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Roadside assistance services? in c/bicycle_touring@lemmy.world
[–] 3 points 1 day ago

You didn’t mention which country you are in.

In the United States there is Better World Club.

https://www.betterworldclub.net/bicycle-roadside-assistance

I have never tested it. Logically, they don’t have a specially trained set of bike mechanics standing by 24/7 across the country. Their page is pretty clear they don’t fix flat tires. Rather, it’s probably a tow truck service willing to pick up you and your bike.

Since you have a heavy bike, I would first priority puncture-resistant tires, possibly also with the self-healing goo inside.

For wheels that are pain to fully remove, there is the patch-in-place method where you expose the tube, find and patch the hole and and reseat the tire, all without removing the wheel.

With practice and preparedness, you can get a flat repair time down to 15 minutes, while practically every other option will cost more time.

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    Buddhist Blues (2026, dir Glen Merzer) (buddhistblues.com)
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    In 1993 in St. Louis, Lou finds himself living outside the law and estranged from his Jewish family. He risks visiting his cousin Susan, a psychiatrist, whom he hasn’t seen in years, and invites along his Black girlfriend, Lili, who arrives at Susan’s home before he does. Susan has been recently divorced from her husband, Nick.

    In less than ninety minutes real time from Lili’s arrival, the lives of these four characters unravel before our eyes.

    It has been 0 days since I last had this conversation in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That pattern is also recommended in the book. Break down estimates into chunks of 5 hours or less.

    With lots of smaller tasks, estimates tend to both be more accurate due to smaller scope, and some of the over/under inaccuracies will cancel out.

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    [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Read Software Estimation by Steve McConnell and recommend it to your manager:

    The person doing the work the one best suited to estimate it.

    Also, start tracking estimated vs budgeted time in some searchable system.

    Next time this comes up, look up how long it actually took to complete a similar task instead of thoughts and prayers.

    If boss won’t track historical budget vs actual, track it yourself.

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    Recommended surge protector / power supply (lemmy.world)
     

    AT&T claims the reason their router, the BGW320-500 sometimes factory resets itself is because it’s designed to do this in response to unexpected power loss, and if the house didn’t lose power, the power strip / surge protector may be at fault.

    Which I don’t doubt might be the case, I have old, cheap, generic power strip.

    So recommend me a power / strip protector you trust with your uptime. While I don’t need a UPS, I wouldn’t mind /some/ battery backup to smooth over brief power issues.

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    AWS: No Peace of Mind for you. (lemmy.world)
     

    This poorly designed table on the AWS website appears to show that neither tier of their new AI agent "Q" offers "Peace of Mind".

    Maybe the table was designed by AI, too? "PRICE", "FEATURES" and "PEACE OF MIND" are supposed to be understood as section headers, but the design doesn't work because they didn't also put "price" on its own row and they pointlessly used alternate-row background colors. They could have used background cell colors to communicate which rows were section headers.

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    Switch to Sway windows by selecting them by label, like wmfocus or Vim easymotion (lemmy.world)
     

    You've got multiple monitors and watch to switch to a window several windows away.

    You could switch focus there with a number of arrow key movements.

    "sway-easymotion" allows you to use to press a key that prints a one or two character label on each window. Press that key and your focuses switch there.

    Over the weekend I submitted patches for a couple of new features. First, I added multi-monitor support. Second, I added a visual confirmation of which window was selected.

    If you are familiar with Github and Rust, you can review the patches and try them out here:

    https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus/pulls

    More about sway-easyfocus: https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

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