I've been experimenting with the window AC/heat pump running off of the small solar battery inverter pack "generator", as in can I run it off-grid. It only goes for about an hour at 400W but might be able to run on solar panels at a constant 200W, except the AC, while able to infinitely-variable-inverter-drive itself, has no way to specify a max wattage, and sometimes reaches for 1200W 😒
I wish that when I reverted a revert, #git was smart enough to attribute things to the original author.
That is, person A does a commit; git blame foo.c shows the lines as being changed by person A. Person B reverts that commit (temporarily), and then later on person B reverts the revert (thereby putting person A's changes back in). But now when you git blame foo.c, the line change is from person B.
[I know you can manually set --author or whatever, but I feel like it should be automatic.]
@Andres4NY love doing git blame and seeing a commit you recognize from when whoever turned the repository upside down and you need to run the blame again with that number^^ 😂
Chicken Caesar salad pro-tip: brine the chicken in lemon juice and salt, about 4-6 hours, then pepper it well, oil both sides, and grill.
If you’re making your own dressing (…you are making your own dressing, yeah?) you already have fresh-squeezed lemon juice from that, so make the dressing earlier in the day and brine the chicken in the excess lemon juice. The dressing is better with some melding time in the fridge anyway
@genehack coals don't have much smoke flavor once it's just carbon, I just use a few chunks with the electric smoker so it might be equivalent to throwing a few chunks of apple on there with the meat.
🤦 person on the bicycle advisory committee opposed to a bike path through the park because they've been buzzed by people on throttle bikes... wider infrastructure, people, it will save you from visits to the nearly hospital.
@daihard@Andres4NY@LauraLoeSeattle what I don't get is why the politics people stayed there after it got sold out specifically for the ability to post misinformation around elections?
“It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for #climateAction, sustainable #transportation investment or neighborhood development. We filed this lawsuit because state law requires ODOT to follow the city’s #cleanAir and climate goals. ODOT shouldn’t be allowed to advance a project that brazenly violates the city’s adopted plans.” -- #NoMoreFreeways#ODOTGTFOpdx#Portland
@cpm the lawn maintenance I want is not a mow-and-blow green carpet, electric whirly mower cuts too short sometimes, not short enough at others. It's just not the tool for the job 80% of the year (here, at least) where I'm doing no-mow may, some cutting with shears around the edges. If I could hire a shepherd by bike, probably would do that. Do a lot of your lawn customers still drive everywhere?
Catering though, you don't need special parking and logistics? Seems like a competitive edge.
printed up my invoices to hand-deliver, because I needed to go to town anyway and saves postage.
rain was due at 1300hrs, but started at 1000hrs anyway.
Let me be clear
cycling in the rain sux
it just does
I do it all the time
I hate it
have wasted gobs on rain kit that does fk-all,
can't see anything
dangerous (bc cars)
&
ages your bike alot.
@cpm I can see better with rain on my glasses than any driver can with fogged-up windows around them. The rain cape poncho, right brim on a hat has me covered, except in the cold, how do I dry out my gloves before putting them on again. Fenders and mudflaps do wonders for the bike's chain, if they have enough coverage. Really need a front fairing for ones that aren't the bakfiets to keep me dry. Electric regen braking for not wearing through brake pads. Most bikes aren't designed for rain.
@cpm do you mean off the front of the fender? I think it needs a bit more enclosure and something to route the water down and to the sides, from where it's riding the wheel up over the top and spraying back at you, hard on the headset, pantlegs, etc.
Long bike route planning (especially dirt trails) is made more difficult when "Where can I get water?" requires researching park maps, satellite views, street views, park brochures, yelp reviews, etc ... for each park along the way. It's quite tedious.
"as part of a project for PSU’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. Students... are working with local nonprofit @bikeloudpdx to investigate the potential of adding a major bikeway to Sandy when it gets repaved by the #Portland Bureau of #Transportation in 2026."
@cshentrup somehow we need to literally ban stroads as an emergency order or something to actually go out and tactically change them instead of waiting for the budget to rebuild the entire roadway and haggling compromises with car traffic counts vs theoretical ability of people to bike somewhere. Sandy is the city's, like Foster, but ODOT's Barbur has the same significance in SW, of cutting off so many easy bike trips for people who aren't willing to elbow their way into car traffic. Bus lanes
Time to build: about 45 mins (not including soldering the power supply)
Materials:
(4) $5 Arctic P12 fans
(2) $10 10x20x1 1200D filtrete MERV-11 filters
(2) $7 20x20x1 1500 MERV-12 filtrete filters (pack of 12 off ebay)
duct tape
zip ties
cardboard
12V power supply (free because I soldered a random old adapter, but normally $10 plus $3 or so for a splitter. Or get the fans with built-in splitters)
Total: approx $55, next one will cost about $70.
Roughly 225cfm and extremely quiet. #CRBox
@Andres4NY@pleaseclap without an anemometer, IDK. Maybe you could measure the force on a parachute of known area, using a hanging scale or small weights (and screening so they don't fall into the fan.) The flow at the edges is complicated as it disperses, maybe there are tables to estimate that based on geometry and measured velocity while confined within an output duct.
