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Also known.as: Jim Kingdon. Interested in: formal mathematics, software development, dance (especially country-western and #MorrisDancing, but many kinds), plants […] [bridged from https://sfba.social/@soaproot on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@highergeometer They are really throwing out all the stops* for a proper send-off.

* that is, those stops which do not involve the slightest inconvenience or additional expense.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@christianp @robinhouston It plays for me but there is a message about the transcoding (which I guess is supposed to affect who can play it, even if everything is working) and it doesn't show up in the channel yet.

I like PeerTube and it seems to generally work well for me, but that doesn't […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@olsenprime John Mastodon has many names and genders: #joanmastodon , #freddyverse , #DonToMás and many others. Or maybe those are all different people. It can be hard to tell when poring through the legends.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@kurt I guess the source of truth is https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/autonomous-vehicle-testing-permit-holders/ ? Although apparently you follow this more closely than me.
Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit Holders - California DMV
Permit holders who are allowed to test autonomous vehicles
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
@crankyflier.com Not gonna lie, I had to look up what Horizon Air is too (in addition to the - hypothetical I hope - customers trying to upgrade their wireless plan at an airport check-in counter)
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
@williampietri I handle it by not running for elected office.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
@kurt @rollovereasy I often walk by Clooney's at 7am on a weekday and am a little..... impressed I think is the word..... that it tends to be fairly lively.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
@crankyflier.com Every time I think you are exaggerating when you talk about how little commonality there is between the various parts of Lufthansa group, you come up with receipts like this.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
@bitboxer The version I heard was some version of wanting the servers professionally run with an oncall rotation, rather than by volunteers without a formal agreement about their rights and responsibilities. And an assertion that Spotify in particular was capable of providing this. To be honest […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@williampietri Yeah, "would be much more excited about it if they weren't chasing mediocre sci-fi dreams." is all too familiar (at least the tech world). I'm not too worried about whether electrification is on a good path - I already called it booming. I just wish there was a little more FOMO […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@williampietri My hunch is that decentralized social networks, like open source before them, will grow with or without monetization. That does assume there is a way of scaling moderation one way or another (I have ideas about how, but don't think they would fit in a brief post). But I'm not sure […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@bitboxer I can think of some fediverse related projects which might qualify but I'm not sure I know them well enough to be specific or even be quite clear which ones are software projects as opposed to operational.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@williampietri The two that I'm keen on right now are (1) decentralized social networks (this one appears to be happening but I don't know whether anyone will make money off it), (2) electrification (solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, industrial processes built on electricity rather than heat […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@christianp @SvenGeier I was going to suggest an en dash, not out of optimism but out of the opportunity to be outraged in an even more sophisticated fashion.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
@crankyflier.com Agreed, as I read the post I was thinking of short flights like San Francisco area to Truckee and similar routes.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
@crankyflier.com I had to look up the cruising speed of an ATR-42. A quick comparison:

High speed rail: 200 to 360 km/hr
ATR-42: 500 km/hr
737 MAX: 840 km/hr
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@williampietri OK, not actually knowing anything, I did the possibly unhelpful (but at least I learned a tiny bit) searching and mostly found things like https://github.com/avanc/photos which on the face of it is much more DIY than what you seem to be looking for. Posting here in case it helps […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@dbloom You'd think if the Bredas are/will-be gone there was/will-be a send off event but I don't see anything at https://www.streetcar.org/category/sfmsr-blogs/ or remember seeing anything elsewhere. Anecdotally that chart seems right: I don't remember seeing a Breda in operation in a while.
Boat Tram sails Fridays/Saturdays thru Oct. 11
**“Special Guest Streetcar” service has been operating on Fridays and Saturdays this summer. As it wraps up for the season, the very popular91-year old Blackpool “Boat Tram” will be out as often as possible on Fridays and Saturdays through October 11 (Fleet Week). Its first trip leaves Castro and Market around 12:30 p.m. and operates through about 6:30. You can see exactly where it is on our live streetcar map.** Read More……
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@dbloom Does anyone here know? I don't imagine it is very many Breda LRV3s because they don't, as far as I know, have much extra yard space.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@crankyflier.com OK read it now and..... I don't know off the top of my head what a good number is for on time but none of those three New York airports seem great. And I do know enough to say that 7% cancelled is, uh, something like 6% (ish) too high. As someone who lives near another United […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@crankyflier.com I haven't even read the article yet but I'm laughing already (simply because it comes from you and contains the word "Newark")
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
@highergeometer Ooh nice. For those who need the basics of what this ATLAS is, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_of_Finite_Groups - "sporadic groups and the smaller examples of the infinite families . . . a group's order, Schur multiplier, outer automorphism group, various constructions […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
@kingtor Hey, I'm not saying you need a new wildlife photography hobby. In case it matters, the definition of "good" has nothing to do with artistic quality, whether the subject is centered in the frame, anything like that, but is all about whether it provides enough information to ID to species […]
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
@timbray I'm not sure the open letter is going to solve much, but I dunno we've tried a bunch of other stuff and I don't think this will hurt.
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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
@kingtor Ooh nice. I didn't realize you'd make an account just to do this but I'm all for it. (Getting a good photo of the rodent it caught is not expected until you get to advanced mode).
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