@jon Tallinn's free transit is apparently not doing anything for mode share. And I think a bunch of Rail Baltica's new regional stations will be park and rides on the edge of town. Even the Tallinn one is next to the airport and not in the center of the city.
It is kind of darkly funny watching so many giant tech companies completely gut their institutional expertise by promoting people who not only do not understand the most basic realities of their own products, but cannot be convinced of the most trivial of truths.
@whitequark@xgranade To the extent that there have been issues with twitter, it's much less "the database has fallen and can't get up" and more "there are lots of reply bots" or "search returns horrors that shouldn't be seen and so was permanently disabled", turns out the hard part of keeping a social media site running is not technical but moderation.
i did not realize how fragile "sd card plugged into raspberry pi" is. my headmate's 3d printer server just... had an sd card die. it sort of reads except sometimes it spends half a minute reading a single sector
Anniversary blog post from May 25, 2011: Whenever I hear people claim that Uber and Lyft "destroyed" New York City's taxi system, my mind boggles at how completely ignorant or how deep in denial they must be. This post was part of a series where I described how fantastically shitty the taxi system was in 2011:
@capntransit People forget but Uber's big innovation was a cab that you could pay for with a credit card. Even when the yellow cabs did get card machines, they were always mysteriously broken. Until they had to compete with Uber anyway.
The Gaza Strip is less than 2/3 the size of the City of Chiacgo.
It has about 89% the population of Chicago.
What should be going on there is debate on which metro lines to build next. Not where to hide from a war forced upon them by corrupt fascists (on both sides. oh, and are fascists ever not corrupt?).
Thanks to my usual awesome luck, it seems that the Frankfurt-Köln high speed line is not operational precisely at the time my ICE was supposed to take it. We're travelling via the slower Rhine line via Koblenz. Which means I'll miss my connection to the Eurostar in Köln.
Since this is a missed connection between 2 high speed trains, can we just take the next train to Brussels, even if it's an ICE and not a Eurostar?
@gob I think you make some good points but I don't agree with your conclusion, you're not going to convince artists to learn C++. On the other hand, it makes sense to have both sides of the CPU-GPU communication be in one language. Maybe what we need is better language interop, and better mechanisms of modularity.
@gob Well and oftentimes the people making the engine and the people using it are in entirely different organizations. Meanwhile one of the big things keeping GLSL alive is shadertoy, makes it really easy to learn the language and play around with stuff.
From the Empire State Passengers Association on Facebook:
Another good piece of news that neither NYS DOT nor #Amtrak's press office want to tell you about. Gosh, this is so sad that we run our railroads this way.
This elevator is making me think - all the elevators I keep seeing here on the U-Bahn have doors open in one direction on the street and the opposite direction on the platform, even when it's possible to have same-direction opening as is the norm in most buildings. Is this an intentional decision to allow wheelchair users to get in and out without reversing direction?
@whitequark What's kind of cursed here is that the trains can actually operate on 0 Hz electricity (DC) but of course that's a different mode and it goes through a different circuit.
This was really weird because over the 23 hour period I sent like 3 additional messages and it showed my messages with no apparent errors just none of the responses were visible. Moreover I was having bidirectional conversations with no issues in other windows. But nothing coming from Whitequark was coming through. That is a very, very bad failure mode for a IM client. I expect IM clients will have failure modes but I expect I don't have to watch out for this one. https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112355001355211609
For maximum security, your passwords should always be long strings of the characters "l" and "I" exclusively. That way, any attacker who gets hold of your password will be so confused trying to type it in they will not be able to gain access. For additional security, add an occasional numeral 1
