[-] paige@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

“Can’t do a congestion charge until…” Is another I’ve heard lately

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Literally a blog post written by a public transit supporter.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

Wow. Nice. Congestion charges literally go towards improving transit. Also government in Canada are already spending record amounts on building transit. If you need to go into a zone that would have a congestion charge in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) you would have at least a park and ride option.

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submitted 5 months ago by paige@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Seems especially obvious with the geography and transit funding shortfalls present in both Montreal and Vancouver.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

This is awesome and confirms what I've been hoping, although it looks like the big dummy is being discontinued so I'll probably have to move quick if I want one new. I have a couple of questions that it seems you'd have the answers to: Q) I think I know the answer from reading your blog, but if you didn't own any cargo bike already, would you buy a Big Dummy or would you just put that money towards a Big Easy? Q) Is it possible to just ride around with the battery removed or flat? Is it pretty much the same bike plus the weight of the motor? Q) I already own nice (standard) paniers, can those be clipped onto the side of these cargo bikes, or do they have a different sort of rack. Q) Thoughts on riding an electric cargo bike in the snow/slush?

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I used to live and bike in Philly on the bike share and it was pretty good back in 2015, have things just stalled out or something?

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

If that works for you great. Those little front wheels and cargo out front is just not the direction Im looking to go, I’m basically wanting a gravel bike with cargo carrying by default.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I just don’t think I want the default to be storing cargo out front, I like pulling stuff from behind.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah the Big Dummy is the other closest thing I found. Got any thoughts on it vs the Mundo Lux?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by paige@lemmy.ca to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

Living in Montreal I’ve gotten to the point where I only ride my own bike when I’m transporting paniers of stuff or doing an overnight trip. I installed a double kickstand on my old bike and its worked well until today when my old frame kicked the bucket. I realized that what I basically want is a slightly long tail cargo bike. A rack that’s big and built in, not electric, normal sized wheels and straight handlebars. The weird thing is, I can’t find this product. I’d assume it would be a popular choice for people touring with a lot of kit, but almost everything I’ve found seems to be for electric urban cruising with a couple of kids on the back. Has anyone else looked for this product and encountered a similar gap in the market?

The Yuba Mundo Lux is probably as close as I’ve seen, but has anyone done a few full days on it? It’s probably too much to spend if it can’t handle a few days on tour.

Edit: I’ve decided to dabble with a cheap second hand aluminum Kona Ute, because I live in a salted road winter an aluminum frame is good to have around. If I like it, I’ll probably invest in an electric option for the other 3 seasons.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I did the same thing when the pandemic was over, although I’m never really sure where to go in my neighborhood so in effect I hardly ever eat out

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds like just a few integration tests for the core use cases is the ticket, just like before. Real unfortunate, I would have bet that by now that there would be some startup that had made an automated user that you trained to do tests with a chrome extension or something.

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submitted 6 months ago by paige@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

Nearly a decade back I wrote a lot of browser CI tests with headless chrome as well as browser stack. I loved the idea, but they just didn’t handle things being a bit outside of perfect IRL, like taking a moment longer to load etc. They ended up having a lot of waits in them, taking a long time to write and were prone to being flakey. The tests basically lacked “common sense” and it made me think that one day someone would figure out how to make them work better.

I’m wondering if there are new frameworks, workflows, startups that have made this stuff easier and better. I’m not really in tech anymore but I wouldn’t mind writing some tests if the experience was better.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Cool, I can use this account too.

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Why Canadian Teams Stopped Winning (video.canadiancivil.com)
submitted 6 months ago by paige@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Made this video a couple of years back, now it’s on PeerTube.

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