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by loeg 8mo ago
And that consumer device should have ECC! That's the whole discussion here.
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by loeg 8mo ago
People? Trump is the only actor here who deserves punishment for these illegal tariffs, but there is no grounds to jail a sitting president.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Section 122 is only supposed to be applied to address balance of payments deficits, which are essentially zero with floating currency exchange rates (since the 70s). They're also limited to 15% and 150 days. (Judges will not look favo
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by loeg 8mo ago
We have Chinese businesses that are domestic importers. (To some extent, this was to facilitate tariff fraud. As an American business buying abroad, your foreign supplier would take over responsibility for importing into the US, and then y
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by loeg 8mo ago
> it's more remarkable given the tax is unnoticeable to the average consumer The idea that consumers don't notice higher prices is wild. > and primarily impacted foreign manufacturers Also not true?
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by loeg 8mo ago
SOFR is only around 3.7%. And it's, you know, an annualized rate. The earliest liberation day tariffs are only around 11 months old at this point.
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by loeg 8mo ago
I've had zero issues with AMD's consumer tier of non-WX Threadripper and Ryzen models, FWIW.
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by loeg 8mo ago
It's not even ECC price/availability that bothers me so much, it's that getting CPUs and motherboards that support ECC is non-trivial outside of the server space. The whole consumer class ecosystem is kind of shitty. At lea
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by loeg 8mo ago
How does your phone's camera? Ultimately, it's up to users to obey laws with their recording devices.
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by loeg 8mo ago
It's ok! They're not for everyone. My contention is just that there exist bicycles perfectly adequate for the weight and volume of your groceries (and mine).
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by loeg 8mo ago
Or one of the older models? 15/16 have it too.
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by loeg 8mo ago
I'm also a touchID / iphone 8 size fan, but the nice cameras/zoom in flagship models are hard to give up. At least Face ID has improved significantly from the early days of iphone 10 -- it's faster and more reliable tha
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by loeg 8mo ago
I disagree. A perfect rider is still safer at 20 mph than 60+. There are just unforeseen things that happen, like deer, and the same perfect rider has more time to handle those things at slower speed, and the consequences are less severe.
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by loeg 8mo ago
We’ve moved the goalposts from “Food, beer, and cat litter would be too heavy for a bike.” Also, my grocery stores are 0.7, 1.1, and 1.6 miles away, not that it matters. 5 miles is just not very much time at 20-28 mph. I think theft and wea
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by loeg 8mo ago
> I wasn’t comparing 6/7/8 with 10 and 11 but with 1 speed. I covered 1 speed in my earlier comment (“single-speed”) too. There are some nice graphs at https://zerofrictioncycling.com.au/chaintesting/ (alt
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by loeg 8mo ago
As Maui said, “you’re welcome.”
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by loeg 8mo ago
> thinner chain which wear faster This gets repeated a lot, but isn't true. Cheaply made single-speed and 6/7/8 chains aren't any more robust than nice modern 10 and 11-speed chains. Shimano CUES (11-speed) works fi
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by loeg 8mo ago
> Speaking of R&M, I have wanted to get one of their bikes that has the child container area in the front. I saw one guy with one and it looked pretty awesome. A large bike like that would benefit from some larger battery pack. I&#x2
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by loeg 8mo ago
> recumbent e-bike with an aeroshell The term of art here is "velomobile."
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by loeg 8mo ago
The exact same thing applies to electric cars, though -- going slower significantly increases your range.
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by loeg 8mo ago
There's significantly more variation in weight between riders. If you're under the frame's weight limit, including battery, you're fine.
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by loeg 8mo ago
The speed limiting alone makes them safer than motorcycles.
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by loeg 8mo ago
Faster than a horse at long distances. Humans can out run horses at distances as short as 26 miles.
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by loeg 8mo ago
The Europeans love a nanny state and ebike licensing is no exception.
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by loeg 8mo ago
> But the latter style (a.k.a. mid-drive) demands custom frames (because mid-drive motors are nonstandardized), This is somewhat overstated. Bafang middrive conversions fit on most frames with a BSA bottom bracket.
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by loeg 8mo ago
This is what gearing is for. Get an ebike with a mid-drive motor and some form of gearing -- a conventional derailleur, or an internally geared hub (Shimano makes a decent one, Rohloff makes a great one).
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by loeg 8mo ago
You can get off-the-shelf ebike batteries at least half as big as the author's. Speed restrictions are somewhat better in the US -- class 1 is allowed to assist up to 20 mph, and class 3 is allowed to assist up to 28 mph. Both are high
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by loeg 8mo ago
Are you sure? https://www.r-m.de/en-us/bikes/load5-75/
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by loeg 8mo ago
Sick. Would be interested in any followup. The off-the-shelf pack I was looking at if I had to make an ebike for commuting (if my employer ends WFH) was about 1100 Wh (about half the homemade pack in the article): https://www.eb
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by loeg 8mo ago
Are you sure you're thinking of the same terminal? Its standout feature has been performance. Granted, that was 10+ years ago, but I've never noticed it regressing.

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