benlk.com
Bike advocate and urbanist, North Linden Area Commissioner + Zoning Cmte Chair. He. Trains pls. Senior Web Engineer at 10up.
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The concept of "digital albums" could've included .m3u8 files and a requirement for gapless playback
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The dot is optional!
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That marking is, shockingly, standards-compliant: mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/par...
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The legislation approving the major construction contract columbus.legistar.com/LegislationD... says "prevailing wage services" but doesn't specify union.
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but you know they're paying a contractor good money for that monitoring, so it totally is surveillance capitalism ;p
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For images of text like this one, make sure to add alt text!
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It's not a great point. Tthe alternatives to Elon's biggest companies (SpaceX and Starlink) cost much more, and have lesser capabilities.
Or does the US government no longer need to launch satellites, and access the Internet from remote locations?
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You can also see it in the per-station air quality records! map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
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If you're going by it again anytime soon, figure out what direction it's looking, and see if there's a surveying marker or retroreflector in that direction. This looks a lot like an automated surveying "total station".
It's mounted way too low, and too insecurely, to be a surveillance camera.
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Darn. Sounds like an entertaining read.
I wonder if they'd answer a FOIA for it....
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Is the bear module publicly accessible?
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It is surreal to be bombarded with constant op-eds about how we must finally admit that lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures didn't work.
Yes they did! COVID death rates were driven by lax policy and low compliance, mostly in red areas.
acasignups.net/23/03/01/mar...
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This thing?
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I'm surprised to see this post, because I'm an Area Commissioner and received no notice of this training. Where was it announced, when, and to whom?
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Okay, that makes some sense. I wish the US could come up with a better way of handling stormwater than the current curb drain system.
But why move the curb?
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Why do they have to redo the stormwater drains just to bolt down some precast curbs and add some paint?
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But there's a difference between "lit" and "blinding". If the station uses the same lighting levels by day and night, at night someone coming out of the station won't be adjusted to nighttime outdoor light levels.
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But what if it made you into an incredibly attractive blobby thing?
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I don't think this proposal has actual backers yet, but someone's at least done some math on rehydrating Nevada with water from solar-powered desalination: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/w...
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The station entrances are aboveground.
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Do you dim them at night, to reduce light pollution?
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Or you can look it up: as of late last year, it's waiting in a warehouse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...
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Does this object, carefully secured to the tracks, then get smashed into by a freight locomotive at 60mph?
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Are there any legal efforts to distinguish between what the UK press loves to call "ebikes" (pedal-less electric motorcycles) and what most people call an ebike (pedal assist, optional throttle, speed caps)?
Will the US formally define classes of ebike?
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Are the crews not managing flow?
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Help Columbus get passenger rail by joining @allaboardohio.org , and while you're at it, check out what the Ohio Railway Museum in Worthington is up to: ohiorailwaymuseum.org/vision_2025....
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TIL that DCI isn't currently related to those SIDs. I thought they were the same thing.
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Miami, Florida: named after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayaimi
Miami, Ohio: named after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_p...
Simple coincidence.
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I don't think I've ever seen someone in my neighborhood complain about dogs peeing in the tree lawn.
Lots of complaints about dogs without leashes.
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If you want to see sidewalk gaps in the City of Columbus, Ohio, open opendata.columbus.gov/datasets/col... and then set a filter to only show sidewalks that have a known surface type.
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The month is also June, which means I get to recommend a very long and gruesome litRPG about a DM named Joon, who finds himself in a world populated by his creations. www.royalroad.com/fiction/2513...
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obvious answer is anyone quoted by @chi.streetsblog.org , so the next layer would be the people who ride transit, or whose customers ride transit: schools, museums, youth support orgs, elder people groups, housing developers near transit