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Mostly by spending more money. Especially France and Japan built special rails only to be used by high speed trains. While those exist in Germany, there are less of them and they m…

If you live in the Apple ecosystem you could use something like FSNotes and icloud for 7$ for FSNotes plus 1$/month for icloud.

I'm also always coming back to vimwiki after trying something else (mostly because I'm so used to (n)vim). I still want to give zk [1] a try though (but it's also vim based). The o…

The space of markdown based note taking apps is getting more and more crowded. I'm wondering how many more are sustainable, especially as many free (and open source) ones are avail…

While the specs sound very underwhelming at first (geo-fenced on some roads, very low speeds, no bad weather), they seem to be so confident in their system, that they will take res…

Does anyone have any personal experience in applying mypyc on type-hinted, but otherwise not specially optimized python code? I'm especially interested in what kind of performance …

Especially reading and understanding the "moderately" optimized Python version is a lot harder than reading the C version. Also I really dislike python optimization tricks like `ou…

You live in a very different world than I if for you, the associating of Twitter with Mr. Musk improves Twitters image.

You are implying, that current staff of twitter is not effective. How do you get to that assessment?

Sure, if you consider 3.5% of all green house gases miniscule. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation

According to this [1], taxes on gasoline are much higher than 40 cents/litre (50 cents in Spain, 68 cents in France). If you buy a train ticket in advance, you definitely are in th…

> Here in Germany, for as long as I can remember, the government praises itself every year for investing as much in rail as never before. Unfortunately, that's not true (the invest…

This. As I commented recently on another thread: This was done on purpose. There was the hope, that strong economic ties would make war between Germany and Russia impossible. While…

I'm not sure if this is the right answer. The prevailing political view, was that strong economic ties would make war and violent conflict between Germany and Russia impossible. Th…

As commented below: That broomstick example gets paraded around a lot, but this was on a vehicle that wasn't supposed to have a gun in the first place. There is a lot of valid crit…

Did you read the first article? That broomstick example gets paraded around a lot, but this was on a vehicle, that wasn't supposed to have a gun in the first place. There is a lot …

Why care about the %? What really matters are the capabilities, no matter the cost.

Here are the release notes for 13.1 https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/

Which is what the article describes.