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ZanyProgrammer | 1 year ago | on: BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20

Yes they'll unfortunately continue to run freight trains on those tracks. Also the corridor down to Gilroy from Tamien won't be electrified.

ZanyProgrammer | 1 year ago | on: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

"Permanently" what? the harbor will be cleared, probably sooner than later, and there will be a new bridge/tunnel built in a few years. Like that's not permanent.

ZanyProgrammer | 1 year ago | on: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

that collapsed almost 40 years ago, which really emphasizes it's flat out uncommon, no "buts" needed.

ZanyProgrammer | 1 year ago | on: Why is it so hard to build an airport?

general aviation, small airports have been closing down for years. It’s not a growing hobby.

ZanyProgrammer | 1 year ago | on: Why is it so hard to build an airport?

General aviation is in decline, so really there's no need to build new airports.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous

Canada is already a federal state with sub national entities that don’t have all the rights of the federal government. Pretty much any state that has a federal system already deals with this.,

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill

Yes, it's such a giant handout that Apple came out against it.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Much of North America may face electricity shortages starting in 2024

Well, it is in distress because of their extreme fetish for austerity over a growing economy that is enabling the rise of the far right and Wagenknecht's socially conservative GDR vanity project.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

By any definition but yours Acela is indeed HSR, it’s the fucking fastest train in North America!

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

PSR would like a word with your categorization. Indeed the Class 1s are the mortal enemy of decent intercity and commuter rail.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

Obviously it’s not the first credible foray into HSR in the US-that honor is Acelas.

Edit: if you’re referring to Brightline West, construction hasn’t even started.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024

I assume they always kept it shitty as to not cannibalize VS Code, which does get a lot of use (obviously it's very popular). If you ever used it you'd see that it doesn't feel like normal Windows VS, and it doesn't really feel like a good native Mac app either.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour

Assuming you don't get caught, which if you keep on bank robbing probably increases the odds you do.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline

If you’re worried that bananas have too much sugar for you personally you have bigger fish to fry than cereal.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline

The solution is to eat dull cereal.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Dollar Tree is the latest retailer to say shoplifting is squeezing margins

OTOH you shouldn’t necessarily trust what corporations say about this. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says

so you totally backtrack your comment because someone else an hour or so later disagreed with you? Based on nothing more than sounding authoritative?

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

You forgot the mandatory MSFT accounts to sign in with no way around last I checked (a few months ago).

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Bluesky Custom Feeds

This would be great if Bluesky still wasn't invite only.

ZanyProgrammer | 2 years ago | on: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

I say this as a fan, but to be precise it’s Millennial Mental Health Twittersphere.