rconti

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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah, but the SFO cell phone lot is particularly bad, and traffic to the terminals is bad. On the flip side, there are airports like Cleveland where people just park their car at arrivals and disappear for 20 minutes.
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by rconti 1y ago
It's not about _qualified_ runners, it's about the size of the total field accepted. Boston allows "roughly" 25k participants, but that number fluctuates somewhat every year. If they allow 30k, the cutoff delta goes down
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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah, doing it by flat time delta rather than percent delta seems fundamentally flawed, but of course it makes it easier for the average person to understand. I also don't understand what the motives are behind how the age/gender
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by rconti 1y ago
Betteridge's law of Boston qualifying times.
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by rconti 1y ago
Context: There's a limit on how many people can run the Boston Marathon. To qualify to "run Boston", you have to run another marathon in a qualifying time[1], prior to applying. For example, the qualifying time for a male 40-
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by rconti 1y ago
huh. I didn't even know this existed.
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by rconti 1y ago
We have a small roof with 1/3 of our panels facing east, 1/3 facing west, and 1/3 facing south. Given a sufficiently large roof, it would theoretically make sense to have all of the panels facing south. However, due to the fa
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by rconti 1y ago
People who pay a premium to live in a condo close to transit will almost certainly have vastly lower VMT than people who live in a SFH in a non-walkable area. Do they need more roads than the handful of houses that condo building replaced?
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by rconti 1y ago
Of course not; that would be a measured approach that would attempt to address the actual problem, rather than an insane shock and awe move designed to get headlines.
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by rconti 1y ago
The semicolon got added to the hyperlink rather than being a separate part of the text. A human reading this text should have been able to figure this out, while a machine might struggle, so I'm suspicious...
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by rconti 1y ago
Are they still refusing to do anything about their painful 30 day device unlinking policy? If they can support full backups, surely they can accomplish this. https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-unlink-devices-afte.
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by rconti 1y ago
Buy the dip?
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by rconti 1y ago
You mean transit, where they increasingly use facial recognition? You mean cycling, which many walkers consider to be dangerously fast? You think they wouldn't start mandating registration tags if it became too popular?
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by rconti 1y ago
I'm more mixed. I love that I live in a very walkable area, and our next move (but not for ~10 years) is hopefully to live carless in a European city. And yet, I mourn the loss of what we once had, and I'm trying to scoop up fun c
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by rconti 1y ago
I honestly thought both the Leaf and 500e were no longer on sale in the US, since I don't see new ones in the Bay Area, and they used to be everywhere . That's my bad. The Bolt is also a great example, although it's pretty q
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by rconti 1y ago
I didn't say it was going to happen. I was trying to come up with an equally silly comparison where someone argues that a person couldn't possibly enjoy sensory experience, and therefore the _only_ reason anybody could enjoy an IC
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by rconti 1y ago
Doesn't have to be just a phase, I love both!
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by rconti 1y ago
There are lots of reasons to like combustion vehicles outside of noise. The varying way they deliver power across the rev range is different in every vehicle, for one. One of my cars is a small displacement turbo motor and I love pinning it
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by rconti 1y ago
Arguably they're ALL muscle cars, at least in the US. Nobody's making small, lightweight, low range, low power EVs.
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by rconti 1y ago
Even outside of EVs, cars have gotten to the point where you're barely driving them anymore, anyway, you're more of a "human in the loop". You can't really see out of them anymore (other than the windshield, of cour
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by rconti 1y ago
My 86 year old father regularly gets calls from his "grandson" (who does not exist)... who is in jail, and needs help.
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by rconti 1y ago
> Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?
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by rconti 1y ago
insecurity through obscurity
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by rconti 1y ago
I haven't investigated it because I don't have kids, but I think whatever comprises a typical domestic lawn is a better play/recreation surface than any kind of plants that are native out west. I think the alternative is arti
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by rconti 1y ago
> If it doesn't rain for a few weeks while the sun cooks it, some things will go a bit brown and lifeless. Then the next rain comes and it all perks right back up. You're right that "only if you want to grow non-native spe
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by rconti 1y ago
The reason we have water "issues" in California is due to a complicated system of water rights, where more "senior" and upstream water rights-holders can take as much as they want. Of course, if we nullified that system,
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by rconti 1y ago
My local brewery made a beer out of recycled water. It's not legal to sell, though. https://www.devilscanyon.com/epic-onewater-brew.html
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by rconti 1y ago
I've never lost water, period, and I've had multi-day power outages.
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by rconti 1y ago
Honestly, if you're maintaining a lawn in places that don't get year-round rain, you need to water it. I grew up in Seattle and it never occurred to me that there were places where you didn't need to water a lawn.
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by rconti 1y ago
yeah, our small suburban house in silicon valley can easily use 400 gallons per day on days where we water the small front and back lawns and drip irrigation, but on a non-watering day, we can use as little as 50 gallons for 2 people. While

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