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i have a Xeon laptop, it has a 1 hour battery life and weighs like 8lbs
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Apr 2, 2017 23:59
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Munkeymon posted:laptop with a Xeon badge 
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FamDav posted:real talk, I'd find it very hard to live in the bay and commute like an hour each way to a campus when I can live in Seattle and walk 20 minutes to work. at least they have the private busses, I guess. Her future apartment is half the price and a twenty minute walk to the office entirely on a river trail. Or she could canoe I guess.
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Apr 3, 2017 00:14
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hey I didn't pay for it I think it's just an overclocked i7 with the IGPU disabled? whatever - it's nicer than my desktop
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Munkeymon posted:hey I didn't pay for it No you just have to carry it and listen to the fan noise
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mishaq posted:individual car ownership is a societal blight and should be punished whenever possible this x 1000
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Apr 3, 2017 00:56
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we have 500 employees and 3 or 4 parking spots
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jre posted:No you just have to carry it and listen to the fan noise it's un ultrabook so it weighs like four pounds the fans maxing out on boot are pretty loud though yeah
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:bigass trucks trigger me pretty bad. anything bigger than like a minivan should need special permits to drive in downtown areas.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:16
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:my company reimburses us $70/month for buying mass transit but not for monthly parking if you choose to drive we get $76/mo for parking or transit. the covers one month of a metropass (unlimited access) or uh approx 7 days of parking at one of the cheaper lots.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:18
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Elder Postsman posted:anything bigger than like a minivan should need special permits to drive in downtown areas. mega agreedo'd my building was making the bike room larger this past weekend and switching from key to a keycard lock, im excited to see what it looks like on Monday (though it's supposed to rain all week so I guess I'll take the train that also is still only a 20 minute commute  what a bother)
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minivanmegafun posted:mega agreedo'd my building put in a room like that last summer, it's really nice to have. you used to have to haul your bike up on the elevator. they even included a little bike tune-up station. like one of these: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-10maKcJx1Xo/UYGAD9bUt3I/AAAAAAAAAHM/acsyuKS0D9o/s1600/closeupdero.JPG
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 we have a tune-up station too! i carry a bike multitool everywhere but it's still nice to have
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Apr 3, 2017 01:27
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mishaq posted:individual car ownership is a societal blight and should be punished whenever possible i have 4 car garaging in my house
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echinopsis posted:i have 4 car garaging in my house yeah but your congestion is so low that its unusual for a bridge to be two-direction
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um idk about unusual mate but one lane bridges are certainly a thing on lower congested roads. i live in a sprawing city where it can take me 45 mintues to get to work when its only 5 kms away
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echinopsis posted:i live in a sprawing city where it can take me 45 mintues to get to work when its only 5 kms away lol why dont you walk
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wtf is wrong with you
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mate...you're the one sitting in your car for almost an hour to go 3 miles you could bike that in like 20 minutes at an elderly person's pace
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that's like walking speed but in a car lol
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having a personal or company vehicle is essential when you have to transport tools or other materials to and from a job site and most real companies accommodate this as part of business expenses but given that we're not talking about real jobs here, i'm okay with not allowing programmers to have personal vehicles for any reason as their work is non-essential (or actively harmful)
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mishaq posted:mate...you're the one sitting in your car for almost an hour to go 3 miles lol I just guessed earlier and its 10km but gently caress - biking? the helmet fucks up your hair and sometimes it rains? gently caress that i just applied for a job.. a junior position 
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plus you'll fuckin die on a bike
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echinopsis posted:lol I just guessed earlier and its 10km 10k on a bike should take you 20 minutes at a normal pace. How out of shape are you that you would rather sit in a car?
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ratbert90 posted:10k on a bike should take you 20 minutes at a normal pace. How out of shape are you that you would rather sit in a car? he could also live in an unbikeable hell, i'm theoretically a bikeable distance from stuff but the lowest traffic road I have is still a 60mph road with no shoulder. i'd feel more comfortable biking if it weren't already lined with 3 ghost bikes in one two mile stretch.
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in case somebody here doesn't know what ghost bikes are, they're this  a permanent daily reminder on my commute that death is coming. 1700 cyclists hit by cars in houston since 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/04/houston-hit-run-personalised-ghost-bikes-invisible-dead-cyclists
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Apr 3, 2017 14:15
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yeah don't bike on us roads because they're massive, people speed well in excess of the high speed limits, everyone is texting and driving, and the barrier to getting a drivers license is laughably low a nice two lane new zealand and road is a different story
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Twerk from Home posted:in case somebody here doesn't know what ghost bikes are, they're this irl high score tables. that rules
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mishaq posted:yeah don't bike on us roads because they're massive, people speed well in excess of the high speed limits, everyone is texting and driving, and the barrier to getting a drivers license is laughably low speed limits are arbitrarily set for monetary gain and have no relation to safety. the road was built with a specific speed in mind and drivers will naturally drive at that speed. bicycles are not capable of traveling at safe speeds with normal traffic and thus have no business on the road.
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Shaggar posted:irl high score tables. that rules haha good sir i have ruined my keyboard spewing forth the carbonated beverage which was in my mouth your humor is truly unparalleled!
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agreed - American roads are improperly designed
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:haha good sir i have ruined my keyboard spewing forth the carbonated beverage which was in my mouth
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Shaggar posted:speed limits are arbitrarily set for monetary gain and have no relation to safety. the road was built with a specific speed in mind and drivers will naturally drive at that speed. bicycles are not capable of traveling at safe speeds with normal traffic and thus have no business on the road. Shaggar I like you but I need to understand what makes you think cars have an inherent right to exist over a bicycle.
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Shaggar posted:speed limits are arbitrarily set for monetary gain and have no relation to safety. the road was built with a specific speed in mind and drivers will naturally drive at that speed. bicycles are not capable of traveling at safe speeds with normal traffic and thus have no business on the road. lol
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Shaggar I like you but I need to understand what makes you think cars have an inherent right to exist over a bicycle. cars are useful transportation and bicycles are not. the problem is that even if you were to design slow "roads" for bicycles now you're in the same range as pedestrians. since pedestrians outnumber bicycles they would get priority on any such mixed use paths. and in most cases you don't really have a lot of room for all of this so the priority would go to paths and roadways pedestrians and cars.
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I think a better question is why do you think bicycles should be allowed on the roads when they clearly cannot be operated safely?
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Shaggar posted:cars are useful transportation and bicycles are not. the problem is that even if you were to design slow "roads" for bicycles now you're in the same range as pedestrians. since pedestrians outnumber bicycles they would get priority on any such mixed use paths. and in most cases you don't really have a lot of room for all of this so the priority would go to paths and roadways pedestrians and cars. I think the lesson should be to peel back car usage in non-ideal circumstances, meaning any trip that is A) Not long distance, and B) not mandated via a health concern or handicap. I don't think "gently caress bikes" is the lesson you should take from the modern city experience, if anything it should be "gently caress cars." lol at this happening in America, however. Shaggar posted:I think a better question is why do you think bicycles should be allowed on the roads when they clearly cannot be operated safely? They can be operated safely, just not in a context of cars monopolizing all available space and roadway because they were there first. Your premise is that cars must be the predominant form of transport, and I disagree with that assessment. Wrath of the Bitch King fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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bicycles wouldn't be a replacement for cars in cities though. subway/elevated rail is the only proper replacement.
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