TomK32

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by TomK32 2y ago
Did you rename you Dad to half-way-to-Summit?
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by TomK32 2y ago
Four-and-a-half years ago I started a new job and used Anki to learn all the names and faces of my ~100 coworkers, thankfully we had some internal directory that I did use as a data source. It worked great! Then the pandemic hit... I left t
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Just like me when I fix a bug within a minute by pure chance... I need those easy wins.
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Just to be safe, you could push the bike, at least with bicycles you're a pedestrian as soon as you don't ride but push it.
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In my city (200k pop) a lot of traffic lights are turned off, or rather blinking orange during the night. The few exceptions keep operating normal for good reasons. We don't have a smart traffic control system in our city so I assume i
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by TomK32 2y ago
You live on an extreme road where road engineering can't do much due to the given environment and possibly low budget if the road is not that important. Though anything that slows vehicles before entering this stretch of road, or a muc
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It's not laws that are bad, it's the infrastructure. Wide roads that give the driver the feeling that it is safe to drive a 60 mph when the sign says 45.
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Don't forget she was born in 1906, having this thinking at 76 is something only few of us will be able to do. She had been born in an age before so many things that were important to the 20th century but are already outdated and being
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by TomK32 2y ago
8,200 in Germany is way too low, and I'll add some fun facts. According to Wikipedia 30,000 of the theoretical 98,901 are currently in use. The number of people per postcode does vary a lot, from zero (no one lives in a company that ha
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by TomK32 2y ago
Motorists will try to squish through if you give them just a little too much space. Please do no cycle with just a foot of space towards the side of the road as this is always an invitation for motorists to overtake when it's not safe.
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Hehe, luckily I'm both a cyclist and a runner. I am quite annoyed by fellow cyclists who ride on sidewalks but I understand that many don't feel safe on roads that I consider a nice sprint segment despite (or because of) lots of f
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by TomK32 2y ago
Take more space if you need it for whatever reason is what I recommend to other cyclists. Dooring is a big issue, and motorists overtaking in blind corners, narrow steets or when you want to turn left. See the marks on the road where the ou
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I'm pretty sure you can also find that in some EU regulation.
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The French nuclear program was started without public or parliamentary discussion, read up on the Messmer plan, it was a spontaneous reaction to the oil crisis of 1973 and new deployments haven't happened in the 25 years. France has a
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All just because he once signed up for a Disney+ trial.
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Why would motorists care? About 1/4th of killed car occupants didn't care about their own life when they decided not to put on the seat belt before the last car trip.
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Cyclist here, I only communicate with motorists by means of rude hand gestures... V2V should still help to avoid phantom traffic jams, but really I wish all that tech in cars could block motorists from overtaking cyclist without a safe dist
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by TomK32 2y ago
Brake cleaner for diskbrakes unless it's a sound of metal on metal and you have to replace the brake pads. And for rim brakes if there's a metal sound a stone is stuck in the rubber part of the brakes, either get it out or replace
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And that's why Google/Alphabet ought to be split up.
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Twitter are very likely to use some payment providers in the EU, I imagine those can be ordered to withhold part of the money owed.
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Must be my crappy internet connection that lets me watch the white noise for an unbearable amount of time. It's a very annoying white noise. Also, I wonder if some channels send a sign-off sequence once they run out of content.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Are poetryslams a thing outside the german speaking sphere? How about olympic hip hop battles?
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If anything the number of languages is decreasing and Independent participants do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Olympians_at_the_O... and we even saw mixed team https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by TomK32 2y ago
I had a quick search and the top result for a datacenter in a mine is in Norway https://www.lefdalmine.com/ . I grew up next to a salt mine in the Alps, and those mines are really cold places. The mine is even, by the natur
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Right, and you couldn't carry dozens of illegal weapons or 1000 pounds of cocaine by foot. It's car drivers that should be the suspects here.
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One thing I like to tell car fans: Unless you LOVE traffic jams and searching for parking spaces (because they refuse to got straight for a parking garage of which we have plenty in my city) you should convince other motorists to give up th
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Electric cars are still cars that need a lot of space in our cities and run over pedestrians. It's rather sad that the move to electric cars wasn't taken as an opportunity towards smaller cars.
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Did you know that of the car drivers & passengers killed each year, about 25% (and the difference between the US, UK or EU is pretty small here) didn't put on a seat-belt before their last drive? Of course this number will eventual
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Awesome. On the bikes. There's plenty of variants, not just the regular city bikes or cargo bikes, but also push bikes for adults, here's one German pensioner who actually made a startup out of this and his bikes are also useful t
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Don't overdo with by adding "meticulously maintained, pristine city", I mean okay this might be a side-effect once people start walking more and have the time to look at their environment close up and maybe even thrown their

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