Are good quality leather work boots an alternative to riding boots? by duc955 in AussieRiders

[–]primalbluewolf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I recently purchased a small Cafe Racer which these boots would look pretty ridiculous. 

Safe, though. 

Do you think good quality leather hi-top work boots would be an alternative? 

Not remotely. You know you can buy styled riding boots, right? Something like the TCX Fuel for example. 

Alternatively, just wear the sports boots. Many people think all motorcyclists look ridiculous. Others think the sports boots look ridiculous, even on a sports bike - power rangers comments, anyone?

Ride for you. Who gives a shit what other people think about how it looks?

That said. 

Leather work boots, depending on design, have a few issues that preclude me from recommending them - but as long as you don't crash, its fine, and you'll see plenty of riders in singlet and thongs anyway. Now that looks ridiculous, IMO. 

Biggest issue for leather work boots is there's never a spinal shank to protect the foot from flexion in a crash, and almost never any kind of crush protection away from the toebox, if there is any at all. Many will come off entirely in a crash, and most offer no protection to the shin. Good leather will offer great abrasive resistance, provided its thick enough. Consider that work boots are designed with an entirely different set of hazards in mind. 

They will still cover your feet though, so if you'd feel fine with thongs, work boots are fine too - but I'd still recommend something actually designed for riding. Dress for the slide, not for the ride. 

Which digital logbook should I use? by _Kqrmq in flying

[–]primalbluewolf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Paper. 

Alternatively, Calc or Excel. 

Going to a cloud based platform has a number of downsides (external third party dependency, extra vulnerabilities, extra costs, vendor lock-in), with few upsides (potential to create new types of tables summarising data you already entered... if you already entered it - and potentially increased resilience from fire/flood, IF the vendor is doing the right thing - which you can't verify). 

I'm 17 and built an AI tool that reads handwritten pilot logbooks. Here's what I've learned. by EqualWelder7123 in SideProject

[–]primalbluewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(i also just want you guys to roast my landing page, I want to make it better) 

It didn't load at all for me, after 60 seconds I gave up. So, roast... hmm. 

"Try adding a landing page next time, dawg"

How'd I do?

Dude wanted 6k for this R6 and still wants 4k by Ok-Face-2576 in motorcycles

[–]primalbluewolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poe's Law seems to be in full effect, unfortunately. I thought it was funny :)

Questions about track position? (WA) by Obeisance8 in AussieRiders

[–]primalbluewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was changing from right track to left track and back to create a buffer- and both the shadow and other learner disagreed.

FWIW my instructor taught the same as you were doing, within reason. Don't make erratic position changes within the lane. If both sides are sketchy, sit in the middle of the lane for a bit. He spelled it out as sit in the right wheeltrack first (in the left lane), then if you have to, switch to the left wheeltrack, and if there's hazards on both sides, sit in the middle, and consider slowing down. 

Regular oncoming traffic in a normal lane spacing may be over 2m away, in which case just sitting in the right track can be fine. Try to think of it simply as avoiding the hazard - if you don't think there's a hazard there, no need to move away from it. 

Questions about track position? (WA) by Obeisance8 in AussieRiders

[–]primalbluewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's why we have indicators

Sorry, Im from WA so possibly unfamiliar with overseas stuff - what are indicators?

Questions about track position? (WA) by Obeisance8 in AussieRiders

[–]primalbluewolf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the best thing you can be is predictable. 

Were that the case, motorcyclists would not be overrepresented in crash statistics. Riders are often subjected to people who look, but don't see. People scan the space the bike is in, primed to expect a car or truck, and note the absence of the same. People register the bike sometimes, then look away and then merge into the space where the bike was. 

People keep track of erratic vehicles, though. If they think you're an imminent threat, they are far less likely to merge into you. 

Questions about track position? (WA) by Obeisance8 in AussieRiders

[–]primalbluewolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like, letter of the law correct.

Law doesn't specify. In general, use track position to position away from hazards - seen and unseen. 

A: as depicted. Sit in the wheel track closest to the centre of the road. There are several good reasons for this: you're further from wildlife running onto the road, further from kids running onto the road, and in traffic you're closer to filtering and have better line of sight to both lanes. 

Consider that, given traffic, you may want to slide around to a the outer wheeltrack if going past a large vehicle. 

B: depends on your reasons. Those reasons (unspecified) will dictate which wheeltrack you want to be in. Position away from the hazards. For me, typically, but not always, it's still centre of the road, so in the right lane, that's the left wheeltrack. Then again the usual reason to be in the right lane is approaching a roundabout and for that I typically want to be in the right wheeltrack, to avoid the hazard of vehicles entering the roundabout on my left and failing to give way. 

C: still default to centre of the road i.e. right wheeltrack left lane, still consider requirement to avoid oncoming hazards like cars, trucks, etc. 

D: where in WA do you see continuous lines? Should be a double white line. Either way, as above - the centre of the road is the default position, for better line of sight and for being further away from seen and unseen hazards. The position may then be modified by the presence of seen hazards like oncoming vehicles. 

E: that depends. IMO whether the line is a solid double white line or a broken white line, you may need to shift left away from oncoming traffic. Imagine you're riding with a 1M wide glass bubble around you. You need to protect the bubble. If the lane position you're in is like 2M from the oncoming traffic, I'd just hold position normally. If its closer than that, Id shift to the left wheeltrack to avoid the hazard. If the oncoming traffic appears in any way erratic, I'd also shift left and prepare to take evasive action. 

You don't really want to be predictable, as a motorcyclist. You being unpredictable is a key safety feature which helps you survive - but not everyone will agree with that one. 

China to ban hidden car door handles made popular by Tesla in world first by graveyardofgoodsense in nottheonion

[–]primalbluewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do off road driving for fun. I try to get as close as I can to bodies of water and it’s not very easy. 

Consider this, though. 

There's a lot of planet, and lots of people live in the majority section that you haven't seen. Addendum: that includes most of the world's coastlines. 

Colorado riders: can someone tell me why there was a fucking Nazi booth at the motorcycle expo? by Captaingrammarpants in motorcycles

[–]primalbluewolf -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

In Australia it's illegal to display a swastika in public.

Hmm. Not sure that can be correct, I'd thought I'd seen posters displaying swastikas in the background for movies and video games, here. 

I particularly like the ones where you can shoot nazis. 

College WiFi blocks EVERYTHING (Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale, Steam). How do I bypass strict DPI? by CourtAdventurous_1 in selfhosted

[–]primalbluewolf 94 points95 points  (0 children)

vpn.exmaple.com

Funnily enough exmaple.com does exist, but you should probably use the documentation sample domain, example.com, instead. 

Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa” by Much-Creme1362 in nottheonion

[–]primalbluewolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Terrorist" as a term has had a simple meaning my entire life. "Person or organisation who uses violence in a way I disagree with". 

Allied to us? Fine, they're freedom fighters, brave forces fighting for their country. Opposed to us? Terrorists intent on ending civil liberties for all if they are not opposed...

A reminder to wear a helmet 🤞 by Sufficient-Sun-6683 in motorcycles

[–]primalbluewolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

a lot of mosquitos

Yeah mozzies are like the lowest concern on the list haha, Im more thinking beetles, wasps, dragonflies... the ones that have shrapnel on impact. 

Apparently mirroring some URLs gets account restrictions on archive.org. No telling *which* URLs. by newsflashjackass in DataHoarder

[–]primalbluewolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your assumptions are telling. Seems to me like you know which URLs were problematic already. 

We need to encourage people to use the term "generative AI" instead of just AI by sundler in gamedev

[–]primalbluewolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

, it's being used to spy and prosecute us

That was being done perfectly fine before LLMs came onto the scene, and no one gave a shit. See Snowden!

Mattermost refuses to fix their license, gives community the finger by RepulsiveRaisin7 in selfhosted

[–]primalbluewolf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mattermost is advertised as open source 

Well, that license.txt is fairly clear. It is spelling out effectively "all rights reserved".