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Home depot lumber is super expensive to begin with, so it's kind of baked in to the cost.

If you just turn the handlebars (which would cause the bike to lean in the direction of the turn), you will end up creating a force at the top of the wheel in the opposite direction of your tilt. (e.g. the force will be at 12 o'clock)

If you just lean in the direction you'd like to turn, the wheel will turn in the opposite direction of the lean. (e.g. there will be an opposite force at 9 o'clock)

In order to turn you must always briefly steer in the opposite direction you'd like to turn, so that you may lean in the direction you'd like to turn, which will allow you to turn the wheel in the direction of the turn without upsetting the bike.

I learned this fact about 2 years ago and I've been hyper-aware of the fact ever since. Try as I might, it's literally impossible to steer a bike without counter-steering.

The fact that you absolutely must counter-steer to turn is one of the reason why inexperienced bike riders tend to fall over when they need to steer in an emergency, because they just twist the handlebars, which catapults them off the other side.

Knowing this also helped me finally learn to ride a bike with no handlebars, since you have to lean opposite the direction you'd like the wheel to go.

https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...

So it's more like going in to your library, using the card stack, learning about a book, going to the shelf it is on, and then looking at all the books on the same shelf.

Somebody noticed that you were looking at all the books and called the cops on you. The cops break in and arrest you for looking at books. They tell you that the bookshelf is off-limits and has personal information.

Sure, the library creates it's own card stack and google is an external service; however if you design websites for a living you expect google to perform that functionality.

I mean, I designed a service where we wanted to make it easy to share private information, so we didn't use authorization. However I realized that if I wanted the data to be private I should use a suitably long non-consecutive random ID for the resource. If anyone is guilty of criminal misconduct, it's the person who designed this asinine system or the executive who allowed it to be used on the internet.

Hell, I'd go so far as to say that the fact that the exact same system is still being used across the US is a sign that the company who runs the system is criminally negligent.

[1] https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...

I think, by and large, people are constrained to thinking about things they can describe. To that extent, being able to accurately describe something is meaningful, and is therefore a linguistic issue.

Semantics are very important when you are dealing with minutiae, and the law hinges on comparisons and extremely complex semantic arguments.

To that extent, it makes sense that we argue about the metaphors.

The fact that they were screwed to the floor sounds makes it sound egress would be nearly impossible in an emergency. The way those harnesses are designed there is almost no way to free yourself if they are under tension. You effectively need to call someone else to help you get out.

On top of all that, the mammalian diving reflex means that unless you are experienced and well-prepared you are probably going to gasp as you go under water. Even a strong swimmer can drown due to the effects of the diving response, most commonly in a chaotic situation where they don't have the time or space they normally would to recover.

Of course given the chaos I don't think you could say everyone would have survived with different belts on, but I think it would have been much more likely.

Chicago even has this codified in the traffic code; while the rest of the state has "improper lane usage" as a violation, Chicago has "failure to maintain a lane".

Even on roads with painted markings they get scraped off by snowplows almost every winter. I'm reasonably sure that's what happened to that gore.

Considering Tesla's must have driven through there hundreds of thousands of times, they should have data to make sure the car at least follows the highway. I don't crash in to a barrier when a paint stripe gets scuffed in between my Monday morning commute and my Tuesday morning commute.

I think the difference is that captains are dealing with currents in the ocean and in the air. For the most part pilots are flying above things that will make the wind change in extremely short distances.

Second question, do modems exist that could handle the bandwidth of existing designs?

It seems like something that would be extraordinarily expensive, and there wouldn't be much of a benefit considering Intel doesn't have competition on this front.

On top of that, as someone with experience in database marketing, people act as if they are being personally spied on. If you are tracking 800k people and you have 20 employees, the issue isn't really having another person looking at your data, the issue is the unethical ways organizations are using that data to manipulate you and the rest of society.

It's the difference between "The government conducts unethical surveillance" and "The government is spying on me."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

I'm not a sociologist, so I won't try to explain it, but that should give you a start. I can't find the article that used my exact explanation, but the rich are consistently shown to be worse at empathizing with others

Instagram is a piece of software millions of people use every day. I've designed software that 5 - 100 people use a day, and I can tell you the UI is going to suck if you have a data architect design the UI for your CRUD application. I'm sure the UI sucked on Mariott's app, I'd bet my life savings on it.

I think it's just fundamentally different cuisine. I was pretty baffled when I went in to a breakfast place and they had breakfast tacos with eggs, sausage and potatoes. I literally thought that was something McDonald's invented to seem "Mexican." The Mexican breakfasts I get have smoked beef tongue and stuff like that. There isn't really that much cheese either.

Another thing, and I'm not sure it makes a huge difference, but, the Mexicans I know up here tend to be from southern Mexico. The few Mexicans I know from further north say that the food in Chicago is mostly from Southern Mexico.

Tex-mex is pretty good, but if you are expecting Mexican food it's not really the same. It needs to be appreciated on it's own merits.

Uber's technology clearly sucks, to the extent that I doubt they are even using Lidar. However, the woman driving the vehicle should be arrested for not being aware. If she had been looking at the road for more than a small fraction of the time she surely would have seen the person on the road.

Is that a pop culture reference of some kind?

I mean, point being I don't trust them not to mess up my workflow. Even if I trusted them to not screw with the core g-suite products, I trust Microsoft more than Google at this point.

If you had told me that I would trust Microsoft more than Google 5 years ago I would have literally thought you were insane.

I have spent a lot of time developing for Access and Excel, and trying to search for VBA solutions is a madhouse. You could maybe chalk up the VBA|VB madness to decisions being made at a time when search engines were somewhat uncommon tools, but they have made this mistake so many times.

For instance, try figuring out the difference between all the Active Directory solutions on Azure. The documentation describing the differences between them is spread out all over the place, and it's not clear which option is necessary to achieve a given result. Plus several of the Azure AD solutions have nothing to do with the Active Directory protocol.

I would chalk it up to being unfamiliar with the Azure environment, but I'm working with a couple of Azure devs and even they were confused by the limitations of each version of AD and when you could use them.

Honestly, if business units within a company could sue for copyright infringement resulting in market confusion I would highly recommend the Active Directory team send a cease-and-desist to the rest of the company.