He’s not combing through the cutting room floor, looking for the shot that perfectly advances his agenda

That’s literally his thumbnail. He literally combed through all the footage and picked the most provocative scene as the opening shot. AND cut off the end of it on a cliffhanger. “Oh no! Is he about to fall under that speeding truck?!” Nah, watch the clip again at the end of the video to see he was actually always perfectly safe, riding on the sidewalk. This is not simply picking a couple of random well-focused shots for a travelogue. You have to be more critical with the media you see! I make bicycling videos, they are pretty boring though because nothing happens. This is an opinion piece, which is why we are on c/fuckcars.

One convenience of gendered nouns is that you can use shortened pronouns and the listener immediately knows what you are talking about. “Sit on him!” means sit on the chair and not the sofa, for example, because the sofa is neuter. So it’s not a matter of chair being more “masculine” so much as having three different forms of “it” pronoun. Still not enough convenience to make it worth it to learn from scratch, IMO.

My nemesis are the words “chose/choose lose/loose”. I always have to go through a quick tonguetwister in my head whenever I have to write one down to make sure I pick the correct one.

He does exaggerate that particular turn for dramatic effect though. This is the approach to US 46 bridge over Hackensack River. https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.850593&mlon=-74.026362#map=18%2F40.850593%2F-74.026362 Bicycling on the sidewalk in New Jersey is not generally prohibited but discouraged (https://www.nj.gov/transportation/commuter/bike/pdf/bicyclingmanual.pdf -> “don’t ride on the sidewalks!”) However on that bridge you have to already know to mount onto the sidewalk (as he apparently knew). Trying to cross that bridge by bicycle in the vehicle lane is suicide, because there is no shoulder and the lane is not wide enough to fit a truck and a bicycle side by side. With the packed 55mph traffic with no follow distance, even if you “properly” turn at the stop sign, you either get creamed by the next truck that is unable to switch lanes due to traffic or slow down, or get creamed by the car tailgating behind that one because they had no visibility on you. The only way to cross is to mount the sidewalk at this corner, but there is no sign or indication to do so. I only knew that bridge was crossable at all because I noticed the annotation on openstreetmap when I was looking for a way through.

That’s the problem with biking in New Jersey Bergen County. There are all these rivers and wetlands that are only crossed by motor vehicle highways. There are no normal streets between the individual city neighborhoods. Most of the bridges don’t even have sidewalks, let alone bike lanes! The challenge of biking to the Meadowlands is to plan this circuitous route linking up the few of these barely-traversable bridges that do exist, sometimes going miles out of your way, and you have to use a map search because none of this is marked.

In the video instead of showing “Whoa! Big truck! Almost killed me! I am so small and shaky, barely dodged out of the way! Heehee, just kidding.” he could’ve said “at this gas station take a turn onto the sidewalk to cross the US 46 bridge, the only bridge across the Hackensack river with a sidewalk for the next 15 miles!” Different goals.

In the good news, I’m excited about this new greenway under construction! https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13433606#layers=C https://dep.nj.gov/parksandforests/urban-state-parks-initiatives/greenway/ It will reuse several abandoned railroad bridges to create a much needed bicycle/pedestrian exclusive crossing through the wetlands.

Funny, I tried the same feat last week! Over the GWB and through Overpeck Park, but instead of the 4-lane-highway Washington Avenue I took this abandoned construction road through the wetlands. Incredible views and no one ever got to see this!

There are not 1 million bit flips per cpu per second. They let you take your iphone on the ISS now.

The way I see it is they are doing inference, not transfiring bank account balances. I’d be curious to see some actual experimental data, but I’d expect LLMs to skip past bit flips same way you shrug and move on from spelling errors. At worst you can do your critical calculation in triplicate on your 6nm nodes (with redo upon dissensus) and reduce your bit error from 4/year (or 4000/year or whatever have you in orbit) to (4/year)^3

The line is complicated and blurry and changes for each person even. The only semi-consistent rule I can find, is that as soon as a company is involved and it becomes a “product”, it seems to get bad.

That was my conclusion as well. I am not against science, I love science and industrial manufacturing, I was even willing to drink soylents! But even if you wave away the constantly changing food science health recommendations as normal churn of ever-improving scientific understanding, the interests of industrial food manufacturers are never aligned with my own. “We replaced butter with palm oil in our recipe because it is cheaper!” - well ok, good for you - “…AND it is also healthier for you! ;)” - I don’t believe it! I’ll check in back in another 50 years to see all the metastudies of the metastudies of palm oil consumption studies, but in the meantime the only rule of thumb that has survived every dietary recommendation change is to stick to whole foods.

You misunderstand the idea of cost per calorie. The expectation is that you start with something nutritionally-complete, like these soylents, the frozen rice+vegs+chicken dinners, or even the frozen apple pies (how ever nonconventional these may be), or if that is not possible then a combination of several foods in a ratio that makes them nutritionally complete, and then scale up to hit that 1500cals/day target. A single item or known ratio of items so I don’t have to think about this ever again. If I didn’t care about nutrition I’d just be chugging high fructose corn syrup (<$1/day) which you never saw me say. My daily meal ends up being rice and beans drenched in olive oil with some raw vegetables-of-the-day on the side, since I can’t afford the soylents.

I’d love these! I’m the target audience but they cost even more per calorie than microwaveable frozen meals do.

I hate the amount of time it takes to cook and eat things every day. 😆 The microwavable frozen foods section would have been my first choice, there is usually enough selection to find something suitable, but the dollars-per-calorie cost is way too high, on order of $20-$30 per day. This pie is $15 and has enough calories for 2 days and takes zero work. Sugar and fat are already two of the three main ingredients I need. Also protein, but the wheat in the crust has some. Apples are a fruit, they have vitamins and shit. Looks good to me!

The authors do not note any conflicts of interest

The scientists are from Nigeria, one of the largest producers of palm oil, so it could be in their nationalistic interest to dismiss palm oil health concerns to promote their international exports. It’s like reading an article about how ICE cars are better for the environment than electric cars written by an American.

They themselves admit in the opening abstract that “Most of the information in mainstream literature is targeted at consumers and food companies with a view to discourage the consumption of palm oil.” I’ll stick with doing what the mainstream tells me until and unless the mainstream changes.

Some of the links in the paper are more interesting though because they include actual randomized experiments, like the one where people were randomly assigned to switch to palm olein oil or olive oil for cooking, and both were about as good for their cholesterol levels. Palm olein is the liquid fraction of fractionated palm oil, high in oleic acid. I am actually open to the idea that palm olein could be better than some of the other cooking oils like soybean oil or corn oil, which I also avoid at all cost, or lard. However whether palm olein is a better substitute for soybean oil is a separate question from whether the solid palm oil is a better substitute for butter, which the Nigerian paper just lumps all in the same category. It’s the highly-saturated fatty acids in the solid fraction, the same ones that make palm oil butter-like, that are the problem for my pie search.

Thankfully I always check ingredients before purchase. Haven’t had my fill of apple pie in months. 😭

this company is owned by the dickhead maga mayor in my state

The plot thickens!

An aged account is not even a panacea. I had a reddit account of many years that I haven’t logged into for the last two. I check online, it still exists, in good standing. I login one time, post one helpful comment (through a VPN of course, same as I always did), try to log in the next day to check replies - login error. Check through a third party - account page no longer even exists. All comments completely wiped. Thanks reddit! Saved me the trouble of deleting my account manually.

Thank you for admitting that all that nimbys care about is personal parking, and any concerns about “safety” or “deliveries” is just smokescreen. You can’t solve this issue by relocating loading zones to 33rd Street!

I saw the situation on 31st for myself yesterday, and there is a 5-block stretch where repainting work was almost completed. So the cagers park bumper-to-bumper in the new bike lane, of course, because “it is not official yet”, AND ALSO park in the new between-columns marked parking spots. There was not a single spot to make deliveries or drop off passengers! Entire street filled with double parking on both sides. This is what cagers want. Long-term storage for their cars in 4 rows on a main business street. “Just one more parking space bro” will not solve this.

If you want to quadruple-park, just go do it on 33rd Street. I keep hearing there is a lot of space there.

What’s worse is that there is a witness statement - the OP standing there loudly complaining about being run off the road. We were able to investigate crimes even before video cameras existed. Yet now neither the video nor the OP victim statement is somehow sufficient.

You know, I was beginning to second guess myself. Maybe the nimbys know something I don’t? After all, nimby rights matter too! I don’t live in Astoria or run a business, I only travel and shop there. Maybe their safety concerns have merit?

We had our group ride of support, and I have now personally seen the two-block section where the repainting work was already completed, before the court injunction took effect, (and where car parkers actually obey the new parking markings), and it is marvelous. The bike lane is comfortable and with great visibility of street and sidewalk, much better than the slalom course it was before. There are two parking spaces between each pair of columns that can fit two cars with ample room or an extra long delivery truck. With a couple extra physical improvements, like flying island bus stops and extra-wide sidewalk cutouts at intersections with ramps for curb-level bike path crossings, Astoria 31st Street redesign could become a reference model for all the other elevated track streets in the city. Having seen it, the design just makes sense and impossible to imagine going back the way it was.

As a person who spends inordinate amount of time thinking about street lane width allocation and reading DOT engineering proposals, I can now confidently say that the nimbys were complete shitheads all along, as they always are, all the time, and I should have never doubted myself. And if you had any doubts too - don’t.

It looks cool, I’d use it! When you start making fun of me I’d just shrug and carry on, because I don’t care what judgements some weirdo makes about my accessories.

I agree, there should not be a parking lane. Storing private cars in the middle of a main street in a busy business district? Total misappropriation of space, and dangerous to boot as they block sight lines in an area already visually cluttered with columns. Remove the parking lane and use that space for passenger dropoff and business deliveries. I’ve never seen a business van use a regular parking spot to offload, they always have to double park because parking is always full.

The crazy thing to me is that as you look at galaxies further away, they become bigger in the sky. Obligatory xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2622:_Angular_Diameter_Turnaround There could be huge dragons out there occluding half the sky, but they’d be beyond the last scattering surface of the cosmic microwave background.