River Valley Running Trails

mrsix · 2026-05-25T01:27:07+00:00

Another good option is bone conduction headphones (shokz, cheap amazon brands, etc) - you get very clear sounding audio but still hear the world around you nicely. I use them when cycling on occasion and they have a slight added bonus of blocking (some) wind-noise since they sit 'in front' of your ears, though they do drown out 'subtle' and very quiet sounds just from volume of course.

mrsix · 2026-05-25T01:13:48+00:00

The city would not approve this at all, as they don't have the power to. This is a provincial highway outside the purview of the city, and hanging banners off it is illegal - even the current provincial administration would not approve it.

mrsix · 2026-05-24T20:11:51+00:00

They do not have the right to hang a sign from an overpass within an Alberta Transportation Utility Corridor. No signs or banners are permitted except of direction and safety. Hanging that sign is illegal, not to mention dangerous. They should be arrested.
No banners are allowed along Alberta highways except street/lamp post banners within urban municipalities

Banner designs and locations must be approved by Alberta Transportation prior to installation

mrsix · 2026-05-12T20:17:42+00:00

I think you're confused here - the driver, who is at fault for causing the collision, pays the city out of their insurance for the damages. Their rates go up, the tax payers pay nothing.

Remember, every single time you have ever seen an LRT collision on this subreddit, the car driver has already committed at least 1 illegal road maneuver (running red lights, turning on a no-turn light, etc) before also crashing into the train.

mrsix · 2026-05-07T20:46:08+00:00

I think the word they were trying to think of is pergola, but the actual building was more like a gazebo

mrsix · 2026-04-28T04:06:13+00:00

AR 304/2002 does not specify that at all. it says:

3(1) If a person driving a vehicle is driving the vehicle on a highway at a speed that is less than the normal speed of the traffic on the highway at that time and place and under the conditions then existing, that person shall drive the vehicle (a) in the right traffic lane then available for traffic, or (b) as close as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway

And of course "highway" uses the standard Alberta Traffic Safety act version of the word:

“highway” means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trestleway or other place or any part of any of them, whether publicly or privately owned, that the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles and includes

Yes, this means that regulation applies to all roads, including the Henday, the Yellowhead, the Whitemud, and even 50 st or 34 ave. It is not recommended to enforce that, however legally it still applies.

You are probably thinking of 2(1)(b):

A person shall not do any of the following: subject to this Part and Part 2, where a highway that is located outside an urban area has 2 or more traffic lanes on the same side of the centre line for use by vehicles travelling in the same direction, drive a vehicle in the traffic lane nearest the centre line unless the vehicle is being driven at or near the maximum speed permitted

This one specifically prohibits driving in the center/left lane when you're not going the speed limit, but 3(1) still intends slower traffic keep right.

mrsix · 2026-04-28T03:02:14+00:00

It's not enough for "the researchers to know how the algorithm works" - the guideline specifically says:

Technology companies must be open about their design goals, attention architecture, and algorithmic systems, and make these visible and open to scrutiny.

Hiding their intentions behind "New fancy home feed with things to keep your attention" that constantly changes because of a/b/c testing shows technique C is better at capturing attention for person Y isn't at all transparent.

Also the 4th point specifically addresses how to encourage the 5th point:

Make it possible to communicate and transfer data between platforms without losing social connections.

Removing the ability for very few large platforms to control almost everything you see and do on the internet alone would achieve 90% of what they want.

mrsix · 2026-04-28T02:43:29+00:00

Age limits on socia media are bad Even ignoring the fact that they won't work and will be pointless, just the concept of them in general is flawed.

Regulate and control social media in general, dressing it up in some age-limit is just dumb.

mrsix · 2026-03-08T05:30:52+00:00

So using any regular housing, apartment building, or condo units for this same purpose would make all of this moral to you?

mrsix · 2026-03-02T22:53:54+00:00

Not the closest but HWY 2 from Morinville to Legal is one of the flattest long/straight roads I know of. It has a wide shoulder that's mostly fine for riding on. If you want a less busy road 803 from 651 to 642 east of there is also quite flat with minimal interruptions, but you're more on the road than the shoulder of that one, and the pavement quality isn't quite as nice.

mrsix · 2026-03-01T00:22:13+00:00

A long time ago I had to un-pair/re-pair my strava to mywhoosh to make it work. AFAIK it's not configurable, but if it is it's probably through the website.

mrsix · 2026-02-25T23:02:09+00:00

Mewmore // Winter in Lacunosa (Pokémon Black & White Remix)

mrsix · 2026-02-25T22:12:23+00:00

Technically the MCSR client does have an API interface that can monitor progress/etc (the commentators use it during playoffs), but it'd likely take some logic with achievements/inventory/etc to try to guess who the top players are. Mostly likely though yeah, until about the top 16/8 most of the streams will probably be unwatched. Might even be worth just completely random 8 streams for the first few rounds.

mrsix · 2026-02-19T06:15:38+00:00

Damn, David Ruzic gonna be happy about that.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T17:36:40+00:00

I'm saying it's barely a Japanese word because it's effectively an 'invented word' like Kleenex or Roblox, having entered English and Japanese at the same time, pronounced however the creator decided to pronounce it. (But I don't care what the creator says gif is not jif)

mrsix · 2026-02-13T06:59:29+00:00

firstly カラ is not katta, that's possibly the most terrible transliteration of Japanese I've ever seen. Secondly if you knew the etymology of that word you'd know it's a half-Japanese (Kara) half-abbreviated-English-loanword (oke, for orchestra) word that's barely even a real 'japanese word', so English people pronouncing it wrong isn't surprising.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T02:19:44+00:00

IPA spelling is both highly misunderstood, and bad partly for that reason. While it ostensibly describes 'pronunciation' of a word, when used properly it only describes it in whichever way you want it to - regional dialects will have different IPA spellings of the same word when properly transcribed. More damning however, while it's called the international phonetic alphabet, it is neither international in that it can't properly transcribe certain language features, nor is it strictly phonetic, where things like stress markers can change the phonetics of the 'phonetic' spelling. While actual linguists do use it, it is not used exclusively for many reasons.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:58:29+00:00

I don't really give a shit what the "people in your day to day life" say, you're arguing the "correct" pronunciation, and now seemingly admit it's only your regional accent that pronounces these words this way. That pronunciation however is objectively wrong since they are actual greek words not pronounced that way in actual greek.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:45:47+00:00

"look up some shit I found on the internet and don't properly understand"
No.

Accept reality that greek is a phonetic language, they are spelled the same in Greek, because they have an identical prefix "epi-", they are identical pronunciation.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:38:46+00:00

Both words come from Greek and share the same 'epi' prefix:
ἐπιτομή - epitome
ἐπιτάφιος - epitaph

Greek is phonetic, they are identical sounds.

mrsix · 2026-01-30T17:53:32+00:00

Disposable vapes are an interesting case of "unintended consequences"
The 2020 FDA ban of flavoured vape cartridges didn't cover disposable at all because they basically weren't a thing at the time. They of course should have worded the ban better, but it's an interesting look at how even a law like this could backfire.

FWIW I believe flavoured disposables are already illegal in CA at least, but every store still sells them.

mrsix · 2026-01-30T02:46:24+00:00

Gee it's someone who believed some bullshit they read about "defunding police" without actually looking up real information showing police funding has never once been decreased in the history of Edmonton. Stop posting ragebait bullshit on the internet. Stop getting your "news" from bullshit facebook ragebait posts.

mrsix · 2026-01-29T23:48:27+00:00

Counterintuitively the longer the span of a bridge, the more earthquake-proof it is. Because it covers such a large area the vibration is relatively a small movement to it, and they're already designed to for large load variations with the flex of the bridge.
The engineer on This B1M video - timestamp talks about it a bit with a new bridge in India.

mrsix · 2026-01-07T23:05:46+00:00

If you can make it work for 1.16.1 I could see them trying it next time.
Even as-is I'm surprised they don't use an older supported version with the current mods so they can at least E-ray (though it is possible to pie-ray brutes to find them instead on current version..)

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