@meganL @ascentale @Amgine @bikenite Missing Link is gone? So sad, today I stripped the mountain bike I bought there in ‘91 or so, and then started rebuilding it with new parts. It still has its “Missing Link” sticker on it! #BikeNite

@MartyCormack @iris @ascentale @daihard That is the problem, the LLM crowd grabbed “AI” and are marketing it like hell, and under that umbrella is everything. Machine learning for pattern matching and sorting/categorizing has been around for decades and is of great benefit (think sorting through the billions of images of stars and planets, not a job humans can do). Spell checking, grammar checking, rudimentary language translation, are beneficial. But now anything a computer can help you with is “AI” and the beneficial uses of computers are getting a bad wrap. I think the only thing I ever got out of an LLM that worked as presented, was something super simple like “a grep statement that will return all lines from file that contain “blah” in this directory“ if I used grep more often, I would be able to write that faster than asking an LLM for it. Anything more complicated than that, has always failed for me. #BikeNite

@ascentale @meganL @bikenite Bike commuting in my area isn’t a big deal, we’re a really small town, except for the college kids around campus there isn’t a great deal of traffic. I don’t expect to see much change unless gas hits $5+ and I suspect a lot of old cars in yards will be replacing trucks. #bikenite

@ascentale @elliek @bikenite Used bike index, will find 529 and add my info to it. I don’t really expect it to work if needed, but it’s free and worth a try. #bikenite

@ascentale @cainmark @bikenite Saturday PM from south central #minnesota this week. Typically just look for the nearest crossroad and wing it, or Google/OSM and find a way around. Or if I’m feeling lucky, just plow through and hope. Not if it’s a bridge area though! #bikenite

@v_perjorative @ascentale @cainmark @bikenite If they’re around that’s always my preferred way of handling a closure. “Hey, can I walk/get through here? Thanks!” #bikenite

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Running somewhat later than my normal Saturday morning post, I'm currently in South Wales near Crickhowell. For those of you craving way too much detail, I'm in the Chelsea Speleological Society club hut on the Llangattock escarpment.
The view is rather stunning.
My approach to road closures normally involves either the pavement or asking one of the workers if I'm ok to get past.

@rand @ascentale @bikenite Yikes. I'm glad you're mostly ok, but that's awful. I'm sorry the drivers around there are so awful. #BikeNite