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by akgerber 1y ago
The Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York is also unfinished, with construction in fits & starts since 1892: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._John_the_Divi...
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by akgerber 2y ago
My desktop is from 2012, so 13 years old so far, but is still very capable at any task I throw at it. It was originally a high-end workstation, but by 2020 was worth so little that I got it for free from someone moving out of town. Last yea
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by akgerber 2y ago
Nearly all large cities today are large cities because they historically were one, leading to economies of scale in infrastructure and agglomeration economies in the production and exchange of goods and services. Ease of sea access is not a
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by akgerber 2y ago
The car market in the US is pretty much designed to rip off people who fear minivan stigma & instead buy extortionately-priced pickup trucks that often don't even have a big enough bed to carry plywood or drywall.
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by akgerber 2y ago
There are plenty of things that people would be happy to do with cheap urban space in deep/narrow apartment conversions in post-WWII office buildings. I'd enjoy having a workshop and lots of bicycle parking. The problem is that th
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by akgerber 2y ago
Delivery-oriented ebikes like the Arrow models in NYC use very large battery packs, and some deliveristas carry a second battery on a rear rack. My impression is that, as deliveristas have moved to working for apps rather than specific rest
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by akgerber 2y ago
Yann Lecun's name is listed in the model card: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md
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by akgerber 2y ago
Martin Kleppmann is an advisor to the Bluesky distributed social network, which has an open protocol and open source code that one can browse, run, and connect to as a supplement to the book if one desires: https://github.com&#x2
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by akgerber 2y ago
I have a Shimano middrive bike that weighs 50lbs that I purchased on closeout for $1500. It rides like a nice, albeit heavy, bike with the motor turned off.
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by akgerber 2y ago
The quality of individual cells does not necessarily have any bearing on the safety of the finished battery/BMS/charger.
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by akgerber 2y ago
I don't think there has been any sort of reliable survey on the quantity of ebikes in NYC, and 65,000 is likely to be extremely low. There is no registration or point-of-sale reporting requirement. There are also large quantities of un
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by akgerber 3y ago
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.
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by akgerber 3y ago
I would certainly look upon the company more fondly if their local dealership didn't park trucks all over the sidewalk.
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by akgerber 4y ago
The other advantage California has is how fresh & delicious the produce is, year-round.
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by akgerber 4y ago
Prince Street genuinely is very good, especially the square pies. It's just a pain in the ass now that the lines have gotten long.
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by akgerber 4y ago
I live, in many ways, by the standards of 90 years ago— apartment in a 1907 tenement house (a new law tenement, much better than the old law kind!), no laundry machine, clothing often bought used & which I often repair myself, most tran
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by akgerber 4y ago
Housing costs are a basket of the cost of the housing unit itself and land costs. Regulation limiting how densely housing may be built atop land, when this limit is lower than the number of housing units demanded, is what causes the Red Que
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by akgerber 4y ago
2000kg+ EVs still have substantial lifecycle carbon footprints even if their local emissions are much lower than a gasoline car. They are certainly useful for 200 mile trips, especially with a group of people, with well-developed road netwo
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by akgerber 4y ago
The massive state, federal, and local bureaucracies shaping the public & private realm to always guarantee easy parking for automobiles & a network of high-throughput roadways between them yet only occasionally & reluctantly doi
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by akgerber 4y ago
It was very good to be able visit my 98-year-old grandmother at Christmastime (and I did a lot to be able to do so safely last year) — at this age, there can't be many left.
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by akgerber 4y ago
The Discord backend is built on Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...
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by akgerber 4y ago
NYCT was, until this year, operating R32 trainsets still limping along from the 1960s that were repeatedly life-extended as newer (1970s) train types experienced structural failures & delivery of their planned replacement trains was rep
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by akgerber 4y ago
Grids are not made for cars. Grids are made for the legibility of a centralized administration and ease of property subdivision. They are common features of Roman and Greek colonial cities as well as Chinese cities unto time immemorial (in
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by akgerber 4y ago
Here is a post with an Jupyter notebook producing such visualizations with the OSMnx library: https://geoffboeing.com/2018/02/street-network-orientation/
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by akgerber 4y ago
Many old neighborhoods were originally literal wall-to-wall cookie-cutter construction, with Brooklyn brownstones being a prime example. My Brooklyn block was originally basically 4 different groups of identical buildings, with the new-law
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by akgerber 4y ago
Interestingly, some large buildings in NYC also use a "steam chiller" hooked into the city steam system to provide air conditioning: https://untappedcities.com/2021/07/09/new-york-city-steam-sy...
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by akgerber 4y ago
The work of a famous law professor is very different from the work of a defense lawyer, and generally involves very little interaction with the business end of the justice system.
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by akgerber 4y ago
There is plenty of dense housing in prewar sections of Midwestern cities. Not as much as there used to be, unfortunately, but quite a bit, and available very affordably.
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by akgerber 4y ago
A dense environment also has a lot of daily destinations within walking distance. That's also very nice when one works from home— either working from home in my Brooklyn apartment, or working from home at my parents' house in a Mi
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by akgerber 4y ago
Interesting and worthwhile idea. Costco's clothing is mostly ugly even if well-made. The general concept appeals to me, but I already have my own specific taste in materials & cuts and would thus like more details as to what '

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