end of an era, beginning of another
(pretty nice to live in a place where i can just opportunistically take cool pictures of train stations)
Tris shared 8 days ago
is that an integral? sorry I don't do applied math :( I'm more interested in fundamental truths such as new aperiodic monotiles
Tris shared 9 days ago
I don't know how or if I can report this, which means I don't know if I'll write about it "officially" but it's truly unsettling to me how little national orgs, particularly HRC but others as well, are doing in response to the slow motion roll back of all our rights and progress.
They should be making so much noise they're unavoidable. Constant op-eds placed, constant interviews, their websites re-tooled to highlight the current fights and their place in it.
Tris shared 12 days ago
on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html
"where does my computer get the time from?"
a blogified version of the lightning talk I gave at #RIPE86 this morning
usb type-C oscilloscope probe
I really lucked out today -- happened to be at the right place at the right time to see an HMCRA (local public railroad authority) operation!!
cute date idea: stand up infrastructure to enable and encourage folks to yell at their state legislators together
Tris shared 27 days ago
ilo waso sona
the middle names at the store are free, you can take as many as you like. i have 92 middle names
here is a weird transit speedrun category: mbta all subway lines (just ride on each line for at least one stop).
it's not necessarily the downtown loop I think -- Bowdoin > Government Center is possibly better than Government Center > State on blue for example, blue should maybe go first because of headways, and on the last line you take, you can go in either direction (so minimize distance between platforms, be at a station with an island platform, or keep an eye on realtime arrivals on your phone)
anyway, I just clocked 15:25.5 with zero prep (missed a commuter rail train and had an hour to burn lol) but a lot of luck on transfer timing -- all transfers were less than 5 minutes. route was Bowdoin, Govt Center, Park St, Downtown Crossing, Chinatown). might try to optimize this later lol
Tris shared a month ago
the Home Depot and the Office Depot are well-established and even venerated in the average American community. but the lack of a Third Space Depot speaks to the destruction of our mutual bonds, the atomization forced upon us by our economic system, and the unfortunate fact that it is difficult to sell an urban park in a big box retailer
type of organization called "Committee of [n]" which has 3n members :/
just reported my 100th broken streetlight >__> why is this one of my hobbies
I had no idea that railway turntables existed until I stumbled across this one (not in use anymore), after wandering around downtown long enough to find my way to a railroad museum last week
Tris shared a month ago
An incomplete list of weird, but valid, street types in Australia. (By street type I mean the bit that goes after the street name, e.g. the "Street" in "Ramsay Street", or the "Highway" in "Princes Highway").
• Acre (ACRE): how is this a street‽
• Heights (HTS), Valley (VLLY): I’ve heard this in suburb names, but never street names.
• Boulevarde (BVDE): Boulevard (BVD) is already on the list. why.
• Circle (CIR), Circlet (CLT), Circuit (CCT), Loop (LOOP): pick ONE. Come on.
(Continued in 🧵)
beamforming a capella group