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by btrettel 8y ago
> Bikes don't go 60 miles an hour, which is necessary for some individuals who work an hour or more from their residence. And no, people don't do that sort of thing because they enjoy it. They do it because they have to. Please
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by btrettel 8y ago
> not everyone is in a position to replace their car I agree, which is why I said taking away someone's license is net counterproductive. Also, I'm not suggesting that people should become cyclists, just that driving is expensi
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by btrettel 8y ago
Cyclist here. I'm amazed by how much money people spend on their vehicles. I have an expensive bike (about $1000 new), and aside from perhaps $100-$200 on maintenance and equipment per year, I spend nothing else for daily transportatio
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by btrettel 8y ago
On Android, whenever I want to copy something I have to wait a few seconds for the menu to fully load. Otherwise I end up tapping on the wrong icon. Quite irritating.
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by btrettel 8y ago
I was born with bad hearing and tinnitus. When I tell people, some are quick to blame attending loud concerts, but I don't think I've attended more than a couple concerts and none were particularly loud. Plus, I had both problems
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by btrettel 8y ago
I filed a FOI request to the UK Ministry of Defence for a classified report in my field. About a month later they gave me a copy. The only redactions were names of various researchers, including the names of the authors of the report that I
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by btrettel 8y ago
> Also I have "security.webauth.u2f" enabled in Firefox but Facebook is the only U2F service I use that doesn't work in Firefox so it falls back to the SMS / OTP methods on login. I noticed this as well. I was able
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by btrettel 8y ago
Thanks for the comment and the links. You may be right. My comment was based on what I am familiar with that was previously classified. (All of which has been since declassified, so there's probably sampling bias.) I don't know mu
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by btrettel 8y ago
Thanks for pointing f-strings out. I'm transitioning a script with a lot of string manipulation from Python 2 to 3 and this is better than concatenation, % formatting, or str.format().
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by btrettel 8y ago
A list of his work with the Atomic Energy Commission could be obtained from OSTI: https://www.osti.gov/freedom-information-act-foia For the Department of Defense, you could get a list from DTIC: https://discover.
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by btrettel 8y ago
I've used Zotero regularly since 2012 or so. At the time I chose it because it integrated with Firefox, though I recall looking into Mendeley as well. If you use BibTeX or BibLaTeX I'd recommend the following extension: https:&#x
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by btrettel 8y ago
I don't think sanitizing or deleting online accounts is that time consuming. I have about 600 accounts listed in my password manager, about 300 of which are categorized as either offline or deleted. Starting late last year I went throu
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by btrettel 8y ago
I live in Austin. Sorry to hear about your friend. Can't say that I'm surprised. Austin seems to be full of people who are happy to give cyclists lip service, but once they have to wait more than 5 seconds for a cyclists, they cou
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by btrettel 8y ago
When I moved to Texas I did not anticipate this. As a cyclist, I will definitely keep the types of vehicles in mind when choosing a place to live from here on. Texans do worse, as "grille guards" are particularly common: http:&#x
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by btrettel 8y ago
Yes, as I recall, someone I know was not able to log in when their card expired. They had to get a new card in person.
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by btrettel 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm graduating relatively soon and was disappointed that I couldn't download books after that. Just tried my Library of Congress login and everything worked great. Note that a Library of Congress card
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by btrettel 8y ago
At least for bikes, it's fairly well accepted that riding on the sidewalk is less safe than riding on the road: http://bicyclesafe.com/#crosswalk The chance of getting hit from behind likely decreases on the sidewalk,
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by btrettel 8y ago
If you cycle for transportation, you'll readily encounter delivery truck drivers parked in your lane. If you drive you probably aren't paying attention to this problem and underestimate its frequency.
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by btrettel 8y ago
I recognize this and am sympathetic. Ultimately changes need to come from management. But parking in the bike lane is not necessary a large fraction of the time. I always point out a convenient alternative parking spot when talking to drive
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by btrettel 8y ago
No. Brake checking people is dangerous and illegal. What I did is neither.
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by btrettel 8y ago
> or when you wanna ride more relaxed, you ride on the sidewalk. Common misconception. Riding on the sidewalk is considerably more dangerous than riding in the street. While you are less likely to be hit from behind, you are much more li
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by btrettel 8y ago
I stood directly in front of the side door with my bike in front of me, leaving perhaps a 1 or 2 foot gap between my bike and the delivery vehicle. I only blocked their typical exit, i.e., the exit bordering the sidewalk. The driver could h
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by btrettel 8y ago
This does not surprise me much. I think it comes down to incentives. The package handlers only have a certain amount of time per package. There are few if any consequences for being rough, and it saves time, so of course the package handler
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by btrettel 8y ago
Good points. Unfortunately there are a lot of "hacked together" services out there. I can think of one site I had to use recently for event registration which suffered from the flaw I mentioned. (Note that I have no choice over wh
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by btrettel 8y ago
You're right, that mitigates most of the risk. Firefox seems to save passwords per domain name. This may not be specific enough in certain cases. E.g., if I have a password on domain.com, but domain.com offers web hosting at domain.com
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by btrettel 8y ago
Is there a way to change Firefox's behavior for passwords so that I need to click to fill them in? I couldn't find anything in a quick Google search.
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by btrettel 8y ago
Standards could help too. I recently started setting up a phpBB forum for a personal project. Because I wanted to respect people's privacy as much as possible, I removed certain fields like the birthday so that they can't be enter
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by btrettel 8y ago
Security could be an advantage for a variety of online services. When selecting an online service, I'm starting to use U2F 2FA support as a way to narrow the list of services to consider, so making a decision is easier. Few domain name
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by btrettel 8y ago
Thanks for posting. These are interesting figures that show airships are not as good as I suspected.
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by btrettel 8y ago
Thanks, I was not aware of the weather problems. I'd be willing to take a slower option and I think at least some others would too as long as it's less cramped.

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