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The Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York is also unfinished, with construction in fits & starts since 1892: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._John_the_Divi...

My desktop is from 2012, so 13 years old so far, but is still very capable at any task I throw at it. It was originally a high-end workstation, but by 2020 was worth so little that…

Nearly all large cities today are large cities because they historically were one, leading to economies of scale in infrastructure and agglomeration economies in the production and…

The car market in the US is pretty much designed to rip off people who fear minivan stigma & instead buy extortionately-priced pickup trucks that often don't even have a big enough…

There are plenty of things that people would be happy to do with cheap urban space in deep/narrow apartment conversions in post-WWII office buildings. I'd enjoy having a workshop a…

Delivery-oriented ebikes like the Arrow models in NYC use very large battery packs, and some deliveristas carry a second battery on a rear rack. My impression is that, as deliveris…

Yann Lecun's name is listed in the model card: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md

Martin Kleppmann is an advisor to the Bluesky distributed social network, which has an open protocol and open source code that one can browse, run, and connect to as a supplement t…

I have a Shimano middrive bike that weighs 50lbs that I purchased on closeout for $1500. It rides like a nice, albeit heavy, bike with the motor turned off.

The quality of individual cells does not necessarily have any bearing on the safety of the finished battery/BMS/charger.

I don't think there has been any sort of reliable survey on the quantity of ebikes in NYC, and 65,000 is likely to be extremely low. There is no registration or point-of-sale repor…

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.

I would certainly look upon the company more fondly if their local dealership didn't park trucks all over the sidewalk.

The other advantage California has is how fresh & delicious the produce is, year-round.

Prince Street genuinely is very good, especially the square pies. It's just a pain in the ass now that the lines have gotten long.

I live, in many ways, by the standards of 90 years ago— apartment in a 1907 tenement house (a new law tenement, much better than the old law kind!), no laundry machine, clothing of…

Housing costs are a basket of the cost of the housing unit itself and land costs. Regulation limiting how densely housing may be built atop land, when this limit is lower than the …

2000kg+ EVs still have substantial lifecycle carbon footprints even if their local emissions are much lower than a gasoline car. They are certainly useful for 200 mile trips, espec…

The massive state, federal, and local bureaucracies shaping the public & private realm to always guarantee easy parking for automobiles & a network of high-throughput roadways betw…

It was very good to be able visit my 98-year-old grandmother at Christmastime (and I did a lot to be able to do so safely last year) — at this age, there can't be many left.

The Discord backend is built on Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...

NYCT was, until this year, operating R32 trainsets still limping along from the 1960s that were repeatedly life-extended as newer (1970s) train types experienced structural failure…

Grids are not made for cars. Grids are made for the legibility of a centralized administration and ease of property subdivision. They are common features of Roman and Greek colonia…

Here is a post with an Jupyter notebook producing such visualizations with the OSMnx library: https://geoffboeing.com/2018/02/street-network-orientation/