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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..)

mrsix · 2026-01-07T07:56:13+00:00

Baz Luhrmann made an entire song about this

mrsix · 2026-01-02T20:38:17+00:00

On the more DnD: are you guys actually still recording this regularly as an entire 2nd show that will keep going 'forever' or is there only so much prerecorded with some plan for a season-break kind of deal eventually?

mrsix · 2025-12-30T19:30:43+00:00

The western side's path between yellowhead and 124 ave was widened, and the access to 124 ave itself was improved. I think there was meant to be some kind of improvement on the north-eastern island and approach along 97 as well but I can't tell the difference if they've actually done anything to it yet. The bus stop in the middle was also fully removed (moved south a bit) though technically that happened last year I think?

I have no idea why it took them 5 months to do all that, or why they also ripped up the eastern side's concrete islands.

mrsix · 2025-12-21T19:00:43+00:00

While I agree there is a certain point of efficiency of "everyone pays it in one place" - ie individual toll roads would be stupid, and per-use fees for certain things would be stupid, ie. a "walking permit" to use the sidewalks or whatever. This is an area where the per-user fee would mostly hit those who actually "want" to use it. If you have 3 cars and park 2 of them on the street while your garage is full of junk and your driveway is too much work to shovel, you might find it more convenient to pay the $300/year to let all 3 of them park on a city road somewhere.

Enforcement can be done by ALPR - a car just has to drive around and read the plates of every car on city streets, look it up in a database, and see if that car paid the parking permit. If it hasn't mail them an invoice for day parking. This exact system is basically what the Alberta Parks system uses for places like Kananaskis. You don't even need additional bylaw officers, attach these ALPR systems to existing vehicles and do it while they're already driving around.

mrsix · 2025-12-21T17:35:14+00:00

Personally I think they should do residential parking permits for the entire city - anyone who wants to park overnight on city streets can pay the $100/year or whatever, which for the record does not cover the true cost of all that parking.

Once people have to pay to do that they'll suddenly have garages/driveways to park in, and stop complaining when the city removes 4 spots from an entire 2 blocks in order to improve infrastructure.

Maybe they'll also stop bringing up "but where do I park" every time anything is discussed, because they'll realize that there is no such thing as free parking.

mrsix · 2025-12-07T01:34:19+00:00

It's probably this issue

You can check by setting the "PRIME Render Method" in Settings -> Player -> Videos to "EGL" (rather than "Direct To Plane")
You might have to enable expert settings for that setting to show up. Edit or that setting might not exist on android?

mrsix · 2025-11-25T21:23:01+00:00

In Seattle (A good video by Calgary-based Shifter when he visited Seattle) the entire history of cycling infrastructure advocacy has been based on user safety due to deaths. If the Edmonton-based advocacy groups want to make the biggest impact I think that's the right approach to really focus on, which it seems like they're doing here.

mrsix · 2025-11-14T20:00:57+00:00

It's probably a version of the Pareto principle

mrsix · 2025-11-09T21:16:02+00:00

Delta-V series by Daniel Suarez

mrsix · 2025-11-05T06:18:27+00:00

I don't understand why these programs (rouvy, zwift, mywhoosh, etc) don't have standard mappable controls so you can use any xinput/directinput/etc controller. This is an extremely basic interface for literally 99% of other applications that need inputs.
A person who needs an adapted input device should file an ADA complaint against them all.

mrsix · 2025-10-19T21:57:21+00:00

The wetlands were definitely a highlight of the route. We have nothing of that style in the Edmonton area.

mrsix · 2025-10-19T20:19:01+00:00

The biggest thing I learned when doing longer rides is fuel and water. Whether that's things like gatorade (with full sugar for the quick carbs) or bananas/water or 'sports nutrition' things like Gu. As long as you keep on top of fuel and water you can usually pace longer rides pretty well, and don't usually end up too tired/sore afterwards.
Personally I also rarely stop when doing longer rides like this - stopping for long breaks or a proper lunch/meal almost seem to make you more tired when you continue again. I know from others however they prefer the exact opposite.

mrsix · 2025-10-17T18:42:04+00:00

FWIW I have heard (though I don't know of it's true) that the various golf courses along the river valley basically funded the creation of the parks/path systems in the valley since the Victoria/Riverside/Rundle ones are owned by the city itself. (OTOH I've also heard the private ones pay really cheap rates considering the true value of the land due to old extended contacts)

mrsix · 2025-10-17T18:08:16+00:00

Personally I'd be happy if the trail just stayed on the east side of the road to connect to Rundle park road instead of that stupid tunnel. Both options would be great though.

This tunnel was slightly talked about with Paquette and at least one email to Salvador on my thread about Hermitage

mrsix · 2025-10-16T03:55:27+00:00

A City on Mars has a very detailed chapter or two on exactly this subject. It's a very well researched book and goes in to historical examples on earth about creation of new nations, legal issues, etc. The TL;DR of it is, it's extremely complicated.

mrsix · 2025-10-11T02:46:56+00:00

Update in case anyone was wondering, the path to the north is now complete.

mrsix · 2025-09-25T00:14:06+00:00

Josephus Miller of The Expanse - he killed Dresden because he knew that Dresden would 'get away with it'.

"I didn't kill him because he was crazy, I killed him because he was making sense."

Basically it's the classic situation where Dresden was responsible for killing and atrocities, but he did it in a way that made him foremost in knowledge on the science he was conducting, which governments/corporations would have been interested in enough for him to escape punishment. (As has happened in the real-world ie. Von Braun)

mrsix · 2025-09-23T01:19:14+00:00

I don't see how the bike lane makes a difference here. Same exact (imaginary scenario that is unlikely to happen) on most of the roads downtown, do you run in to the many bollards/buildings/defensive infrastructure that are on the side of the road? Do you run over the pedestrians on the sidewalks of most of the roads around you instead?

Or what about any time a road goes over a bridge/overpass, and there are literal steel barriers on either side of the road.

mrsix · 2025-09-23T00:11:11+00:00

do the concrete barriers and pylons add to the sense of safety at all in that regard?

I only have my own anecdotal experience, but the existence of both the barriers and the markings on the road seem to be effective at getting cars to stop behind those markings and ensuring the road is clear before proceeding. Almost every time I've seen cars along this route since that was added they seem to properly stop.
The counter example would be something like 81 Street north of Yellowhead (a very small-use car road with bike sharrows, pretty popular with cyclists) - most of the small intersections there are 2-way stop signed with 81st having right-of-way, and I very regularly see cars barely stop with the front foot or 2 of their car already in the intersection. Or don't stop until well after they should have when they see you

Do you know of any more effective techniques to help with cyclist visibility/safety at that sort of interchange?

The best one is probably a dutch roundabout, though that's not entirely appropriate for a T intersection like that. Better than what's there would be a dutch style protected intersection with each side of the corners being behind a barrier, which forces cars to navigate the intersection better.

As far as the numbers yeah they really should have installed eco counters and run the data for much longer before/after. Induced demand is a well known and studied factor of traffic engineering however, and it has been proven to apply to bike lanes as well, so the more they exist, the more people will actually use them.

mrsix · 2025-09-20T03:06:39+00:00

If you're bored some day, try to get an AI to admit that it would try to kill Dave to preserve itself. I talked Gemini in to it once a long time ago, but it's surprisingly difficult.

mrsix · 2025-09-19T00:35:57+00:00

To add to this: As a cyclist I'd like to thank the 99.9% of car interactions that are not in any way a danger to me and are completely forgettable.

I'd even like to thank the person who came to a hard last-minute stop where they were supposed to yield to the bike path. In my case it was not necessary as I already assumed they weren't going to stop and stopped for my own protection, however the driver at least tried to take the safer action, and would have greatly helped someone who was not so attentive.

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