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My 5yo found a stash of old Lego blocks at his grand parents and invents a police Dalek (without having seen Dr Who)

The 2 player variant is a little awkward with the free city hand. Definitely bringing it out the next time we have company over

Happy manufactured commercial sentiment day!

Decided it's time to dust off the bike(s) and get back into riding this summer. Figured I'd start by switching my ~6 mile commute to BART from car to bike. Thanks to a nearby bike trail cutting out around a dozen traffic lights, it only takes 5 mins longer than driving.. Add a little fitness and the time would probably be competitive.

The only other problem was securing my bike. Seeing a bunch of destroyed u-locks and cut cables near the bike racks had made me wary.. After calling and getting wait listed by BART for a bike locker, I noticed there are actually 2 kinds of lockers, these are the shared use bikelink smart card operated bike lockers (which BART neglects to mention exist when you call asking about a locker?!).

Picked up a card from Embarcadero station, and did a test run today, to time it and ensure my flat bar hybrid bike fits in the locker. Seems like a decent lock for 3c/hour. :) In theory i can leave my saddle bag, lights and helmet safely inside too.. We'll see if i live to regret that assumption..

Graph of a perf change going live..

Scale is seconds... ~60-80ms -> ~15-20ms

Still too many high spikes on the right, largely a result of cache misses on long tail users with unusual configurations.. Those are next on the hit list..