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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.
Born at 319ppm CO2.

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capntransit, to random
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RT @samiliebman What hasn’t been discussed is what the non-ezpass charge for cars to enter the CBD under . It’s a whopping $22.50 peak, $5.50.

And under the proposal, the MTA reserves right to charge 25% more to drive below 60th Street on days.

https://new.mta.info/document/127956

The Authority reserves the right to charge a 25% higher CBD charge during Gridlock Alert Days. Each year, the NYCDOT identifies Gridlock Alert Days during the UN General Assembly and throughout the holiday season when heavy traffic is expected in Manhattan. On Gridlock Alert Days, consider walking, biking, or taking mass transit for any trips in Manhattan.

roadskater,
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@capntransit Any discussion of enforcement mechanisms? Because we already see way too many obscured and defaced plates on NYC streets that apparently no one cares to do much about.

Andres4NY, to bikenyc
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Lol. I got passed by an ambulance (lights flashing) about halfway on the skillman ave PBL. About 15 mins later, I passed the same ambulance on the queensboro bridge. It was completely stuck in traffic, not moving.

Traffic "engineering".

roadskater,
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@Andres4NY I've had that happen when I was inline skating. On Sixth Ave in the 40s on a weekend afternoon, about this time of year. As I rolled past the ambulance I was thinking, that's the wail of someone dieing because NYC streets suck.

rejinl, to nyc

My mom's car was just hit by another driver who was pulling out of his sidewalk parking spot without looking, and the police just took his insurance info and let him go on his merry way. Drivers can really do whatever the fuck they want and the cops will just smile at them & pat them on the head.

roadskater,
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@rejinl The cops were actually there?

roadskater,
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@rejinl Ugh. Yes, that does merit a police call. But I’ve heard they often can’t be bothered unless there’s an injury

dangillmor, to random
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Sports Illustrated was once a trustworthy source of information. It is no longer anything close to that, as this revelation of AI sleaziness makes clear:

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

roadskater, (edited )
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@dangillmor As I commented when someone else tooted about this article, SI is not the only publication mentioned, with several paragraphs discussing The Street. I had recently observed that material from The Street getting links from Yahoo Finance seems to uniformly be hot garbage, so this article explained a lot.

tantramar, (edited ) to StarTrek
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Star Trek: Brave New Worlds, season 2, episode 3, is set in present-day-ish Toronto. Lots of great Canadian references. But my favourite bit was when James Kirk — when asked “how did you find me?” — replies “the guy at the Apple Store taught me how to use something called ‘DuckDuckGo’.”

roadskater,
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@tantramar I haven't watched Star Trek episodes since... Voyager came on the air? But that's almost enough to make me give it a try.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Sports Illustrated has been making up fake AI authors, claiming they are real, then deleting them when asked and offering no formal comment, editorial note, or other response.

They’ve also been publishing AI generated content by people who don’t exist with zero disclosure https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

roadskater,
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@taylorlorenz Oh, jeebus. Read further down and I see The Street mentioned. That explains so much about the absolute crap I've seen from there that's been showing up in Yahoo Finance lately.

nixCraft, to random
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Do you remember the first operating system you used at school/home or workplace? What was it? 🤔

roadskater,
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@nixCraft RSTS/E.

molly0xfff, to random
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i am, once again, in browser automation hell

roadskater,
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@WTL @Two9A @molly0xfff That may be worse than the CSS that Word inserted into the output when exporting to HTML 1-15 years ago. (Maybe still does, but peeps at my office long ago learned never to give me Word-HTML if they wanted something posted on-line.)

roadskater,
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@WTL @Two9A @molly0xfff Sorry about that.

gwagner, to nyc

…if you invest in some insulation and perhaps even a heat pump & induction stove to cut the gas line.

#NYC #climate

roadskater,
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@gwagner That may be the worst energy efficiency rating I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen some bad ones.

nixCraft, to random
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Do you remember the first programming language you used? What was it?

roadskater,
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@nixCraft BASIC-PLUS on RSTS-11.

jamesthomson, to random
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Me: I hate doing marketing.

<does a marketing, sales go up 750%>

Me: Oh no.

roadskater,
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@jamesthomson Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

capntransit, (edited ) to random
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RT @Streetsblog More than a year — and a dozen-plus fatal fires — since the New York City announced it would create new e-bike charging stations for delivery workers, the hubs are still nowhere near ready, multiple sources and officials told StreetsblogNYC.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/11/21/one-year-later-delivery-workers-are-still-waiting-for-their-charging-hubs

roadskater,
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@capntransit @Streetsblog Wrong link?

roadskater,
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@capntransit @Streetsblog The Amtrak article was interesting too, esp. to note that the route across WI did not pass through Madison.

ElleGray, to random
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seventy rom-coms and a musical are now furiously being written as we speak

roadskater,
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@ElleGray "Pillow Talk", updated for the 2020s.

lzg, to random
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    roadskater,
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    @lzg Lasagne made with turkey sausage. It's what we're having.

    Chrishallbeck, to random
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    The downside to working from home is I don't realize how much weight I'm gaining until that one day a month I have to put on pants.

    roadskater,
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    @Chrishallbeck Gets out awl to punch another hole approaching the tip of the belt.

    nando161, to cyberpunk

    "I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 #corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)"

    #Cyberpunk #dystopia is already here for the disabled.

    https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/734539390906499072/athelind-ironbound-oberon-i-have-cochlear

    #classwar #eattherich #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas

    roadskater,
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    @marco_m_aus_f @nando161 Many/most American health insurance plans don't even cover any of the cost of hearing aids. Ask me how I know.

    mergesort, to random
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    Twitter's board selling the company to Elon Musk radicalized a whole generation of very online people against corporate boards.

    roadskater,
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    @mergesort OTOH, if they'd refused the ridiculous offer, the shareholder lawsuits would have been huge. There was no way shareholders were otherwise ever going to see that kind of money.

    A lesson I learned by reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon many years ago.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    her: "You should do tummy faces! I bet yours would be a lot better. Also you could use your tummy hair to do a goatee, and.."

    me: "What I'm hearing here is that you think my talents are being wasted elsewhere."

    her: "Absolutely!"

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY First statement implies that her was watching someone else do tummy faces. 🤔

    mcc, to random
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    There's some C code in the wikipedia page for "Hilbert Curve" and I would like to propose this code be removed from the "Hilbert Curve" page and moved to the "How Not to Comment Source Code" page

    roadskater,
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    @mcc @bonzoesc it could be like a physicist who's read James Joyce playfully naming a new elementary particle.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    SpaceX has cornered the exploding rocket market, it’s not even worth competitors trying to enter the space.

    roadskater,
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    @MissingThePt I'm trying to figure out why you used the word "the" before "space".

    Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random

    I want to follow up on the reason I see so much anger and cynicism.

    (The anger isn't directed at me. It looks like this: "Trump is above the law! There is no accountability! The DOJ dragged its feet!")

    There were some interesting comments about why I see so much of it.

    I'll add another: People assume that I am liberal and in the same information bubble and therefore, I will agree with them when they repeat the current memes.

    It's a group-think thing.

    1/

    roadskater,
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    @Oggie @Teri_Kanefield
    I may have made similar assumptions. But what I respect is someone who coherently discusses what's happening from a basis that here's the evidence, here's the law, and here's the procedure, and yeah all that takes more time than you'd guess. All the many folks out there who think justice arrives with the wave of a fairy wand drive me nuts.

    skinnylatte, to random
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    Sometimes when people say American food is bad, they’re really saying that American food that originated from certain European countries not known for good food, is bad. The rest of the stuff is really good

    roadskater,
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    @skinnylatte Say "England" without saying "England".

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