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I was very excited by the idea of an overnight train in Europe but the reality was a bit underwhelming. We went from Cologne to Vienna which was roughly from 10 pm to 7 am which wa…

And kill dev productivity.

What a mess. Wait a week, maybe the price will go up or down another 3%. Who knows!

You can’t say “it is good design to have small composable building blocks” and then complain about the number of those blocks.

I'm sure he also benefits a lot from feedback. Someone goes to book a route he suggests, and the connection now doesn't work, they are going to tell him, and he can update his page…

And doesn't even mention Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has some science cred. https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-ise...

Amazing resource. And such a depth of info... we wanted to go from London to Vienna by train, and there is a page on that specifically, and three different options for the journey …

If you don’t trust Facebook to do the right thing, that thread is not much of a defense, since it just says they will police their partners.

Wouldn't you just be testing if they read the blog posts?

It’s pretty easy to get a simple setup to do single color prints at your local arts and craft store. Speedball brand sells the ink and press and various other bits and bobs. You ca…

Been on the internet so long he has a great domain name: http://woodblock.com I’ve bought many pieces over the years from David. He has slowed down a bit with his personal carving …

Aren’t the three “foreign” cars ranked above it also made in America?

I’ve noticed sometimes the parking minimum is essentially just used as a source of power for the zoning board. They don’t actually want places to build the required large amounts o…

I would say it’s exactly “halfway decent”. There’s very little feedback and bugs tend to get closed as duplicates but since it’s not public you can’t monitor the state of the duoli…

I’m sure part of it is A/B tests for tons of things. Doubled or tripled resources and code but any given user only sees one variety of them.

We did a journey in Mexico where the first class buses go on the good highway and have extreme air conditioning and lie back seats. The second class buses go on the bad roads and u…

I think gas stations are the only place I still see swipe, or small merchants who have old terminals. I don’t see it as predominantly magstripe.

The ship names are pretty much the least interesting part of the Culture books.

There was a long twitter thread that was very anti F-35 going around.

You give men twelve weeks of paid leave after their wife gives birth, most of them are going to take it.

Slack did the same thing with the ScreenHero service they acquired and it had the same effect: much more lag and worse quality.

I’d assume most people at least change it when they get a free one at their six month cleaning.

It totally depends on your prescription. If there’s no astigmatism, the lenses can be stocked and cut to the frames you need. Astigmatism adds another two variables that make it mu…