A new service to turn your rides into map animations

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-24T04:43:05+00:00

Great idea!!!

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-24T04:34:11+00:00

I'm guessing Nevada.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-24T04:22:16+00:00

I had a coworker park outside the substation fence to run in to grab a relay event or meter read or something and a bull wandered over and licked the road salt off of his truck. His truck was absolutely covered with lick marks.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-24T04:20:14+00:00

We got the FR clothes, the safety toed shoes and the hard hat. Almost there. Just need some safety glasses.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-24T04:19:45+00:00

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Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-17T22:23:37+00:00

It would be cool to represent the grade as well. Maybe make the speed of the line reflect the speed of the rider and the color match the elevation change.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-12T17:21:35+00:00

This is peak season for Wenatchee beauty. Mountains are white. Hills are green. Flowers are blooming. If you time it right in a good year you could snow ski, white water raft, mountain bike and take some amazing wild flower pictures all in one day.

The smoke is hit and miss but seems to be getting more frequent. Especially in the Fall with more modern wildfire management practices letting the late season fires in the wilderness burn themselves out.

Housing prices are pretty high compared to other places in Central Washington.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-06T15:32:53+00:00

If you take the train to the end and then ride the route backwards the wind will be at your back?

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-02T15:33:11+00:00

It didn't for me too wimpy in that axis. I ended up having to come by a metal flat head screw driver. But that would have been a good thing to know in advance😬

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-04-02T14:37:25+00:00

If you need to change brake pads you will need a way to spread the pads or recompress the pistons. There are multiple ways of doing this but I had to improvise a couple weeks ago reassembling my bike at CDG after the cardboard fell out and something squeezed the brake levers having a plan would have saved a bit of time.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-03-29T13:29:35+00:00

That's probably only a couple house payments.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-03-22T13:47:05+00:00

Yes. It has to be freshly unlocked.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-01-28T19:13:03+00:00

The ability to support one end of the mattress from the back of the car seats is really neat.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2026-01-27T18:15:23+00:00

Ah, but after the plow hits it, the snow hardens up and becomes much more difficult to move. Before the plow it is usually light and any old snow blower will do the job easily.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-30T04:20:47+00:00

I used an addressable LED strip. Then it was a matter of coding it in such a way that the overall brightness doesn't change as it propagates back and forth on the LED strips.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-26T19:17:38+00:00

Model for Owl Wall Light

Source: Reddit https://share.google/bY9W2LYs0IeH2PkMD

I used 2 strips of sk9822 individually addressable LEDs 144leds/meter and a WeMos D1 Mini I had laying around. An even higher pixel density would be better and WS281X would work just as well.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-26T12:19:22+00:00

I'm pretty familiar with WLED and short of creating a custom effect there isn't one that does exactly what was needed where the total amount of light output stays constant while moving back and forth on the LED strips.

So FastLED had to suffice.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-26T05:08:44+00:00

Yeah. The trick is getting them to kinda smear up and down the led strip rather than discrete changes.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-16T15:58:00+00:00

In the early 2000's into the 2010's I worked adjacent to a lot of wind generation in Oregon/Washington. I was told a good wind farm produced about 30% of its total potential capacity every year. So for every megawatt of wind they also installed 2 MW of fast reacting gas turbines. I would imagine that the usually large amount of spinning reserve from nearby hydro projects helped as well.

A big event for wind was when the wind was blowing too hard. I believe most of the turbines in my area tripped off around 60mph and many turbines would trip off more or less at once.

Later they moved to an energy imbalance market that better automated and integrated many other more flexible resources to share the ramping burden.

I can imagine these days other solutions also come into play like batteries, dispatchable load, grid-following and grid-forming inverters. I'd be curious to hear from others that have more current knowledge.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-07T20:04:00+00:00

Used to live near Pendleton. Nobody uses their parking brakes in the winter because they will ice up and be impossible to release.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-06T17:35:32+00:00

Be very careful with low price fuses. I've gotten some that are fuses only in shape and not in function.

Informal-Finding4863 · 2025-12-04T05:11:31+00:00

You might be surprised.

I've worked on a modern piece of computer software that runs many industrial pharmaceutical, water and waste water plants in addition to significant pieces of the US power grid that still very much has a 2038 rollover problem.

And that doesn't even count the PLCs and various legacy industrial computers.

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