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The #Fediverse is so cool. All I did was install the ActivityPub WordPress plugin and bam–listed at https://fediverse.network/wordpress.
This marks four ways I’m experimentally connected now–Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica, and this website…which means you can follow and comment on my posts by searching for @matt@mattbk.com in your favorite Fediverse platform.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and finally took a few evenings to do it. I built a Mastodon bot that toots each Grand Forks 311 request: https://botsin.space/@hackgfk_311. It also crossposts at https://twitter.com/hackgfk_311.
The code can be found at https://github.com/mattbk/hack-grand-forks. Yes, I built it in R.
Why “hack”? In the sense that this is information that should be more available to people, and I’m making it more available without going to a separate location. Perhaps something good can come of it.
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Rather than messing with curl, I went the long way and installed Kibana. It takes a little while to unzip. Run it in a very similar way to Elastisearch (bin\kibana.bat). Go to http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev_tools.
Paste in the solution from here:
PUT /<yourindex>/_settings { "index.blocks.read_only_allow_delete": null }
You may have run into this because you are close to the disk space limits. Rather than modifying those through Kibana, you can add them directly into elasticsearch\config\elasticsearch.yml.
Just a few bits. The rest of this Powerpoint is focused on cars, but…
As of 2014, 7780 people rock because they don’t drive to campus buy a parking pass:
A mystery slide at the end, wherein alternative transportation methods are recognized as existing:
Previous post: Babboe City Review, Part 1: Ordering and Shipping.
I’ve obviously not gone into as much detail as I had hoped with unboxing and building, but here are first impressions after about 60 miles of commuting without kids.
Since I’ve wanted a cargo bike for some time now (and saved up my pennies), I finally placed an order for a Babboe City and two accessories (rain tent and toddler seat) with myamsterdambike.com (MAB) on Friday, February 9th. This post will summarize the update process on shipping. If you are planning to purchase from a local shop (and you should, if you have one that stocks cargo bikes), you can skip this post.
I plan to write a series of posts about this bike as it arrives, gets unboxed, assembled, and ridden. A more detailed post about “why buy a cargo bike” and “why this cargo bike” is planned as well.
Things got interesting when Package 1 was delivered, because it contained the rain tent for a Babboe Curve, not a Babboe City (which I had ordered). I emailed My Amsterdam Bike and they will be shipping a new rain tent.
The same tracking numbers are used by both DHL and USPS. I didn’t know USPS would be delivering beforehand, I only found out through one of the DHL updates. Your delivery may use different vendors. Only the accessories arrived via USPS; the bicycle arrived in three boxes directly from DHL.
It took 18 and 19 days for accessories to arrive, and 24 days for the bicycle itself.
Here are the data on shipping to East Grand Forks, MN (dates with no news are included so you can see the pace of updates).
JohnDee.com has some pretty neat maps, but the URL structure is dynamic, so this one is a little more complicated than my previous skins. Enjoy!
Update: I’m not sure why this isn’t refreshing automatically, but manually refreshing the skin must reload the variables.
;Shows the 4-day snowfall prediction from JohnDee.com.
;Much help from https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/2qjbpw/help_build_url_by_concatenating_text_date_time/cn99at7/[Rainmeter]
Update=3600
;To make this to immediately show up, change value to 0 and refresh.[MeasureDateY]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y[MeasureDateM]
Measure=Time
Format=%m[MeasureDateD]
Measure=Time
Format=%d[MeasureURL]
Measure=String
String=http://johndee.com/wp-content/uploads/[MeasureDateY]/[MeasureDateM]/MIDSNOW[MeasureDateM][MeasureDateD].jpg
DynamicVariables=1[MeasureImage]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
MeasureName=MeasureURL
URL=[&MeasureURL]
Download=1[MeterImage]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage
H=375
W=500
This keeps popping into my head, so I finally looked at it. St. Lawrence University is a walking campus (parking only available on fringes), while UND allows parking within campus (and car culture is deeply ingrained).
How similar/dissimilar are the campus sizes? See for yourself with the below animation, maps at same scale (click for larger).
Sources:
If you try to use sum() directly in raster::aggregate() and have NA values, you’ll get NA as a result. You need to build a tiny function and pass the rm.na=T command to sum(). More succintly:
# Dissolve duplicate geometries and sum OOIP
fm <- raster::aggregate(fm.raw,
by="OilFieldID",
sums=list(list(function(x) sum(x,na.rm=T),
"OOIP_pooltable")))