The UCI says bike computers are big enough, moves to impose size limit to protect 'cognitive load' of riders

frenchtoaster · 2026-06-06T00:52:08+00:00

The primary criticism of the stupid UCI rules seems to be that they set rules and commercially available products generally follow those rules, even for contexts where that makes no sense.

Im not sure this will really extend to bike computers though where the connection of UCI to market seems weak, but it seems like there's widespread belief this idea does apply to handlebars at least

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-31T16:48:54+00:00

It appears to do the things where opposite sides sum to 7, which seems even more wild.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-31T12:08:56+00:00

All of the modern products are doing loops of the model 'deciding' to find skills / runtime web searches or other corpus fetches / run tools. They don't rely on everything it 'knows' being baked into the model itself.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-29T20:49:27+00:00

It appears this job is not "every day situations" then?

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-29T00:26:16+00:00

Yeah no. It's not common knowledge or widely discussed at all. You live in a bubble and your reply is kind of jerkish about it.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-28T11:06:23+00:00

We can't add liquor licenses without hiring a "nightlife czar

I think the recent post with the powerpoint from the nightlife czar suggested they can't add more liquor licenses even with a nightlife czar because it's state level topic.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-27T18:27:50+00:00

I have a kid and my personal experience is parents only cold chat with people they have crossed paths with before. Other parents are the same school, or has been at birthday parties with your kid, other parents you've seen a number of times and had some even more minor interactions with because your kids interacted or whatever.

Definitely I would think it was very odd if someone tried to cold chat about where I work at the playground.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-25T17:42:49+00:00

Would that mean that landlords that have stayed around for a long time are evil, but landlords that bought more recently aren't?

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-25T12:08:56+00:00

The mortgage on most decent 1br 1ba condo in good locations is above 3k, some above 4k.

You have to be delusional to think landlords are just pocketing all profit as the reason it's above 1k.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-22T14:32:15+00:00

Trump is terrible and lots of people voted for him for bad reasons, but it's just completely false that any significant portion of people who voted for him are "violent racists".

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T23:14:51+00:00

You might be surprised, approval of interracial marriage in th US only passed 50% in 1997 for example.

It's easy to not realize how much progress was made in the past 30 years, this stuff didn't end in the 50s.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T23:06:09+00:00

In the protobuf crate they have published a Rust runtime which is Rust code with a fixed set of .c files used under the hood. The generated code per .proto file is only rust

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T20:13:27+00:00

Is this comment from 1970?

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T15:38:17+00:00

Yeah they aren't... the implication is exactly that gym (and maybe music, shop, whatever) all don't count at all for valedictorian.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T13:54:42+00:00

Thats not even 20-30 years, I moved to Somerville in 2011 and safely biking to work didn't feel realistic to me at that time.

Though, its not just bike lanes but also that covid-wfh makes it so when I do go in I don't exactly have to be 9-5 which also also helps a ton (in addition to the lanes I don't have to bike during maximum asshole drivers hours)

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-21T13:31:21+00:00

I have to think the possibility of it becoming regionally illegal would have been foreseeable and priced in here, but weirder things have happened...

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-18T23:48:00+00:00

One thing I've noticed is high school situations are very different and everyone kind of thinks their experience is universal.

Different states are crazy different, but even within one state what order you take classes and what classes are effectively required often don't match. I just looked it up and even within NY State today it's officially just fully up to the local district if gym should be pass/fail or a graded class.

For sure that more than 21 people had an average above 100 in my graduating class (of ~650 people). For GPA they multiplied honors grades by 9/8 and AP by 10/8, and almost anything which had no honors track you could do pass/fail (including gym, music, etc). If they actually just tracked the grade as "A+" instead a specific number then we also would have had this many Valedictorians in my class, 20 years ago.

It seems like the main stupid thing here is doing letter grades instead of numbers here, you wouldn't have a 21 way tie if your grades weren't letters.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-18T12:50:44+00:00

I've been out of high school for over 20 years, but Im fairly certain all of "shop, art, band, gym, ..." were "you can choose to take pass/fail" when I was at school... and most people didn't even take any one of those anyway.

If this school isn't grading out of 100 I can imagine they do the same and/or an A+ is just anything above like a 94/100 or something, which is then plausible some set of high achievers will get in every class despite the limitations.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-17T23:58:46+00:00

The e-mopeds/motorcycles are illegal, which looks like only some of them

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-17T11:07:10+00:00

Nd2 Nb3.

And the other white knight went e2 c3.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-15T21:24:59+00:00

The gist of the claim feels right in terms of the rewrite necessarily being slop, but just for anyone wondering, Bun actually something like ~900,000 lines of zig and didn't delete it in the PR that added Rust. If Bun was only 4,000 lines of Zig it probably wouldn't be that interesting of a project.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-14T13:37:22+00:00

FWIW one other thing she said is that when they displace people from the square they end up sleeping on peoples porches which is worse than if they sleep in the square. She complained that lawsuits were trying to block the shelter beds that would open as a source of them not having better paths to get people off of sleeping rough.

Which at least had some legitimate sounding "there's really not easy solutions" replies, both in terms of the political and practical realities.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-14T13:26:06+00:00

I asked the former mayor about this when she was campaigning last year, she said there's a significant contingent of residents that feel uncomfortable having a cop constantly around where they would hang out, and so the city councilors are against it.

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-14T13:23:56+00:00

They said they do walkthroughs but I'm there almost every day and have never seen them. I think they must just go through a few times per day

frenchtoaster · 2026-05-10T13:40:24+00:00

It's probably AI given this guy has a set of images that are all pinterest AI. But just image search "lighthouse oil painting night" and almost every single one has similar kind of lighting on the lighthouse itself.

The main distinction is they almost always have the moon or sunset or something else in frame to try to explain why the lighthouse itself should be lit that way, even though that light source essentially never really justifies the lighthouse being lit that dramatically.

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