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Comment #47216370
Recumbent trikes have the potential for leg suck, but two-wheelers havee no especial safety risks.
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Comment #47216360
> recumbent bikes are expensive New recumbents are expensive, but used ones are very cheap. Afyer seeing several within an hour's drive of me for $300, I got a Rans Rocket for $100…
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Comment #47216271
> My ebike's minimum speed for the motor is 15kph That is a flaw in your ebike. Weird and dangerous.
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Comment #47216239
The cost wouldn't necessarily be in the bike, but in requirements for mandatory paid registration, licensing classes, insurance, inspection, and safety equipment.
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Comment #47216211
Wattage is basically meaningless. There is nk standard way to measure it. Almost all "250 watt" ebikes consume much more than 250 watts of electricity at full throttle, and can pro…
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Comment #46806945
To rotate the view in SolveSpace, you need any one of these: * a keyboard's shift key and a right mouse button, or * a middle mouse button, or * a 3D mouse. I've done some work in …
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Comment #46806867
SolveSpace does have some ability to control the color and fill of areas. It's nowhere near as powerful as Inkscape, but enough to make simple diagrams. The exported SVGs can also …
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Comment #46792767
for simple learning, I invite you to consider SolveSpace
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Comment #46792753
SolveSpace is available in library form. It uses NURBS to represent surfaces, with triangles as a fallback. https://solvespace.com/library.pl
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Comment #46792725
Just because you type dimensions in doesn't mean it's parametric. If you're manually patching meshes, you're almost certainly not doing parametric CAD! (This does match with my mem…
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Comment #46792685
FWIW, the FLOSS CAD program SolveSpace can generate parametric sketches and export them as SVG files (file > export 2d view)
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Comment #46792662
> chamfer all outside edges FreeCAD can do this. So can all of the proprietary parametric CAD programs I've ever used, some of which (PTC OnShape, Siemens Solid Edge, Autodesk Fusi…
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Comment #46729451
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ > The card was purchased from a major brick-and-mortar retailer (Australians, think Woolworths scale; Americans, think Walmart scale)
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Comment #46425107
> Just stop using it Unfortunately, not always an option without making major lifestyle decisions (for example, software required by a job)
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Comment #46189718
So you can use as little CPU and RAM as necessary to browse the page you want to read at any given moment.
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Comment #46189679
Writing an infinite "hello world!" loop on an Atari 800XL was my first programming experience... in the mid-2000s.
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Comment #46187173
and if you find a video that hasn't had the ads tagged yet, the UI for it is pretty easy to figure out.
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Comment #46187163
Chromebooks are ubiquitous in U.S. primary and secondary schools
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Comment #46146003
As someone who used the HTML gmail interface right up until google pulled the plug: the JS version is much slower to load. Every morning, I get to have about 10 seconds thinking ab…
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Comment #46141252
If each step was 1 frame, and the video played at 240 frames per second, the video would last about 17.5 years
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Comment #46100614
That feature seems common to other git hosts / forges. For example, here's one of Dillo's files, from a few commits ago, from their cgit-based host https://git.dillo-browser.org/di…
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Comment #46100541
No doubt this is desirable. However, adding all the CSS features required to support cgit may have been a lot more work than editing cgit's CSS. It's an attempt at avoiding yak sha…
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Comment #46100460
Redundancy for read access to the source code is a concern for Dillo. Some years ago, the domain name registration lapsed, and was promptly bought by an impersonator, taking the of…
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Comment #46099352
Child safety locks do this. They prevent the rear doors from being unlocked and opened from the inside.
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Comment #46099334
Water mist fire extinguishers are nice. They are much more able to cool lightweight, flammable objects, and pose less risk of causing electrical arcs.