azimir

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Those look very nice. Likely quite expensive, but nice.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

Rep. Don Bacon is a wanker. Shit or get off the pot. This wannabe dictator is threatening to shut down elections and post soldiers to US cities that aren't actually in need of it. Do your job and stop flapping your mouth, wanker.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Only 56k people? Of that population, how many are voting age? It's about 42k.

There's always about 15-30% of a population who are outright authoritarian, so they'll vote for the leadership that strips them of their rights (see: conservatives).

That means if the US feds moved about 10000 families (about 19,000 fascist voters) to Greenland it would make a supermajority for the right. This would cost somewhere between $300 million and $1 billion for the move and about $100 mil/year and in maintenance while the economy shifts to handle the influx.

Do you believe that the current administration couldn't pry a few billion dollars to buy a permanent two R-voting senators from the education budget?

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Congratulations to Drugs for winning the War on Drugs"

It turns out the problem isn't the drugs. It's mostly people in bad situations needing tools to cope or escape for a while. What works more then laws and cops is more equitable wealth distributions, healthcare, reasonable living costs, cities with 3rd place communities, and education.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is when so many people stupid together that it systematically starts kill them. Is it a 3rd party punishment? Nope, it's FAFO on a national scale. Unfortunately it's going to be epic in just how much suffering it causes.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Given that there's no proof he exists and (if you're a Bible person) he claimed he'd be back before the original followers in 0 CE would die, he's well behind on his own schedule. He's about as fast as California High Speed Rail or any small construction project in Germany.

Once Cali HSR is finished, your "Lord" would consider taking it to SF for some R&R.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Highlight->Middle paste has been my friend for decades now. Using it from SunOS in the 90-s to now has been a great feature. It's the quickest way to copy and paste while I'm working fast with text or data entry.

I love having both clipboards be functional. The latest rounds of tools that have stopped being as compatible with it has been no end of problems in my workflow. I'll copy with the keyboard, highlight some text and then paste both clipboards somewhere else.

No, using the keyboard here isn't as fast, don't bother making that argument, especially since ctrl-c means different things in different places on Unix style systems. Left hand stays home row while the right is forced to leave for the mouse since it's a GUI.

I've had to deal with many tools that don't respect keyboard cut/paste as well. Add in that some tools like putty or git bash on windows have ctrl-ins for paste?

Panning in CAD/design is usually click and hold middle or even a two button system (freecad), so trying to take a middle click for that isn't buying uniformity.

The copy/paste world is already fractured enough. Keep the highlight/middle click working so we can go fast. I might be a dinosaur, but I'm a fast dinosaur.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

What? No way. I despise their captive scrolling stuff. Every time I get forced onto a windows system I forget that middle mouse is a weird scrolling mode and end up wandering randomly up and down pages until I realize what happened.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

The biggest limitation on the older models is RAM. There's other issues with network contention (the Ethernet is actually a USB device on the board), raw CPU (especially gen 1 boards), but really it's all about the RAM.

I use these kinds of boards for more hardware/embedded kinds of situations. No GUI Linux machines will easily run in 200-400MB of RAM before you start spinning up additional services or tools.

If you're really RAM blocked you can use a more stripped down Linux install or even hop to BSD and run real lean on resources for the OS. All of these options can still run most network services or simple build/dev kinds of support systems. They could be message queue servers, run GPIO-driven hardware systems, be sensor platforms, run DNS/DHCP/PiHole kinds of systems, be a speaker driver endpoint for a larger system, bong a clock sound every hour, or whatever. That's just what I could come up with while typing on the fly. If you start adding hardware to the IO ports it just goes nuts what even the older boards are capable of.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Cocktails. Just need some bottles.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Let's see the coats. That sounds like a blast, especially for your doggo buddy.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

They know you MUST defend the children, so it's a way of ensuring you'll be afraid of them. It's just more ways to inflict cruelty on everyone else by using children as hostages against us.

 

Spain is ramping up to follow Germany's Deutschland Ticket, which gives nationwide public transit access for a flat rate.

I love our Deutschland Tickets. The subscription system is wonky, but once you have it running it's wonderful.

Nice work, Spain!

 

It's abundantly clear the urban freeways are a total an abject failure for cities and should be removed.

 

London has managed to stabilize the routes and scheduling around the new Elizabeth Line metro in the city. This means they're comfortable with the infrastructure and have the staff to man it properly and they're going from 16 trains an hour to 20 per hour during peak times! That's a train every 3 minutes!

The Elizabeth Line was built to serve east London which had a lack of serious rail services, despite lots of growth over 50 years. It's been wildly successful since it opened in May 2022. It's served over 600,000,000 total trips, with peak days of 800k people per day. The line basically caps out based on how many trains can physically run, so going to 20 per hour could get the line up to a million people per day. That's a huge achievement in the transit world.

Nice work, London!

 

Seattle has opened a subsection of their new Light Rail Line (Line 2). It doesn't connect to downtown yet (still working out engineering issues with the floating bridges), but they were smart enough to start running the section already complete.

Massive (by US standards) ridership has ensured. People needed the transit!

Seattle's geography is really tough for transit systems. The quantity of bottlenecks from riders and mountains is quite high. Trains are a necessity going forward to tie together the region.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34793815

 

I really liked the tone of their article. It's uplifting about how the bike roads are supporting commercial style activities along with being transit resources.

In Berlin I was fascinated by the sheer volume of material being delivered by bikes. Both individuals and companies use the bike roads to move goods. Some of the bikes could haul some serious tonnage, especially the cargo bikes with an enclosed box truck style back end.

Bike infrastructure is commercial infrastructure and it supports jobs all along the route.

 

Seattle continues to inch towards being a pedestrian city again. Now if they could just find a way to make a streetcar that's not stuck in traffic all day...

 
 
 
 

I know that Paris was adding tons of tram lines, but I didn't know about the scale of the metro building. Four wholly new metro lines, 200km of tunnels, 68 stations!

The project was proposed in 2010, started digging in 2016, and is scheduled to be open in 2030.

Huge props to Paris and France! Now that's how you handle big city growth and infrastructure!

 

Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", the mayor of London has said.

City Hall claims two thirds of people support the principle of banning traffic on one of the world's busiest streets, with Sir Sadiq Khan adding that "urgent action is needed to give our nation's high street a new lease of life".

Vehicles would be banned from a 0.7-mile (1.1km) stretch between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, with further potential changes towards Tottenham Court Road.


That piece of road gets a half million visitors per day. It cannot scale with cars taking up all.of the space and resources. I'm really happy to see the Mayor pushing this through. London needs to make more effective use of the scarce room it has. Returning more streets back into places for people instead of cars should be a huge part of that.

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