donjoe

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by donjoe 5y ago
Look into velogical motors. Their tiny build size and removable battery should be a perfect fit. http://www.velogical-engineering.com/velospeeder/produktinfo...
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by donjoe 5y ago
Even Germans don't know their insurance won't cover or just partially cover crashes happening > 130km/h (hint: Richtgeschwindigkeit/recommended speed is 130km/h everywhere, even on Autobahn stretches without spee
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by donjoe 5y ago
I just see a huge parking lot. What do you see?
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by donjoe 5y ago
Why don't more people ask for better train connections? Trains would allow kids, elderly, people without a driver's license or the financial means to afford a car to participate in society as well.
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by donjoe 5y ago
Well, this is exactly the opposite to an urban environment - this is urban sprawl. Is it better to construct and maintain 75 miles of roads (and all the other infrastructure) for a couple of hundred folks? I highly recommend this video on t
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by donjoe 5y ago
I guess we have to ask ourselves a different question if we truly want to create a sustainable urban environment: Why can grandparents only visit by car? Why are there no (better) alternatives?
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by donjoe 5y ago
Sewing is great fun. I started sewing last year while planning a bike packing trip where I wanted to finally switch from tent to hammock. Finding proper underquilts for hammocks in Europe is... a mess. In the end, I decided to borrow my sis
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by donjoe 5y ago
... and lots of developers forget that singletons are global state. Especially with node where you do not have a dedicated sandbox per user request, programming needs to be request-agnostic. This is especially painful with mixing server-sid
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by donjoe 5y ago
For everyone interested, there is an interesting study to be found researching EV vs gas driven car fires [1]. "Nevertheless, existing test results have revealed that the heat release rate of EV fire is comparable to that of the fossil
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by donjoe 5y ago
Well, u can always transform: rotate(X°) in the end ;-)
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by donjoe 5y ago
> The lack of systems thinking We managed to make factories safe but kill 1.3 M people/year in traffic instead [1] I wonder: will we ever manage to apply systems thinking in traffic as well? [1] https://www.who.int/n
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by donjoe 5y ago
Would you have seen congestions if infrastructure built for cars (hint: traffic lights) wouldn't have existed?
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by donjoe 5y ago
... Buses on the other hand are used about 60-80% of the day whereas a privately owned car is used 3-5% of the day. Cars do not just take up space driving. They also take up a huge amount of space when not in use.
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by donjoe 5y ago
> without the need to destroy large patches of land. As long as you do not have uranium mines in your own back yard.
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by donjoe 5y ago
Did u try using typescript with esbuild? React + esbuild + typescript is a perfect combination for me. I had the chance to kick off a new project a few months ago and started with this stack. It needed roughly 50 lines of code to get a dece
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by donjoe 6y ago
How can it be 'complete wilderness' if reachable by car? Isn't there some sort of infrastructure necessary in order to reach it by car which ultimately destroys nature?
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by donjoe 6y ago
Haha, this sounds almost exactly like my Delphi story - just I didn't target the mouse. Instead, I did target each keyboard's keys which - when being pressed - would play a sound using internal speakers. Deployed it on all devices
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by donjoe 6y ago
As you already mentioned: roads and gas is heavily subsidized. Politicians focus on building roads rather than public transport systems. The true costs of road infrastructure including parking, bridges, land use, public space usage, health
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by donjoe 6y ago
Consider living in the early 2000s and replace 'digital camera' vs 'analog camera' with 'dinosaur burning vehicles' vs 'electric vehicles'. Same discussion, different technology. We all know how it en
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by donjoe 6y ago
That's interesting. Reducing overall traffic speed would render most traffic lights obsolete. Traffic lights are only necessary in order to allow heavy machinery going >30mph in dense areas. I think we will have to ask ourselves the
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by donjoe 6y ago
Isn't Australia enforcing helmets since the 90s which led to a decrease in overall bicycle use? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmets_in_Australia
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by donjoe 6y ago
A couple of years ago, I met a startup in Munich which did exactly the same and had a working prototype. Their product landing page is still online [0], I never heard of them since. [0]: https://www.nova-audio.com/
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by donjoe 6y ago
Social aspects in the sense of that we nowadays use them for cars only. Back in the days people traded on streets, had cafes and social interactions. Kids could play football and learn how to cycle. That's all used up by cars with all
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by donjoe 6y ago
Alright, there are some options: a) keep everything as is. Leave up to 80% of public space to cars (as in L.A. for example), destroy all social interactions which could otherwise happen in those places, increase commute time due to cities d
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by donjoe 6y ago
This is not a problem of houses built that way since the were built pre-car times to allow max light into apartments. The streets back then were also a social aspect of life where we met people and could interact with each other. Then came
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by donjoe 6y ago
> so what's the alternative I think it's quite odd we nowadays think cars are the only possible form of transportation. We are not born with 4 wheels underneath our butt. The alternative is to build structures build for foot or
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by donjoe 6y ago
Yah, bcs all new structures built post WW2 were built for cars and not for people people move at 3mph, not 60mph. Rome could have invested in public transport instead of building highways. No one would be stuck in traffic. Instead, they use
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by donjoe 6y ago
Quite interestingly, the social aspects of urban sprawl was completely left out when designing post WW2 cities. When people think about beautiful cities, they would mention Venice or Paris or Rome. All these cities were built for 'foot
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by donjoe 6y ago
It seems like a couple of years ago, once you fucked up, you resigned out of respect to your office/job/position. Looking at our current Minister of Transport 'Andi Scheuer', this does not seem to be the case any more. H
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by donjoe 6y ago
I absolutely agree. Routing using a phone is loads of fun. I do have the paid version and I highly appreciate their open source-ish character. Besides large response data and a slaggish planning interface @ komoot: try routing from northern

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