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I didn't do a deep dive into the issues as there are many - but a contributor to the tardiness is the decommissioning of track switches/overtaking lanes. While this allowed for a short term economy, it harmed the reliability of th
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2y ago
These commenters exist (usually as bots) simply to sow a false narrative for political reasons - the views they extoll are not based on measurement or research. When active as bots, they present a idea of discord and doubt - this is a commo
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2y ago
These 3 reputable, scientifically backed, sources disagree with your anecdote: United Nations: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2021/10/trans... US Department of Transport: https:/&#x
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2y ago
"The network is simply overloaded," said Böttger. In contrast to Luxembourg and Switzerland, which invested around €575 (about $625) per capita and €450 per capita in rail infrastructure respectively, the figure in Germany is just
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2y ago
To quote the article I linked: "The network is simply overloaded," said Böttger. In contrast to Luxembourg and Switzerland, which invested around €575 (about $625) per capita and €450 per capita in rail infrastructure respectively
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2y ago
For context German trains over the last few years have become increasingly delayed. To the point that it is now the norm. Official Deutsche Bahn figures are likely underreporting the extent of the problem as the reported times and actual ti
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2y ago
Tried it with a collection of images, and in my opinion it performs -worse- than earlier releases. It is however fast.
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2y ago
It might not just be your tests. All of my tests of img2mesh technologies have produced poor results, even when using images that are very similar to the ones featured in their demo. I’ve never got fidelity like what they’ve shown. I’ll giv
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2y ago
>not sure why this is news. The babies being given the treatment are allergic to peanuts. This is the opposite approach to recommendations, including in Israel. > israel has a lower peanut allergy per capita because the most popular s
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2y ago
Sources: 1 http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH07/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org... 2 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-ceo-sees-fully-autonomous... 3 https://fortune.com/2015&#x
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2y ago
History of Tesla / Musk on FSD. While one can be forgiving to the earlier days, at this stage Musk is certainly aware that he is lying. 1. September 2013 “will be responsible for developing vehicle-level decision-making and lateral and
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2y ago
I love Ron Gilbert's games, he's vastly experienced, and his association alone is sufficient to get me to buy any new adventure title; but I cannot understand why he thought it would be ok to use Deus ex machina¹ for the ending of
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I give HHH a pass, it is still fun and predates Monkey Island 1 and the list itself. MI2 also break's Ron's own rules ... extensively, including a bunch of things he didn't list that should also be rules, like "don'
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2y ago
You state this like it's not a problem. Chinese companies are totally beholden to their government.
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2y ago
> later than anticipated. No, this is when they said it would be arriving.
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It was also exciting to discover how deep the rabbit hole goes. There was a stage where crafting recipes seemed logical, almost like you could make anything functional if you just could represent it accurately enough on a 3x3 grid with the
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2y ago
Adding these titles into the mix: - Hugo's House of Horrors - Maniac Mansion - The Goonies II - The Cave - Machinarium / Botanicula / Samorost (put together because they're, at their core, the same idea.) - Love you to b
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2y ago
I note this because they're constantly lying that their goals are for the protection of users, when their actions send a different message. Here's the direct Twitter quote from Thierry Breton regarding the charge against Meta: Th
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2y ago
The most telling feature of the DMA is that it doesn't include Spotify. Spotify would not be compliant under the DMA for the same reason why the EU has charged Meta with non-compliance: > Under Article 5(2) of the DMA, gatekeepers m
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The core issue with the DMA is that there is no kind of pre-vetting or assurances available. This is combined with a very wide set of interpretations from a vague set of texts. We've already seen the DMA being waged against a scenario
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2y ago
My guess is it'll meet the same fate as municipal broadband. (i.e. It is explicitly outlawed in Texas.¹) 1. https://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/ut/002.00.000054.00....
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>Battery life has gone down. When you consider that the battery capacity has gone up, you realise how much more power-hungry the S24 Ultra is. Sure the standby time is far lower, but the talk time has greatly increased. The talk time of
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It's something I've wondered about as well. But I can see a lot of reasons why a loss leader is a good strategy here: - It's a trojan horse onto the platform, that'll always be worth more than a subscription. - New featu
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2y ago
To elaborate on the earlier point about Illustrator from amelius . Illustrator's stroke control is a touch more advanced than most people are aware in that there is full control over the width of the stroke at any point on the line an
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Discussions I have with doctors and pharmacists about this situation are generally unproductive. There is this pervasive resistance to change and deep ties to traditional approaches. A large chunk of the problem is that many common self-sel
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2y ago
I'm guessing very (there's plenty of people on reddit who used to work there and stated as such.) Here's the email their CEO/President sent to everyone that uses them: Google Chrome announced yesterday that specific publ
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I thought to add: I checked to see if this brand still exists and it seems they do and it’s now a rechargeable device yielding a good IP rating. No word on how many readings it performs a minute other than “real time”.
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I use the wahoo fitness brand chest strap. I like it because it's barebones, clipping on the strap activates it and then it's just a standard bluetooth health device that the watch can see and utilise. When paired to the watch, th
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>Hi, you make all excellent points. However they do sound more like comments from 2002, not 2024. With the complete takeover of the web, digital media, and digital photography, just where do you imagine all this cmyk stuff is still happe
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It's very likely the case, since heart rate measurement is a significant burner of apple watch battery. As a comparison when using a bluetooth chest strap with my apple watch the battery life during a 90 minute workout barely drops at
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