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ryantgtg

1,134 karmajoined 9 ปีที่แล้ว
I’m an transportation planner specializing in zero-emission transit (and previously active transportation). And I work on pinballmap.com

Check out my ringtones at blueskiesabove.us

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ryantgtg
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Most every road death is the outcome of a poor decision made by a human. It's too much responsibility for many people, given the propensity to make choices that increase the chance of death and serious injury to others.
ryantgtg
·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Every car safety post on HN has "guy who thinks 12k deaths is maybe not too bad." Thanks, guy! You really put things in perspective there.
ryantgtg
·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Etsy seems to operate in the same way as google. I had a DMCA against a listing of mine that should have been protected as parody. Etsy immediately complied with the takedown, and then I emailed the complainant and they agreed it was a mistake from their system/consultant. But they never took the next step of contacting Etsy to say they were wrong. So I could never restore the listing.
ryantgtg
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
> - Clicking an iPhone notification opens the app, but never brings me to the actual email

I've been using fastmail on iOS for years and have never experienced this issue. Clicking from a notification opens up the email. Maybe there's a setting you can adjust?
ryantgtg
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The argument is that the sweet deal we're getting now, which involves Anthropic practically giving away a product while they lose lots of money, might not be sustainable for them.
ryantgtg
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> deny the fact that it's useful tech

Is this denial in the room with us now?
ryantgtg
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Now we’re talking. So much misinformation in this thread. There’s a reason that the saying, “if you want to kill someone, do it with a car” exists. Fortunately, it seems like judges are finally starting to wake up to the idea that it’s unreasonable for drivers to claim ignorance about the increased risks (and thus intent) of making poor/illegal decisions when being the wheel.
ryantgtg
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Replying to myself. I just read the article. The gray/blue/green H2 fuel costs in the article do not reflect current U.S. fuel costs.

Gray is $8-10 for liquid delivery. This equates to a little over $1 per mile, which - compared to a CNG bus - is double the operating cost (and about 4x more than a battery electric bus per mile... just for fuel/electricity). And yeah, as I mentioned previously, capital costs will be like 1.3x of battery electric.

That said, there are lots of novel ideas out there for creating H2 fuel! Forest waste (with supposedly all carbon captured), methane pyrolysis (with carbon bricks as an output). The promises never end.
ryantgtg
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Read their comment and yours? What great advice. I would suggest you do the same, but I think you'll continue to misread it.

> No one is going to pay you to take your waste away and dispose of it. You would have to pay them.

> lol, paying someone to "take your waste away and dispose of it" has been a stable of the "recycle" industry in western countries for 3 decades now.

They are saying that paying to dispose of the clothes/waste is how it's done. And then... you said the same thing. Perhaps you're assuming they're just taking a guess, rather than coming at it with understanding that this is how it has been done for a while.
ryantgtg
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah. Vehicle costs are pretty much the same (for battery electric and fuel cell electric buses, at least) and are about 2-3x more than ICE. On-site hydrogen infra for fueling/storage is substantially more than charging equipment. H2 fuel is currently $10-20 per kg (the higher end accounts for vapor losses), which is, again, much greater than either diesel or electricity.
ryantgtg
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You appear to be agreeing with the person you’re replying to.
ryantgtg
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is my experience, too. Heroku didn’t stay competitive price-wise with alternatives. And scaling even slightly from the basic dynos quadrupled (or whatever) the price.

Feature and experience-wise, we were always really happy with heroku.

I don’t know if this fits with the “salesforce purchased and let stagnate” narrative that nearly everyone here is pushing.
ryantgtg
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It doesn’t need to be said.
ryantgtg
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I had a city college teacher who knew I liked sci-fi, so she printed me out the short story Equinoctial. Great little story, and from there I devoured everything by him.

The relatively recent Irontown Blues reminded me how great the Eight Worlds is, and how entertaining he is.
ryantgtg
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think the counterargument is that a while ago ads became super annoying. They move, they grow in size, they feature nsfw things, they have weird js that annoys you when you try to leave. Perhaps some of this has toned down in recent years, but the damage is done. The ads are not good actors. It’s not as black and white as subverting or not subverting the will of the site owner.
ryantgtg
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think there have been issues where profile pages say “this account is private and has 0 followers.” I saw that yesterday on every account I clicked on (on web). And then a few minutes later it was back to normal. It might not be that he manually took it private to hide an issue.
ryantgtg
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
From your comment, it sounds like managed to find a price for this unit. I’m on my phone, and the preorder page says nothing more than a $100 deposit. Why would anyone order this without the full price bring front and center? Is this a mistake or are these people hiding this info?
ryantgtg
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
And Van Nuys is a premiere vacation destination. I’m sure he was feeling the pull toward that idyllic locale more than ever after that long slog.