chrismartin

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by chrismartin 3y ago
Unfortunately I find Pilot G2 to have loose tolerances between the refill tip and pen body. It's like 1.5-2 thousandths of an inch, compared to 0.5-1 thousandth for Uniball and Pentel bodies. It makes your writing a bit sloppier and mo
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by chrismartin 3y ago
For those asking "why handwriting in 2024?", the paper has no notifications or web browser to distract you. It's just your own thoughts on the page. Being more effortful than typing, information becomes more disfluent, which
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by chrismartin 3y ago
One more reason it's time to transition away from burning stuff to produce energy.
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Not sure if I agree with the conclusion, but the phenomenon you're referring to is Conway's Law ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law)
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Framework 13: Things that Surprised Me(cmart.blog)
3 points by chrismartin 3y ago|0 comments
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Not sure I agree. Looks like upmarket rentals all owned by a single company. If everyone is a renter, it limits the amount of community that will develop. There's a light rail station but otherwise you're in lawless Phoenix traffi
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, kind stranger. I live in a relatively (for the US) bike-friendly city (Tucson AZ). There's a lot of cycling infrastructure, but sometimes you have to ride on a 7-lane stroad with distracted/aggressive/ineb
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by chrismartin 3y ago
https://cmart.blog Goofy stuff that I write for fun. Working on a book review now.
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by chrismartin 3y ago
To the extent you're willing to share, I'm curious what's bringing you there, and where you're moving from.
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by chrismartin 3y ago
I recently picked up a delightfully pre-digital habit: read books with a red pen in your hand (or any color different from the print). In the margins of the pages, ask questions, note points of confusion, or challenge the author. Mark secti
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by chrismartin 3y ago
I bought the base model Radrunner (used from Craiglist) and it's been great. If you're a cyclist, you may balk at the goofy design. But it's great for getting around town. You can zip-tie a milk crate on the back to hold your
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Subjectively, it feels as adequately braked as any of my acoustic bikes (including a mountain bike with dual 4-piston hydraulic brakes).
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Are they not built to last, or are they just abused and neglected? I suspect that personally-owned scooters tend to be kept somewhere safe and taken care of. VC-owned rental scooters tend to get trashed, because no one suffers a personal lo
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by chrismartin 3y ago
You don't think my Radrunner with mechanical brakes is safe?
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by chrismartin 3y ago
> when you offer subsidies for electric cars you can be damn confident that it will displace a gas car. For e-bikes it's less clear Is it? I could imagine someone saying: "Driving my new Model 3 is much cheaper than my old truc
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Ditto! It's kind of an acquired taste. It's kind of tedious. But it's a full-body workout in one motion, more than running or cycling. It's a great way to dose yourself with exercise if you're short on time or the w
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by chrismartin 3y ago
The ancestor comments are spot on. I just wish it didn't require driving. The good stuff is 10+ miles from where I live. Not that far, but it's still burning gas just to ride a bike. I also suggest XC / blue / "inte
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by chrismartin 3y ago
> I'm not convinced these sorts of cross compatible upgrades will continue to surface into the future They've already outdone every other laptop manufacturer: you can swap a new 13th gen system board into an original 11th gen F
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Two habits I have implemented in the last few months: 1. I appended "iknowwhatiamdoing" to the existing alphanumeric password to unlock my phone, and disabled fingerprint unlock. I have to type that every time I want to use the de
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by chrismartin 3y ago
> If someone has a hypothetical medical device with a screen (do you have one in mind?) I’m sure the owners of such an establishment would seek to find ways to accommodate. It’s an edge case and not likely to impact the overall atmospher
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by chrismartin 3y ago
> Sorry if my comment did sound dismissive of the idea of No Screens Cafe It's all good, kind stranger. > Just today, I [...] just to sit and read the book That sounds wonderful! > What's the broader idea behind No Screen
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Don't worry: for every No Screens Cafe, there are 35,000 Starbuckses.
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by chrismartin 3y ago
"One more question, do your officers carry a smartphone or anything like that? Anything with a screen? Okay, any chance they could turn that off before they come inside? Yeah, I'm sorry. It's the No Screens Cafe. We also don&
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by chrismartin 3y ago
I struggled with this one, caconym_. A few minutes before I had this idea, I wrote down "Faraday Cafe. No wifi. No cell signal." But then I thought about how hard it might be to build one that blocked modern 5G/wifi networks.
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by chrismartin 3y ago
I understand and empathize. At the same time, we had to draw the line somewhere clear and simple. Maybe when No Screens Cafe goes out of business (as other commenters are predicting), we will open "No Screens Except E-Book Readers (And
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by chrismartin 3y ago
We would accept cards, but all the payment terminals have a screen. We looked into getting an imprinter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter ) but they're especially vulnerable to fraud, and most ca
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No Screens Cafe(cmart.blog)
74 points by chrismartin 3y ago|119 comments
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by chrismartin 3y ago
Faster throughput, perhaps, but what about latency?
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by chrismartin 4y ago
What do people do when they have more money? You think they'll be eager to spend it on insulation retrofits and ground-source heat pumps? In our fossil fuel-powered economy, I think they'll buy more stuff and travel more, and most
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by chrismartin 4y ago
One could say that air travel is much cheaper than it should be, if airlines or fossil fuel companies had to pull those greenhouse gases back out of the atmosphere. Getting to space is even more GHG-intensive, orders of magnitude more for o

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