Month: January 2019
When the bulb costs more than the lamp…
Every one of us at some time in our life bought one of these ‘torchiere’ lamps. Stands on the floor, about the same height as a person. They cost about $20 when I bought mine. They came with a 300W halogen bulb in a tube-style packaged called a ‘T3’ (tubular 3). Most (all?) are 118mm…
Smart locks on an AirBnB in oakland? Are you nuts?
So I’m coming up on a conference in San Francisco. And the hotels are crazy expensive. Like more than my first car, per night expensive. I shopped around, and flophouses that have shared bathrooms and are featured in documentaries on Netflix about heroin injection are $300/night. Normally I stay at the airport and take the…
The sad case of the DNS and the Deployment
Many years ago there were a small enough machines on the Internet that everybody remembered their names and IP address. Later, this became a single file (hosts.txt) that was shared around. Life was good, shag carpet was considered in-style, and bell-bottoms pretty-neat. Disco ruled. Fast forward to the early 80’s. DNS was invented. It scaled…
Cool weather and e-bikes observations
So yes I rode in this am. No it was not warm. The main issues were: The snow in the park was about 15-20cm deep and frozen. My wheels sunk in and then i was full stopped! Revert to the road. No amount of power was going to go through that The battery provides negligible…
Cool weather and e-bikes
So it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to corelate that colder weather means less juice in the batteries of your e-bike. This manifests itself in range for sure, but more obviously in torque. There’s just a lot less assist available. Unlike electric cars, e-bikes don’t have battery conditioning (like an air-conditioner/heater for the batteries). In…