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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Finally, it has recreated Twitter's best-known feature.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Yeah, this one looks to be TBM for most of the underground sections.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> When most cities build metro systems, they simply blast through rock. I'm not sure that this is true (ignoring the bit about blasting, which hasn't been a standard way to build metro lines for a very long time, of course); th
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
What’s a ‘luxury neighborhood’? In any large city, most central areas are generally a bit of a mix; “this is only for rich/poor people” is more of a suburban phenomenon. If the shops are only catering to the high end, a problem can dev
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I mean, either a company is profitable or it is not. You don't get to say "if you ignore the massive pile of burning money in our parking lot, we are profitable". Or, well, I suppose you can _say_ that (see WeWork), but you c
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> Ireland's DPC are also heavy handed, but focus on large companies mostly. Also, generally, very, very, VERY slow. The massive fines you hear about are usually for behaviour _years_ ago.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Unusually for a sequel, much more popular than the first one.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
So, over the next few years, it is planned to more than double the capacity of Dublin's commuter rail network. Pretty much all of the commuter rail network meets at Connolly station (closest thing Dublin has to a central station; for h
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
To be clear, thus far that cost is _before anything is built_ (except for one station box which will not now be used because it's in the wrong place for the current design). It does look like it will finally go ahead now, but it had be
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
And then, of course, there's the Massive Rocket Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Strictly speaking, their existence was verified by Sputnik 2 (though the Soviets only released data on it after the fact, corroborating data from Explorer 1), so if you have a highly _specific_ conspiracy theory, around NASA rather than spa
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Sidenote; there's this weird thing that people sometimes do wrt to Trump (and I think it's both his supporters and detractors to an extent) where they kind of treat him as if he's without agency, and stuff is just happening t
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Netanyahu has wanted to do this for decades. If you rob a bank, you don't get to say "oh, well, my crazy friend down the pub has been saying we should rob a bank for ages, and I suddenly decided he was right"; you do have som
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
This happens with Dublin (capital of Ireland), as well. Half the country outside Dublin seems to think it's pretty much a warzone, based on internet nonsense. Not sure what can be done about any of this, beyond people _hopefully_ getti
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
What I’m curious about is, how are Trump’s fans justifying this complete fuck-up to themselves? _Are_ they? Like, I assume so, because they tend to take whatever shit they’re given, but it’s hard to imagine a “this is good, actually” spin i
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I flatly refuse to believe that people will vote for _JD Vance_. Trump, like him or loathe him (I’d be firmly in the ‘loathe’ camp) has a style/personality which is appealing to some people. Vance, by contrast, is a non-entity.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I mean, I assume you run into the same problem as Kevin in the office; that sort of faux-simple speech is actually very ambiguous. (Though, I wonder has anyone tried Newspeak.)
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
… Have you read the book? _Plenty_ of illegal stuff there.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
The joke is that the software doesn’t work, so providing more languages is strictly worse, as it allows more people to experience the broken software.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Oh, longer: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
About ten years ago, I bought a low-end Samsung TVZ, intended to hold me over until OLEDs got into a non-silly price range. Based on that TV, I will never buy anything from Samsung again. It had, get this, a _variable audio lag_. Audio migh
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
David Foster Wallace has always irritated me, in that I've greatly enjoyed all of his essays that I've read, including this one, but I bounced off the novel hard.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> I don't think he can pull it off this time. I think he's finally gone too far. I'm honestly not sure there is a 'too far' for his fans.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
This feels... pretty much certain to never actually happen, right? Like, the US navy presumably does not want a battleship, because if it wanted one it would have commissioned one at some point over the last 80 years. And Trump will only be
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
650 miles in 14 hours. Wow. That's actually slower than Irish intercity trains.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> People respond positively to other people telling them they are right I think this varies by person. It tends to worry me if I don't get at least some pushback on things. (I think this may be part of why I find 'talking'
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I mean, Bibi's wanted to do something along these lines for decades. Trump is the one who said yes to it, and thus it is Trump's fault.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Some people enjoy this sort of hyper optimisation, even if they don't really need to do it.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I mean, you could pretty much just take the first two words and last three, and wrap them around literally anything, and it'd work. It's kind of his thing.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I mean, Honda were demonstrating humanoid robots in the 80s. To a large extent, so what? Humanoid robots remain a _long_ way from useful.

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