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Carr also made Pirate Battles and Treasure Island, at least one of which I remembered from my childhood, whereas I've never played Capture the Flag. The sprites used in the sharewa…

Perhaps it's a terminology issue. No one in the visible map frames of the Charlotte links would consider themselves to live in a 'rural' area. Sure, their neighborhood might be ple…

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There are several digital encoding schemes that add enhancement layers on top of an older, established base layer. It's a key concept of backwards compatibility. Not including case…

Fijivillage.com reports: "All websites and apps hosted in Fiji with the dotcom.fj suffix are currently down and this has also affected Vodafone’s M-PAiSA services. This is due to a…

The tech is neat but the reasons this isn't already in use has to do a lot more with railroading company culture (operational familiarity, risk of losing business to a competitor) …

BNSF Railway has a major classification yard in Galesburg. Just like other railroads, they use their Chicago yard for intermodal traffic (loading containers from the trains onto tr…

Business travelers take taxis from their arrival airport to their destination and then get reimbursed by their company later. They are among the least price-sensitive travelers and…

In my comparison of HSR vs. cars for As for buses, the article's author diminishes the significance of intercity buses in Europe by making it sound like private intra-national inte…

Despite several flaws and uncharitable misrepresentations in his policy analysis, I actually agree with most of O'Toole's conclusions. I post a lot on here about rail, and I disagr…

The line from Spokane to Fargo hosts the Empire Builder, which is Amtrak's highest-ridership long distance train service [1]. [1] http://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11…

I see why you'd say that, but the difference between (a) commuter rail lines between the urban core and every suburban edge city [1] vs. (b) high-speed intercity rail between high-…

People who think the US needs high-quality commuter rail much more so than fast long-distance rail have the right idea. Long-distance intercity rail is for the incidental traveler …

Though it's a buzzword now, the idea behind 'digital twins' was that you not only have a detailed and faithful model (of an item, or process, or system, or network, etc.) whose gra…

Note that the article is about innovation and performance gains in general-purpose processors slowing, and about the increasing shift onto specialized computing engines by those wh…

The study cannot (and does not attempt to) distinguish whether the milk proteins found within the dental calculus of these thousands-of-years-old remains were as a result of drinki…

Big Macs don't hold up well, because the sauce goes best with a warm burger and is no longer palatable when it's been sitting on top of a cold patty. The shredded lettuce is alread…

The line "I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice" , a quote from MP3 author Karlheinz Brandenburg, first appeared in the article 'Ich Bin Ein Pa…

The yearly price to store 45 GB in Backblaze B2 is $2.10. After 12 years, your cost of storage-at-rest would total to $25.20. Then, it would cost you $0.44 to download all 45 GB on…

This is a good article about the weaknesses of the trust models of navigation on the web. The author uses a password manager that also fulfills the role of a personal 'have I seen …

AVIF is a format that puts an AV1 bitstream into a HEIF container. You're thinking about what AOM said about AV1 [6], not AVIF; they should not (and in fact do not) make that claim…

Nucor steel mills in the US are set up to melt scrap with electric arc furnaces. A varying amount of semi-processed iron (pig iron or direct reduced iron) is added to a batch; they…

AIR was wildly popular for making games and cross-platform applications around 2010. These could even be submitted to mobile apps stores, even for iOS. But AIR produces packaged ap…

You can blame the lack of uptake of MPEG-2 in the personal computing space on the license terms set by the MPEG LA, which charged patent licensees an amount based on the number of …