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Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 13

  1. neville park (nev@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 20:23:45 EDT neville park neville park

    lazy days

    #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 20:23:45 EDT from social.coop permalink Repeated by gnomon
  2. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:57:01 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber

    @cwebber GODSPEED

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:57:01 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  3. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:55:32 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber Christine Lemmer-Webber
    • dave stranding
    • Jakob

    "guix deploy" is in git master! Amazing work @jakob ! (and thanks for co-mentoring @dthompson for co-mentoring) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00066.html

    Give it a spin and see what you think!

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:55:32 EDT from octodon.social permalink Repeated by gnomon
  4. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:56:21 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin

    Would anyone be interested in a weekly #gitTips thing..?

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:56:21 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  5. vilmibm (vilmibm@cybre.space)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:12:34 EDT vilmibm vilmibm

    do you have ideas about making multiuser terminal environments more accessible to folks new to them? i'm starting to catalog some work around this for tilde.town and would love to hear from other people: https://github.com/orgs/tildetown/projects/5

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:12:34 EDT from cybre.space permalink Repeated by gnomon

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      Build software better, together
      from GitHub
      GitHub is where people build software. More than 36 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
  6. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:31:10 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    in reply to
    • Nick

    @kukkurovaca neat reading, thank you for sharing!

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:31:10 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  7. Nick (kukkurovaca@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 18:55:29 EDT Nick Nick

    This is interesting reading, to which my main reaction is "but removing a stuck square taper crank is so uniquely unpleasant"

    https://janheine.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/why-square-taper-bottom-brackets/

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 18:55:29 EDT from mastodon.social permalink Repeated by gnomon

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      Why Square Taper Bottom Brackets?
      By Jan Heine from Off The Beaten Path

      Square taper bottom brackets may seem like anachronisms dating from the last century, and yet they remain the best option for metal cranks. Here is why our Rene Herse cranks use square tapers and will continue to do so in the future.

      Modern bottom brackets have larger spindles, so they can use thinner walls. The result is a lighter bottom bracket – but the larger spindle requires more material on the crank.

      No problem on a carbon crank (above), which needs to be large anyhow, because carbon is very light, but also bulky. Just don’t try to replicate the massive shape of a carbon crank in aluminum: It will get very heavy.

      Our Rene Herse cranks are so incredibly light – just 490 grams for the 42/24 shown above – because they use only as much material as necessary. We’ve optimized the shape using Finite Element Analysis to remove all material that isn’t needed, but keeping aluminum where it’s needed for strength. The photo above shows that there is just enough material to fit a slender square taper spindle. Imagine how much material we’d have to add to make room for a massive spindle!

      The light weight doesn’t come at the expense of durability or safety: Our cranks pass the most stringent EN ‘Racing Bike’ test for fatigue resistance. Few other aluminum cranks are as light and as strong.

      There is another benefit of square tapers: The taper reforms itself every time you install the crank. You can remove and install the cranks dozens (or hundreds) of times, yet the square tapers will not develop play. And even if a crank comes loose by accident because the crank bolt wasn’t tightened enough, you can usually reform the taper: Tighten the crank bolt as much as you can, then ride the bike for 5 miles, retighten the bolt, etc. Do this five times, and the taper will usually be fine, unless it’s really been damaged beyond repair.

      The smaller spindle of a square taper has another advantage: It leaves more room for the bearings. Above is an SKF bottom bracket that I cut open after years of use. The large ball in the center shows the size of the balls used in the SKF bottom bracket. On the right is a typical, much smaller, ball from a modern bottom bracket.

      Bike makers now work around that problem with new standards that use bigger bottom bracket shells. For carbon frames, this works fine, since you have a lot of material in the BB region anyhow. A steel frame built to a ‘modern’ BB standard will be quite heavy, as the oversize bottom bracket shell adds a lot of material. Bottom bracket shells are the heaviest part of a metal frame, so keeping them as small as possible is useful for keeping the frame weight down.

      And then there is the issue of the ever-changing standards, because none work as well as the old square taper. It didn’t come as a surprise when Allied, the US-based maker of high-end carbon frames, decided to return to the BSC/BSA bottom bracket standard. Their web site explains: “After more than a decade of changing bottom bracket standards, we are happily back to BSA. No more creaking, easy to service and just as light as any other bottom bracket standard. Your mechanic will thank you.”

      Aren’t there performance advantages with bigger spindles? In theory, the bigger spindles are stiffer. In practice, all spindles are stiff enough. Your frame flexes far more than your bottom bracket spindle. The reason we haven’t done a double-blind test of crank stiffness is simple: It’s so pointless that it isn’t worth the effort. Eddy Merckx used square tapers, and so do the Japanese Keirin track sprinters. If they can’t flex them, neither can you and I! In fact, I’ve raced our square taper cranks in Japan’s toughest gravel race (above) – without any issues.

      It’s only for mountain biking with its huge jumps – especially downhill – where the higher impact strength of larger spindles is useful. That is why we don’t recommend Rene Herse cranks for mountain bikes. On the road, cranks don’t fail due to impact, but they fatigue after many miles of use. To resist those forces, we forge our cranks. This aligns the grain structure to make them more resistant to fatigue.

      We give a 10-year warranty on our Rene Herse cranks as well as on our SKF bottom brackets. Few makers are prepared to stand behind their products for that long. This illustrates how much confidence we have in our square tapers (and the rest of our cranks and bottom brackets). We’ve spared no expense to make them as good as they could possibly be.

      Click on the links below more information:

      • Rene Herse cranks
      • SKF bottom brackets
  8. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:26:56 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • codl
    • igor / mina

    @hirojin @codl I'm sorry. ):

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 19:26:56 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  9. jess, allegedly (catoutofbed@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 17:57:23 EDT jess, allegedly jess, allegedly

    hey kids: remember that gaussian blur doesn't actually remove information and should not be used to hide anything important

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 17:57:23 EDT from octodon.social permalink Repeated by gnomon
  10. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 18:40:55 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • codl
    • igor / mina

    @hirojin @codl try "git diff --check", that functionality is built in! (Plus that also checks for trailing whitespace.)

    It's kind of hidden in the end of the example pre-commit.sample hook, and not awfully well documented, but it is amaaaaaazing

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 18:40:55 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  11. Caræsten (esten@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 15:51:33 EDT Caræsten Caræsten

    ah yes the part of the Brooklyn Museum where the boss fight takes place

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 15:51:33 EDT from xoxo.zone permalink Repeated by gnomon
  12. Khal Doggo (cambrianera@radical.town)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 13:02:03 EDT Khal Doggo Khal Doggo

    Nobody is saying "I am offended and demand you stop saying this", please stop making shit up. What people might say is, "That's a fucked up thing to say and I don't want to be around people who say that".

    Free speech advocates, in every single instance when I've encountered them, have wanted not only freedom from repercussions, but more importantly, freedom from being made to feel sad because they said something that upset someone.

    They want us to remind them that they are, in fact, very nice, good boys, just like they've been told all along.

    They're not racist because they don't *feel* racist. They're not homophobic because they don't feel it.

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 13:02:03 EDT from radical.town permalink Repeated by gnomon
  13. Les Orchard (lmorchard@toot.cafe)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 13:43:08 EDT Les Orchard Les Orchard

    Everybody was kung-fu napping :blobmiou:

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 13:43:08 EDT from toot.cafe permalink Repeated by gnomon
  14. Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 12:48:28 EDT Federico Mena Quintero Federico Mena Quintero

    Please help me build a list of words in non-English languages that are insulting as "gimp" is to mean a disabled person.

    (I want to write something along the lines of, "you wouldn't call your software 'tullido' in Spanish)

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 12:48:28 EDT from mstdn.mx permalink Repeated by gnomon
  15. Bálint 🎭 (szbalint@x0r.be)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 11:18:30 EDT Bálint 🎭 Bálint 🎭

    The botanical gardens is one of my favourite places in Vienna.

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 11:18:30 EDT from x0r.be permalink Repeated by gnomon
  16. Anarcha-Ecologist Catgirl (Em) (greenandblack@sunbeam.city)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 09:26:42 EDT Anarcha-Ecologist Catgirl (Em) Anarcha-Ecologist Catgirl (Em)

    Humans: *tries to control nature*

    Nature: *evolves around it*

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 09:26:42 EDT from sunbeam.city permalink Repeated by gnomon
  17. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 14:11:02 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • JordiGH
    • ʙxᴛɴ

    @JordiGH @bxtn 👍👍

    👂

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 14:11:02 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  18. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 14:04:03 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • pylon fan

    @sophia ouch, that one stung a bit

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 14:04:03 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
  19. handsome man enthusiast (goblin@godforsaken.website)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 08:34:35 EDT handsome man enthusiast handsome man enthusiast

    i dont know what's happening i just wanted to pipe up

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 08:34:35 EDT from godforsaken.website permalink Repeated by gnomon
  20. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 07:26:17 EDT Ben Zanin Ben Zanin
    • Bluedepth

    @Bluedepth Don't worry, I'm not the type to yell at you. My feelings on this topic are strong but that doesn't mean I take that as license to berate folks who don't share them. (:

    In conversation Friday, 05-Jul-2019 07:26:17 EDT from mastodon.social permalink
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