Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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@dkf said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Carnage said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Carnage said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Sounds like stone modern games.
Ah, but they wouldn't let Sisyphus pay-to-win!
Pay to get the illusion of progress for a few minutes, only for the reality of the epic futility of it a little while later?
It works in games, so why not?
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Depends on the kind of fire, obviously.
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@izzion That's so much more understandable.
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@HardwareGeek the problem with lock icon is that to many non-tech-savvy users, it screams "it's safe to type in your password".
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@Gustav The problem is that many non-tech-savvy users don't give a shit about how the icon looks or what it does.
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@Applied-Mediocrity yes, but a padlock is particularly bad in this case.
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@Zecc said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Carnage What a great way to teach children.
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@hungrier What's the alcohol content of those thingies?
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@BernieTheBernie not high enough.
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@Arantor Too bad, that they did not use the funny recipe mentioned in by ... not too long ago. Also, the thingies there were not Lego-shaped...
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@BernieTheBernie I think the Lego shape is why not sure if good, bad or evil idea.
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@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@BernieTheBernie I think the Lego shape is why not sure if good, bad or evil idea.
What good is lego if stepping on it with bare feet does not hurt?
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@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@BernieTheBernie I think the Lego shape is why not sure if good, bad or evil idea.
What good is lego if stepping on it with bare feet does not hurt?
I was thinking more “choking hazard” in this context.
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@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@BernieTheBernie I think the Lego shape is why not sure if good, bad or evil idea.
What good is lego if stepping on it with bare feet does not hurt?
There's the squeamish factor when stepping on something gooey. Especially if that happens on a carpet.
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@dcon said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Arantor said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@BernieTheBernie I think the Lego shape is why not sure if good, bad or evil idea.
What good is lego if stepping on it with bare feet does not hurt?
There's the squeamish factor when stepping on something gooey. Especially if that happens on a carpet.
I was always fond of the "warm liquid on a carpet" sensation, myself.
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I was always fond of the "warm liquid on a carpet" sensation, myself.
I fixed that by ripping out all the carpeting. And exposing really nice hardwood floors.
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@dcon Can't do that if I'm renting. Nor if the "really nice hardwood floors" aren't hardwood, just a concrete slab.
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@dcon Can't do that if I'm renting. Nor if the "really nice hardwood floors" aren't hardwood, just a concrete slab.
A nice layer of epoxy on to of the raw concrete and make a new? trend.
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@Carnage said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
epoxy on to of the raw concrete
Nah, something like this:
Or simpler and probably cheaper, a layer of closed-cell foam between the concrete and wood. Or if you prefer something more traditional, criss-crossed strips of wood subfloor, offset so there's at least one air-gap between the floor and slab.
In any case, though, it pretty much requires not being a renter. Landlords tend to disapprove of significant modifications like that.
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
In any case, though, it pretty much requires not being a renter. Landlords tend to disapprove of significant modifications like that.
Or, worse, say "thank you for the gift" and increase your rent as the property value has gone up.
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@dkf Yeah, my lease explicitly says anything I attach to the house becomes the landlord's property. There are some minor things I don't care. Handheld shower nozzle. I can put the original back and the landlord will never know, but if he somehow does notice, worst case is I'm out, I don't remember, maybe $30, and I've gotten years of use out of it. A new LED ceiling lamp in the bedroom I use as the computer room, because the old one went poof! $20. It's easier to fix it myself than to get the landlord to do it. Big stuff, like the furnace or water heater, yeah, that's the landlord's job to fix it. New floor, that definitely requires the landlord's permission, and preferably his dime, but <$50 repairs or improvements, I don't mind doing those myself.
The other risk is that he'll say, "Thank you for the gift. Oh, by the way, that unauthorized modification is a violation of the lease; you have 30 days to vacate the premises." Tiny risk for something like a shower nozzle; significantly bigger risk for replacing the floor.
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@HardwareGeek said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The other risk is that he'll say, "Thank you for the gift. Oh, by the way, that unauthorized modification is a violation of the lease; you have 30 days to vacate the premises." Tiny risk for something like a shower nozzle; significantly bigger risk for replacing the floor.
If you're clearly improving the place (and it's not just a matter of substituting your tastes for his), he probably wouldn't kick you out for it. It costs the landlord downtime to get a new tenant; landlords appreciate tenants who pay their rent and don't cause problems.
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@jinpa said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
landlords appreciate tenants who pay their rent and don't cause problems.
But only as long as those tenants are too stupid to shop around and realize the landlord is raising rent on existing tenants much faster than he's raising the new tenant price
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@izzion My rent went up by almost 10% this year. The property manager included a list of comps with the lease extension showing that I'm still paying below the average for the area. It's a big increase, but it's a nice house, it's worth this much rent, and it's far less than I'd be paying in Commiefornia.
As as for not causing problems, the landlord has had to replace the water heater, furnace, a/c, and part of a fence in the 3 years I've been here. None of those are my fault; they'd have needed repair or replacement regardless of who was living here, but something something shoot the messenger. Still, they like me well enough to let me stay another year.
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The bike lane here
In the second picture it's not very clear, but the curb extends into the bike lane for the pedestrian crossing, pushing the bikes into the car lanerepeatedly merges with the car lane for various ‘traffic calming’ obstacles, and I can't decide whether it's a good thing those obstacles are there to prevent morons from gunning it too much, or a bad thing because the repeated merging just increases the risk someone forgets to look at the wrong moment.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The bike lane here
In the second picture it's not very clear, but the curb extends into the bike lane for the pedestrian crossing, pushing the bikes into the car lanerepeatedly merges with the car lane for various ‘traffic calming’ obstacles, and I can't decide whether it's a good thing those obstacles are there to prevent morons from gunning it too much, or a bad thing because the repeated merging just increases the risk someone forgets to look at the wrong moment.
At least they're honest about how much bike traffic they expect
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@izzion or how much they respect bike traffic.
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: We need a bike lane here.
: That's not really possible, there are too many obst...
: Look, I already promised a bike lane to my voters. I don't care how you do it, but you do it.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The bike lane here
I like how the bicyclist symbol changes.
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@Zerosquare said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
: We need a bike lane here.
: That's not really possible, there are too many obst...
: Look, I already promised a bike lane to my voters. I don't care how you do it, but you do it.
:Hm, I think some of the islands on pedestrian crossings were actually added after the bike lane was already there (and it was interrupted because of them).
@jinpa said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I like how the bicyclist symbol changes.
It changes between the standard symbol for bike lane and the standard symbol for ‘mind the cyclists’ on a normal road.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
repeatedly merges with the car lane for various ‘traffic calming’ obstacles, and I can't decide whether it's a good thing those obstacles are there to prevent morons from gunning it too much, or a bad thing because the repeated merging just increases the risk someone forgets to look at the wrong moment.
The real problem for cyclists is that so much of the road width is used for motor vehicle storage.
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@dkf The parking places themselves are mostly OK. The street is, well, would be wide enough if it wasn't for the islands and bays around the pedestrian crossings. And if it wasn't for the new rule that one has to pass cyclists with at least 1.5m (5 ft), the bike lane is not that wide, but nobody takes it that seriously.
The worst part is that often people stop on the road to load or unload something (with hazard lights on, but that's not an excuse). The existence of the bike lane actually prohibits that, but people still do, because the parking spaces are almost always crammed full.
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@Bulb Around here, they would probably have put in two narrower islands, one between each bicycle path and a shared car lane. Because of width limitations, this means cars would need to yield to oncoming traffic, which is an effective traffic calming measure as long as the traffic volume on the road isn't so high it causes traffic to back up.
I agree the parking here is a problem though. Cars leaving their parking spots have to yield to traffic on both the main road and the bike path, but most cars are parked forward (AKA the wrong way around) which makes it impossible to see anything.
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@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Bulb Around here, they would probably have put in two narrower islands, one between each bicycle path and a shared car lane. Because of width limitations, this means cars would need to yield to oncoming traffic, which is an effective traffic calming measure as long as the traffic volume on the road isn't so high it causes traffic to back up.
My guess is the traffic volume is such that it just might work or just might not.
I agree the parking here is a problem though. Cars leaving their parking spots have to yield to traffic on both the main road and the bike path, but most cars are parked forward (AKA the wrong way around) which makes it impossible to see anything.
Yeah, the cars parking and unparking is a bit of a problem, but it's not a space problem.
Regarding wrong way, I do prefer to back into parking spots, because it requires a bit less maneuvering space and the margin to the next car is actually better visible in the mirrors, but somehow most drivers prefer parking forward.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
somehow most drivers prefer parking forward
Immediate vs. delayed gratification, IMO.
Parking in forward is easier. At the moment people are making a decision about which direction to park in, they don't factor in the effort when parking out, so they just pick the least effort.
People can't think in advance. Or even at all. News at 10.
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Regarding wrong way, I do prefer to back into parking spots, because it requires a bit less maneuvering space and the margin to the next car is actually better visible in the mirrors, but somehow most drivers prefer parking forward.
When you park forward, you can generally keep moving — if you’re parking on the same side as the lane of traffic you’re in, you don’t have to yield to oncoming traffic unless the parking spot is so narrow as to require you to swing wide — and once you start parking you GTFOTW pretty quickly.
When you park in reverse, you have to drive past the parking spot, hope the guy behind you realizes you’re about to be a cunt, and then block both directions of traffic for basically the entire time you’re parking. Double bonus cunt points if you’re in a giant pickup truck, though I suppose the contract you sign when you buy one of those probably requires you to park it in the cuntiest fashion at all times.
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@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
When you park forward, you can generally keep moving
Only if two adjacent spaces are open. If there's only a single space, you will not be able to make the turn.
@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
and then block both directions of traffic for basically the entire time you’re parking
If you do it the way you were taught at driving school (in NL), you only block the lane you're starting out in.
Also, in most European countries it is not allowed to park on the opposite side of the road unless you're on a one-way road.
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@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Only if two adjacent spaces are open. If there's only a single space, you will not be able to make the turn.
Have you tried not driving a gigantic
compensation vehiclepickup truck?I don't have problems with having to swing out too much in my Honda Insight (midsize sedan) Especially in well designed parking (aka angled parking, or the parallel parking around here where they intentionally mark about 0.25 spaces worth of curb as no parking every other space, so you can always park forward, not that most of the morons driving around here realize that...)
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@izzion Normal (us: 'compact') car. Normal perpendicular spaces. 60° spaces are a completely different story and should always be parked forwards.
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@remi said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Parking in forward is easier.
That's what I personally don't think. I find it easier to back into the spot, because in the mirror I actually see better how well I am aligned. But most people apparently do find it easier.
@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
if you’re parking on the same side as the lane of traffic you’re in, you don’t have to yield to oncoming traffic unless the parking spot is so narrow as to require you to swing wide
It definitely does in this case. In fact I think parking forward requires you to always swing wider than parking in reverse (for perpendicular parking spots).
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@Bulb said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
how well I am aligned
I drive a Beamer. I don't care about my alignment
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@Luhmann said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
drive a Beamer.
This explains much about you.
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I mentioned paying extra for the blinkers earlier in this thread
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@Luhmann did you get the special BMW glass that filters out all the non-BMW drivers on the road, or is that now a subscription extra?
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@Arantor
Cheaper than the heated seats subscription
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@dkf said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
The real problem for cyclists is that so much of the road width is used for motor vehicle storage.
In Hannover (capital of Lower Saxony in Germany) they recently converted a low-traffic street into a "bike-priority" street. Previously the street looked similar to the picture above, after the conversion the bike lanes were larger with one single shared lane for cars. One older resident was incensed and went to court over this. He actually succeeded because the bike lanes were still a bit too narrow according to the regulations and thus didn't fulfill the criteria for such a "bike-priority" street.
What did the city do? Removed the parking spaces for the cars and used the free space for walkways and bike lanes equally.
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@Rhywden I wonder if the complainer regretted complaining.