walrus
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Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but is this the "extend" step in "embrace, extend, extinguish"?
Comment · 3 years ago
This was my first thought as well. It is linked to from a .gov website, though: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/notices/facebook-privacy-settl...
Comment · 3 years ago
It's fine as long as bike paths are physically separated from cars and are maintained to the same standard as roads. My college had a network of pedestrian/bike paths that they plowed in the winter, and I and many others had no problem biking year-round.
Comment · 4 years ago
Here's Seattle's network of protected bike lanes: <https://i.imgur.com/vEDhqoz.png>. Note that many of them are flawed in one or more ways:
* There are frequent car crossings at blind alleys and driveways, often every 20-30 feet.
* Many are "protected" by flexible posts that are easily driven over.
* When protected bike lanes run next to roads, drivers often turn across them at intersections without looking.
I generated the map with Overpass Turbo: <https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mT6>. To make it render nicely, check "Don't display small features as POIs" under settings. If you want to try it for a different city, drag/zoom it into view and hit "Run".
Comment · 4 years ago
The "trekking bike" and "safety" profiles seem to work pretty well. The safety profile produces routes I would take any time of day and the trekking bike profile produces routes I would take outside of peak road rage hours.
Comment · 4 years ago
> WTF is a bike doing in the middle of the road?
I used to ride as far to the right as possible on roads without bike lanes, but then I got hit by a driver trying to squeeze past me without changing lanes.
Comment · 4 years ago
What are some limitations of OpenCASCADE that are holding back CAD tools built on it?
Comment · 4 years ago
It appears to use C3D as its CAD kernel, which is proprietary. You can't build it without a copy of C3D. I'm guessing the source will be available for inspection, but the binary will cost money.
Comment · 5 years ago
In about:config, change browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl to an empty string.
Comment · 5 years ago
F#
Comment · 5 years ago
The trackballs are listed as "completely open-source" on their website, but the mouse is listed as "open-source firmware". This is consistent with what's available on their GitHub page—the Altium and STEP files for the trackballs are available on their GitHub page, and the firmware for all their products (including the mouse) has been upstreamed[1].
[1] https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/pl...
Comment · 5 years ago
A journal can publish a retraction.
The website Retraction Watch[1] aggregates these retractions and provides a database that you can query. Reference management software like Zotero[2] can use this to monitor your collection of papers and notify you when one is retracted.
[1] https://retractionwatch.com/
[2] https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/
Comment · 6 years ago
It depends what I'm doing, but I typically use one of the following (starting with the most frequent):
1. IPython with Pandas if I expect to do any in-depth exploration/manipulation of the data.
2. A short Python script like `python -c 'import csv, sys; r = csv.reader(sys.stdin); ...' <data.csv` if it needs to run on someone else's machine.
3. https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv if I want to quickly munge some data or extract a field.
4. Gnumeric if I want a GUI.
5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. "dirty money") appear legal (i.e. "clean").
Someone should let FinCEN know that their definition is incorrect: https://www.fincen.gov/history-anti-money-laundering-laws