Wrong API? Wrapper pattern time!
azimir
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MIT ran a study decades ago to find the features that were most indicative of success among their PhD students. They looked at hundreds of features like intelligence, money, age, grades, prior schools, etc.
The #1 dominating factor above all others was perseverance. How much the person would just keep working despite obstacles mattered more than anything else.
The same goes for people running and starting businesses. Intelligence isn't the dominating factor, perseverance is.
They also have very strick guidelines about how quickly the bike roads are plowed after/during snowfalls. They keep the routes open and useful so people can trust the transit modality all year round.
The US just plows the snow onto the bike lanes and then complains about how bad biking is.
One of the anti-everything groups in our city actually put out a public statement about how people advocating for public transit "just wanted to be able to go out partying and then ride transit home!! REEEEEEE!!!!"
Many people went "yeah, duh?" Isn't that a phenomenal reason to have great public transit? It literally saves lives and promotes enjoying life.
Calvinism is such a blight upon humanity.
Oulu, Finland is a massive biking center. The weather is winter most of the year. Their infrastructure for bikes is amazing so people use it, even when it's cold.
Warum muss einer Magnetschwebebahn sein? Berlin hat viele Hochbahnen.
Die Vororte brauchen zwar mehr Verkehrsanbindungen, aber es muss etwas sein, das auch in 50 oder 100 Jahren noch funktioniert, und keine Gadgetbahn, die nach wenigen Jahre Betrieb stillgelegt wird und dann zum Gespött wird.
Warum kann die Stadtverwaltung nicht mehr langfristig planen? Verlängern Sie die U5 über Moabit bis Jungfernheide und dann weiter, und bauen Sie eine S-Bahn von Spandau nach Tegel. Langweilig, aber effektiv.
I guess they've got spare time now that everyone in the Epstein-Trump files have been brought to justice for the child rape and Dow is over 50,000.
Ist this the same kind of shit the government pulled in the 1950's with Elvis' early performances? These evil people really do want to bring back the 1950's.
This kind of stupid: http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-sex.html
Switzerland doesn't play when it comes to trains:
If there's nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I've spent many months playing "will it, won't it" on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!
The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.
It'll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.
I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people's health and I finally said "fuck it! Let's move to Europe". I'd been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.
It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.
Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.
Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!
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I used to be intrigued by tiny homes. They're enough room for one or two people, but not a place I'd try to raise a kid.
I recently went from a 3k sq ft US home to a 1100sq ft apartment and this apartment feels big. The difference mostly centers around how much furniture and other home maintenance materials I used to have.
It also helps that we moved to a European city so we don't have a car and related support equipment.
Looking at a 350 sq ft tiny home, if it was just down to myself and a partner, we could do it. The whole goal would be to not spent huge amounts of time at home, but to go to 3rd places and hobbies away from home. Rural or suburban living makes that harder than where we're at now, but it's doable.