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roadskater

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Inline skating the mean streets of NYC since 1993 and still alive to kvetch about it.
Webmaster for some scientists.
Java netCDF dataviz and cartography coder.
Somewhere left of center.
Recovering Idahoan.
Bobcat grad.
Jack Methodist.
Once upon a time RPGer and developer.
Erstwhile alternate history authority.
Miscellanea and erratica.

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Andres4NY, to random
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12yo: "so can we switch my bedtime later, then? I'm not getting to bed at my [earlier] bedtime anyway."

her: "Privileges are earned. You don't fail at something and then get more privileges because of that."

me: "well.... we are in the US."

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY Someone's aching to get his TV privileges suspended, and it isn't the 12yo.

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: users, do you regret buying a laptop or desktop with an Nvidia card because of drivers and other problems?

roadskater,
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@nixCraft The best part of a poll like this is having no dog in the fight and just watching the e-violence that ensues.

(This toot does not condone animal fighting at all. Get real, you nerds.)

lzg, to random
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hell yeah i found The Dress of Many Requirements (it only needs some light alterations!)

roadskater,
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@lzg You could tempt somebody's uncle in a dress like that.

nixCraft, to random
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If you're following me for linux or coding advice, you're making a huge mistake πŸ™ƒ

roadskater,
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@nixCraft Neither of those. Nor humor. Why am I following you? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

flargh, to random
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the new iPad Pro is very thin and powerful, but is it strong enough to whack tech pundits with dumb opinions upside the head

roadskater,
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@flargh
Strong enough, yes. But do you really want to pay have the crack in the display fixed afterward?

Not, a sideways swipe edge-on aiming for the pundit's throat. That might shut 'em up.

roadskater, to bikenyc
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Manhattan Bridge bike counter, 23:30 on 5/6/2024.

#bikeCounter #bikeNYC #biketooter

dangillmor, to random
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The Dallas Morning News' appointment of a public editor is a great move for that organization.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2024/04/30/heres-how-the-dallas-morning-news-is-investing-in-readers-faith/

And it highlights the New York Times' arrogant decision to get rid of that post years ago.

Would it have mattered if they'd kept the position? Maybe not, given the propensities of the most recent top editors.

But it sure couldn't have hurt.

roadskater,
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@dangillmor My recollection is that I was unimpressed by the NYT’s first (or second?) public editor. Was the name Okrent? When did they eliminate the position?

roadskater,
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@dangillmor Eliminated in 2017 during a wave of cost-cutting. I would not have guess that there had been 6 of them.

nixCraft, to random
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Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the β€˜dead internet’ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html Dead internet theory is real :P

roadskater,
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@nixCraft "Nearly half, 49.6 per cent, of all internet traffic came from bots last year." Based on what I see in my office website's logs, that seems... low.

Andres4NY, to random
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It's depressing to know my family's tax dollars directly fund the vicious clowns in the #NYPD.

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY Wanna be more depressed? All the court judgments against them for day-to-day brutality on up to multiple vacated convictions because a detective lied on the stand for many years, they all come out of the city general budget. So they can do whatever, it doesn't cost the department anything.

lzg, to random
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i’m full of bad ideas and i have two free days ahead of me!

roadskater,
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@lzg Text if you need bail money.

lzg, to random
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there was a moment in my mid 20s when I got really into watching boxing matches.

roadskater,
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@lzg I'm trying to remember when this attitude changed. I can remember watching boxing when I was a kid, definitely Olympic boxing but even a couple Ali fights. And all we got were the network broadcasts. Cable TV and HBO were barely on the horizon.

roadskater, to random
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My spider sense is trying to tell me something.

Something about a game. A basketball game.

#Knicks #NYKnicks

video/mp4

lzg, to random
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today a stranger woman said to me "you're so pretty" and I'm still trying to figure out how women can say things like that in non creepy and really sweet ways

roadskater,
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@lzg @jessamyn I could not help but notice one of the young female baristas had a nice new haircut a week ago, but I so much did not want to be the creepy old guy.

roadskater, to CrystalsHashtags
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Wasn't really paying attention last night while , but I passed at least two ghost bikes. The photo here is at Central Park South and Fifth Ave, which... what... some driver was desperate to beat the light and get stuck in the perpetual traffic jam on East 59th St and so killed a cyclist?

The other bike I passed was the one in BK at Wythe and the highway where the assistant DA was killed a few years ago.

lzg, to random
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not cool enough for school

roadskater,
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@lzg Wrong school?

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Quick poll: off the top of your head, without searching online, do you know what "Kessler Syndrome" is?

roadskater,
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@sundogplanets "Assuming I'm thinking of the right syndrome" == "I have a vague idea".

Turn out I had it correct because of reading Stephenson's Seveneves.

MissingThePt, to random
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Who’s laughing at NASA now for buying the extended space probe warranty.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

roadskater,
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@MissingThePt Dude, they re-branded. It's NASACare+.

lzg, to random
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the challenge level impossible is to find a dress that is made of natural fibers (the wedding is at 90F full humidity) but a little formal, in earth tones. i’m losing my mind.

roadskater,
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@lzg The love that dare not speak its name.

MissingThePt, to random
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What happens when an irresistible force (a cybertruck with a stuck accelerator) meets an immovable object (a cybertruck on a small incline)?

roadskater,
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@MissingThePt A battery fire that would have to be seen to be believed.

lzg, to random
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i had a blissful couple of weeks of good sleep but i think that’s over now. it was nice while it lasted.

roadskater,
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@lzg Even thinking about what such a chart would look like for me would cause me to sleep even more fitfully tonight.

Andres4NY, to random
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phew. did the thing!

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY Looks like you deleted that reply to your own toot. Which I came looking for, because same same.

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY Without going back and doublechecking the numbers, my suspicion is that the thing I left out did not actually affect the tax I owed. But now I just don't feel like looking.

capntransit, to random
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The hundred foot avenues (in this case, York Avenue in Manhattan) claim another victim.

We know how to make them safe. Let's do it all over the city!

https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/nyc-start-up-founder-sophia-dantoine-dies-after-being-mowed-down-crossing-ues-street/

roadskater,
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@capntransit @pollute_my_lungs And there was the usual complaint about "profit-making" speeding cameras. Of course.

Andres4NY, to nyc
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Just another day in Carville, USA (#Queens #NYC). #TrafficViolence #QueensBlvd.

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY And you didn't even more here until after they started making the changes so that people no longer call it the Boulevard of Death.

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