pedantsamaritan

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by pedantsamaritan 8mo ago
Airports push snow into snowmelters. Shipping container sized warming ovens to melt the snow. I've read about at least O'Hare and Logan doing this
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by pedantsamaritan 1y ago
I thought I'd read about unbricking it. https://www.reddit.com/r/ebikes/comments/1bis770/diehard_cop... links to a private FB group that I haven't joined, but implies maybe it hasn't been
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by pedantsamaritan 2y ago
Getting my backup infrastructure to behave they way I'd want with filesystem snapshot (e.g. zfs or btrfs snapshot) was not trivial. (I think the hurdle was my particularity about the path prefix that was getting backed up.) write once
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by pedantsamaritan 3y ago
N=1. Cybertruck driver reported minor injuries: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/28/24018383/tesla-cybertruc...
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by pedantsamaritan 3y ago
This question alludes to thoughts about front-yard design space. As houses get closer together, residents still want both connection and privacy. A raised area (porch, patio, etc), frequently provides this. With a raised porch that goes rig
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by pedantsamaritan 4y ago
Thinking I could be insulated because of 10x $10 differences that I thought were close enough makes me sad. I think insulating can be fine, but hopefully your friends know you well enough to know why or you tell them explicitly. Could be in
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by pedantsamaritan 4y ago
Somewhat similar, I've used a smart light (Philips Hue), Home Assistant (with a ConBee II zigbee dongle), and a lighting rhythm plugin ( https://github.com/claytonjn/hass-circadian_lighting ) to adjust brightness an
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by pedantsamaritan 4y ago
Not all people driving cars look left and right thoroughly before turning (but you can learn! [0]) This already leads to crashes and claims of 'coming out of nowhere'. So, practical attacks could be causing crashes. Could cause an
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Transcontinental Airway System(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pedantsamaritan 5y ago|1 comments
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by pedantsamaritan 5y ago
Another variation I have been on both sides of: stores favoring certain channels over others. For example, a local fast-food restaurant might prioritize answering the phone for carry-out orders over in-person carry out orders.
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by pedantsamaritan 5y ago
My emergency wallet card also links to a web site with more details (e.g. recent photo of family)
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by pedantsamaritan 5y ago
There are a lot of light bulbs, though. The LED switch has had meaningful impact on US residential energy usage [0]. IEA reports 38B in LED sales in 2015-2020 [1]. Averaging $10 (high) per bulb, that's 3.8 billion bulbs (including non-
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by pedantsamaritan 6y ago
(1) I'm not sure what you mean by 'desirable value for the lifetime of any house'. 25 years may be below the desirable lifetime for structural components of a house. But for appliances (which I'd consider solar panels cl
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by pedantsamaritan 6y ago
I think most dishwasher detergents switched to enzymes to replace phosphates: https://www.cnet.com/news/appliance-science-how-dishwasher-d... That article implies the enzymes do some work, so that surfactants/soap
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by pedantsamaritan 6y ago
> which they aren't supposed to be doing What is restricting them now? I knew it used to be part of the merchant-network agreement, and based on my quick searching that was due to US federal law. Then Dodd-Frank changed it to allow
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
My preferred anti-tracking adds Cookie Auto delete [0] to this. In the HN container, I keep HN cookies. Anything opened from HN will stay in the HN container and non-HN sites get cookies deleted shortly. [0]: https://addons.mozil
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I would be sad to be the worker subject to that shift planning
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
For the curious, "Road damage ... is estimated to be proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight". [0] A chart shows it nicely: https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I know NYC subway runs 24x7, while many other systems do not. I was curious on the actual number of trains. I made a bunch of assumptions, picked a city to compare NYC to (Berlin), and did some math. NYC Subway may run ~960 trains per week
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I use containers + Cookie Auto delete [0]. In the HN container, I keep HN cookies. Anything opened from HN will stay in the HN container and non-HN sites get cookies deleted shortly. This reduces some tracking for me, but doesn't do an
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
As a passenger, my usage of the phrase "I can help you with your phone if you want; either way, please put it down" has also gone way up
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I've been wanting the VR lessons to be about a prospective driver experiencing what they do to people. What it's like to be passed too closely by a car, forced to brake and swerve to avoid being hooked by a car stealing the right
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/24308 http://blog.amtrak.com/2019/05/why-are-amtrak-trains-delayed... https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
49 U.S. Code § 24308 says "Amtrak has preference over freight transportation in using a rail line, junction, or crossing unless the Board orders otherwise under this subsection" [0] In practicality, I agree with you that freight l
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
For turning specifically, NYC has been installing a variation of http://www.protectedintersection.com/ along with protected lanes recently. For example, 12th and 13th St has "turn traffic calming" ( https:/&#
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I am reminded of this comic, where bike and transit advocates fighting each other for scraps of money and attention as much as physical space: https://i.redd.it/4nf27uf5dri11.jpg I do think there is overlap in bike lane int
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
> going way too fast in the bike lanes What is too fast? Why shouldn't bikes be able to go fast in bike lanes? > With the loss of revenue from parking tickets it will have to be made up somewhere How much can be made up from fewe
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
Here's a list of this year's deaths with links to details: https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-14-cyclists-d...
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
I see only 3 of the 26 deaths in NYC this year as e-bike riders: https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-14-cyclists-d... My reading of NYC data links motor vehicles to deaths and injuries: From mid 2012 to
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by pedantsamaritan 7y ago
For NYC twitter helps a bit https://twitter.com/reported_nyc https://twitter.com/copsinbikelanes What else do you have in mind for a cyclist-oriented neighborhood watch?

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