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by colanderman 1y ago
The Idaho stop is explicitly not running red lights. You stop at the red light, and proceed when it's clear. No "blowing past". And we're talking about areas with dedicated and often physically separated bike lanes. We d
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by colanderman 1y ago
Thank you for your perspective. I've pondered but haven't been able to figure out the right solution to this in general, as I'd love e-bikes to displace cars as the dominant means of transport. Maybe a 3rd differentiated lane
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by colanderman 1y ago
Yes that's it, thank you!
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by colanderman 1y ago
Police that enforce bicycle laws.
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by colanderman 1y ago
Mixed feelings about this, as a pedal cyclist. Modern e-bikes are large and fast, and many of their riders ride unsafely and abuse bicycle infrastructure (which have been designed to accommodate pedal cyclists, who did the work fighting for
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by colanderman 1y ago
Not at all. Politicians will carve out a law which protects them only. They've done it (or the inverse) before: https://www.propublica.org/article/do-as-we-say-congress-say...
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by colanderman 1y ago
You've… never been out to lunch on a Saturday?
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by colanderman 1y ago
I also credit straight-wrist typing with having not developed any keyboard-related RSI symptoms over 33 years. (Mice, on the other hand! Gripping a mouse started to cause me crazy wrist pain 20 years ago. Been using a trackball ever sinc
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by colanderman 1y ago
My fingers naturally rest on... (checks) Q-E-F-V N-J-I-P. That is, sort of like a V diagonal spanning the entire alphabetic region. Which coincidentally puts them on or 1 key away from every letter except X, Y and Z. But they move all ov
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by colanderman 1y ago
I also type unorthodoxly and quickly. Hands held diagonal (wrists straight), no particular finger-letter assignments. Closer to playing a piano. 33 years typing like this, going strong. I can't think of any benefit of home row typing o
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by colanderman 1y ago
I'm not a chemist, but the article talks about it being prepared in a solution of ammonium hydroxide which can be poured on a floor and left to dry. Surely this is what the GP is comparing their memory to, and not a bucket of pure nit
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by colanderman 1y ago
There's also been an increase in wildfires since Pluto lost its status as a planet. Public info!
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by colanderman 1y ago
If you've found the private key for myveryveryveryverylongvanitypublickey, then so can an adversary. Perhaps they already have reversed it because they guessed it might be desirable. Or maybe it has numeric properties which make it spe
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by colanderman 1y ago
That may be true, but I don't think that it is obviously so. If it were, then public keys could be shorter by the same amount and still provide the same level of protection. But by design they are not.
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by colanderman 1y ago
Rust at least has a partial remedy to this problem: feature flags. Many libraries use them to gate features which would otherwise pull in extra dependencies. (In fact I believe there is specific support for flags which correspond to depende
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by colanderman 1y ago
> The DOD's statement […] has a ring of DOGE to it. Musk's efficiency department has already saved billions across the US Government's various agencies, with the DOD already said to have saved a cumulative and not-insignif
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by colanderman 1y ago
Fantastic find, thank you. Many explorations of nonstandard tunings simply focus on how pure are the various intervals one can form in the tuning. But timbre really does play a crucial and often neglected role. It's been known for a lo
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by colanderman 1y ago
You are conflating levels of trust. The trust level required with Signal is, "do I trust the people in this chat not to share the specific communications I am sending to them with some other party whom I do not want to have a co
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by colanderman 1y ago
You are conflating "trust in all ways" with "trust to receive the communications in the specific chat they are party to". The former is not relevant.
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by colanderman 1y ago
Not part of Signal's security model, but trusting people in that chat very much can and should be part of the user's security model. If you don't trust them, why are they in the chat in the first place?
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by colanderman 1y ago
TM SGNL changes the security model from "I trust the people in the chat" to "I trust the people in the chat and also the company archiving the chat". If you don't trust the people in your chat, they shouldn't
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by colanderman 1y ago
Somehow my eyes missed that! Edited my comment.
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by colanderman 1y ago
Somehow I didn't see that, good catch! (It's mentioned but not explained.) Edited my comment.
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by colanderman 1y ago
Simulated annealing [1] is mentioned but not explained in the list of modifications to hill climbing. The technique roughly is: accept modifications to the board which decrease the score, with a probability inversely related to the magni
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by colanderman 1y ago
In the US frequency allocation within each band (including repeaters) is left up to regional spectrum management organizations (which have no legal authority). So it varies by region. Here is the allocation for eastern New England for examp
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by colanderman 1y ago
Nice! I've used a homegrown CQT-based visualizer for a while for audio analysis. It's far superior to the STFT-based view you get from e.g. Audacity, since it is multiresolution, which is a better match to how we actually experi
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by colanderman 1y ago
The difference from FFT is this is a multiresolution technique, like the constant-Q transform. And, unlike CQT (which is noncausal), this provides a better match to the actual behavior of our ears (by being causal). It's also "f
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by colanderman 1y ago
I believe GP is proposing the opposite -- a test capable of proving it is not massless. (Presumably this has never been done.)
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by colanderman 1y ago
Or one can view it as the increasing intellectual vacuousness of ideas on the "right". (In quotes because the dividing line between left and right itself has shifted rightward over the years.)
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by colanderman 1y ago
Rumeysa Ozturk did not overstay her visa nor advocate violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%... Nor did Rasha Alawieh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_R

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