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freebee

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  • TIL the UK built a working hovertrain prototype in the 1970s and then abandoned it

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  • Definitely impossible for most tracks. Possible for some, but at high costs. Germans have been upgrading some lines for decades now... The best (worst) example being the north-south towards Basel. For high speed the paths need to be further apart from eachother, there need to be better barriers between tracks and what's around them, the curves indeed need to be wider, the 'tilt' in the track in curves might need to be adjusted too... All of which leads to necessity of many new bridges and tunnels where this upgrading is impossible due to surroundings. It costs many millions of € per km and many decades to accomplish. The French on the other hand mainly went for "build new lines", it was clearly the better approach to get shit done fast (tho skipping many possible stops altogether on the new lines).

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  • Not necessarily. The divisions in middle east today have roots to end of WW1 and collapse of Ottoman empire and decline of British empire. There would still be a shit load of oil in middle east. There would still be limited amount of water... It could be very different, which countries ally, what kind of regimes etc, but not necessarily more peaceful region as a whole.

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  • The way the economy in the soviet union was micromanaged in super centralised way was key to its collapse, especially the final 10-15 years. Soviet Union did have great innovation spurs in IT, rocketry, etc but it was impossible to diversify said innovations further, impossible to mass market it, impossible to mass export it. The centralised economic system lagged enormously and was incredibly inefficient, 1 town having 500000 jackets but no shoes, other town having 100000 chandeliers but no food etc. On top there was really really high levels of corruption. The economic model was essential in the demise of the Soviet Union, once they let go of some regulations a tiny bit, it all fell apart fast. China paid attention, they keep trying to waggle between statecontrolled and free market... They are well aware similar risks still exist in their state-owned companies to this day.

  • Splitting comic books into panel

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  • What's the name of the app you tried?

  • Splitting comic books into panel

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  • the coordinates aren't there i think, but there are github projects out there that "detect" the panels and suggest split based on that. For most of the panels of most of the comics, that would be more than enough to do a clean split. I just can't find a real relatively easily deployable service that incorporates it.

    https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/comic-book-panel-segmentation/

  • The hidden cost of self-hosting

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  • The main mess is genres. That is non existent in the folder structure (I do have it: artist > albums), and still very hard with Picard etc. But genres is very convenient for Autoplay, auto generate shuffle playlists

  • New Dad Can't Wait to Show Newborn Child Hard Drives Full of Pirated Movies Once He's Old Enough

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  • A good movie in 720p will always be a good movie. A crappy movie with shitty story and shitty acting will still suck in 4K or 8K or 4D or whatever will come. Like good vinyl LPs from 60s-70s never really went bad if they were well taken care of...

  • Paris, Amsterdam and Antwerp on the podium of the safest European cities for kids' circulation

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  • It's quite a theoretical approach. Antwerp has a lot of 30 kmh streets, but you shouldn't expect cars to actually follow the rules in many of them. Same with many bicycle streets: it's not allowed, but you'll be overtaken A LOT by cars in those streets...

  • Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

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  • That's happening in Paris. Some other cities are moving in right direction too, some installing new trams from zero etc. Most bigger cities have subways. But you should try visiting rural France without a car... Not a butcher or a bakery left for many kilometers/villages around, only big roadside Malls with an enormous supermarket and some fake little "shops" at the entrance. Many rural villages are dead and without a car you're screwed big time. This is where the Gilet Jaunes came from.

  • No house generation: the impossibility of buying property in Switzerland

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  • Housing is definitely very very expensive in Basel too. But a bit less problematic because of border spillover into Lörrach, Saint-Louis, ...

  • What do you use for listening to podcasts?

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  • Best podcast app I've ever used.

    I would only switch to another app if that could remove the ads from downloaded podcasts :')

  • Intersection in front of an elementary school in Bratislava, Slovakia

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  • If there's not very much car traffic and almost no trucks, and if that traffic obeys the rules and speed limits well enough, there is not always the need for separate bike lane. This way the bicycles, if there are many cyclists, become an indication to car drivers that what they are driving on is a local street, woonerf, school area, etc. While the design with separated bike lane would be a 1 person wide situation, while this way cyclists can cycle 2 next to eachother together in the street which is a lot more fun. I don't know this particular street or city, if it works depends on local factors such as general driver culture, habits, local policing efforts, amount of cyclists, etc, but it's not per definition the worse design.

    What I dislike is that they did put in the bike lane for the silly short piece. In this case, it could've been better to just raise the entire intersection in a speedbump-plateau and no separate bike lane at all.

  • obnoxious virus

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  • Instant flashback to the MSN Messenger virus where you could remotely open your friends CD-drive

  • Linux as the true Trojan!

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  • There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.

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  • Fujitsu Esprimo here... 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, ... Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports... Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up

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  • Why not a second hand small "business" or office pc? There are so many on the market now because businesses are replacing because of windows 11, while the hardware runs perfectly fine with Linux for probably many years to come. Buying one of those is cheap and reduces e-waste.

  • What cartoon is like crack cocaine for you?

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  • 2020 is from the seventies and only 1 season. 2021 is from 2000s and ran 5 seasons.

  • Trams n Bikes

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  • Surprising. They experimented with similar stuff in Belgium, it didn't work out. The rubber wears out quickly (expensive) and the safety effect appeared very small. Possibly even leading to false feeling of safety, making it more dangerous

  • [OC] Coming soon: The first Lausanne (Switzerland) tramway. Expected to open sometime in 2026.

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  • I mostly like the "maximum speeds" view!