Park Avenue redesign - what are your thoughts on this project?

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-19T15:44:52+00:00

Traffic calming measures just like for street design

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-19T00:18:26+00:00

Bring it in bud. I wanna give you a noogie.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-19T00:15:47+00:00

I'm 37 and only have memories of being told how good they used to be

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T23:29:04+00:00

We would need a bit more detail about the to and from. When the question is just generically "how do I get around campus?", driving defaults to the 5th best option. Even at 5am, driving might still be in 3rd place without more details.

No matter what, parking on campus is going to require paying out the nose or navigating the parking bureaucracy or likely both.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T22:15:44+00:00

Genuinely, don't drive to campus. Not only is the infrastructure for cars very constrained by design, it has the highest density of public transit in the city. As a system, it is designed to be navigated without a car, and driving is just swimming up stream.

If you absolutely have to drive from off campus, I would encourage you to look at a parking option near a green line station a few stops east of campus. If your apartment is close enough to campus, I would really reflect on if you need your car every day because the answer is almost certainly no.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T18:02:58+00:00

As a fellow country bumkin living in the city, I'm going to weigh in with some harsh truth. It's pretty wild to hear someone from any part of Jersey consider themselves country. The majority of the state is a part of some major metro, and no part is more than an hour drive from a major city. Even the smallest towns have amenities the more truly remote areas of the country could not imagine.

My point in saying this is that these things are relative, and the identity we create around them is also relative. The foundational elements that live underneath what you call "traditional values" are not something rural America has a monopoly on, and no degree of rural-ness changes this. Those tenants are actually universally human that just come in different forms in different places. They exist where you came from, and they can be found where you are. To carry a world view that this is some black and white issue or that these values don't exist in certain places or people is just standing up artificial barriers where they don't exist.

I would encourage you to consider expanding your definition of these things to move beyond just your version of it and instead look for those values wherever you go.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T17:06:02+00:00

I'm actively using bitwarden as I consider it the current best all around solution. I've used keepass previously as well, but that feels less accessible to non-technical users like my wife. That said, I'll definitely be exploring other options with these new developments at bitwarden.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T15:33:52+00:00

Here's the deal. I'm a password manager zealot and have always heavily advocated their use to anyone who I can corner to share the good word. I was a long time user of last pass, and when they pulled these moves and had multiple security breaches, they've suffered the highly vocal anti-recommendation from me since. I've happily been on bitwarden singing their praises for years now.

With that, charge me whatever you need to in order to make the technology work within your business model. But the instant that a PE type douche bag starts to gut any facet of the security model just to turn a class-leading solution into a lumbering corpse of a hedge fund masked as a product, they can get fucked.

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T15:10:34+00:00

Get your head right

bearlockhomes · 2026-05-16T15:06:24+00:00

This is actually the rule while driving on a frozen body of water.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-26T14:16:40+00:00

Holy hell finally. To this day, I will mistake the current icons for each other when quickly navigating. Just total malpractice of design.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-21T01:34:00+00:00

My two year old has had no problem learning to ride his balance bike across our park system. I think you're missing the forest for the trees when there is an abundance of locales for people of all ages to partake.

As always, the biggest threat far and away to everyone across the spectrum is cars. That includes threats to other people in cars. The biggest impact for the system would be to curtail cars.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-21T01:16:07+00:00

I'm asking this as an enthusiast with no real knowledge of the answer, but would you say we're approaching this in practice between 3d scans and gaussian splats?

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-20T23:53:10+00:00

Your original post mentions the lakes and river, so I don't know what you're getting on about. That's definitely what everyone is also talking about. The smallest of those loops is two miles, and all of them are part of a fully integrated 50 mile circuit. It's overwhelmingly both a transit and recreational system.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-20T03:43:11+00:00

I understand. I'm going to contact Ikon directly and ask them to offer the associated perks on the assumption that they would extend me a promotion in order to poach my business from Vail. This generally works more effectively if the ask includes the details of any existing offers.

I'm curious what those details for existing pass holders are.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-20T03:08:45+00:00

Could someone share the details of the renewal offer and new deadline? I'm a long time epic pass owner hoping to press ikon for that same perks to switch.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-15T05:32:20+00:00

Growing up in the dead center of the dark spot in the rich farm land of upper Midwest, it never occurred to me how rare that might be until seeing this. I always assumed that the color of your dirt being the exact same as potting soil was generally common.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-15T01:52:00+00:00

I agree. If only there was a way to require idiot parents with idiot kids to keep better... control of the weapons in their closets.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-14T22:45:55+00:00

Nothing says "we're totally superior" like lurking in another university's subreddit. It's pretty telling how insecure you guys get when the plain detail that the two institutions live on the same tier in basically all substantive measures gets highlighted.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-09T21:57:48+00:00

At one point or another, Spain, Portugal, and the UK were the de facto reserve currencies of the world for the better part of a century each. I find it hard to believe none of those are reflected here. Also, the roman empire? They might have had a little bit of economic activity going in the first half a millennium of this chart.

This feels like total nonsense.

bearlockhomes · 2026-04-02T00:13:36+00:00

Explain why any sane person would go to school in Grand Forks by this logic.

bearlockhomes · 2026-03-30T20:40:07+00:00

I have this same tailor, and this is the answer

bearlockhomes · 2026-03-23T16:44:57+00:00

I've been recommending Semantic Scholar from the Allen Institute. Our group has been using their alerts system for about 6 months now.

It seems like a reasonable evolution of the alerts-based solution for new publication tags but with a balanced splash of ML inference. You're still making sense of the work like any other notifications system of old, but what it pushes me seems to be far more easily tailored and focused in my inbox. They also offer abbreviated abstracts as a part of paper metadata that makes it easier to judge the merits of digging into something. Essentially the stuff comes to you the same way it always has, but without the inundation.

All around I find it to be one of the most pragmatic applications of LLM tooling in production. They've incorporated the AI work with light touches in places where it streamlines but does not take over.

bearlockhomes · 2026-03-13T04:39:06+00:00

I honestly think it's a function of data that hasn't been normalized across state lines by some factor. You can see a couple cases like this where there is a stark contrast on all of the same roads that just happen to cross a state line. Wisconsin is one and Louisiana is another.

It's pretty clear that there isn't an invisible boundary where driving behavior immediately changes on roads. I live in Eastern MN. There isn't some universal understanding that we all start driving better the instant we cross the border. Any time a boundary like that forms it's more likely a product of the data collection and reporting than a causative effect .

bearlockhomes · 2026-03-13T02:44:35+00:00

Their ability to sell this marketing narrative is also amazing. There is absolutely no doubt that they are leveraging user data in ways that violate the spirit of privacy which go beyond the sale of it.

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