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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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rootusrootus wrote: post #53
panny wrote: post #40

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>people getting wealthier and buying cars Haha, my experience is people buying cars feel poorer, not wealthier. Car payments, maintenance, insurance, taxes, fuel... and as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL. Time to start paying for the next one.

> as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL The average age of a car on the road in the US today is now more than 11 years. The average new car loan is just less than 6 years. Beyond that, it's all just a different set of trade-offs. Aside from living somewhere truly dense with fantastic public transit and only going places reachable by said transit, owning a car means less time spent on transportation,…

The cost of ownership goes WAY up immediately after the warranty expires. I owned one car. A Ford I purchased brand new. I have no more desire to ever own a car. That experience taught me all I ever needed to know about cars. They are an endless money pit. Everyone I know who drives is poorer for it.

>owning a car means less time spent on transportation

See, that's how drivers think. "I need to spend less time in transportation", because it's miserable for them. You don't even consciously think about it, but subconsciously, you hate being in that car. I like riding the train. It's fun. Even the old Amtrak trains are fun to ride. I can enjoy a beer if I want. There's one cute conductor who flirts with me. I'm not getting any of that in a car.

>Lots of people prefer the lifestyle.

How many "prefer" it because they have never tried any other way. Sitting there alone, rage listening to talk radio in gridlock. No thanks. Cars are antisocial. Been there, done that, I don't care for it.

I hear the cope though, about how cars are "freedom" and can "go anywhere," but when you don't have a car for a while, you begin to realize how cars are the opposite of freedom. Cars are an anchor. Everywhere you go, you have to worry about where to put the car. You can't get too far away from the car. If you have to feed a parking meter, you can barely get a block away from the car. Can't even finish the movie, let's go back to the parking meter. You always have to go back to the car, you can't just continue on your journey and leave it behind. That's not an option. Go back to the car.

Once you have no need for a car, only then do you realize what a slave you were to the car.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by em-bee »

lmm wrote: post #66
fluoridation wrote: post #57

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I'd like to see something like that but on a subway. Just a platform and two tunnels with no stairs. If the service stops you're SOL and have to hoof it down the tracks.

Friedrichstraße was famously like that during the Cold War (West Berliners riding the lines were not permitted to exit into East Berlin), although of course the stairs physically existed. I think it's unusual for an underground station to be built without digging from the surface, so there's normally at least a fire escape.

i hope that safety regulations everywhere simply would not allow any station to be built without a way out.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by rootusrootus »

panny wrote: post #73
rootusrootus wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL The average age of a car on the road in the US today is now more than 11 years. The average new car loan is just less than 6 years. Beyond that, it's all just a different set of trade-offs. Aside from living somewhere truly dense with fantastic public transit and only going places reachable by said transit, owning a car means less time spent on transportation,…

The cost of ownership goes WAY up immediately after the warranty expires. I owned one car. A Ford I purchased brand new. I have no more desire to ever own a car. That experience taught me all I ever needed to know about cars. They are an endless money pit. Everyone I know who drives is poorer for it. >owning a car means less time spent on transportation See, that's how drivers think. "I need to spend less time in tra…

Trains make me motion sick, and they don’t go into the wilderness. You live in a bubble.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by dannyw »

zzleeper wrote: post #8
_alternator_ wrote: post #5

Cool idea! Not sure if this was created with LLM help, but I suspect so? Not because the page is buggy (it is, though, crashed on my iPhone), but because they make data visualization so accessible. This type of presentation used to take days of work; now, if you find a unique piece of data, it's only a few hours of work to create a beautiful animated visualization. I do think this would be more compelling with some a…

I created pages with Claude before and it's very very obvious when you see one. From the font choice to the color palette, and the style of the boxes. In fact if anyone has an effective prompt that says "please don't make this look like the average Claude page" please post it!

Fable is really, really good at this. My workflow involves giving it a bit of human inspiration, through asking it to generate a few different design templates/scaffolds (without building the whole frontend first).

Then I iterative and give it feedback, point out all the parts I don’t like, sometimes mixing and matching.

I’m sure you can do this with Opus too, but Fable is a better designer.

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