Despite Half-Life 2 being set in a dystopian future where Earth was conquered by aliens and there are more barricades than a production of Les Miderables, City 17 still has a higher walk score than most US cities.
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mastodon 4.7.2Allegedly Chaotic Neutral. Both helpful and frustrating. Building sand castles at the base of an active volcano.
Senior Digital Pipeline TD at Laika
Sole Proprietor, Ride at Night LLC
#Python #maya #VFX #OpenUSD #rigging #techArt #ebikes #3dprinting #woodworking
"Bicycles allowed full lane" - ORS 814.430(2)(C)
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Formerly yantor3d@mograph.social
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c) there are no meetings that require you to take notes.
d) there are no meetings.
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@ascentale@sfba.social @puppethead@ieji.de @bikenite@fedigroups.social A7 It depends.
It's safer in the moment. But how long does the bike path run for? When it ends, what maneuver do you have to make to continue your route?
To often in the US, bike infrastructure just ... ends.
#bikeNite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1. Posting from Beaverton, OR, as usual.
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, and do your best to stay in the shade.
#bikeNite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org @bikenite@fedigroups.social A4 (alt) A "Collision Checklist" is the list of excuses a driver gives when they hit a cyclist.
#bikeNite
I wish all student doctors and residents on their ER rotation tomorrow good fucking luck.
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@faithisleaping (old man voice) back in my day, men had to rely on their own ignorance to mansplain things! Now they let computers do it! What is the world coming to!?
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@ascentale@sfba.social @MartyCormack@urbanists.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A6 Dogs bark at me sometimes. I assume they mistake me for a giant orange squirrel.
#bikeNite
"Is there anything in VFX that has an unambiguous answer?"
"It depends."
"Now listen here you little shit..."
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8 I saw a car stop so far past the stop sign that the front bumper was over where the line of a bike lane would be if the side street I was on had bike lanes.
Fortunately the cars behind me were paying attention to I had room to avoid becoming an early-morning T-bone steak.
#bikeNite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @elliek@zeroes.ca @bikenite@fedigroups.social A4a. If you can lift it, flip it over and put some scraps under the handlebars. If not ... a floor jack and some sort of DIY cradle around the down tube?
Personally, I use a bench mounted bike stand bolted to a piece of plywood, and clamped to my bench with quick clamps.
A4b. I use FlatOut in my tires - pull out the foreign object, spin the tire to let the goo plug the hole, and top off the air. So far it has worked pretty well for me.
https://multiseal.us/product/quick-strike-small-tire-2/
#bikeNite
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@Cassandra@ottawa.place before or after getting diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and put on CPAP?
The Hippicratic Oath states "first, do no harm" but my doctor just told me to eat less cheese.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop clavicle healed well thanks to a prompt ORIF. And now I'm partially made of metal!
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Running these off a dynamo is left as an exercise to the reader 😉
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop the reason the kits are sold per wheel is to allow customers to customize their order. Unicycles and cargo e-bikes with a hub motor only need one kit, tricycles need three.
Thanks again for the questions!
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop good questions!
The remote comes with the "RF LED Controller"
A "kit" includes a battery and pair of lights *per* wheel (i.e., one battery, two lights).
The batteries can be charged in-situ (on the bike). Unplug the RF LED Controller from the battery and plug in the charger, which is a 12V 2A charger with a 2.1mm x 5.5mm connector.
The remote and charger can be seen in one of the product photos. I'll update the instructions page with charging steps ASAP.
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I'm fond of acrostic names for VFX pipeline tools.
Given how much shit we have to deal with due to inter-department conflict, I want to write an communication tool called "FIBER"
Frequent
Inter-department
Bickering
Endangers
Renders
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@ascentale@sfba.social @streetmeme@cycle.town @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1. Posting from Beaverton, OR, which has briefly reverted to spring weather after a heat wave.
I don't know what any of those words mean, so I'm going to say "no".
#bikeNite
I'm going to be livid if the air conditioner I bought on 2024 only lasted two seasons.
Can't afford the thousands of dollars for a heat pump that lasts for ten to twenty years? Too bad! Spend a thousand every year or two on a disposable AC!
That's capitalism, baby!
Trans-continental flights that serve hardtack, salted pork, and grog.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Oh, there is an imperfection. The inserts are supposed to be 2" tall. They're 2 1/16" tall! So my brilliant plan to use multi-depth boxes to simplify my shipping inventory is foiled.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop whew! Had me worried for a sec. I put so much time and effort into figuring out how to pack these kits (even made a checklist for the shipping station) that I would die of embarrassment if I messed up even once. 🙃
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop to the hardware store? Oh no, did I forget something? 😥 The kit should have everything you need to install the battery and lights...
Or are you already planning on customizing them? 🙂
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Three orders packed and shipped!
This is kind of fun but I could easily see how it would become a chore.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop there probably are. I've got an outdoor mechanical timer switch for my holiday lights, but it's an "on/off during these hours" thing, not a "on for the next N hours" thing.
Maybe something like this?
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/DEWENWILS-Indoor-Plug-In-Countdown-Digital-Timer-for-Small-Appliance-with-1-Grounded-Outlet-Auto-Shut-Off-Safety-Outlet-2-Pack-HIDT01F/336250549
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Yep - using Fourthwall because it's free and they handle sales tax for me 😃
Weird - the free shipping should auto apply... it did when I placed a test order. I'll have to investigate after I get off work at my day job.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop I am very familiar with spiraling "what ifs?" There's a reason it took me two years to go from coming up with the idea for these, to making a kit for myself, to trying to sell them. 🙃
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop I usually charge mine once a week. With the 2A charger it only takes a few hours.
I've done bench tests to see how long they last running continuously. They are very bright for the first 6-8 hours and then slowly dim over the next 24-48 hours. Something about the COB LEDs means they can keep on going when SMD LEDs in series with a resistor give up sooner.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop 3D printing and hyperfocus are a dangerous combination 😈
These lights mount to spokes with four screws each, so they can wander off, but no more so than any other part on your bike...
But they're much more secure than lights held on by a rubber strap. They'll even stay put during a bone breaking crash; I learned that one the hard way...
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Yes, you should unplug it when it's done charging.
The charger and the BMS (battery management system; a chip in the battery case that balances the cells) should keep it from over charging, but better safe than sorry.
The LED controller has a tiny standby draw so will drain the battery if left plugged in but unused for a while, but we're talking weeks, maybe months.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Hah! No, what happened is I took a wrong turn onto a street with on street light rail tracks and laterally traversed the tracks and lost all traction. And then I was on the ground with a broken clavicle.
As for not having immediate access to a 3D printer... owning one can be quite the rabbit hole. But being able to produce a piece of plastic perfectly fit to a specific need on demand scratches my tinkerer/fixer/maker itch so well, I can't imagine having to wait a week for a print...
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop Yes, the whole system is 12V - charger, battery, LEDs.
As for whether or not it's possible to run these on a dynamo ... I honestly don't know. I've never used a dynamo before. You will need to FAFO.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop
The remote uses a coin battery. It is not rechargeable, but I've been using mine for two years with the original battery.
The remote has a range of 10-15 feet, so it can be used while riding.
Each kit comes with a remote, but by default, I bind all kits in an order to a single remote; any additional remotes are backups.
I do not sell replacements separately, but given I've only had one order so far, there hasn't been a need for it yet...
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop as an autistic myself I appreciate the need for clarity.
Yes, a $129.98 for small lights, $149.98 for large lights, plus tax. Free shipping on orders over $75, and there's a 10% off promotion going on right now.
Yes, the kits are about 2 lbs / 1 kg each, so a bottle of soda is an apt comparison. The weight is mostly in the batteries, which are well balanced on the wheel.
I'll see if I can hack the HTML generated by Fourthwall's store front builder to add "per wheel" to the price 🙂
Yes, but, consider - free tacos.
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@ascentale@sfba.social @MartyCormack@urbanists.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social
A1a. Posting from a too warm Beaverton, OR
A2b. Train tracks are evil.
#bikeNite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1. Posting from Beaverton, OR, under the hot sun.
I took a wrong turn on the way home one day this week and discovered that the Washington County Fair is going on.
#bikeNite
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@jpaskaruk@growers.social the charm wears off after six years on the same project that has been reduced to an ungainly stumble to the finish line. 😒
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@faithisleaping@anarres.family I'd stop at the first code smell.
A junior recently started using the slop machine to write code and it reeked of code smells I spent the last year training out of him.
"You know better than this. I'm not mad, I'm disappointed."
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8 I saw a person commuting to work on a unicycle. Just a normal Thursday in Portland.
I also saw an order for my shop get shipped. That makes 5! At this rate I'll hit double digits by the end of summer.
#bikeNite
Yep... that one broke containment
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@faithisleaping@anarres.family To each their own.
For a time my hypothetical green flag was "can she beat me in a sword fight?"