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talove commented on Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes savingcountrymusic.com/ri... · Posted by u/breve

talove · 6 months ago

It’s all brinkmanship: if you can’t unilaterally control it, the instinct is to destroy it.

I work in tech, but thanks to some stubborn drive for creation my parents instilled in me, I also make music. And honestly, compared to music, even the advertising industry feels cutting-edge. Music is still operating with one foot stuck decades in the past.

talove commented on Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments withcoherence.com/post/st... · Posted by u/robertguss

CSMastermind · 3 years ago

Coherence is obviously trying to sell you their product here but I'm not sure preview environments and staging environments are opposed.

They way I've set things up at my current company is this:

When a developer creates a pull request an ephemeral (preview) environment is generated.

When that code is merged it automatically gets deployed first to our staging environment and then immediately to production.

Staging gets a sanitized copy of production's data every night so both the code and the data are close mirrors of production and that's what developers (and those preview environments) integrate with when they're calling services other than their own.

If you were to get rid of staging would you stand up your entire backend every time you made a preview environment? Does that include replicating databases or would you just use seed data that may or may not resemble what's in production?

It seems like the solution they're pitching works great if you have a small team and only a few services/sites.

talove · 3 years ago

The reason every complex application I've worked on has had a staging environment is because you do need to test production deploys in an environment that mirrors production dataset and infrastructure. Especially with data migrations, distributed databases. That is prohibitively expensive and not feasible to run in n+1 envs.

talove commented on Caffeine and Exercise Performance grapplinglane.substack.co... · Posted by u/tb8424

talove · 3 years ago

I drink one cup of pour-over coffee that I make every morning. I like it medium to medium strong. I perceive many physical effects from it. At this point it's my morning ritual. 20 minutes in bed or on the sofa reading or doing a crossword while drinking a coffee.

I am also an hobbyist endurance cyclist. I do cycling 'events' that last as long as 12+ hours. And average somewhere between 6-8. While I've tried for years to add caffeine into my nutrition plan for these events. I have only ever had adverse effects.

I seem to manage 6-8 ounces of coke. But in spite of my morning ritual, if I consume any coffee or caffeine infused energy bars or gels I will be miserable. Every time I get weak, shaky, feel like I am going to pass out, and feel absolutely miserable. After about 30-60 minutes, I'll have to suddenly pee. Once I pee I slowly feel better and in another 30 minutes back to normal.

I've talked to a hundred people about this, nobody seems to have the same effect. But it seems as if my body just rejects the caffeine, pees it out, and carries on.

talove commented on They're made out of meat (1991) mit.edu/people/dpolicar/w... · Posted by u/6502nerdface

simonh · 4 years ago

>What I'm saying is that there will probably be

That doesn't follow. We can always say there's things we don't know, sure, but it's not reasonable to take that as a justification for saying "Therefore maybe X", with the implication that X is somehow likely, or therefore even possible in reality. Maybe fairies. Maybe whatever. It's not a technique that can lead you to any particular conclusion. It certainly can't tell you anything about the probability of something.

talove · 4 years ago

Ya but we do know the universe exists without any fucking clue how or why. So, it seems fine to let your mind wander a bit.

talove commented on Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/s... · Posted by u/karlding

talove · 4 years ago

I am affected by this. I own 4 bikes, all with electronic shifting and 3 hammerhead computers.

This isn't just losing nice-to-have features, many of these features are for safety.

One example, the thumb toggles on the Di2 shifters allow me to change screens on my computer without removing my hands from the hoods / grips. They is now disabled. If you are descending at 40-50mph you have to remove your hand from your hood in order to see your map.

This might seem minor but the point is that cycling is already super dangerous. The tech is there for safety as much as anything else. I find this incredibly anti-cyclist and anti-consumer.

talove · 4 years ago

Following up to add some context to this since it struck a lot of debate. I feel very matter of factly that the assistance of a bike computer when used responsibly increases rider safety. All of the debate seems very semantic but look at a video such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AUTiwocccE

This is a 10-mile descent that thousands of cyclists do a weekly that would put you at 30-50mph for most of it. You can very obviously safely glance at your bike computer from time to time to see things like your speed, sharpness of upcoming curves, angles, upcoming obstacles, intersections, merges, and other important metrics that help inform your braking, turning and mental route preparation.

I've been road cycling and racing for many years. Taken many safety and skills courses. The most dangerous experiences I've ever had have been from incidents where glancing at a map would have prevented. Where I was riding moderately paced and unanticipated obstacles were around corners such as blind intersections.

Having laser focus on the road AND knowing what's ahead where you can't visually see are both equally important.

talove commented on Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/s... · Posted by u/karlding

karamanolev · 4 years ago

1. On a fast descent I like to know what the turns coming up look like. Also, sometimes we follow the main road, sometimes we turn out at some point. If it's a 100mi ride that was planned online, even the planner doesn't know it by heart. You have to look occasionally.

2. No, you're not aware when you have to slam on your brakes. The descent can be 10 minutes long at a high speed. You don't know every single corner by heart. You look at the map.

3. The people at the front know where we're going, but sometimes they miss things. It's nice to shout things at them when they do. They also rotate. I know there's a bit of gravel on this road, but they don't. I tell them. I know because I know we're passing town X or side street Y.

4. Even in a group, I'd like to know if there's a sharp turn coming, going into the city, etc. I want to know my heart rate, power, cadence, etc. I'd like to know how long the false flat that we're on lasts or when the next climb is coming up.

talove · 4 years ago

I'll also add, you might be riding brakes preparing for a turn on a descent. Under many road conditions, especially a steep descent, a road bike is much more likely to break traction than a car which can literally be fatal (sliding out into an opposing lane, barrier, or off an edge). Anybody who has descended, even at reasonably safe speeds on a road bike with a bike computer knows it is the safe thing to do.

talove commented on Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/s... · Posted by u/karlding

jfengel · 4 years ago

I take your point, but there is no way on God's green earth that I am going to look at a map for even an instant while descending that fast. My eyes are locked on the ground scanning for the tiniest crack or piece of junk that would send me to my doom.

I can't imagine going any direction except straight at that speed.

talove · 4 years ago

In popular road cycling areas, things like 10+ mile descents aren't unusual. Momentarily glances at the map is how you know you need to slow down.

As an example, search YouTube for a video of someone descending a road in the Santa Monica mountains.

talove commented on Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse theverge.com/2022/6/3/231... · Posted by u/metadat

silax · 4 years ago

2022 Model Y with FSD. I use Autopilot 50+ miles a day, and use it 98% of the way on trips from San Diego to SF. It infrequently phantom brakes, and more often brakes hard and late and sometimes people think I'm brake-checking them. It also is annoying slow to recover back to cruise speed from a slow down. Also if you're in the right lane when the two right lanes merge- it is totally unreliable, I've been sandwiched between an 18-wheeler and the gutter. But that said, once you learn the quirks it is extremely predictable and robust. I have used it on snowy mountain roads in Tahoe, a sandstorm at Salton Sea, and thousands of highway miles. If you have the minimum distance set to 2 or 3 car lengths, you should not be complaining about late and hard braking- that's the setting you chose. The phantom braking is annoying but infrequent, and you can quickly override it with an accelerator tap. My suggestion to Tesla would just be to have a debug button where you can report and elevate the past 10 seconds of driving.

talove · 4 years ago

I have a 2021 Y with FSD and more or less echo the I've got about the same sentiment. It's nice use it, but does weird stuff. A recent update seems to have resolved many of the FSD issues. It no longer phantom breaks at flashing yellow intersections, and a few stop signs for diagonal merging roads.

And btw, they certainly have the data whether or not you report it.

talove commented on Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/s... · Posted by u/karlding

talove · 4 years ago

I am affected by this. I own 4 bikes, all with electronic shifting and 3 hammerhead computers.

This isn't just losing nice-to-have features, many of these features are for safety.

One example, the thumb toggles on the Di2 shifters allow me to change screens on my computer without removing my hands from the hoods / grips. They is now disabled. If you are descending at 40-50mph you have to remove your hand from your hood in order to see your map.

This might seem minor but the point is that cycling is already super dangerous. The tech is there for safety as much as anything else. I find this incredibly anti-cyclist and anti-consumer.

talove commented on Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/s... · Posted by u/karlding

black_puppydog · 4 years ago

Apart from sharing the opinion here that this is a customer hostile move...

I'm pretty happy that my bikes (MTB and Road) have zero electric components (not even light if I don't strap it on) and I want to keep it that way. I have yet so see an electric part that I need or that even just provides me with enough benefit that it's worth the hassle of freakin' firware updates. Much less having a CAN bus on my bike? is this only for electric bikes or also for gears? I'm confused...

Anyhow, I always thought that running a bike repair shop might be my plan B for when I finally get fed up with computers, but I recently realized bikes are now computers with wheels, just like cars and fridges and toasters and door bells... So I'm looking for a new plan B.

FWIW, just as with fridges and toasters, I think this is a move in the wrong direction. It increases CO2/pollution footprint and reduces lifetime. And as we see here, it opens you up to a whole new class of customer abuse.

talove · 4 years ago

FWIW, the electronic drivetrains are superior in just about every performance metric, aside from needing to be charged every few weeks. You might not want an tablet computer in your refrigerator door but electronic bike shifting is more akin to going from carbureted to fuel injected engines, it is the more reliable and tunable of the two options.