LucasBrandt

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by LucasBrandt 7mo ago
But lots of people _do_ already ride buses! There are already current riders, and potential riders who are making these marginal decisions. Occasional riders will decide between transport modes based on the trip - making marginal improvemen
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by LucasBrandt 8mo ago
It's amazing to me that in the official Gemini app on Android, the hamburger menu on the left does not open on swipe - only if you click the hamburger button. A basic native UI interaction in the home screen of one of Google's fla
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by LucasBrandt 1y ago
This is so disappointing! When they added the command palette, that actually gave me the final nudge I needed to start trying to minimize mouse usage and keep my hands on the keyboard. It's been great. I don't use GitHub occasiona
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Transit app is now a bike app, too(blog.transitapp.com)
2 points by LucasBrandt 2y ago|0 comments
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by LucasBrandt 2y ago
StreetComplete is a really easy way to start contributing!
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by LucasBrandt 3y ago
In 2023 I moved into an apartment across from a school in Chicago. The room I work in looks over the street. It's shocking how many drivers are looking at their phone as they approach a crosswalk where children are actively crossing to
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by LucasBrandt 3y ago
I can only find data up to 2021, but in urban environments in France that year, 165 pedestrians were killed in crashes involving a passenger vehicle. 2 were killed in crashes involving "Personal Mobility Devices (motorized)". Sour
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by LucasBrandt 3y ago
A minivan is a lot better for society than an SUV! It's a far more efficient use of space and weight, and isn't unnecessarily lifted so your visibility is better and your vehicle is less dangerous in a pedestrian collision. You ha
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by LucasBrandt 3y ago
I'll take the theoretical chance of an "epidemic of minitruck highway deaths" over the current reality of an epidemic of traffic fatalities made worse by cars and trucks getting heavier, taller, and deadlier.
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by LucasBrandt 4y ago
> At a high level, Cicero combines a dialogue module with a strategic reasoning module, along with a filtering process to reject low-quality messages. The strategic reasoning module generates "intents" (a set of planned actions
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by LucasBrandt 4y ago
I don't want to discount that you're largely content with the the suburbs as they're built today - that's fine and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it. I do want to point out that from my point of view living in
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by LucasBrandt 4y ago
There was a cool challenge in the Code Golf community in Stack Exchange, where participants wrote python scripts to compete in this problem over 1,000 rounds. The bots had access to previous rounds' results to inform their choice in ea
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by LucasBrandt 4y ago
Riding a bike doesn't need to be the only or primary way that people get around in every city, all the time, for it to drastically improve quality of life for people living in cities the world over. Most people are capable of riding a
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by LucasBrandt 5y ago
My company uses Imgix, we're overall pretty happy with it. I'm not sure how we feel about pricing - that's not in my wheelhouse - but it works well for our needs. Our contact there has also been really helpful. The reliabilit
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The strange summer land rush in Peoria’s dying south end(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by LucasBrandt 5y ago|0 comments
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Oceanic sharks and rays have declined by 71% since 1970(britannica.com)
1 points by LucasBrandt 5y ago|0 comments
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by LucasBrandt 6y ago
If that syncing is done through Plaid (or maybe even if not), it might be fixed now. I use a similar product, Lunch Money, and syncing didn't work for a long time but within the past month it became possible.
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by LucasBrandt 6y ago
From the start of the article before the paywall: "the 3,800-person Uber engineering group could be slashed by nearly 800 people in the coming weeks under the proposed job cuts." That's certainly not most of the cuts, but it&
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by LucasBrandt 6y ago
https://youtu.be/pT6hEQ-ktNQ
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by LucasBrandt 7y ago
I'm only moderately familiar with this topic (mostly from following racing, where many major series have integrated hybrid powertrains), but this doesn't seem accurate to me. All the hybrid vehicles have to develop and integrate a
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by LucasBrandt 8y ago
So what should a junior developer do with this knowledge in mind?
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by LucasBrandt 8y ago
I assume Google doesn't request the image until the email is opened.
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by LucasBrandt 8y ago
From the article: "Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, a process that leaves steam and water as the only emissions."