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[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Has something changed recently? When I was in Tokyo, admittedly more than a decade ago now, the bike lanes were tiny slivers of paint. And I do mean a sliver; they were not much wider than a foot. It would be unsafe to use them in traffic.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

Mozilla invented Rust to rewrite the rendering engine. Read the history of Servo and bring a tissue to cry into.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

Underground spots are roughly 20 to 50 thousand dollars each. Surface lots are only a few thousand per spot.

Do you want to invest in my coffee shop idea? I need a few million dollars to build the required parking.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Critical Mass was so successful in San Francisco that it almost doesn't exist anymore. These days discussions of bike lanes is more about what kind of lane rather than if bikes should even be allowed on the road.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

When cars are the only way to get to a bar or a friend's place, then you're going to get drunk drivers. Car dependency has a big hand in causing these deaths.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

These disks were designed to self-destruct in the presence of oxygen. They literally rust away.

Oxygen and its O2 form does like to sneak into everything. Even sealed in the original packaging, there's a limited shelf life. Flexplay claimed stability of only one year, which isn't much given it comes sealed in a plastic bag.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

The COVID vaccine is not sterilizing, meaning it does not guarantee prevention of disease. Instead it prevents serious infections that'll put you into the hospital or worse. The flu vaccine works the same way.

I absolutely will take a shot that turns a COVID infection from hospitalization into a bad cold.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

You're probably decoding noise or in the middle of the bit stream.

What you're looking for is called "preamble." That's a sequence of bits used to synchronize the decoder (marks the start of data, useful in modulation schemes for clock recovery, and a few other things).

Looking at minimodem's manual, try using the sync-byte option. Prepend your tar stream with a string of bytes, like 0x01, before sending to minimodem for encoding. Then use the sync code option to mark the start of the tar bit stream. This is as simple as cat preamble.bin myfiles.tar | minimodem --tx ....

Other things to consider: start small with 300 baud BFSK before speeding up. Test with wav files before attempting physical tape or speakers and a microphone.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Oof. You definitely were taking a risk with that drive train. I'm glad the worst of it is a few broken spokes.

That's clearly have a working bike, not some sort of weekend roadie show piece. Put a dork disk on there! There isn't any shame in favoring function over form.

Awesome call-out on zip ties. They're the duct tape of the bike world.

One small thing I noticed is how your fender and rack are mounted. It's fine to share a single eyelet to mount both, but it's best to mount in the order of frame, rack, fender, washer, and bolt. That ordering shortens the cantilever of the rack load, a much higher load than a fender, on the bolt.

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Shooting up or down is hard and takes extra work to understand the ballistics of such a shot.

If you're really curious, check out Ted's HoldOver video on the topic. He shows both the theory and practice it takes to shoot upwards.

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[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

For sure. These fuses have been a scourge.

Here's a video by a radio fan who's circuit is designed to blow fuses just didn't.

https://youtu.be/apQU_VuJlFU

[-] pc486@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Not a problem. In that case you'd also have theft charges and would be liable for the car's value in civil court (or whatever the Danish equivalent is).

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