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My city spends $150 million annually on this stuff.

I also prefer 100% natural ground insects in my food over artificial dyes.

(Just teasing for funsies)

If I understand this study correctly, this is an increase of 11-14 bike commuters per mile of bike lane with a population density of 2,750 a square mile.

My city has 400 miles of bike lanes, therefore we should see an uptick in 5,600 riders?

I’m not sure how this study anticipates other factors limiting utilization such as economic status, weather, or city population size/density but it stands to reason that while a few more bike commuters can be coaxed out of hiding, there are very likely diminishing returns for investment costs and with 2 data points, the projected trajectory is not as linear as the study implies.

Since downloading copyright material is legal for training apparently, I’d be glad to help train a privacy respecting distributed LLM. 😉

/s of course. But you have a very interesting idea!

Ditto to your comment except power usage. I moved my Plex/Jellyfin (and hopefully Immich soon) docker containers to an N100 for the hardware acceleration. TDP is 6 watts on some of these devices and CPU use sits around 2% unless Plex is doing DB optimizations (about 60% for a bit). I haven’t measured consumption or my older server, but I feel moving some CPU intensive services to hardware GPU is saving a few watts.

That happens here too. I walked from 3rd grade until graduating High School. Rain or shine.

I remember getting a spiffy red bike in middle school because the new school was miles away. It was sweet. Except I kept forgetting/losing the combination to my lock. I felt a little grown up when I got a lock with a key. Ha!

As for the article, that’s horrible. Part of driving is being alert and responsible for the unexpected. Arresting the parents is straight up fucked.

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We used FM transmitters for those guys back in the day. Plug it in the headphone port and tune the stations.

Fun fact: A skilled linesman can use their tongue to tell the difference between 9V DC and 115kV AC.

The more you know*

This conversation just got Quasimodo-esque for a number of readers real fast.

Cyclists aren’t mentioned or involved whatsoever in this article.

A bus appears to have rear ended 2 vehicles, pushing at least one onto a sidewalk. Minor injuries, full recoveries expected.

Did I read that right? The city just dropped $4,250 each on, what looks similar to Amazon results, $300 - $500 e-bikes?

I don’t think purchase info is necessary tied to hardware out of the box beyond asset tracking. That would cause issues with gifting.

The easy answer is if you don’t run the software, it can’t collect data.

However, the firmware is network capable and certain diagnostic tools and recovery modes can call home. I am not familiar to the extent, however.

This also does not stop other devices, Apple included, from detecting the Mac and reporting home hardware/location data.

Totally get it. And if you find a cool solution, let us know.

Pasadena diverted paving/maintenance funds to vision zero’s agenda 7 years ago. No duh they are running into budget issues now.

The elected officials could, IDK, pass a new budget and stop complaining?

I’ve been slowly, very slowly, migrating away from Synology stuff, but everything you mentioned are my holdouts because they have been rock solid for decades. Even the cheap used products can swing those apps.

I hate to be the bad influence (no, who am I kidding, not really) and suggest more servers, but if you can find something cheap, I’d maybe give it a try.

Well, that featured image shows why my field of vision shrinks dramatically when I approach an intersection without bulbus sidewalks and random trees. /s

What in the world. Haha!

Me either. Well, except for the very occasional post-pizza party apocalypse.

Have a low flow shower head too, and the only reason it sucks is because our hard water from the city leaves mineral deposits on the tiny nozzles that clog easier. But a soak in descaler and it’s back to new.

Terrorism is scaring/harming people to manipulate government.

Tesla is neither government nor their property damage is scaring people.

More trumped-up charges.

(It is hilariously fitting Trump the man and Trump the word fit so gand-in-hand)

Oh gosh, this article again. Why does the date say 2025? This was discussed ad nauseam last year.

Cliffsnotes: Why was it blocked? The foreign car built to tight regulations in one market doesn’t meet safety standards in another country. This happens all over the world and is nothing new. Yes, people are exploiting a loophole to import them. The DMV got wise.