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roadskater

@roadskater@mastodon.social

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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lowqualityfacts, to random
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Every financial advice article: If you deprive yourself of all joys in life, then you can save up enough money to maintain your joyless lifestyle until you die.

roadskater,
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@lowqualityfacts "If you gave up your morning latte for a year, you'd save enough for a mortgage payment. But man would you be grumpy."

lzg, to random
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    roadskater,
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    @lzg Warm up a little. Maybe select some good sneakers rather than whatever it is you usually wear?

    https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a60229862/lil-nas-x-nyc-half-high-tops/

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    roadskater, (edited )
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    @lzg Sad (?) to say, I'm about to make my first blog post since summer 2022, and it will be on Google-owned Blogger/Blogspot because it's a 17+ year old blog that I just don't want to spend the time and effort to move.

    Edit: Just a year. I forgot about that one blog post I made last May.

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    roadskater,
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    @lzg Why did this make me think of you?
    https://mastodon.social/

    Chrishallbeck, to comics
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    Wisdom.

    roadskater,
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    @Chrishallbeck My orthodontist once looked at my X-rays, sighed, and said, "We should put some wisdom teeth in."

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg I swear, every September, the cluster of confused looking young people hanging around the corner of Broadway and 110th St gets younger than the year before. How is it possible?

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    roadskater,
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    @lzg Maybe too much talk for you at the end, but someone has been organizing "reading parties" in Brooklyn.

    skinnylatte, to animals
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    Cookie truly has a Boomer ‘kids these days’ look

    roadskater,
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    @skinnylatte I'd been boggled by that list grooming job she got. They really cleaned out her fuzzy underside.

    roadskater, to cycling
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    Manhattan Bridge bike counter, 23:09 on 3/12/2024.
    Looks like I’m just a bit early for some zeros.
    NYCBike

    Andres4NY, to random
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    Just watched a fire engine salmoning on Queens Blvd (not the access road, but the highway itself). It was awesome. Beep beep, outta the way mf'ers!

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    @Andres4NY FWIW: I once crashed around a corner and turning onto CPW because... I hit a dead pigeon.

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY Friends of mine think it was hysterical that I wiped out last year due to a banana peel in the bike lane.

    nixCraft, to random
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    OMG. This is the real deal. Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. Bython is a Python preprosessor which translates curly brackets into indentation. Would you use this? https://pypi.org/project/Bython/

    roadskater,
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    @nixCraft Does it also enforce a braces style? Because if not, you're right back to braces holy wars, assuming the coder adopts a consistent style.

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg The mantra of a cyclist on NYC streets.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Maybe Trump’s broad experience in breaking laws gives him unique insight into how best to faithfully execute them as President.

    roadskater, (edited )
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    @MissingThePt You said TFG's name in the same sentence as the word "faithful". Nice one.

    anirvan, (edited ) to random
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    I started digging into the South Asian history of 's Tenderloin with friends today.

    We found at least three themes to dig into, but there's always more to know.

    For example, I found at least three World War II draft cards of Indian men living around the Tenderloin in the 1940s.

    Like Chanan Singh, a tattooed Punjabi man living at 60 Leavenworth with his brother. Was this a rooming house? I love being at the first stage of a possible new quest.

    roadskater,
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    @anirvan Just poking about on family search.org, I found that:
    Chanan emigrated to the United States in August 1946, apparently registering for the draft almost as soon as he arrived in the US;
    his brother Charan was five years older, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and married an American woman in 1943. Charan lived at that same address when he registered for the draft in 1944 but it looks like he was living in Oakland before that.

    roadskater,
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    @anirvan Not so distant. It looks like both brothers lived to to 1995, and Charan had three children at the time of the 1950 census.

    clive, to random
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    I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues

    She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair

    Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees

    I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?

    What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!

    roadskater,
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    @clive @RoyBrander The story entirely aside, the very title of Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" seems apropos.

    jamesthomson, to random
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    Thursday: Finally gets Vision Pro
    Monday: Is diagnosed with early-stage cataracts

    Alanis Morissette Reaction GIF by MOODMAN

    roadskater,
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    @jamesthomson @fahrni I was so happy when the ophthalmologist said it wasn't glaucoma.

    roadskater,
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    @jamesthomson @nmeth @fanf That dude sounded like an extreme case. <shudder />

    They didn't put me all the way under when I had it done. I laid there and thought about computer code while the surgeon was doing his thing. But I guess the anesthesia was enough to prevent me from remembering any good ideas I might have had. Damn.

    roadskater,
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    @jamesthomson @paulc @dmoren The ophthalmologist who first diagnosed my cataracts wouldn't give me a referral for an actual surgeon until after I'd gone to a retina specialist. So, yeah, probably a good recommendation there.

    The only hitch in the whole process of me having this problem was that I was diagnosed less than 2 weeks before the Covid shutdown, which delayed everything by ~3 months.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Breaking: Biden Is Now Older Than at Any Previous Point in His Life.

    roadskater,
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    @MissingThePt Again!?

    capntransit, to random
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    The more I read about this, the better it looks! The New York City Department of Transportation is proposing to take a shitty, cars-only road that's a combination access road for the Van Cortlandt Park golf course and on/offramp to the Major Deegan Expressway, reallocate a ton of asphalt to parkland and a raised/curb-protected bike path, build sidewalks and stripe crosswalks. Yay!

    https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/van-cortlandt-park-south-bailey-ave-feb2024.pdf

    Proposal 18 Off Ramps: Relocate and normalize intersection geometries Add stop controls and pedestrian crossings Legalize north ramp’s left -turn Integrate old ramps into existing vegetated area On Ramp: Slow right turn movement Add pedestrian crossing Legalize left -turn onto ramp Benefits: • Calm vehicles exiting + entering the Expwy • Reduce crossing distance • Improve visibility at new crosswalks
    Proposal 20 • Close slip lane and maintain Greenstreet • Provides space for Bx10 bus bulb Benefits: • Eliminates a conflict point between pedestrians, vehicles, and bicyclists • Reduces total crossing distance by 95 feet • Relocates crosswalk and creates a smaller intersection • Improves pedestrian infrastructure near bus stops BEFORE AFTER EXAMPLE PROJECT: BROADWAY, FLUSHING, GRAHAM AVE, BROOKLYN
    Proposal 22 Realign off-ramps Reduce crossing distances Expand island and close slip lane Build new sidewalks Create bike connection Build pedestrian island Benefits: • Improve pedestrian infrastructure • Safer, shorter, and more visible pedestrian crossings • New bike connection to Park and Empire State Trail • Stop and slow vehicles entering and exiting the Expressway • Reduce vehicle and pedestrian/bicyclist conflicts

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    @capntransit @Iragersh Access to EST from 242nd sucks if there's been any rain in the past several days because of that underpass that turns to mud.

    dangillmor, to random
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    If this is true, the vast majority of clicks on advertising at the deadbird site during the Super Bowl were fraudulent.

    https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

    What will advertisers do about it? What can they do about it?

    roadskater,
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    @dangillmor This is my surprised face.

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    @lzg That's a complete horror story in one sentence. Problem is, the author is probably out there somewhere trying to write a sequel.

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    @lzg And the tingle of feeling that you a great price.

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