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Don't forget the constant very loud plane engine noise, and the number of people in line of sight to distract you (a train is more elongated so you're further a
by lucb1e 4y ago
Don't forget the constant very loud plane engine noise, and the number of people in line of sight to distract you (a train is more elongated so you're further away from most other passengers). And as you already mentioned, a major factor for me would be the space to actually use a 15" laptop conveniently.
Programming on a train means 30 minutes of crunch time and tangible progress for me; on a plane I can't imagine it being nice though I never tried it (for me flying is a wonderful experience, probably because I almost never do it and I love the perspective you have out the window and I monitor my phone's sensors like pressure and gps and everything, enjoying the special experience).
- KptMarchewa 4y agoModern trains are way quieter than planes though.
- lucb1e 4y agoOh darn I see that an edit I did made it confusing and I didn't re-read it anymore (edited again for clarity just now). I meant that planes are very loud whereas trains usually just whizz away. There are indeed some old trains that were very loud, I remember the NL Mat'64 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Mat_%2764 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Mat_%2764) where my phone (uncalibrated, so it'll have been wrong but I don't know by how much) said the employees had to be offered hearing protection and my subjective experience would say the same. For the 8 minutes that I spent in those local trains, it was perfectly fine and also hearing-safe afaik (don't try to drown it out with music as I did, though :/). Since the retirement of this model a few years ago, all trains I've been on in NL/DE are much quieter.