katbyte

Sure but thin and compact are also good for travel as it can slide into bag pocket easy or even a large purse and not take up much room.

Sure they do when you have proper high speed rain. That journey could be 10 relaxing hours at 300kph. No security, no awful plane noise and seats. Quiet comfy and relaxing (or overnight and you can sleep)

It’s also far better for the environment, and should be cheaper if you take plane subsidies and apply them to trains.

Also your math is wrong 5 hours with 1 hour each side (generous) is 7 hours. With 2 hours each side that’s 9 hours.

Either way I would much rather take a comfortable train for 10 hours then suffer in a plane for 5.

(The reason 2000km takes so long for op is its 7+ train changes, if you made 7+ plane changes it would be very long too)

I would have agreed with you a couple months ago, but picked up an air for travel so I could leave the 15” MBP at home and I’m really enjoying it and appreciating how thin and light it is. Wouldn’t want it for home or office use but for occasional on the go use? Perfect. And I imagine for many it would suite their needs pretty well

Here in bc Canada we had profitable intercity rail (bc rail), a previous conservative government were elected with the promise they wouldn’t sell it, they instead leased it for 99 years cheaply and that was the end of passenger rail for most the province. Greyhound took up the slack but 10ish years ago they pulled out leavings nearly no way to get between cities without a car. There are now some private bus companies but as I understand it they are really expensive with terrible schedules.

It’s honestly sad how public transport was left to rot/fail/or sold off in North America.

And how people now go “it won’t work here! Europe is more dense! Things are too far apart” Ignoring it did and was (at least in bc) a few short decades ago

Such as?

Department of national defence maybe

It sucks for us who do push gear. I’m constantly breaking things because I’m well, using them. Anytime u have to buy something it involves hours of research to determine “is this a real quality product or a shitty one marketed as quality”, or “has it changed owners and now rubbish”

I don’t mind paying for quality gear at all. It just needed to be quality

They prioritized stock buy backs instead of investing in a robust it operation

What does that have to do with ”how much of their income/wealth as a % of their total do the ultra rich pay nothing vs 50 years ago”

As they paid less everyone else could just be paying more as a total

Apple is launching satellite iMessage this fall, I imagine that’s what they will start to charge for after X years.

SOS uses do little data in comparison it’s not worth charging

Yep. My MacBook and Debian servers act pretty similar from a cli perspective. If it’s in apt it’s nearly always in brew

There are both bad and good regulations. Acting like all regulation is bad (say restrictive zoning or allowing people to block density) allows people to target the good (building codes, not building of garbage dumps or toxic materials) to get rid of

Regulations are not inherently good nor bad so please say what regulations are bad and what regulations should be changed because “less regulation” doesn’t mean things get better and can mean things get very very much worse (hey let’s allow toxic wast dumps under homes because that was too regulated before!)

Thank you for pointing out why it should be a public utility that does the right thing rather then a private company who was willing to burn the state down for profit.

Yes? Like would that actually be a bad thing?

I’m in Canada and get maybe a couple scam calls a month

You can’t start from a clean slate with so much legacy infrastructure

If there wasn’t the MTA and subway the roads would be so congested as to be useless and New York couldn’t only support a fraction of its density

Did the subway get drastically worse in the last few years or something? Last time I was in NYC I stayed in Harlem and either biked or took the subway everywhere I needed to go. It was.. fine?

Use paper towel as wadding

Hello fellow Canadian?

Insane amounts of heat is exactly what you want from your power plant..

I think microwave won out because it was quicker. That said many frozen foods have both oven and microwave instructions and almost universally I find oven tastes better

They also faced pressure during the pandemic to increase their margins like other companies were doing to price gouge.

But of course that would do the same to their rep and is not where they make there money. Iirc 80% of profits are from memberships

I’m even ok with them changing terms, things happen. I just think companies should not be allowed to say “unlimited” unless it is actually 100% unlimited

Yea but it’s still not a delimiter

FSD still requires you to pay full attention. The name is still a lie and Elon has been claiming the human requirement will be dropped “soon” for what now? Almost a decade?

Not using white space as a delimiter

And they have been used where? Everything I can find suggests they are theoretical, not in use even on micro grids yet, and many have huge concerns about them being able to support a grid on their own.

Also the technology required has been around for decades it’s not new and no one’s done it yet.

So again what’s changed because it seems like for now there is no “I have a grid and need something now” solution it’s a “maybe one day”

That’s a non answer - what improvement

What new technology changes things to not require spinning turbines?