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Just in time for the bike lane removals /s
Most photos of bicycles are in that orientation to show the drivetrain.
Semi-related; I had an acquaintance who would dreamily declare 'Art is the True Life'; I always disagreed, 'Life is the True Art'. A huge amount of art is basically documenting those among us who are really out there living. I'd rather be on the side of the experiencer than the documenter.
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Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.
It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (which can be pretty light with the right materials...)
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jbmchuck on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:02PM
from the seattlebikeblog.com dept.
It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass.
It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than move your legs a bit.
Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be doing with my time.
I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - than making more income than I really need.
Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.
Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.
'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.
Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)
Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.
He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...
> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car.
Huh - do you have a source for that stat?
My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.
The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.
This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.
Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:
~> cat semgrep.yaml
rules:
- id: no-pattern-matching
pattern: |
match ...:
message: |
I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
severity: ERROR
languages:
- python
...
~> cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
foo = 1
match foo:
case 1:
print("one")
...
~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py
no-pattern-matching
I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
4┆ match foo:
5┆ case 1:
6┆ print("one")
(exits non-0)
There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.
I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing that can improve their bottom line at the end of the day - more prisons.
Outside of a few non-profit orgs I suspect there aren't a lot of dollars lobbying for fewer prisons, it's not a great look and it's easily to spin as "company X doesn't want to lock up violent criminals!
On the other hand that's really the only agenda item private prison operators put their lobbying dollars toward.
They travel c in vacuo but not through different media.