What are you working on right now?

nore · 2015-11-22 06:30:28

several wrote:

hand signals

Right or left fist up, longest finger straight seems to mean "priority", for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists alike.

ohnonot · 2015-11-22 10:24:52

do none of you use back pedal brakes?

pvsage · 2015-11-22 13:07:21

^ Coaster brakes are contraindicated by derailleur gears; the hanger would absorb too much of the braking effort.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-22 13:35:32

ohnonot wrote:

do none of you use back pedal brakes?

Only for skids ]:D

EDIT: My current bike has ABS so I have to find gravel patches to hang the back end out.

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Sector11 · 2015-11-22 13:48:39

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
^ Please tell me that is not you!
No; I have done that but not on purpose...

Sweat a bit on that? I would image a zillion things going through your head.

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BTW: I have you stopped for 3 mths 1 day - that still good?
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glittersloth · 2015-11-22 14:18:15

nore wrote:

Right or left fist up, longest finger straight seems to mean "priority", for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists alike.

In some countries, it just means "oh, hello there".

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-22 14:29:53

Sector11 wrote:

Sweat a bit on that? I would image a zillion things going through your head.

My heart rate didn't even go up 'cos I was so focused on not hitting the car in front -- I even got a toot of appreciation from the car behind for my 60mph rolling stoppie...

#f***wit

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BTW: I have you stopped for 3 mths 1 day - that still good?
/OT

Just about; it gets difficult in the winter though.

ohnonot · 2015-11-22 18:47:37

pvsage wrote:

^ Coaster brakes are contraindicated by derailleur gears; the hanger would absorb too much of the braking effort.

i am totally satisfied with this:
images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToqoBgmqh0ZKUn0orcUm9LbdpfODVZ4jcrrReyrZfLxGnQoVqh3Q
i know it has a little more friction than open gears, but it's much less work to keep it clean. and honestly, people use standing bycicles that produce nothing but friction to stay fit, so i'm cool, no?

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ohnonot · 2015-11-22 18:48:24

ooops. i pressed quote instead of edit, again. please disregard this post.

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Unia · 2015-11-23 09:03:17

Sector11 wrote:

^ Actually the left arm singles: out-up (right turn), pointing left (DUH!) and out-down (stop) are from times before cars had automatic turn signals. A driver couldn't very well signal a right turn without punching out the passenger. I remember my step-father using them on the old 49 Dodge. And if I didn't use them when on my bike, I lost use of it for a week - well if I was caught.
However today there is the use of the right hand signal.

I guess we needed an Over-the-Hill'er for that ]:D

g33zr · 2015-11-23 16:28:07

^ In Rhode Island, the hand signal for a right-turn is similar to what Sector11 posted; the difference is that while the left hand is upright you point right over the roof with your index finger. However, Rhode Islanders are notorious for not using any hand signals at all unless it's the middle finger. And it's even worse now with so many drivers paying more attention to talking and texting on their cell phones. I doubt if any of today's younger drivers even know the old hand signals.

pvsage · 2015-11-23 16:45:04

Everyone is notorious for not using any hand signals at all unless it's the middle finger.

Fixed it fer ya. (Yes, that was in Applejack's Funetik Aksent. Feel free to blame ponies; I make no apologies for doing so.)

ohnonot · 2015-11-23 17:24:02

g33zr wrote:

I doubt if any of today's younger drivers even know the old hand signals.

which ones?
(this thread is going way OT)

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gako · 2015-11-23 20:15:54

Bike rider here in Florida and I feel lucky if the older drivers can even see me, let alone my hand signals.
I carry rocks with me on my commute.

-- on topic
Working on learning BuxWV 161 a nice organ tune.

arti · 2015-12-03 09:05:50

2D Game programming using JavaScript html <canvas> and GIMP for the sprites.
I had no idea how much work frame by frame character sprite animation was.
It certainly makes me appreciate great looking 2D art and animation in older and indie video games a hell of a lot more.

Temetka · 2015-12-04 06:57:24

Shopping for a laptop to replace my T410. There's nothing wrong with my current laptop, it works wonderfully and I love it very much. But I would like a 15" laptop.

I'm tempted to just slap a Core2Quad and RGBLED LCD in my Precision M4400 and call it a day. That too is a wonderful laptop.

Working as an IT consultant, I get a lot of used gear from my clients. So in the last year I've tested about 20 different laptops from various OEM's (all business class machines - I won't recommend or support SOHO equipment in the enterprise). As such I know what I don't want. I'm still trying to figure out what I do want.

The HP 8560w looks nice, as does the T520. Far newer tech than my Precision M4400. But how much CPU do I need to RDP and PING? Not much.

So I've been on what I internally call "The Great Laptop Quest" - To find the perfect laptop. A fool's quest to be sure, but a quest nonetheless.

tknomanzr · 2015-12-04 14:32:16

Let me know what you figure out. As a general rule, I despise OEM built machines. I prefer to spec them out and build them myself. That would be tough to do with a laptop though. Sadly, my last two laptops have been plagued with various small but rather annoying things. I genuinely liked my Macbook Pro, however. Once I got the hang of its gesture support, I ended up really liking it. However, its not like its hardware specs were that great.

arti · 2015-12-08 13:20:43

byzanz screws with the colors a little when recording, but it's still fairly simple to use.
Work in progress in gif format:
Getting everything to animate correctly in-game is a pain, must...rebuild...

pingu · 2015-12-15 14:50:05

I'm working on turning an old bus monitor script I wrote some time ago into an object oriented ap (just just to make it unnecessarily complex) to tell you what the time to go to the bus stop with some precision:( like this: http://fahrinfo.bvg.de/barrierefrei/bin … iction=yes
https://github.com/genoob/bus_rio_py
original script: https://bpaste.net/show/f955107c1087 :8

I'm also learning how to use git, but I still need to learn how not make my repos clean (I should have used branches...).

The next step is making the map dynamic, and then use postgres to keep the coordinate points from each bus line (using point type in a geography field), and up the distance between them and the user to get the most precise distance (postgis uses a spheroid to calculate geography points in order to be most precise). The database is ready, but I'm yet to figure out how to do the calculations.

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Sector11 · 2015-12-15 15:19:56

^ Awesome. That would work in a place where buses are monitored with 'stop times' but not here. Our buses are like a wolves, they travel in packs, and if you miss the last one in the pack ... go have a coffee!

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