. The steps between these gears tend to be relatively large. Large steps between three gears are easiest to accommodate on the front, with a triple crank. So we’ve effectively turned the one-by around and put all the gears on the front.”

The Floating Chain system uses a triple crank and just a single-speed freewheel on the rear. As an added benefit, front derailleurs are lighter, more reliable, and less prone to damage when the bike falls over.

In the interest of keeping the system simple and to reduce mechanical resistance to a minimum, there is no chain tensioner. The chain length is selected for the big chainring, and it’s allowed to float freely when it runs on one of the smaller chainrings. There is no need to keep the lower chain run tensioned, as long as you don’t backpedal for more than half a revolution of the cranks.

#cycling #bicycle #biketooter #mastobikes @biketooter @mastobikes

How bad are electric bikes for the environment? (Spoiler, they can actually be better than regular bikes!) (www.youtube.com)

lauren, 1 month ago to random

Trump is now making "I won't let them take your cars away from you" a major campaign point, playing very effectively into pushback by people who don't want to be forced into EVs by government mandates. The more Biden pushes this, the more he plays into Trump's hands.

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

Getting a charge: An exercise bike that turns your pedaling into power

LifeSpan's Ampera offers a solid workout, but it has a lot of quirks.

https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2024/03/getting-a-charge-an-exercise-bike-that-turns-your-pedaling-into-power/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to random

This is my wife and I with N Californian dairy (clover milk makes us really sick, but almost every restaurant and cafe uses it here)

(Only A2 / milk from Jersey cows, and milk from elsewhere in the world, doesn’t make us sick. Or, only Clover milk makes us sick)

Anyway still recovering from an ice cream we got

b0rk, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

poll: do you prefer git fetch or git pull?

(no lectures about why you think git pull is bad please but if you use both I'd be curious to hear in what cases you use fetch!)

enobacon, 2 months ago to random

I've thought I should rent out extra bikes or something but there are days when I ride three or four different ones for different trips depending on state of charge/disrepair, number of passengers or shape of cargo/task. Maybe afternoon/overnight "I'm thinking of buying one" rentals... and there's no money in it unless our city would pay people to ride bikes instead of dumping truckloads of debris in the bike lanes in service of cars driving in the snow for a single day

https://kolektiva.social/@ordinoides/112112342987195140

HayiWena, 2 months ago to random

Is there some kind of quota for how many of these lies a news outlet has to publish a month? Gas prices are lower than average now and the range is only 1-3 avocado toasts per month.

kashhill, 2 months ago to random

My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share

... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this.

If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.

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mekkaokereke, 2 months ago to random

PSA: How to open a Tesla door in an emergency

I have friends that happily drive their kids around strapped into child seats in Teslas. I ask them a few questions about this, and I've never had a friend of mine who is a parent answer these questions satisfactorily:

1. Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?

2. Do you know how to manually open the doors?

3. Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?

Here's how to get out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4

ascentale, 2 months ago to random

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?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

dr2chase, 2 months ago to random

"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, 2 months ago to random

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.

dr2chase, 2 months ago to random

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!

capntransit, 2 months ago to random

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.

ai6yr, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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.

tess, 2 months ago to random

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'.