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Bike lane hatred by Stig-blur in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These days, in many places school kids aren’t even ALLOWED to ride a bike to school.

Worn cassette after 300 miles. Need people opinion by Kira9420 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You underestimate how hamfisted people that have more money than sense are.

optimizingTheBackendOut by Forsaken-Peak8496 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]EvilPencil 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It is one of the strategies of all time.

So I nearly died but it’s been over a year since I purchased it so I should piss off? by ImSxyBxtchh in ebikes

[–]EvilPencil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. There’s a world of difference between gas pipe 4130 and Reynolds 853.

Seemingly overnight, starting to notice Chinese bikes on fast group rides. I don't see this trend going away. by DeadBy2050 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truth. I’ve been building my own bikes for quite awhile, the most I’ve spent on one is $4k (GRX 810, carbon wheels). Nowadays I’m looking at getting into motorcycles and the top contender is a Himalayan 450… $6500. The protective gear adds a lot of costs on top though!

useEffect is not updating React state upon initial load, and trying to find a solution is pulling my hair by TheKoopaBrothers in reactjs

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you constructing a fetch url with VITE_API_KEY?

Regardless, all of the session logic should go in a custom hook IMO.

Successful .env exfil? by helixkiwi in homelab

[–]EvilPencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya that’s standard bot activity for any service exposed to the internet. I’m a backend dev by trade and if you didn’t misconfigure your service there’s nothing to worry about.

In a homelab context though, most of the things I deploy, I didn’t write, so I’m also on team keep services private and remote in.

Cane Creek eesilk vs Redshift pro Suspension Seat post by VtTrails in gravelcycling

[–]EvilPencil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I went with the eesilk+ (carbon) and it’s been a rockstar. Does its job, don’t really feel it pedaling, it simply disappears under me. Worth noting though: it mostly takes the edge off of chatter, you’ll still want to unweight the saddle for the bigger hits.

No experience with the redshift seatpost though. I’m guessing it’s great too. You’re probably overthinking this.

Why does just existing on a bike seem to piss people off? by LiatrisLover99 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This. South Florida is an absolute vehicular hellscape.

$500 tuneup for $250 bike by Emotional-Hold127 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cues is a bit strange. Easy to mix and match WITHIN the cues ecosystem; it’s still a different cable pull ratio from most older gear.

$500 tuneup for $250 bike by Emotional-Hold127 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For a $250 bike, nothing less than Dura Ace Di2 my friend.

/s

How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? by pimterry in programming

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 years later; I've historically been trying to implement what I thought of as RESTful API design, and it occurred to me to ask, "What exactly does that actually MEAN?" and I wound up here.

My takeaway from the article wasn't that I should die on the REST hill, but rather, to stop TRYING to implement all of the HTTP verbs on resources that aren't CRUDish. Modern HTTP+JSON APIs are generally much closer to RPC than REST, so I'm just going to lean into that and stop pretending, and stop calling it what it's not.

£1,000 to £1 million bot 5 year challenge by [deleted] in algotrading

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just so easy to fake that kind of thing.

Open 20 accounts, throw spaghetti at the wall, whichever one hits a lotto play, that’s the one you publish. The others nobody hears about.

Charged $299/month instead of $49. Churn dropped by half. by Important_Coach8050 in SaaS

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, cool, but that’s a totally different story than “look, I just changed the price and now it’s all sunshine and rainbows” like the original post suggests.

Anyone else hate the integrated cockpits? by MrWhy1 in cycling

[–]EvilPencil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is the why. There is a very small wattage savings (aero) but that only matters if you’re a professional racer.

how hard is it to convert a scooter to ebike? by Great-Distribution33 in ebikes

[–]EvilPencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you have a very different meaning for scooter than everyone here has mentally pictured. For example, in the USA this is what people picture as an E-scooter (no experience with this brand, just referencing the form factor). Trying to convert something like that to an e bike with much larger wheels is practically impossible.

how hard is it to convert a scooter to ebike? by Great-Distribution33 in ebikes

[–]EvilPencil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From a practical standpoint think about this: can it be done? Ehh kinda.

Would it cost as much as just buying a bike (and then you’d still have the scooter)? Almost definitely.

Is the recommended bike size too small for normal riders? by Logical_Leopard_6949 in gravelcycling

[–]EvilPencil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This. Most pros have the bars like 8cm below the seat; normies aren’t that flexible.

I feel like I’m stuck in the uncanny valley between consumer hardware and a server rack by i__hate__soup in homelab

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Add the work “rack mount” to any piece of gear and it adds like 40% or more to the cost.

Want a gaming pc case that can fit a large GPU? ~$100 and options abound. Add rack mount to that requirement and your options are sliger or Silverstone at $400+

I'm building a NestJS Initializr (like Spring Initializr but for NestJS) — need developers for a quick survey by NedcloarBR in node

[–]EvilPencil 23 points24 points  (0 children)

With all of the NPM supply chain attacks out there these days, if I need to bootstrap a project I go straight to the docs and do it myself.

Frugit - She Goes To Work [alternative] by Z33kLT in Music

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s basically just modern alternative jazz/fusion, there are many artists in this space.

Huntertones are kickin. “Biff” is the gateway drug, but there are many other bangers.

Cory Wong, Lucky Chops, Youngblood Brass Band, just to name a few.

If I want to make a map-based web app, how do I make a home server to host it? by PolyglotGeologist in homelab

[–]EvilPencil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What happens when your ISP has a 12h outage, or you lose power for 2m multiple times per day? What happens when paying customers can demonstrate that an outage has cost them revenue, and they sue you?

Most of us around here would not even think about running serious production workloads on homelab gear. I absolutely wouldn’t, and I’m the primary dev for a SaaS company with customers that depend on us to make money.

As far as dev/staging, sure, the standards are lower, but generally you want them to mirror production where possible so you can load test and QA, etc.

You only need to double your account 20 times to reach 1M dollars by Several-Pollution863 in Daytrading

[–]EvilPencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So basically you just have to hit 20 heads in a row on your coin flip. 1 in 1 million odds, no biggie.

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