MezzoDelCammin

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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Nice writeup. A minor nitpick though - why is the price of the 3090Ti stated as almost 2k USD? I guess the card might be hard to get new and this might indeed be the price somewhere, but since it's a previous generation, in my opinion
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
sure, that was my idea for a while as well. My problem is that I live in a big city. And bike theft is a real problem. I would have loved to build me something around a Rohloff gearbox with a belt compatible frame, but that thing would set
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
I've been watching his videos for a while when I was looking to build a bikepacking bike a few years back. For me, he's very good at what he does, but what he does is just a bit too extreme for what I want. I get how internal gear
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
IMO that's just a change in taste. IT happened to me as well on more than one occasion when You try something new, or just something You haven't bothered to re-try for a few years. For me, Rockwell is basically an encyclopedia of
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
yeah, same here. I do have one cheap French threaded BB bike and another 20+y old road bike with Shimano 600, so I'm a regular visitor of Sheldon's. But for anything 10y old and less, it's straight to Park Tool's Youtube
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
"but good"? Have I missed something? I still occasionally use Rockwell as a bit of a reference (even if slightly dated).
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
oh damn. The article on cutting up shoes toeboxes still scarily hangs at the back of my mind somewhere
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
1. It didn't. He did come back quite regularly. The article simply ommits that. 2. The evidence is mostly based on a police report which names Kundera. You could make a case that the secret police would occasionally falsify these thing
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Oh crap. I'm quite ashamed this kind of internal CZ infighting makes it to the front page of HN. Please everyone, read this article with a pretty big pinch of salt. The title itself is misleading at best. Kundera "did" visit
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
She is. Her son (the one who swam the length of Seine) is not.
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
what do You mean? As far as I know, he was accompanied on occasions by some media. But yes, he did the swimming himself.
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
For a bit of added context - swimming in Seine is way less risky already these days. The son of mayor of Paris has made a bit of a name for himself when he swam down the whole length of the river in 2021: https://www.thelocal.fr&
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
There have been quite a few improvements since I've lived in Paris (early 2000s). I've never really tried the Seine itself, but did quite a few swims in Marne (its tributary that flows in just outside the inner city limits) and t
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Nah, I think I'll just stick with my free Trading Posts and roads to all new cities...
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
There are always exceptions and edge cases. Plantations and farms are generally neither known as examples of urban design, nor are they homes for majority of population of any state. But even using the example of 18th century plantation - t
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Yeah, it's kind of a pity that once the cars vs bikes debate comes up, irony is often really not obvious. The best take on this topic so far I've seen has been from "Not Just Cars": https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
this topic is a bit of a rabbit hole. Yes, roads have always been there. Massive car infrastructure and parking has not. Looking back in time, most people would actually walk for most of their daily life. That reflected in how cities and vi
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Just out of curiosity - how big of an issue is parking in rural US?
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Let me guess : "post platitudes on HN"?
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
well, in the US context, I'd expect the "legendarily tiny thumb size" to be derived of the "donaldthumb"
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
One thing that hasn't been mentioned so far. We've seen comments that "race to the bottom" (Lamy Safari, Pilot Preppy, ...), or that aim for "timeless classics" (basically any gold nib - Sailor 1911, Pilot Falc
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
IMO the biggest advantage isn't really anything objectively measurable. Yes, You can come up with things like smoothness, lack of resistance (my personal first reason to switch), sustainability, but ultimately IMO You end up with &quot
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
oh, IMO the answer to what this article is missing is easy:"almost everything". To me it looks like some sort of product placement marketing fluff with "Montblanc" thrown in just to give it a measure of plausible deniabi
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
To this I'd add: For the affordable gold nibs, "Lamy 2000" is generally the biggest competitor to Pilot Capless / Vanishing point. Same price, very similar nib quality, different esthetics / use case. For the cheap,
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
Nope, he's got that right. It's been a pretty major recurring story in the news in France through this autumn. I haven't really followed through the details, but the idea was that several reactors were down for a planned over
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by MezzoDelCammin 3y ago
That's exactly the right excuse to buy yourself a second hand mini PC and install proxmox / tailscale on it ; )
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by MezzoDelCammin 4y ago
just out of curiosity - why wouldn't You do a SAMBA in LXC? Specially since there's a turnkey template exactly for this. Is it for making a RAID directly on the HW drives?
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by MezzoDelCammin 4y ago
BBC presents: Avatar 2 Narrated by: David Attenborough
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by MezzoDelCammin 4y ago
Oh, thanks for the reminder. ConfigureAwait still lingers in a few of my libraries. It took me quite a bit of coffee to fully appreciate the simple phrase "it's async/await all the way down"
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by MezzoDelCammin 4y ago
question here is "why does a photograph exist". Problem with this kind of question is that the answer is either personal and subjective, or it's an enumeration and an attempt to unite all (or subset) of the subjective reasons

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