Steltek

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by Steltek 7y ago
TIL gas taxes paid for Boston's Big Dig. What states actually reap a surplus from personal auto fees? Meanwhile, are you including in your thought process any of the following? - Public land permanently dedicated to roads, highways, p
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by Steltek 7y ago
The real trick is buried: dedicated bus lanes. You can't get reliable, frequent service without bus only lanes that are camera enforced . LRT is popular because it usually gets a dedicated RoW which makes service look amazing next
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by Steltek 7y ago
You can't talk about scooter safety without talking about how scooter users are dying. You need to wade past scores of dead people killed by a driver to find one or two unfortunate people who wrapped themselves around trees. Automobi
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by Steltek 7y ago
Oh I'm sure someone felt offended, whether they were actually inconvenienced or not. It's a typical reaction in some people: they don't see you mildly going about your business of picking tomatoes, they see the faceless e-s
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by Steltek 7y ago
Or maybe cars should obey the speed limit, pass at a safe and reasonable distance, and not road rage at people? I mean, why does every new alternative travel mode need to work around the unacceptable and lawless US driver behavior? That al
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by Steltek 7y ago
No, the safety issue is cars. Take away cars and you take away 99.9% of transportation's ~40,0000 annual fatalities.
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by Steltek 7y ago
Don't you get the same effective perf benefit by marking your script async defer?
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by Steltek 7y ago
I've been waiting to hear more about this since the abstract was published. What was the timelines involved here? PayPal, Trello, and others were contacted over the course of this investigation. It would be nice to know what their re
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by Steltek 7y ago
Relatedly, here's a 2012 video of Jamie Hyneman talking about creating an electric outboard for Mythbusters for quiet operation while filming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV2qq2-Lck Pure makes a lot of the same c
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by Steltek 7y ago
It seems like you don't need to have a complicated hashing and sharing network for that. A braindead scoring algorithm would cut the scammers off at the ankles.
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by Steltek 7y ago
Internet-wise, we blocked pop-ups and installed adblockers when we lost trust in the platform. I see no difference in applying that to telephony. Amputate or lose the patient.
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by Steltek 7y ago
MassDOT recently published their capital budget with a little more fanfare than usual, to soothe Red Line passengers hurting from the recent derailment perhaps. It included $3 billion in major repaving efforts but that seems to have gone w
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by Steltek 7y ago
You may want to check out how the Comm Ave bridge over the Pike was replaced in Boston. It was pretty quicke although not as fast 43 hours. However, we also couldn't afford to close the lower road (I-90) as above for an extended stag
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by Steltek 7y ago
> Almost all improvements now are iterative. Improvements are directed to where the money goes. UCI racing rules hold back experimentation outside of concept bikes. E-bikes may have broken the dam open and we'll start to see a lot
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by Steltek 7y ago
I use Pass between Linux and Android with a NFC equipped Yubikey. I've never had trouble syncing but then, it's git+ssh so no great mystery there. I guess my only complaint is that I wish Android had some kind of centralized SS
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by Steltek 7y ago
Boston. 365 days. 7 miles. With 2 kids (starting at 12 months) on the back in seats (not a trailer). Snow tires make winter way more feasible. Also fwiw, the kids never complained about the weather bothering them, only that we didn&#x27
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by Steltek 7y ago
I would hesitate to lock up my bike on a mobile object that could disappear without warning. It would need a ton of messaging, failsafes, and perhaps other things before I'd trust it.
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by Steltek 7y ago
As a parent in this exact situation, my reason is not primarily climate change (although it's high up on the list); it's about fostering independence and confidence. I'm pissed off that it's families and cyclists that s
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by Steltek 7y ago
Defaulting to caution and conservatism in local government doesn't sound entirely bad. It's too easy to bring the power and authority of government down with unintended consequences on disadvantaged people. Think abuse of eminen
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by Steltek 7y ago
Have you considered an e-bike? Don't listen to the bike snobs, they're really quite good at extending the commute range.
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by Steltek 7y ago
The Kennebunk rest area in Maine was designed by someone who hates children or is utterly incompentent or both. The diaper changing table is flanked on both sides by 4 loud hand dryers. The icing on the cake is the solitary paper towel di
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by Steltek 7y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. Yes, I totally agree: I believe driving is substantially worse for your physical and mental health than transit. In personal terms, I sought a new job where I could take the T or bike to avoid driving as the extreme a
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by Steltek 7y ago
I think you're drastically underestimating the health impact of of driving. Public transit incorporates walking and you can relax on the train, read a book or stream something. Driving usually means stressful traffic, road rage, and
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by Steltek 7y ago
When people say "public transit", they don't mean the periphery of a commuter rail system. They mean the core bus network and usually the subway. You're comparing the worst case of meaningful public transit to a city o
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by Steltek 8y ago
Related to the coffee cup discussion the other day, wouldn't greater adoption of municipal high heat composting solve some of recycling's problems?
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by Steltek 8y ago
For another perspective, my commute is a routine of watching cars break the law and endanger me with impunity. It's only superficially acknowledged by others and I have yet to see a cop pull over a car for committing an infraction aga
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by Steltek 8y ago
Fwiw, I bike to work in Cambridge and take my kids to school by bike on the way. It's by far the most consistent way to get to pickup on time. We bike through winter and wet weather. Negatives? My wife doesn't feel comfortable
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by Steltek 8y ago
This is why I bike rather than run. Crashing is your primary risk there but otherwise, it's stupendously hard+ to hurt yourself unknowingly. I'm not fully aware of all of the possible long term risks to cycling but I know polluti
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by Steltek 8y ago
I have been waiting for this for so long! Thank you so much for these links! I have Pass working but SSH was always a glaring missing piece of the puzzle. Now if only I can convince an SFTP client to do this, I'll be really sitting p
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by Steltek 8y ago
Yes, this is Beacon St in Somerville. If they had just put it on the uphill side, this wouldn't be a problem. Unless you're a pro cyclist or an e-biker, you're not going to match car speeds going uphill. There are far fewe

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