Steltek

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by Steltek 8y ago
I bike commute in Boston. I avoid a 1 mile stretch of grade separated cycle track because there are so many problems with it, I don't even know where to begin. - Cars emerging from side streets don't stop at the cycle track so th
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by Steltek 8y ago
Highrise apartments ("bulk housing") is the obvious outcome of where ridiculous zoning has taken us. If cities were allowed to organically build upwards in duplexes and triplexes, we'd have naturally higher density/capa
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by Steltek 8y ago
Thanks for that link. It took a second to dig through the layers of news posts to find the original story/data: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/spotify-ap... It looks like Google Play (Google Mu
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by Steltek 8y ago
While there's some psychology (parental fear of abduction by strangers), there are also significant environmental problems at play in the US that don't exist elsewhere: 1. Kids are more spread out. A suburban neighborhood is huge
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by Steltek 8y ago
This lead to a whole year of every car ride starting with, "Daddy, are you sure you know where you're going?". Kids also have a way of reminding you of every failure you ever made and never letting you live it down.
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by Steltek 8y ago
I think you're sadly right. The events that could pull Americans out of mega cars like SUVs and 150's are (IMO) highly unlikely: 1. Cities ban large vehicles in an attempt to fight traffic fatalities, pollution, or congestion. 2.
907.
by Steltek 8y ago
I thought traditionally it was polling numbers. But maybe that was just the RNC clown car from 2016...
908.
by Steltek 8y ago
When pushing files from phone to computer, I setup my Pixel to use AndFTP. The ubiquitous "Share" button offers AndFTP as an option and lists preconfigured destination SSH servers. I upload photos this way to a distinct account
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by Steltek 8y ago
Can you expand on your comment a bit? Maybe I've got rose colored glasses but I felt Linux had more of community feel ~10 years ago. When Ubuntu was ascendant but still had that scrappy feel, lots of Gentoo users were funrolling loop
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by Steltek 8y ago
Probably more like aggregate, not rebar. I believe fiberglass is already added when the situation calls for it. Plastic strands could act in a similar fashion and would be practically free.
911.
by Steltek 8y ago
Traffic stops by police leading to fatal or seriously bad outcomes (jail, property seizure). You could also attempt to clumsily extrapolate PoC to mean "high crime neighborhood" or historically segregated/red-lined communitie
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by Steltek 8y ago
> Speed limits and other legal constraints on dangerous driving are chronically underenforced. It's worse than that. My commute features a lot of "bicycle traps" set up by local PD to catch bikes running red lights but vi
913.
by Steltek 8y ago
The comment was talking about the "danger" of mass transit, not horses.
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by Steltek 8y ago
That's a dubious proposition. Spend a fair bit of money on games only to have Google cancel the product later. I mentioned Nvidia in another thread but they partnered with Valve/Steam to stream games you purchase there. Steam is
915.
by Steltek 8y ago
I've long since moved on from competitive multiplayer games and I never measured it directly. But that said, I haven't noticed a lot of issues with Nvidia's game streaming service with casual use.
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by Steltek 8y ago
Does it hurt to have priorities and pick your battles? Oppression, especially state-sponsored, of women and minorities is way higher concern to me than Amazon's many and varied infractions. There's also a problem of feasibility:
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by Steltek 8y ago
It seems all practitioners print out all of these memos to paper. Has anyone successfully converted this tradition to a digital medium or does that invoke the spectre of PowerPoint too strongly to survive? In my daily routine, the thought
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by Steltek 8y ago
Yes. Other states had their highways paid by the Federal government. Massachusetts had originally paid for its highways itself. The balance came due with the Big Dig, cost adjusted for 2000.
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by Steltek 8y ago
The goal in my thinking was to eliminate a complex or costly power supply at the point of consumption. Higher voltages require a beefier step down (isolation, caps, whatever) and AC requires a rectifier. I wanted to eliminate it all. Sorr
920.
by Steltek 8y ago
Every so often, I come back to the "I should have DC power on demand in my house!" until I'm reminded that DC power loss over a distance can hurt bad, even 48VDC telecom power. Perhaps USB-C PD might help? USB power adapters
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by Steltek 8y ago
Massachusetts paid for many of it's own interstates before sick a system existed. You could see that in the old Central Artery being way out of compliance with standards. A compelling argument was that other states had their modern h
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by Steltek 8y ago
> runs Linux perfectly out of the box When did that happen? I admittedly haven't looked in a while but I thought the SP2 had some basic issues with Linux (keyboard docking, wifi; the expected things).
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by Steltek 8y ago
Jaywalking is a $1 ticket in Massachusetts. I believe it's there simply to assign fault in a crash.
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by Steltek 8y ago
In Boston, we cross in front of cars that have a green light :). Although honestly, the cars aren't moving because there's too much traffic to go anywhere as box-blocking laws aren't enforced as it is in NYC.
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by Steltek 8y ago
A quick tour through history will show that minor language defects have never been a showstopper for adoption. Python is popular in spite of it's minor irritations (and all languages have minor irritations in some form). Further, all
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by Steltek 8y ago
Python's indentation for blocks isn't holding up to the test of time. After suffering badly formatted code in my early career, Python's approach seemed refreshing. But after suffering one too many bad merges where indentatio
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by Steltek 8y ago
Any chance these will be worth it when NYC is forced to close the Hudson River tunnels?
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by Steltek 8y ago
The reviews of the Essential PH-1 were hilarious in this regard. People were annoyed that they had to install "obvious" apps for their Essential that every other manufacturer forcibly included.
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by Steltek 8y ago
A law mandating open access to APIs would do wonders to spur competition. Remember Pidgin? Knitting together disparate IM platforms into one client was great. You can't do that with Facebook, their TOS doesn't allow for it. Open
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by Steltek 8y ago
> stopping ad-blockers from working on Mozilla owned sites Err, do you mean preventing extensions from modifying critical sites like addons.mozilla.org? Because that's seems like common sense to me.

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