I bet they checked in the binary. Git is really poor with binaries since it can’t really diff them. And the worst part is gradle should never have the binary in the source tree
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For sure. Few people will go the distance if they could fly. But think of all the connecting cities and towns. Rail can be faster and cheaper for a few hundred miles. Think of the long distance routes more as many segments of a few hundred miles, and a few crazies that go the distance
It’s worse than that, because it doesn’t show service level. The northeast corridor (Boston—>nyc—>dc) have great train frequency (even then they need to run more trains on holidays).
I believe the long distance routes are like one train per day. You’d have to be really dedicated or really desperate to deal with such slow unreliable trains which such low frequency. I do believe they’re there only to preserve track and collect votes rather than be useful. At this rate maybe in another century ….
I personally am not interested in touch screen. Interactive use isn’t really compatible with e-ink. I’m interested in sharing data
The northeast corridor is an existing example of- both highways and airways are so over congested, you couldn’t get anywhere without train. Ever since Acela stared 20 years ago, I refuse to travel Bos—>nyc any other way. It’s too much hassle
There are compelling arguments for Colorado front range rail, although that’s closer to metro distance, and cascadia - Vancouver—>portland. Even Texas needs more than commuter rail: you have three major cities in. Nice triangle that would do better if you could connect their economies. And of course this where I claim California high speed rail is necessary at any price. Send all mY taxes there. Let’s make it so
This thread was started with a post on intercity rail. There are many parts of the US where highways have chronic congestion because they just can’t scale enough, nor could we afford to maintain them, where intercity rail would be a much better choice.
And effing Texas, are you really widening the Katy freeway again rather than consider a train?
At the risk of feeding a troll, they really aren’t. Sweet spot for high speed rail is generally considered two cities 300-500 miles apart. That covers most of the US population
Virginia, by any chance? I’m pretty there are state routes not on this Amtrak map
Or commuter rail? It’s hard to tell but I don’t see anything I recognize as commuter or metro rail. This looks like Amtrak intercity only.
Yeah, but we have Acela “high speed rail”
- meets the definition by traveling 150mph … for < 50 miles
- I think trip average Boston—>NYC is now up to 79mph
The map only includes intercity passenger rail. Most of that 136,000 miles is freight rail that’s not on this map
People online claim we have a great freight rail network but I’m not convinced
- it’s heavily skewed toward bulk good like ore, that dont have a deadline or schedule, and very few shippers. Great efficiency numbers for spotty service
- we’re running on 100 year old infrastructure
- they’ve just let the rail rot, too often pulling up the second track or letting it get too rough for passenger rail
- they run ever larger trains, despite not building sidings big enough - cheaping out at the cost of delaying everyone else
While I agree with the guilt of enjoying rail trails
- I no longer cycle on them: it’s not enjoyable because they’re so crowded
- we have some that are very useful for getting places, usually train stations
- the one across my town goes through neighborhoods, so I’m sure they’re happy it’s not trains
- there’s a plan to build my towns third train station, and one of the requirements is connecting the rail trails
- I realized just last summer that my favorite diner is only 1 mile walk if I take the new rail trail!
I just got an Airthings Radon monitor, and the integration with HA went smoothly. As a starting dashboard I have a simple card displaying sensor values.
But I let myself get carried away and got the one with the most sensors. So expected to see history graphs so I can look at trends or events, but it never occurred to me they were all different units and scales. HA wants to create many charts, which is less easy to read.
Does anyone have dashboard ideas on how to display these?
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I know of some companies where they write up a full spec in markup, and have the ai code from that. They claim it works well, but that seems like extra work.
Personally, most of my coding is maintenance and AI sucks at that. I can get the ai to give me good recommendation, but not usable code. I have had it do a good job writing utility scripts such as data extraction, and tests - it can even save me time
So if you have a greenfield project, and are able to give it sufficient context, people claim it can work …… I’m highly doubtful it’s maintainable though, and maintenance cost is far higher than the cost of initial creation. I really think these companies are digging a hole for themselves
Of course I’m taking advantage of this