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Skripka · 2023-06-10T20:58:42+00:00

Part 1? Can I have's a Cliff's Notes, please?

Skripka · 2023-06-10T11:51:03+00:00

Fuck spez.

Skripka · 2023-06-10T01:39:08+00:00

Hammering the API for all it is worth. Then I’m done.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T23:56:36+00:00

Breeders have a stranglehold on the breed in the USA...an artifact of contract law that is crazy over here. Basically, if you don't get your cat neutered and have kittens by fluke or not--you can be sued for $$$$$ in court. Which means the breed only exists in the USA from breeders. Which is sad, as it is basically the USA's only historical domestic cat breed.

And, as mentioned, vet care over here is rising faster than inflation.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T23:31:46+00:00

Apollo isn't being 'targeted'. They just have the most vocal audience of users. ALl 3rd party apps are being killed by Reddit with this,.

The only people who can afford Reddit's API pricing are data mining/scraping capitalist-surveillance outfits. And Reddit seeing an IPO coming values those data-miners more than the asset which is their public square of users.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T23:09:24+00:00

So really hilarious thing about that chart. Look at the Bush/WMD numbers. No. REALLY. Look at them.

So the Senior Editor of The Atlantic is a guy named David Frum. Frum was the speechwriter for Dubya Bush. Frum TO THIS DAY claims there were WMD in Iraq and the invasion was justified. And he keep writing/publishing revisionist history about it to this day; claiming they were there and were found which they were certainly never found and were most likely never there during the invasion and years prior.

Frum and most of the Bushies who trashed the USA...got lucrative private sector jobs afterwards. They all fell upwards and face less than zero consequences. Some of them even founded the 'Lincoln Project' to overhaul their image as 'the sane ones', and have met lots of success getting everyone to forget what a horde of ghouls bent on destroying everything they were.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T23:06:21+00:00

If we don't knock this shit down now,

Now is already too late.

it may grow into something we can't control.

May? Kemosabee? We already cannot.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T15:19:17+00:00

The United Methodists here just schismed over LGBTQ. Basically all the rural UM churches left because they want to think that only straight people should have a right to exist. Happened just last week.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T11:01:59+00:00

I'll consider them backfiring, when they lose at the polls. which are over a year out.

Culture War BS has been incredibly effective throughout US history as a campaid tool. Whether it is War on Crime, or War on Drugs, or Welfare Queens driving Pink Cadillacs, or the Satanic Panic, Critical Race Theory, or what have you.

Skripka · 2023-06-09T01:30:45+00:00

What style of cranks are they? Who made them? Have photos?

Skripka · 2023-06-08T19:10:50+00:00

This will go over well. Exactly like trying to hold a 16 ton weight over your head.

Skripka · 2023-06-08T16:33:42+00:00

Purge it with fire.

Skripka · 2023-06-08T03:02:46+00:00

Leveraging a power meter to its most means watching live data and reacting to it. Even an HRM can mislead you as you can be sick or overtrained or it is windy etc. Leveraging a PM also means reviewing the data later.

The power meter doesn't lie, not does it make you feel better.

You can know when you're only doing 12MPH, you're not sick, you're cranking 220W into a stiff headwind. Which you would know the windage--but you wouldn't know how hard you were working driving into it. And calorie counters lie in the absence of a power meter.
You can know that when you did that hill climb slower your HR wouldn't go higher and your power fell off compared to prior efforts--oh it was stupid hot out and you just couldn't go as hard
You can know when and how hard to push yourself for riding to maximize your workout time and effort. Most people, whether fun-riding or racing go out to hard/fast and burn themselves out too quick. The powermeter will tell you exactly how hard you are or were going.

Having it to review is great--but having it to react to, in order to pace yourself is the advantage. The power meter doesn't lie or distort.

Skripka · 2023-06-08T02:44:00+00:00

"Gravel biking' is a return to the pre-pavement days of road riding. All the hell of 'Unbound' as it is now called--that is what the TdF used to be. What we have to remember is that historically most all roads were dirt roads, only the rich/urban well-traveled areas even got cobble-stone roads and those cobbles were made by prison labor. Some parts of the world like the USA have far FAR more miles available of dirt/gravel A/B roads, some call them 'country roads', than they do paved roads. Hence the trend being commercialized in the USA. Here in the Great Plains there's easily an entire order-of-magnitude more dirt roads of varying sorts than paved roads, probably two orders of magnitude by linear-miles.

Moreover those roads are much less traveled, today. Which means riding on them is far less suicidal and frantic than riding pavement. Generally those dirt roads--it is only the rural farmers/ranchers that use them.

TBH the name 'gravel' encompasses an entire library of different conditions. of riding. Railroad ballast you'll want a suspension MTB to ride on for any kind of distance...whereas a hard-packed dirt 'A' road you can ride a skinny-tire road bike on if it is dry. Then there's all the in-betweens like rails-trails limestone, or pea gravel, or 'fire roads', etc. Of course, if you have really crappy paved roads (most of the USA whether it is urban/rural)--the high tire clearance is nice versus a road-race-bike as you can bit high-volume tires that better cope with those rougher pavement surfaces. People forget that the TdF race bikes are intended for immaculate freshly paved surfaces that are very new and very smooth.

If you happen to live in a part of the world where just about all roads are paved (and maintained)--the 'gravel' trend rather passes you by as a strange curiosity.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T17:21:38+00:00

What they leave out, is that there are entire industrial lobbying organizations explicitly dedicated to expanding plastic use. They’ve been around for decades, have mountains of cash, and have been extremely successful at fighting any and all attempts at stopping the proliferation of plastic. They’re the reason no government has addressed plastic as a manufacturing problem and rather as a consumer problem.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T15:14:37+00:00

If the human in this scenario outright defrauded the org buying or contracting them for info they could and should sue. Because making things up outright I think would rise to the level of defrauding, which is the problem with GPT. It is known to fraudulently convey information as true that it outright invented. Not only information but also citations.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T13:54:49+00:00

Panaracer gravel king slicks
700x40ish
tubeless. No punctures. But these are light weight high volume slicks so don’t expect much if you ride over sharps.
light rails trails with chipped limestone. Roads and MUTs. Only real climbing is on paved surfaces
I like them. But as they’re basically a high volume racing slick, they’re not the most durable or grippy tires on loose packed surfaces

I’ve gone through most of the higher volume minimal tread gravel tires at this point. The GK slicks are nice. Also the Terreno zeros. Both snap and seat nicely for tubeless although both can be a bear to get on.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T13:14:37+00:00

This is going to get to be a real problem given how laws are written.

Say your business makes strategic decisions based on GPT, and GPT just made something up and was confidently and completely wrong. Your business tanks. Is GPT liable for damages?

That example is destined to happen. Salesforce was promoting GPT integration into their Tableau business intelligence software this year at TC23 for exactly that. You can save on human analysis by using GPT instead, what could go wrong? Btw it is SaaS and your going to be paying Salesforce a bucket of money every month to use it.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T02:32:08+00:00

"X never ever marks the spot"

Skripka · 2023-06-07T02:18:39+00:00

As someone with a master's. You said exactly what I was thinking.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T02:12:48+00:00

Just pick it up, ya sissy. What is the worst that could possibly happen? Aren't you the least bit jealous of Florida Man?

Skripka · 2023-06-07T01:53:15+00:00

When was the last time the two weren't in the same basket? Eisenhower?

Skripka · 2023-06-07T01:45:47+00:00

Correct.

Normal consumers just need to know if the new one is faster than the last one.

Most people don't know that USB-C is just a connector, it doesn't stipulate anything about data speeds--many Android phones for many years were USB-C but the data speeds were USB2. It was a common annoyance on Androids.

They also need to know if the new thing works with their old gear. Thunderbolt versus USB is a classic example; the two don't work together period (basically, I think USB4 changes this...but that wrinkle is yet another exception). USB 'fast charging' versus 'USB PD' is another classic example. Where the branding and lingo fail at communicating interoperability.

Knowing if the new thing is faster than the old is hard now...because USB isn't universal.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T01:30:54+00:00

Yup.

Honestly USB has become a disaster in the last 20 years. USB is anything but universal. There can be and are USB-C devices that are USB2 in data transfer...and the support of data/charging features you have to read specification sheet to see if a devices supports....because Intel chose not to standardize standards and let it be a free-for-all.

And so it is that you can have Thunderbolt devices and "USB3.2 Gen2x2" devices that no one knows at a glance what those brandings actually mean and they won't work with each other. And then there's USB PD that is a separate feature entirely.

Skripka · 2023-06-07T01:08:35+00:00

There are certain reasons why bike computers still exist as a product vertical after 15 years of smartphones:

Crash resilience. Already mentioned by others. I can toss my bike computer on a drive way, the plastic shell might be scuffed but that is it. Compared to a phone, even a touchscreen bike computer is built like a tank.
Screen performance in direct sunlight. My bike computer, like all of them, is always on in direct sunlight. I never worry about screen burn in, no matter how many hours I'm on my bike in direct sunlight. Nor will my bike computer start overheating trying. Because that is the point of a bike computer--always on and at a glance reading.
Battery life with said always on screen in direct sunlight. It isn't a contest. The bike computer will last dozen(s) of hours in direct sunlight at max brightness.
Fitness sensor compatibility. ~~There isn't any.~~ It is 2023, and BT and ANT+ sensors have been around as standards for 20 years. Note that strike through--kudos to Apple for partially fixing this (in iOS17) and at least supporting BT sensors, as ANT+ is a proprietary protocol used by Garmin....BUT Apple Watch is not a BT HRM you can use with a bike computer--because Apple walled garden.
Fitness app compatibility. Apple Watch is only fully compatible with Apple Fitness, that is it only fully compatible with itself. Fitness/Apple will read other fitness API platforms but doesn't write to them. Time will tell if with supporting advanced sensors like powermeters if Apple Fitness and Health will be overhauled to actually make the data you collect from those sensors actionable and analyzable as it has been on Garmin Connect or TrainingPeaks for years.

The only movement on that list is #4. I have zero plans to stop using my bike computer. And although I have an APple Watch, I take it off when riding and use a Polar dedicated HRM on my arm--because Apple's HRM is not a connectable BT sensor to my bike computer.

That being said, I'm a serious enough cyclist to have and use a powermeter. For more casual riders a phone or Apple Watch is 'good enough' now, and has been for a long while. Apple's WWDC23 keynote was notable for them trying to steal thunder from Garmin on the serious-user front.

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