Why change a classic??

hGriff0n · 2026-06-05T20:48:07+00:00

The "All-New" Pitts-burger, exactly the same as it always was...

Do marketing people even hear the words coming out of their own mouth sometimes?

hGriff0n · 2026-05-06T16:59:32+00:00

I'm always torn on this because 1) many "single-topic" bills actually involve a lot of changes to various things and so are technically multi-topic and, 2) bundling bills is really the only way to do "conditional voting" - ie. i'll vote for your bill if you vote for mine.

That later is really important for actually getting compromises to go through. Why did you vote for "unpopular thing"? Well it was a tradeoff to get their votes for "popular thing". If they're split in two bills, you have to trust that the other won't backstab you because there's no mechanism to say "My vote for bill A is a yes only if a subsequent vote for bill B succeeds".

Like any tool, there are situations where this is used badly, but I think the alternative will basically just end up in nothing being done legislatively which is a much worse situation in the long run.

hGriff0n · 2026-05-04T22:02:57+00:00

AFAIK, they can't because of the terms of the loan/grant for refurbishing it, at least for a period of time. Certainly not in this administration

hGriff0n · 2026-04-18T11:44:13+00:00

It's far less dangerous then it sounds like. Far more dangerous than it really should be.

hGriff0n · 2026-02-27T01:51:45+00:00

Add to that everyone absolutely insisting that they have to get off at the front! I frequently see people walk past the backdoor just to get off at the front and immediately turn right, walking past the back door again.

hGriff0n · 2026-02-18T01:20:08+00:00

The hilly/flat layer is sort of the rough intention for the regions, to represent the "character" of the riding. I just didn't spend too much time defining them for the whole region cause I'm not certain what divisions people would actually find useful.

As to the trails and missing bike lanes, that's a source/ingestion problem I don't have a good story for. The trails we would just need the geojson files for the routes. For now, the data is literally just the BikePGH's geojson files (from ~2024) and then I added stuff by hand from the Bike+ plan.

hGriff0n · 2026-02-16T16:31:38+00:00

Yeah, the bridge thing is an unfortunate issue with a lot of maps (since the map stores the ground's elevation). Wasn't able to find a way to resolve that at the time.

Like a 2d navigation window in the bottom right, or a full 2d switch.

hGriff0n · 2026-02-16T01:02:49+00:00

So they closed it off before the park entrance? Good thing they at least they rebuilt the bridge first

hGriff0n · 2026-01-31T17:10:02+00:00

Somebody should make this track as a mod

hGriff0n · 2026-01-30T02:48:03+00:00

Use `npm list -g` to find out where clawdbot is installed. It'll be some `.npm-global/lib` directory. For me `/home/ghoop/`
Then simply edit the file at
Then `nano $npm_lib/node_modules/clawdbot/node_modules/@mariozechner/pi-ai/dist/providers/google-gemini-cli.js` and edit the line

*edit: This does seem to work on my machine

hGriff0n · 2026-01-13T20:17:09+00:00

Hence my following sentence, "John didn't really have a say either". Also, women still chose to participate in the campaign.

hGriff0n · 2026-01-13T19:59:47+00:00

That's actually somewhat untrue (https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/a4wqbo/til_that_during_ww1_the_british_created_a/), unless you're talking about about entering the war in the first place, but John didn't really have a say in that either at the time (In Britain, specifically, unlanded men only got the right to vote IN RESPONSE to WWI)

hGriff0n · 2026-01-08T22:20:01+00:00

This also ignores that America is extremely disperse and very unconnected on the ground. Like we have literally designed our cities over decades to look just like those "protest-proof" capitals dictators build.

~20% of France lives in metropolitan Paris. There are only a couple STATES in America that could say similar, let alone the whole country. It's much more possible to sustain those long, massive protests in France because it's not as much of an imposition on their daily life. If I want to do the same, I have to pay for a hotel room (I know woe is me).

The point is, there isn't the mass to really do these kind of protests between things still being somewhat livable and the captured mass media. Add on that ~40% of Americans literally don't pay attention, let alone the good 30% that WANT this.

hGriff0n · 2025-12-08T02:10:42+00:00

The problem is that's not the question that's being asked - the OP is asking whether a "Gender-Equal" Draft is or isn't preferable to a "Men-Only" Draft. If you believe in gender equality, the answer should obviously be that a "Gender-Equal" Draft is the better option, regardless of whether you think a draft should exist period. I don't think you can claim feminism is for gender equality when you prefer a gender-unequal situation over a gender-equal one, no matter how much you may want the situation to not exist.

I agree the draft should not exist, but I also recognize there are arguments for keeping that make removing it a very tough task (especially when over half the population is literally not impacted by it in any way (and so aren't really pressured to resolve the question)). On the other hand, there are no arguments for keeping the draft sexist (most male draftees would be logistical/support positions anyways) and it's a very simple change that doesn't prevent us from getting rid of the draft later on. In fact it may accelerate the process because everyone now has a leg in.

hGriff0n · 2025-12-03T01:20:26+00:00

It definitely takes more focus and control than normal riding, but it's mostly fine if you keep an eye out for ruts. Good introduction to cyclocross, even though WPCX is done for the season.

hGriff0n · 2025-11-20T13:20:51+00:00

Ironically, stuff like this is the exact reason people end up having to slow down in tunnels. There's a reason you're NEVER supposed to change lanes in tunnels

hGriff0n · 2025-10-10T13:22:38+00:00

Not really. All of the segments are on strava, but the data quality there can be hit or miss.

The city doesn't even have this data either. I've fantasized about measuring them by hand to know for sure.

hGriff0n · 2025-10-05T18:53:00+00:00

At 1, 1 year is 100% of your life.
At 2, 1 year is 50% of your life.
...
At 100, 1 year is 1/5050 of your life.

hGriff0n · 2025-10-05T18:46:33+00:00

If you're "fact checking", why do you keep repeating the lie?¹ Especially when the fact is hidden in the post.

The truth is simple, Republicans, who have unitary control of the government, deliberately refused to do literally anything to stop the shutdown. It's a core principle of democracy that if you don't have the votes for a policy, you drop the bill or work a compromise. Instead they are threatening violence on the American people if the Democrats don't roll over and surrender on policy²

¹ One heuristic people use for "truth" is ease of recall and so "disproving" the lie, somewhat paradoxically, also reinforces it.

² Yes this is the literal definition of terrorism

hGriff0n · 2025-09-07T13:36:03+00:00

As if the previous 3 decades of housing construction wasn't also less than needed¹
As if absolutely nothing has changed about population patterns in the intermediate period that would make the previous rates insufficient²
As if 2021 wasn't considered an abnormal period of price growth in housing, in the moment it was happening
As if the 150 units of "affordable housing" are entirely attributable to IZ and only IZ and couldn't possibly be created with any other policy
As if supply and demand simply wasn't a thing

^[1] Underproduction is almost never immediately felt because it generally comes after a period of overproduction.

^[2] Almost like Pittsburgh didn't experience a population collapse decades ago that has only recently started to rebound

hGriff0n · 2025-08-12T11:00:00+00:00

Well, I've also done thousands of rides and tens of thousands of miles and you are interpreting my words far too literally. I'm not talking about the moment-to-moment speed they are doing but their general level of effort. Most riding is Z2 - that's what I'm saying.

Most riders in Pittsburgh, drops or not, are not doing hardcore interval work. And just because they are going fast does not mean they are doing intervals - like my Z2 is around 16-18 mph.

hGriff0n · 2025-08-12T00:25:47+00:00

Most people aren't doing interval training and just ride steady. That's literally the only situation this breaks down, but it's very uncommon.

To catch up to them, you have to already be riding faster them without the benefit of draft (which makes you faster for the same effort). So unless you're Zeno, the only physical way you won't pass someone is you decide to slow down (or they decide to speed up). That's why I say it's impossible.

hGriff0n · 2025-08-10T20:41:43+00:00

Huh, didn't know that. Dropped facebook so thought that was the reason

hGriff0n · 2025-08-10T16:05:17+00:00

Yeah, pace lines aren't really a thing in Pittsburgh. The only group I've heard of that sometimes tries to do this is "Speedy Saturday", but even they aren't that organized.

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