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Re: Rene Herse Needle Bearing Headsets

blasdelf — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:25:32 -0000

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Re: Compass UD-1 Rack for Disc Brakes

blasdelf — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:28:53 -0000

It weighs almost half as much!

Without the adjustable crown attachment it's a lot stronger, much stiffer, and won't vibrate the leg attachments loose like the M18. Also it's actually made from chromoly unlike most Nitto products available through distributors.

Re: Rawland Cycles Racks in Stock Now

blasdelf — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:25:03 -0000

How much do they weigh?

Re: Firefly Bicycles Ti Commuter

blasdelf — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:00:11 -0000

They are Berthoud carbon fenders

Re: My Geekhouse Woodville Touring Bike = The Right Equipment

blasdelf — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:02:09 -0000

"Some say the weight saved on a comparable “randonneur racing” tire sheds hours of the final time"

they're talking entirely about the rolling resistance, not the weight

Re: Brian Vernor: Hahn Rossman The Wild One

blasdelf — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:58:07 -0000

That's the original road up to Monte Cristo, the old townsite even has a big bike rack because so many mountaineers use bikes to haul their gear in the 5 miles from Barlow Pass.

The main bridge washed out years ago but that log has sufficed so far, the rad old dudes that maintain the remaining buildings have an extra-narrow old Land Rover with a snorkel for hauling their equipment in.

Also you really don't want to get *in* that river, there's heavy contamination with arsenic, mercury, lead, and all sorts of other nasty heavy metals from the century-old mines. They're starting reclamation this year, but it'll get worse before it gets better, especially with them building a new road in for their dump trucks.

Re: Field Cycles 29er

blasdelf — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:29:12 -0000

The very opposite

Truss forks like that are extra-stiff for precision steering, leaving the tire to be the suspension..

Re: DNA Lounge: 26-Apr-2012 (Thu) Wherein, to our eternal shame, we are closed on a Friday.

blasdelf — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:30:23 -0000

I don't wanna hear your excuses! The box has to be at least... three times bigger than this!

Re: Amazon Usage Reports = teh suck

blasdelf — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:41:46 -0000

Their intended customers are developers. They expect people like you with better shit to do (users) to use a service or application provided by a third party.

You're complaining that it's kind of a pain in the ass to fill up your wheelbarrow at the industrial cement plant. Go to Home Depot or call a cement truck service.

Re: Amazon Usage Reports = teh suck

blasdelf — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:18:32 -0000

They're a wholesaler, and you're a retail customer.

Re: VeloNews tech department predictions for the new year: disc brakes and electric shifting everywhere

blasdelf — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:15:37 -0000

Magura did exactly that in the 90s — the short-reach road caliper brake was the HS77

Re: 'Blog - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

blasdelf — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:01:17 -0000

I've been using "Gladwellian" to describe these tactics (substituting neologisms for acronyms)

Re: http://monkey.org/~marius/haskell-is-beautiful-in-practice.html

blasdelf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:37:14 -0000

Unlike Perl, reading the source to a Haskell library is edifying and useful, as there is such a thing as idiomatic Haskell (!), that style is by far the easiest to write (!!), and it is clear + concise + transparent (!!!).

There's a world of difference. The entire standard library is itself written in Haskell, nearly all functions being one-liners or pattern-matches of such. Reading is fundamental.

Re: Oh Cthulu, here we go

blasdelf — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:08:43 -0000

You're right that no Unix GUI tries to sniff the file-types with reference to magic(5) — that's because it would be idealistic and hopelessly greybearded — the pragmatic implementation on Unix is to use /etc/mime.types as a layer of indirection in front of /etc/mailcap

Re: Oh Cthulu, here we go

blasdelf — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:08:30 -0000

Sorry John, but you're the ideologue in this slapfight — you don't give a shit about UTIs, you just want the creator code behavior like the rest of the MacMacs, and your argument changes to whatever you think will restore that functionality.

You're using terrible examples to make uninformed arguments for restoring a mis-feature beloved only by a set of users who're going to die off soon enough anyway.

P.S. file(1) and magic(4) are 'Unix purity' — file extensions are an antediluvian abomination

Re: Lemonodor Auxiliary

blasdelf — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:27:31 -0000

National is a *way* smaller airport though! The per-passenger rates look different:

MIA 0.00152
DCA 0.00130
LAX 0.00104
ATL 0.00026

1 in 1000 passengers losing their laptops is nothing to sneeze at.

Re: Scoble Just Doesn’t Get It

blasdelf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:46:39 -0000

While the principals at boingboing and their close friends are the ne plus ultra of New Media Douchebaggery, Giles Bowkett is a NMD too.

Re: Scoble Just Doesn’t Get It

blasdelf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:05:17 -0000

Another strong indicator of a New Media Douchebag is their former obsessions — while they might now be grinding themselves beneath the 'social' millstone, in the 90s they were all wrapped up in Macromedia Director, 'CDROMs', VR, 'multimedia' and cyber-anything. By tying their buzz-whoring lifestyle to their past blunders, it makes it much easier to convince people of the retardation of their current meme, and you don't even have to mock Second Life!Having anything but disdain for Dave Winer is also a bad sign.

Re: Google Chrome: Why I’m Not Excited

blasdelf — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:34:59 -0000

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Chrome is not trying to be the operating system, it's trying to get out of its way. By using a shared-nothing separate process for each tab and plugin, it's letting the Kernel and libc do the job they were designed to do.

Most modern browsers (especially FF3) are trying to do an operating system's job — scheduling logically independent processes, micro-managing memory allocations, mapping virtual memory, providing an internal windowing system, providing an internal GUI scripting system.

Chrome does none of these things. It parries them off to the real operating system, where they belong.

Re: Sanitising comments with Python

blasdelf — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:53:12 -0000

Guess what? You can't allow img tags with arbitrary src attributes if you want to protect yourself from javascript hax.

Both IE and Opera will evaluate any javascript they GET as a result of an img src, and the exploitative javascript can always hide the broken image in the DOM. Even without that vulnerability, you could exploit the fact that every client browser will GET that URL — a lot of webapps still do unRESTful things like destructive operations on GETs. Not to mention the old trick of using embedded images and referrers to track users!

Basically we can't have nice things. You can really only let people embed images that are hosted on trusted servers.

Re: The Tao of Mac - The Silver Surfer

blasdelf — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:17:10 -0000

Apple's unwilling to cripple their laptops by only giving them VGA, and unwilling to clutter them by putting both DVI and VGA ports on them.

I've got a dozen spare compact DVI-VGA adapters I could send you, just send me your address.