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NickBusey··on The heaviest bicycle in the world is 4800 lb
If you watched the video[0], it has 2 extra tires on a left side mount. Calling this a bicycle isn't even accurate. Tricycle is more like it, though technically looks like a quadcycle.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mWwOrIdjU

NickBusey··on ThumbHash: A better compact image placeholder hash
And this is why everything is slow and terrible. Because us developers use fast machines on fast connections, and assume everyone else does.

Travel to some far flung parts of the world, and see if your hypothesis holds true.

NickBusey··on Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely
I hate this idea that you either have to be happy with 100% of your job, or you have to find a new one.
NickBusey··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave.
NickBusey··on Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards
Keep them in the fridge for longer, the carbonation will go down over time.

Also, try placing the bottle in a container or bowl, then hold another (slightly narrower container) over the top of the bottle. You should be able to catch all of the liquid in the bowl to pour into a glass.

If you added a bunch of sugar and/or flavoring into the secondary fermentation / bottles, you added too much. If you didn't add anything, then you didn't let the primary fermentation go long enough.

NickBusey··on Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards
Make sweet tea, add SCOBY, wait. It really is that simple.

This is the basic recipe I use: https://www.reddit.com/r/kombucha/wiki/how_to_start#wiki_mas...

For more information, The Big Book of Kombucha will have everything you need and more.

Have fun! :)

NickBusey··on Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards
Whenever someone tells me how much they hate kombucha, I get the feeling they tried one gross bottle one time, and wrote it all off as bad.

I am brewing 5 flavors right now in my house. I assure you, they are delicious.

Guava Jasmine is my current favorite.

But keep hating on it if you like, you're missing out on something great.

NickBusey··on Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards
Are greenhouse emissions lower when fermenting some sweet tea, versus extracting oil from the earth, refining it, converting that into plastic, then forming that plastic into the shape you want?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, yes.

NickBusey··on Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off
My father used to work in a manufacturing plant where they would weigh the trucks coming in and out. The scales had to be in a fully enclosed garage or any breeze would throw the reading completely off.

I have a hunch that this same issue might be even more of a problem for an airplane.

NickBusey··on Local-First Web Development
Loading this site causes Brave browser on iOS to hard crash. Impressive.
NickBusey··on A compilation of websites with dumb password rules
Disabling paste anywhere is a cardinal sin.

“We want to make sure the user gets this right. So instead of letting them just hit Ctrl+V let’s make them type the whole thing, introducing all sorts of possibilities for errors!”

NickBusey··on Is remote work bad for the economy?
The author's answer to the title question seems to be: No.

Which I agree with.

If the answer was "Yes" however, I would question if that's even a bad thing to begin with. If our economy is reliant on people driving to an office and spending their money at a restaurant, then our economy is pretty terrible to begin with.

NickBusey··on Discovery could extend battery life by replacing tape that causes self‑discharge
This sounds like a small tweak in the manufacturing process that could lead to potentially very large gains down the road. Fantastic work!
NickBusey··on Japan skiers’ smartphones making unnecessary emergency calls
> I suspect 99.9% of hikers using an Apple watch don’t have a backpack.

I'm sorry, but what?

This is a wild claim to assert without any data whatsoever.

You think only one in one thousand people on a _hike_ are carrying a backpack?

NickBusey··on Make believe
Nope. None of that says that they have “improved their daily actions” just because they joined a social club.
NickBusey··on Make believe
> Following a religion improves your daily actions

Citation needed.

Edit: the fact that this is being downvoted is hilarious. Religion is a helluva drug.

NickBusey··on A Wicked Problem – The Second Egress: Building a Code Change
Yes, our obsession with not wanting to burn to death. So weird.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Theatre_fire

Or more recent and relevant, an apartment fire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bronx_apartment_fire

NickBusey··on Ask HN: Someone removing your MIT LICENSE in their fork?
And the 2nd answer seems to say that no, you can't just recopyright something. https://law.stackexchange.com/a/4150
NickBusey··on Ask HN: Someone removing your MIT LICENSE in their fork?
Yea seems strange. They have copywritten my copywritten files?
NickBusey··on The huge number of small breweries
Eat local is a big movement. Drink local should be just as important to those who drink. It supports the local economy. It’s more environmentally friendly. And the beer is usually way better to boot.
NickBusey··on Maryland law limits homeowner association control over eco-friendly yards
Oh no! Not houses surrounded with shrubbery! When will the madness end?!
NickBusey··on Let's make the web personal again
Had this happen to one of my projects. Someone decided to remove my name from the LICENSE file on their fork. I called them out on it, and they put it back, saying it was a "mistake".

The only thing in the original commit was removing my name. Hard to believe that could occur accidentally.

NickBusey··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
Much of what the author does manually can be automated even further. For example, the whole "Working with Embeds" section could be replaced with a DataView query.

I use DataView extensively to great effect. For example, every "Project" note uses the same template, which includes a #Project tag and a Status:: value containing a red, yellow, or green square emoji.

Then a simple query like:

```dataview TABLE Status FROM #Projects SORT file.mtime ASC ```

Gives you a very nice looking, automatically sorted and up to date Project status table.

NickBusey··on iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally
I would put comfort as the main benefit of Dvorak, far before speed.
NickBusey··on Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)
Interestingly, in UO the ground was a grid based system, you could only drop items into a tile and they would be centered there. So the floating inventory system was different code it would seem than the discrete ground system.
NickBusey··on The great junk transfer is coming
The article you linked I agree with almost fully, nice work.

The only part I have issue with is when the teacher says “we fix things by "switching them off and on again"” as if that’s a bad thing. I see and agree with your actual point, but a power cycle is generally step one for almost all debugging.

NickBusey··on Sliderland – Creative coding with 64 HTML sliders
If you missed the link at the bottom to the music video, you missed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUTPlQzfz1k
NickBusey··on Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
30,000 repos for 75,000 employees. How many of those employees are engineers?
NickBusey··on What is money, anyway?
This looks to be a potentially interesting article. I started scrolling. I kept scrolling. It is long. 23,000 words long. wordstotime.com says it will take roughly 3 hours to read.

Distrust any comment on the content that appears before the post is at least 3 hours old. Similarly how can we upvote it fast enough for the algorithm to not bury it before anyone has a chance to read it.

NickBusey··on Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?
I think you would find very many people interested. You should maybe put up some contact information.
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