wonder_er

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by wonder_er 3mo ago
safe/efficient junctions on the road network where I live: https://josh.works/traffic-bean
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by wonder_er 9mo ago
i saw the strava mention and I clicked through - this is a super cool project! The maps + visualizations are beautiful. Something about strava and the data we get from it is really special to me. It's a fun step into a deeply physical
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by wonder_er 9mo ago
working on bringing some basic, banal bits of infrastructure management to real-world traffic issues. I'm literally trying to fix broken junctions around me. It's at the same time laughably easy, and wildly complicated. I'm
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by wonder_er 1y ago
I write for me, or the me of a few years ago. It sounds like you think I use more self-citation than you would expect, for someone writing only for themselves. Are you saying I'm wrong about police originating as deputized slave patrol
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by wonder_er 1y ago
i write for me. I don't find most people in the USA to be worth taking seriously, either. Liiiike if someone thinks the primary purpose of police is something like "protecting and serving" vs. being deputized slave patrollers
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by wonder_er 1y ago
if a group of people (deputized slave patrols) is harassing and kidnapping another group of people (anyone perceived to be non-white), and I am talking about it, is it _me_ who is stupid, malicious, and detracts from the discussion, or is i
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by wonder_er 1y ago
wow! Thanks for this link to the junction in Bodmin! I didn't know there were more. I'll save this and add it to the traffic bean post. Indeed, the junction can be a bit unfamiliar, and it looks like the one in Bodmin could be les
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by wonder_er 1y ago
the junction in it's current form is like a wild, light-controlled, two-or-three lane hybrid between a roundabout and a standard junction. If you can do UK-style traffic circles, you'd be fine on this junction. My proposal to to s
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by wonder_er 1y ago
'jaywalking' is a term that supports the concept of vehicular homicide. A normal ethical system would say the obligation to not kill anyone with a vehicle is on the operator of the vehicle. The environment should also support safe
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by wonder_er 1y ago
I live in Denver - it's got the Standard American Design on every junction (every junction is a SAD junction) There's a house near here that was written about in an article - it's at the end of a long straight road, and then
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by wonder_er 1y ago
I started blogging in 2012, have been going pretty consistently since then. I currently 'go hard' on tiktok, because I've recently been collecting tons of footage of mobility networks via drone and 360 camera (mostly while I
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by wonder_er 1y ago
I do _not_ have any sort of insulin resistance, and have worn a CGM for a while, a few different times. (Purchased sorta 'just for fun', to evaluate my own metabolic responsiveness. I wrote about it once: [0]) if I moved around mu
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by wonder_er 1y ago
the biggest way to make a motorcycle safer, IMO, is remove the need for shifting. Lower the center of gravity, reduce the weight, increase the wind protection, make the riding stance really comfortable. Make it easily accommodate a backpack
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by wonder_er 1y ago
Ooooh what a title In 2019 I was a bicycling a lot, and really wanted to get something with a motor, so I could be a bit faster/farther/not so sweaty with my trips. I had access to a car but rarely used it. I really don't lik
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by wonder_er 1y ago
I find many people in my life seem very precious about their sleep, in a way that I am not. I also can sometimes endure a day that I detect fatigue in myself. I don't necessarily love it, but I'll note it easy to go to sleep early
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by wonder_er 1y ago
timing can be a pretty big thing. Do you go up stairs slowly, or quickly? One step at a time or two? If someone is hustling up a staircase, the output can be quite high, even at the level of the 3rd floor. I notice myself, sometimes, forget
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by wonder_er 1y ago
often-enough after a meal, I feel an impulse to walk a little bit, and I do. I live in a 5-floor building with roof access, thus six total flights of stairs. I find myself walking down from my middle floor level to the first floor, then to
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by wonder_er 1y ago
american-style intersections function with an order-of-magnitude higher safety and throughput and a much smaller square meter 'footprint' if they switch from 'controlled' intersections (lights, stop signs) to 'traff
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by wonder_er 1y ago
yes, exactly this. I believe it rises quickly to attention, upon researching at all the history of this "HOA thing" in the USA, is that they existed purely as a legal fiction to better accomplish oppression of 'the other&#x27
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by wonder_er 1y ago
no, i think it is the right move, especially if it landed as such a provocative statement to dig around on the profile, and then THAT RESEARCH revealed such a contradictory impulse. There are people who live like that, and the quick social
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by wonder_er 1y ago
ooooh, not clock as 'hit' but clock as 'I would note this thing seems to be true about you, and it would lead to me thinking at least a little less of something about you." That thing being "you operated inside of a
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by wonder_er 1y ago
supporting HOA's is supporting a key tool supremacists used in the USA for a long time to enact oppression and violence on people of the global majority. You can keep supporting it. if we were hanging out IRL I would clock[0] you (unha
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by wonder_er 1y ago
HOA's are part of how supremacists of the day, after losing a tool ("state-backed discrimination, segregation, and oppression of ppl of the global majority") figured out how to hide the oppression elsewhere. The concept in am
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by wonder_er 1y ago
a lot of the 'oddness' of american 'policing' gets cleared up when considering one of the main origin stories of policing in America. Across the "american south"/the american slaveholding states, police de
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by wonder_er 2y ago
I wrote a thing a while ago about my experience with continuous glucose monitors. This post about the Stelo is fascinating. https://josh.works/cgm
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by wonder_er 2y ago
It would be high enough that it would be available for people who needed it urgently. Perhaps a plumber making an urgent visit, using a company credit card. What a perfect use case to spend a lot of money on expensive parking. In the greate
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by wonder_er 2y ago
The solution isn't to reduce the demand for parking. It's to dynamically price the parking high enough that there is always ten percent of the parking available. When there is less or no demand, the price would fall. Just like AWS
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by wonder_er 2y ago
The substack was for me to scratch an itch. It's so I can write then link to what I've written when talking with others. I hang out with a lot more city planning and city engineering ppl than some, and it stirs up so many thoughts
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by wonder_er 2y ago
It's funny (and sad) to me that people who are familiar with congestion-solving pricing schemes for something like AWS services act so unable to see parking and road networks as containing the same dynamics. I'm working on solving
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by wonder_er 2y ago
This is why I love having my moped. Easy, abundant parking. Door to door travel. I virtually always have a more convenient parking spot than the best car parking spot, and it's always available, always free, bc my scooter takes 6 squar

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