jean_claude

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by jean_claude 10y ago
I used to regularly troll the semi-serious club rides on my recumbent, beating them on the flats, crushing them downhill, and pedaling like mad to keep up on the uphill battles. Just me, no motor onboard. But I've been thinking about b
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by jean_claude 10y ago
Yeah, I can imagine. About half the kids (adults, really -- it was a grad course) in a systems programming course I took had that deer in the headlights look in the computer lab sitting at a Unix prompt. Not that they couldn't figure i
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by jean_claude 10y ago
What's your source on the claim that bicycling is 7x more dangerous than driving a car? Most sources put it around 2.5x more dangerous than driving, and I'd wager most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders who don't
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by jean_claude 10y ago
Yeah, I empathise with you. Once the crystal embedded in your palm starts flashing red(1), nobody in the industry even wants to acknowledge your existence, let alone your experience. I have a youthful voice and went to university for CompSc
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by jean_claude 10y ago
Correct, it's more like buying Microsoft Flight Simulator and not being able to run it because your monitor is not a genuine Microsoft monitor. Oculus DRM works by locking the "Oculus exclusive" software to the Oculus hardwar
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by jean_claude 10y ago
"What do you propose a well-educated rider should do, when all the bike lanes are in the door zone and bikes are legally required to stay in the bike lane?" Well that's the usual poor planning I see in America. Sharrows or &q
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by jean_claude 10y ago
"A car door opening in your path is a car door opening in your path at any speed." No offense, but that's what will happen when poorly educated riders bike in the door zone. See: http://www.bikelaw.com/2016&#x
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by jean_claude 10y ago
Never talk to a cop or fed without a lawyer present if you are being questioned for anything other than a traffic ticket or you were just the victim of a crime. Even then, be careful what you say. They are not there for your benefit.