I turned on featured photos for my lockscreen and have been really satisfied with both the photos that it picks and the way that the liquid glass clock refracts sunlight. Thought this one from yesterday was really impressive

What is in these docs that doesn’t fit in docstrings, block comments, API documentation, etc? Do you handle things like design docs, proposals, and decision docs the same way?

A thought I had on that from a few weeks ago: bsky.app/profile/benk...

It was shocking moving to SF from Boston how wide and scary the streets downtown are

Update: managed to find some info about these permits in the news releases from 1974 at www.bart.gov/50years/docu..., and summarized at sfbike.org/our-work/reg.... Looks like bikes were first allowed on BART in 1975 and required a permit through 1997. I wonder when this little sticker is from.

Looking for date stamps on the components, plus the super helpful info at www.vintage-trek.com/component_da..., seems to indicate that this bike is from ~1976. It rides great!

Yeah, I agree that the term is overloaded and we should be careful. To me, suburb refers to the form, while to most people it probably refers to the location. But I wonder if the reason for the vague term is because there seems to be so little out there about “urbanism” outside of cities.

So, I find it hard to think about what a successful and sustainable suburb looks like. The Strong Towns book left me wondering if it’s even possible for the classic suburb to be self-sustaining. I think this is maybe why suburbs get somewhat ignored: the solutions are, at least to me, less clear.

I know that urban experience in small towns exists. It happens in places like grocery stores and pickleball courts rather than in the street. Even the way drivers interact and the way that people’s cars become part of their identity is interesting. But everything seems to focus on cities.

I wish I knew of more resources to help me think about the “urban experience” outside of cities. I grew up in a small town & loved it, but nearly all of the urban planning literature that I read focuses on cities. In The Death and Life, Jacobs even warns against trying to apply the book to towns.

Yep my bad on that, got the abbreviated terms mixed up. Indeed it wouldn’t make sense to compare the (total) heat capacity of any two materials

Every source I could find shows that it does (note that I should have said higher _specific_ heat capacity, I didn’t realize that ‘heat capacity’ without the qualifier refers to the specific heat capacity multiplied by mass)

E.g.: www.engineeringtoolbox.com/amp/specific...

In what way does it depend on heat capacity? Both the ocean and the atmosphere can hold effectively infinite heat since they are so large, but standing in the ocean feels cold but standing in the atmosphere doesn’t.

Temperature perception doesn’t actually have much to do with how much heat it can hold, right? I thought it was mostly based on thermal conductivity, which AFAIK are mostly independent. Same reason that metal feels much colder than wood, despite wood having a higher heat capacity than most metal.

I wonder what cities would look like if Uber had sold their ride-hailing tech to taxi companies instead of enlisting their own drivers.

And now that Uber is what it is, I wonder if there’s some way to reconcile its app matching with the much more efficient taxi-stand strategy for popular spots.

As a Zoomer, I barely know what a taxi is. I would be scared to try to hail one. (Can you even do that anymore?) But in Vegas it’s obvious that we solved the car-service-at-popular-location problem long ago with the taxi stand. Uber’s rider-driver prematching is dysfunctional at these places.

On the way back home around 2am, I walked out the front door of Caesar’s Palace, where a line of taxis were waiting. I got in the first one, said that I wanted to go to the Aria, and paid less than I would have for an Uber after getting out 10 minutes later.