2024-02-26 02:17:38
New Addition to the Camberville E-Bike Lending Library: The Tow Monster, from #Schleptastic https://schleptastic.com/
This accessory adds the ability to tow a bike, and I'm adding it to the library t…
New Addition to the Camberville E-Bike Lending Library: The Tow Monster, from #Schleptastic https://schleptastic.com/
This accessory adds the ability to tow a bike, and I'm adding it to the library t…
#H5N1 update: We have to do better, faster, by @dr_kkjetelina https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/h5n1-update-we-have-to-do-better<…
Google adds a tool that lets US users swipe left or right to rate apparel and accessories to get style recommendations on mobile browsers and Google app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/google-swipe-clothes-better-fa…
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Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better;
Researchers in Belgium use artificial intelligence to improve taste, but say the skill of the brewer remains vital
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/26/…
🏈 @… #NFL
Via Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel
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Drafting a QB at No. 8 after signing a QB for $100 million makes no sense.
For Atlanta, this better somehow work out.
I hesitated sharing this because the alt text is pants, the random  (yes, obj) in the middle suggests missing stuff, it targets WCAG 2.1, has “here” link text, may not grok 1.4.11 & states, maybe thinks they invented shifting left, uses “a11y” in the copy, suggests 1.4.1 is too prescriptive, uses animated GIFs, pushes Material Design, _but_ it is a nice color-blind chart design primer.
“How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design”
Art Rooney II: Steelers' offseason moves designed for team to 'get better as quickly as possible' https://www.nfl.com/news/art-rooney-ii-steelers-offseason-moves-designed-for-team-to-get-better-as-quickly…
Daily Inspiration: "Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
"Are you a motivational speaker?"
Hell yes! But not really.
That's the question I always get when meeting new people and the topic comes around to what each of us do for a living. The question quite possibly could drive me nuts, because I think "motivational speakers" like Tony Robbins and others who encourage people to walk across the fire t…
So I'm in an interesting place at work.
I'm working on a data processing pipeline that was written for a specific smallish set of data in 2015-2016. Then the project was largely idle for 2-4 years, then picked up by a team that has been significantly expanding the coverage of the data processing pipeline, but not necessarily with full understanding of what it's doing underneath or how to examine it closely.
I just hit my 10-year anniversary of working at Google.
Overall, working at Google has let me do some pretty amazing things, and also meant I'm a part of some things I feel pretty shitty about. It has let me work every day around tons of amazing people and also be loosely associated with some pretty terrible people. It has led to some of my most significant career achievements and had long periods of dealing with utter corporate bullshit during which I achieve nothing. [1/2]
Non-Hyphenated American on X: "The New York leftist conman fraud Trump openly says Biden is better than RFK Jr He then goes after RFK on his views on the Covid vaccines which is the one issue that millions of conservatives like me agree with him on. Trump remains the biggest vaccine pimp on the planet https://t.co/pdeASWtgrq
Based on their 5-Step plan to evoke 'better' ideas from teams appealing to #ChatGPT (step 5 is "confirm by other sources") and looking at their methodology, I'm not convince we wouldn't get the same results using Brian Eno's @…
Hello, Happy! @…
I see you. I hear you! Thank you for piping up! Keep making noise! (GAWD, I need you.) https://happyfedi.better-than.tv/@happ…
Just learned from @… that the text-wrap property in #CSS has two new(ish) values: balance and pretty.
“The balance value is good for headings, and tries to balance the number of characters on each line so that each line of the heading is about the same lengt…
how should #CreativeCommons respond to the use of CC-licensed work in #AItraining?
"In 2023, the theme of the CC Global Summit was AI and the Commons, focused on supporting better sharing in a world with artificial intelligence."
There were 3 opinion groups that resulted from…
Daily Inspiration: "Motivation is overrated in the face of better insight!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
"Are you a motivational speaker?"
Hell yes! But not really.
That's the question I always get when meeting new people and the topic comes around to what each of us do for a living. The question quite possibly could drive me nuts, because I think "motivational speakers" like Tony Robbins and others who encourage people to walk across the fire t…
Hey you, I see you right now. I know how you feel. Life sucks right now.
Can I encourage you for a second? This moment will get better. In a year or 2 or 3 you will be in the best possible place ever. Better than you ever thought you deserved.
Today I look back at where I was years ago and I didn’t expect to be where I am now. With someone who I never thought I deserved to be with because I doubted my worth.
Don’t give up. Today sucks, but tomorrow will be better. 💜
Please support this amazing book from @… about the history of how comics were made. Looking so forward to this so y'all better make it happen! (49 hours to go, almost there!) https://www.…
Mike Zimmer’s approach is better than Dan Quinn https://insidethestar.com/mike-zimmers-approach-is-better-than-dan-quinn/
Ukraine Is Hit with Hundreds of Missiles: We Need Better Air Defence – Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/ukraine-is-hit.html
If you ask Spotify to play Things will only get better by D:Ream, it will continue playing 90s hi-NEG dance pop
it's so strange that despite being fairly tired (after a 3h train trip today) i'm... not in acute pain? even at the trough of the painkiller concentration? (i am not actually confused) how is this possible?? is this real??? did someone substitute the universe around me with a fake one that's inexplicably better????
Get lifetime access to #CleanShot X for FREE with your first AppSumo purchase (new users only). Just add CleanShot X to your cart and use code CLEANSHOTFREE at checkout
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@… It does allow draft content, yeah. But all of the data queries included drafts by default so we had to opt-out of draft content every time we wrote a query—which was awkward (and sometimes error prone). It may be better now, this was a few years ago?
I do prefer git-versioning the data to make everything as predictable as possible (and disclosure I work for…
"Please give me critical feedback"
"[List of things going well]"
"But...what could be better?"
"Use this strength more"
🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
In the past month, the e-bike library has made 36 bike loans.
In the past month, borrowers from the library have purchased 14 bikes. (that I know of -- at least one is one I only found out by accident!)
Pretty good conversion rate.
Now if only more bike companies were like Velotric and saw donating a bike as a way to get more sales.
The future (the present) is a let down. Movies you'd love to watch don't exist online or are impossible to access without 30 streaming services.
Did you know your local library has a better movie selection than most streaming services, and you can "borrow" them through kanopy.
I've been Door Dashing every weekend this month (plus a few random work days just to test, not worth it).
Made a reasonable amount of money... some of the experience is better than the rest. I am not a shopper. Much prefer just pickup and deliver.
The most surprising thing has been the number of businesses using Door Dash and the number of Dashers in this small town.
#gigwork
If you're really, truly believe that I should vote for someone who supports genocide, please un-follow me.
Or, even better, just post some liberal bullshit 'gotcha' so I can block your NAZI arse.
#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow
That makes me feel better
“I’m reasonably confident the stock price will eventually drop to $2 a share and could even go below that if the company blows through the money it got from the merger.”
There is something about editing #Wikipedia that is just soothing for my brain. Fixing errors, finding better sources, updating text, rephrasing things to make them more readable... all of that is just something I enjoy!
I seriously could take a day off from work and just edit all day. 🤣
Their fucking machines are better at identifying bicyclists and traffic lights than I am.
That's how they know which bits of images to show me.
They can fuck off with their hamster-wheel AI-training bollocks.
I will not use your index if your index uses me.
I really hate the brainless trope “all models are wrong, some are useful”.
Any model only approximates reality. A model is more useful to the extent it approximates better than an alternative.
A better saying would be: “all models are wrong, but some are less wrong.”
This is my Aunt Lanie, my bio aunt, my father’s little sister. This photo was taken about a year ago, before she got really sick again. I think she’s so pretty. Even better, she’s super funny & super kind. & a lot of fun, too. When I was 53 yrs old, I contacted her, & she welcomed me into my paternal family with open arms & an open heart. I’m so grateful for her. 😍🥰❤️ #adoption
Trump VP contender writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.…
First meeting of the day is in the books. Productive one as always.
Second meeting, which happens at 2pm EST, will be the better, more fun and interesting meeting. This one only happens every other week.
I like plugin hybrid cars and think they are pretty great. I own one. Even not plug-in hybrids are better then nothing. But this article about how hybrids are better is just nonsense.
"Let me take this opportunity to present another painful truth: Oil is in plentiful supply."
That quote is madness. They also complain most electricity burns fossil fuels.
We need to shift the system, not wait for it to be perfect. It doesn't matter how much oil exist.
Well this looks bad.
It's a reboot of the 1970s TV show, which was about a decent family working hard to make their lives better in a system built on inequality.
This is...not that.
Looking at you, Executive Producer Steph Curry 😒
#tvshows #streaming
I have to say I’m enjoying the newest season of #drivetosurvive way more than the previous ones. So far there’s way less manufactured drama and way better representation oh what happens on and off track. #F1
WaPo takes on the the true low-hanging fruit of urbanism. Downtown surface parking lots that aren't even used for parking. https://wapo.st/3VDeTf4
Oooh look, the lovely folks at CCCB published my blog post about the workshop I did last month: investigating the material basis of "AI" as a controversy that can help us better understand both its environmental effects and its claims to 'intelligence':
On Knowing Matter: https://lab.cccb.org/en/on-knowing-mat…
i've put a few hours into beat saber on the quest 3 so far, the controllers are definitely much better than the quest 2's, i've also had zero tracking issues, i'm surprised
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Tame Impala:
🎵 The Less I Know The Better
#NowPlaying #TameImpala
https://open.spotify.com/track/6K4t31amVTZDgR3sKmwUJJ
https://kandea.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-the-less-i-know-the-better-chopped-and-screwed
From one leftist to another.
What are we if not "for" the poor and middlin interests and "against" the hyper-enrichment of the already filthy rich exploiting interests? What is democracy if not also "for" dispersing power to the poor and middlin interests and breaking up its concentration among exploiters? To make the world a fairer place is the mission of the left and this means improving upon a democracy.
To get better at this mission, we must first...
Vote for Democracy!
"It is there, and you need it, so why do you not use it?" Achieving better adoption of AI systems by domain experts, in the case study of natural science research
Auste Simkute, Ewa Luger, Michael Evans, Rhianne Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16895
Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/24/trump-2020-better-off-covid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p19#a240324p19
I'm guessing the Noem hunting dog story might play better in agricultural areas while it causes city folk to recoil, and maybe that differentiation helps sell her candidacy to those who have to put down animals on the reg (or run them over accidentally with tractors, etc). There's a lot of death on the farm.
I'm not saying I don't find the story horrifying. But she may be aiming for that reaction from those who are not her people.
Hopefully our Monday is better than Randal's
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Euclid's sight restored: #Euclid's optics has performed significantly better than hoped; after the very first mirror was warmed by just 34 degrees, Euclid's sight was restored. More technical details: https://www.euclid-ec.org/euclid-successfully-de-iced-gains-15-sensitivity/
This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #SingIt - songs with lyrics that are meaningful to you. I usually go political for this sort of thing, but, for whatever reason, a more personal song sprang to mind. This one evokes long-lost friends and the search for belonging by one of the better bands my corner of the worl…
Hey friends! I finally wrote about my second attempt to get a #photo of the frozen #waterfall
Unfortunately, it wasn't THAT frozen anymore - but ... wasn't it even better?! I wrote down the story in my blog and this time I also uploaded the photo to FineArtsAmerica if you think about …
It’s weird to see the question “should the bridge have been better protected against ship collisions?” be raised in the press. Of course it should. Just compare to how the masts of the parallel much newer high voltage line are protected. (Although I doubt protective barriers of that size would help against a ship of this size and kinetic energy. Something significantly more massive would be needed.)
"it gets better"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPWmefe14Y
"Tech is better when power is distributed between multiple, competing companies. Living under the absolute rule of a single king is absolutely awful. Even if that king still does make very nice phones and very nice computers!" via: https://world.hey.com/dhh/switching-to-andr…
The headline says it all. You can build fundamentally different, better experiences for your users if the platform you build them on gets data to your users an order of magnitude faster. Don't take my word for it, try it for yourself. https://www.fastly.com/blog/be-among-the-…
We don’t want to be ruled by kings like Zuckerberg and Musk. So let’s create fiefdoms ruled by mini-Zuckerbergs and mini-Musks instead.
Gosh darnit something tells me there’s a better solution to this but I’ll be damned if I can put my finger on it…
🤔
Mike Zimmer’s approach is better than Dan Quinn https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/mike_zimmers_approach_is_better_than_dan_quinn/s1_17100_40015589
Microsoft says some users may be experiencing "multiple issues" with Microsoft Teams, and that it is applying "mitigations across the affected infrastructure" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24051966/microso…
2024 NFL Draft: Frank Gore says Southern Miss RB Frank Gore Jr. is real deal, possesses better breakaway speed
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…
The Ukrainian elite forms a new corps: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/27/the-ukrainian-elite.html
People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.
This is my Aunt Lanie, my bio aunt, my father’s little sister. This photo was taken about a year ago, before she got really sick again. I think she’s so pretty. Even better, she’s super funny & super kind. & a lot of fun, too. When I was 53 yrs old, I contacted her, & she welcomed me into my paternal family with open arms & an open heart. I’m so grateful for her. 😍🥰❤️ #adoption
The headline says it all. You can build fundamentally different, better experiences for your users if the platform you build them on gets data to your users an order of magnitude faster. Don't take my word for it, try it for yourself. https://www.fastly.com/blog/be-among-the-…
First meeting of the day is in the books. Productive one as always.
Second meeting, which happens at 2pm EST, will be the better, more fun and interesting meeting. This one only happens every other week.
This is it... I think this might be the day we truly cut the cord. Currently looking at removing our Cable (Optik) TV, Home Phone, and “Security" (CCTV) plan and just have Internet from Telus. We came close a couple years ago but still wanted to keep the home phone. At this point though, we're both annoyed at all of them and have better lower cost options. (For Sports I'm just going to subscribe directly to Sportsnet)
It's as much about simplifying as it is about savi…
Gender Dysphoria sucks.
Just woke up sad today. I’m better, but it just randomly hit as I woke up because of a dream I had.
Thankful to have a loving partner who reassured me.
People say that they should teach "filling our your taxes" in school.
My 22 year old did their own taxes this year, and the most difficult part of doing their taxes was "creating a login to the state DOR website in order to submit them", and asking me for where the 1095-C document that I had on their behalf was.
"Doing your taxes" is annoying for many reasons, but the reasons aren't ones that can be resolved by teaching the process in school.
Robert Reich:
Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism
The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them.
That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions and values.
And what better place to test ideas, assumptions and values than at a university?
Apparently, Columbia University’s president, Minouche Shafik, does not share my view.
Last week she p…
From one leftist to another.
What are we if not "for" the poor and middlin interests and "against" the hyper-enrichment of the already filthy rich exploiting interests? What is democracy if not also "for" dispersing power to the poor and middlin interests and breaking up its concentration among exploiters? To make the world a fairer place is the mission of the left and this means improving upon a democracy.
To get better at this mission, we must first...
Vote for Democracy!
Hopefully our Monday is better than Randal's
LIVE NOW 🔴🕹️ #Twitch
What recession? Professional forecasters raise expectations for US economy in 2024 | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/what-recession-professional-forecasters-raise-expectations-fo…
TIL as a #Kubernetes n00b: Don't put write-intensive persistent storage on shared spinning disk NFS.
I thought I was being super smart™️ placing the /config directories of my deployments on #Synology for better availability and scaling. My Synology has spinning disks and could not keep up with the heavy read/write that some containers hit /config with. Moved /config to NVMe and problem was solved.
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24111326/ai-search-perplexity-copilot-y…
PS. Free and open source folks? Listen up! This is how you make your tools better:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@xeenon@mastodon.social/112327515754874024
To wit, how you don’t make your tools better:
- This is the wrong repository for this bug r…
Google plans to release a Chrome version optimized for Windows on Arm this week, two months after Canary testing; Arm PCs previously ran an emulated x64 version (Jon Porter/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112273/chrome-n…
Donor considering an endowment is pissed: “Give me a reason to consider establishing an endowment. Because at this moment I’m questioning the leadership of the athletic department and the university, and wondering if my money is better off being spent elsewhere, where truth, morality, and human decency matter.”
'Don't gaslight me': Fans decry Trump’s SC football appearance as a ‘terrible look’ - Alternet.org
Last week, I did an interview with a researcher at Berkeley doing a study on E-Bike Lending libraries.
Today, I talked to the transportation department of Beverly Hills.
Who's next?
“We don’t need to talk about complete streets; that’s a misnomer. We need to be talking about complete networks.” Jonah Chiarenza, Executive Director of Bike to the Sea and a Transportation Planner at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
I cleaned up my booking system yesterday so that I could better have a sense of how far behind I am in loans.
Doing so means that when 14 more people requested to borrow a bike yesterday, I could feel even more behind than I did already.
I cleaned up my booking system yesterday so that I could better have a sense of how far behind I am in loans.
Doing so means that when 14 more people requested to borrow a bike yesterday, I could feel even more behind than I did already.