Posts by enobacon@urbanists.social
(DIR) Post #AwW3RL5guPa4uN49AW by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-07-26T05:53:52Z
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@ricci and instead of mail everybody a ballot, they make people stand in line for hours to be able to vote. 😞
(DIR) Post #AwaLQiA4Uo1PKhWs9A by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-07-28T07:34:17Z
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@ricci this makes it sound like noise was some kind of issue, is pickleball louder than cars? Also, the rule about points, randomly slipped in near the end, cracks me up, is that in the code?https://www.portland.gov/parks/recreation/pickleball
(DIR) Post #AxdE5DR3OCcYCJlUJs by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-08-28T05:22:04Z
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@ai6yr don't confuse the strategy for personal survival with the bigger-picture strategy for effective infrastructure. I think Forester had some car-brained ideas in his head, but I'm glad we have a legal right to take the lane, while I also resent traffic Engineers & elected officials using that as an excuse to call sharrows good-enough for a Major City Bikeway (A city-adopted plan category equivalent to a freeway's importance in the car network, imagine the freeway shared a lane with trains.)
(DIR) Post #AxdE5Eo8HsfySBZQvo by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-08-28T05:26:13Z
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@ai6yr Hurst's book seems to be a good guide on how to survive riding as it is, while Forester also had some valid points about the poor design of "protected" sidewalk-like "bikeways" that didn't account for the speed of bikes, clear sight-stopping distance Engineered into driveway crossings and corners, lane width, like it is on carways built for even 20mph. Biking on a left-side sidewalk is quantifiably more dangerous than fully occupying the big lane, & many traffic Engineers don't get that.
(DIR) Post #AxdE5FLSHzKa7XA2s4 by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-08-28T05:37:38Z
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@ai6yr Where we go off the rails is in blaming the driver and the "cyclist" for not operating their vehicle perfectly, rather than the Engineers for not responding to data telling them that the designs are bad, creating conflict and fostering bad behavior. Bus/turn-only lanes and single thru lanes, roundabouts, bollards / modal filters / car diverters, & disentangled routes of the different modes just makes sense for moving people (bikes on bike streets, cars on car streets, transit priority.)
(DIR) Post #Axe78qvOWJe71Ghgno by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-08-29T01:05:05Z
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@ricci so, naming things 😆
(DIR) Post #AxowS9JBQsVAmSO9r6 by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-03T06:26:37Z
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@dan @ricci but there's also carp, if you created your problem in Perl (I have certainly used strace even then.)
(DIR) Post #Ay2UJ9270eouohlDmq by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-09T18:12:03Z
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From the seat of a bicycle, the only good thing about traffic lights is that most drivers stop when they're red. The obvious way to save a lot of money and lives is to just have them be red and stay that way.
(DIR) Post #Ay2enQVXbR15F6bVYm by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-09T20:32:54Z
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@amerika it's hard to see driver entitlement from behind a windshield, with the amount of subsidy lavished onto creating car traffic.
(DIR) Post #Ay2fAVqxtVQeTwdK7s by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-09T21:18:17Z
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@amerika pay for the wear and upkeep, insurance coverage for hit-and-run damage to the infrastructure, injuries, deaths, quit leaving CO2 and tire particles everywhere you go. Public space is for everyone, if you want to be alone it's not the place for you.
(DIR) Post #Ay3E9A5SpcQf57VRtg by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-09T20:38:08Z
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@Zergling_man yeah you definitely can't count on a red light to save your life, but you can see when drivers are stopped and guess that they'll stay there until the green (plus probably a few seconds to mess with their phone.) I'm usually trying to get somewhere without excess sweat, which, besides e-assist, is best achieved by not stopping unless there's a breeze and shady spot.
(DIR) Post #Ay3G5qzVZcvstbGr0y by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-10T04:13:15Z
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@ricci 1st world localhost CORS problems LMAO
(DIR) Post #Ay3GyaRqmUfHW3ctl2 by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-10T04:23:08Z
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@ricci that json's syntax is restricted to what works via eval in js, :chefskiss: 😆
(DIR) Post #Ay3SWieRt4RgIcztey by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-10T06:32:34Z
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@ricci @wilbowma "automated responses must include a brief treatise on the economics of a Basic Income and how to most productively fund it with wealth tax"
(DIR) Post #Ay5dlb5BnUjqytioHA by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-09-11T07:47:54Z
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@ricci @brendan or perhaps the students who aren't smart enough to know that they can't learn by letting AI think for them are just not very smart.
(DIR) Post #AyuEHPVacv4qFa15N2 by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-10-05T17:32:12Z
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@Nonilex "overrun" and "burning to the ground" are lies on top of lies on top of lies on... Do trump voters simply have no clue about reality, or do they just share his complete lack of integrity?
(DIR) Post #AyvK4wJk7tql7js7OK by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-10-06T06:12:19Z
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@vik next up: print the nuts and bolts that fit the wrenches?
(DIR) Post #B0CBp4f8KuNR6hMma8 by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-11-13T07:21:58Z
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@ricci #AI might be okay if we had #UBI and it was only trained on the notes of people who did the homework. Unfortunately, the training data is mostly the emailed excuses for why the assignment wasn't turned in on time.
(DIR) Post #B0HSz7lA89V8J2f8am by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-11-15T10:42:02Z
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@tregeagle @ascentale front brake caliper with no pads or lever?
(DIR) Post #B0JTvFzY4R62wv1zoe by enobacon@urbanists.social
2025-11-16T19:47:47Z
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@ricci those menus need some place for user to stick a post-it note