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by mg 2y ago
city buses take 80-100 people, articulated buses about 150 Yes, but then they are not offering a ride that is better than a ride in a private car. I have took an extensive look at this over the last weeks. A typical articulated bu
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by mg 2y ago
My perspective is from living in a big city. Hamburg in Germany. Here it is like this: add additional time to travel to the bus stop That is more than offset by the time and stress to find a parking place when you use a private car
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by mg 2y ago
Which city is that? bus travel is too slow I would expect travel to speed up when we move from cars to buses. Look at what cars do most of the time. Waiting at crossings, slowing down for crossings, accelerating after passing a cr
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by mg 2y ago
I don't expect bikes to take market share from cars. Bikes have been around for a long time and are expected to technically stay the same in the foreseeable future. Electric buses are so much better than gasoline buses. Fewer vibration
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by mg 2y ago
I wonder if this is an argument for more public transport. Electric buses make rides pretty cheap and comfortable. And shifting traffic from personal cars to buses would make mobility much more efficient. Because in a bus, 30 people can cro
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by mg 2y ago
I think a better solution than to "go offline" is to just turn the whole site into static content and leave it online forever. I have been running a music discovery website for a similar timeframe as Watmm now: https://
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by mg 2y ago
What would be an example of a feature that can not be enabled via a checkbox?
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by mg 2y ago
Why does a to-do list have to have any features by default? It could be a blank screen with a "settings" sign in the upper right, where you can enable just the features you need. If I don't find such a software, I will write
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by mg 2y ago
Just tried it, and this is very much the opposite of what I am looking for. What I would like is a very minimal layout. Basically with nothing on the screen. And I want to be able to organize my world by dragging, dropping, swiping recursiv
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by mg 2y ago
Just tried it. Way too much stuff on the screen for my liking. Plus it seems to be not recursive. Similar to my thoughts about Trello: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068867
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by mg 2y ago
One issue I have with Trello is that it has multiple types of items. And that it is not recursive. When I create an item "Supermarket" and then an item "Bread", I cannot drag and drop the item "Bread" into &quo
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by mg 2y ago
To make any type of app really good is super hard. I have yet to see a good to-do list tool. I'm not kidding. I tried TickTick, Notion, Workflowy ... everything I tried so far feels cumbersome compared to how I would like to handle my
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by mg 2y ago
Do files really prevent concurrent access? And does git not need crash durability?
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by mg 2y ago
Hmm... is the mutability of data really enough to create a need for transactions? For example here on HN (which afaik also stores the data in files) you can change a comment you wrote. But that type of mutability does not call for transacti
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by mg 2y ago
Reading this again reminds me of the fact how beautifully git uses the file system as a database. Where everything is laid out nicely in directories and files. Except for performance, is there any downside to this? In other words: When you
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by mg 2y ago
I would say <style> in the body is so widely used that one can call it "generally accepted". Google, Amazon, Wikipedia ... look at the source of any website, and you will see a lot of <style> elements in the body. The
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by mg 2y ago
That is pretty nifty! My problem with 'data:' urls is that I have never found a way to add them to the homescreen on Android.
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by mg 2y ago
A sandbox could be an interesting idea. Especially as a dropdown with options what should be blocked. I am not sure if anything should be blocked by default, because that could always end in frustration when something that should work does
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by mg 2y ago
I made this html editor with instant preview and it turned out useful when I show friends how make their very first html page: https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/ Originally, I made it for myself. To quickly do H
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by mg 2y ago
SQLite makes for a really nice document store with the json arrow functions. Assume you have a "book" column that is a json blob, then selecting the names of all books is just: SELECT book->>'name' FROM books
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by mg 2y ago
The stations would not have to be connected via data cables.
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by mg 2y ago
A phone has enough transmission power to communicate with a satellite? I would think the electromagnetic waves the phone sends are going out in a sphere, right? Then the loss on the way to the satellite must be gigantic.
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by mg 2y ago
Do I understand it correctly, that the satellite communicates with a ground station and the ground station communicates with the phones? It's not that the phone communicates directly with the satellite, right?
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by mg 2y ago
That's a cool idea. So a simple return makes a newline, and two quick returns have a different meaning. I like that. The way I support multiline is via the little triangle in the search bar. I think I'll keep it, because it is eas
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by mg 2y ago
Have you seen that you can customize the list of engines when you click "more engines"? For now, if you have two engines in your list that start with the same letter and want to use the second one, you have to click on it. I was t
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by mg 2y ago
Not sure. I have not much insight into how people use it. Just like you, I mostly have built it (and keep building it) for myself. And yes, I also think it saves time.
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by mg 2y ago
I had a similar idea a while back and built Gnod Search around it: https://www.gnod.com/search You can enter a search term and then click on the button of a search engine. Or you can just press the first char in the name of
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by mg 2y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to do this in a way that the page shows its own source code. Similar to: https://no-gravity.github.io/html-quine/index.html Could be tricky, because non-textual elements would probably
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by mg 2y ago
In theory, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed etc could offer a service where you drag and drop the button onto the Bluesky/Mastodon/Pixelfed website where you are logged in and sign the reaction in your name. And send the post with a si
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by mg 2y ago
Well, sure - if someone wanted to be the hoster for all mail traffic on planet earth, then they would need a lot of resources and a business model to finance it. But if that is their plan, why would they have used ActivityPub in the first p

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