All that aero is probably not working so well for you. Even on my mountain bike with grippy and wide tires I get over 40 mph. On my gravel I can hit over 50 mph, and thats with 45mm tires.
I can get close to 50 mph (safely) downhill on my 30 year old steel framed 8 speed bike with 20mm tubular tires pumped to 120 psi. No problem with riding at 20 mph on the flats and I'm close to 60 years of age. My "aero" CF bikes with deep carbon rims are minimally faster. Speed is irrelevant unless you are racing. Enjoy the ride and stop relying on equipment for minimal performance gains.
Its totally possible to hit over 40 mph on steep hills on an MTB, especially if you weigh more. I was more referring to slight grades with just pure rolling without pedaling.
Im in Austin so I frequent COTA Bike nights on Tuesdays on the track. Coming down the hill from turn 1 with other riders is a very good test of aero efficiency, because there is a slight uphill after the bend. Couple of my friends ride gravel bikes, one of them is heavier than me, and its pretty clear that that my bike is more efficient.
Shout-out to Violet Crown, PHENOM, Breakfast Club, UNITED, Night Owls, and all the other great cycling clubs in Austin! Wonderful community that I still miss.
Have you tried swapping bikes with your buddy? Are you two the same height/weight? Who has the more flexible spine? It would be fascinating to measure aerodynamic efficiency for two riders on the same bike. Is the more variation within populations, or between populations?
Scientists have theoretically predicted that light can be bent under pseudogravity. A recent study by researchers using photonic crystals has demonstrated this phenomenon. This breakthrough has significant implications for optics, materials science, and the development of 6G communications.
Very cool! I might borrow some of your ideas and implement them on my own reading log (https://edmundo.is/reading). Right now it’s just a list of all books I have read, but I'm working on implementing filters for genre and year (year only shows on hover for now, or by tapping the book on mobile), and maybe breaking the grid by year like you have!
I use Duo almost everyday (and so do my friends) and IMO it has the best audio/video quality overall, speciality on sketchy connections.
Glad to see they are still making improvements, but with Google you know that products are simply abandoned from time to time so can't get too attached to it really.
Duo seamlessly handles switching from Wifi to LTE when walking outside my house. Most other services drop the call. Not sure if it's the case anymore but Slack used to lock up completely.
Ditto. I had never heard of Duo until, after limitless frustration with flaky Slack calls (starting twice, not starting, phantom copy of myself in the room, phone keeps ringing after I've answered the call on desktop, etc), a friend suggested we try Duo instead.
I've been blown away. I've never given it access to my phonebook, so I just dial numbers by number, but the video quality is stunning. The latency is so low as to be almost jarring compared to other video services, and usage is simply effortless. Duo Just Works™. I haven't looked into how or why it's so good, but I'd love to learn more....
....and hopefully find an independent system that works the same way so I can keep using it when Google inevitably shitcans this a few months down the road.
> Duo seamlessly handles switching from Wifi to LTE
Maybe they can teach the Waze team to do this since they're both part of Google. Relevant because in my driveway my phone will still be on my wifi, and when I drive away, Waze becomes unusable for a few minutes.
I'm a designer and I do user testing for every feature in the app I'm working on – usually using Sketch or Framer X for cases where better prototypes are needed, and in mostly all cases the design changes because of it. It's very hard to get it right in he first try, and I can't believe I'm the exception here.
Funny thing too: because I usually do the implementation of my own designs (react-native app so not so big of a barrier), I usually discover limitations of the original design and have to tweak it to better fit the medium.
The same happens with the iOS Simulator. I noticed when developing an app (that doesn't need any microphone permissions itself), my noise cancelling headphones would stop the noise cancelling feature, like it happens when calling someone and using the microphone. Resetting the permissions and denying “fixed” the issue for me.
Our information ecosystem is truly polluted. It's hard to find impartial journalism these days – or maybe it was always like that? I think that our willingness to share content (without thinking) is exploited to spread disinformation.
Even this article isn't great, though it's obviously better than the hoaxes on social media. For instance, they start off the article with the claim that Brazil has seen a record number of forest fires in 2019 and a scary-looking graph of them increasing from 2013. They then follow up with a repetition of activists' claims that right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is to blame. You have to scroll down several pages to the very end of the article before you find out that actually, the fire activity is close to average and 2013 was an unusualy fire-free year - and also many of the other countries in the region are seeing similar increases in the number of fires.
From your description, that seems like an understatement. If you cherry pick starting points to make s graph look dramatic and leave out crucial context so that readers will assume the worse, that’s not just “not great” it’s flat out fraudulent, manipulative propaganda.
Not really, they've had a slow and steady decline into becoming a tabloid over the past decade. That doesn't mean we can't hold a state broadcaster to a higher standard than others.
All that aero is probably not working so well for you. Even on my mountain bike with grippy and wide tires I get over 40 mph. On my gravel I can hit over 50 mph, and thats with 45mm tires.