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I was at a used bookstore and there was this volume called the Who's Who Almanac or something to that effect. I was shocked to find my dad's name in there! He was an academic in a rather narrow discipline. I wouldn't say he was a prolific publisher or had any major discoveries under his name, but he spoke numerous languages and was well-travelled. To be fair, the book was essentially a giant list of names and didn't include bios or anything, so the bar might have been pretty low? But still…

I suppose Facebook, if only because it's the hardest to avoid for me. Friends, family, local businesses, charities, bands I follow, bands I play in, friggin everything is on FB and the feed is such a cesspool at this point. And the only thing that might have a snowball's chance in Hell of challenging its dominance is maybe Discord? Some of my friends seem to be spending more time there of late, and a few community groups I'm involved with have started their own too. But I dunno.

So the provincial priorities are to make it harder to ride a bike but easier to consume alcohol and drive. I am clearly not their target demographic.

I'm not familiar with how Netflix's ad tier works and am almost afraid to ask, but could someone ELI5?

If a company wanted to push an ad on Netflix, wouldn't it be up to them to decide whether to use AI make the thing? Or is this sort of the equivalent of a small business sending a script to the local radio station to have the DJ read it (i.e. rather than producing their own ad), except they add some AI-generated visuals?

It means Trump said ok you win. Art of the deal.

The telcos had a brief opportunity to repair their reputation in Canada by riding a wave of patriotism. But no…

Well I guess he's effected some change there in that he's got me working hard to avoid reddit.

I saw a meme going around about our guy in Canada who met a similar fate. It compared him to a toilet, noting that while both are full of shit, the toilet at least has a seat.

Oh wow I hadn't realized that!

I checked on their web site. They say it can handle up to 140W for a 3-hour charge, which I assume means 28Vx5A. The minimum is 30W (20Vx1.5A).

That's interesting. I wonder what the battery voltage is? Since most ebikes are up in the 36-48V range and USB-C maxes out at 20V, they'd presumably need to do some step up transforming in there?

That's cool that the connector is bidirectional for charging portable electronics off your bike. I discovered my bike has a stealth USB-A output hidden behind a rubberized cover under the instrument panel. I didn't even know it was there for like a year, but it's awesome!

That's an interesting idea of having swappable battery packs rather than sitting around waiting for the thing to charge. I remember in the early days of EVs, there was some talk about that but it's much harder to pull off with the huge batteries in a car.

Yeah, I suppose they could also be useful for translation when travelling someplace where you can't read the language, provided it's reasonably accurate and not too laggy?

In terms of occasional use, I was thinking they could be good for loading speeches or music/lyrics when you're up on a stage. But while that seems like it ought to be a fairly trivial feature to implement, as both a software developer and performer, I could see this being more challenging than you think to get a good experience out of that sort of app.