How far can you go by train in 5h?
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How far can you go by train in 5h?
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Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?
#2If it's Amtrak, about 3 miles.
Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?
#3If it's Amtrak, about 3 miles.
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#4One data-heavy but useful addition to maps like these would be incorporation of time-of-day and day-of-week.
The distance you can travel on Monday morning at 9am differs greatly from the distance you can travel on Thursday at 3am, for example.
I've long thought it'd be useful to have that kind of information incorporated into gas station / charge station maps. IE: from a given position, how long will it take to travel to the nearest fillup station that will be open when I get there.
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#5I can make it only as far as jealousy.
And memories. I miss the train from NY to Greenwich, CT. Or down to DC.
And Seattle to Portland, OR or to Vancouver, BC were both treats, too (with the exception of the slow Starlight northbound outta LA!). Treat trips with scenery and drinks!
Where I am now, it's an hour's drive to an Amtrak station and then several more to Chicago, the closest big city. Still pleasant, except for all the car.
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#6Discussed 22 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276017
Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?
#7If it's Amtrak, about 3 miles.
As a counter to this low-effort, flip comment, I semi-regularly take the Amtrak Capitol Corridor from San Jose to Sacramento. It is about 3 hours. It takes about 2 hours to drive with no traffic, but if you need to travel on a weekday during the morning or early evening, the train is much faster. And you can read/work/sleep/whatever.
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#8Pretty cool, but damn is it slow. Takes about 25% of GPU and CPU here.
One could argue, it doesn't need to be faster, after all it is just an experiment. But I say, what if it were faster? Would we look at the same thing? Or rather, would he / she have added more features, maybe drawing on the map, planning trips or additional heat maps? Maybe some gamification? Oh the possibility!
But no, because its JS it's the end of the road.
We have to remind ourselves, that performance is the number one feature of Computing. If you sacrifice performance for easier development, you are working in the past.
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#9Pretty cool, but damn is it slow . Takes about 25% of GPU and CPU here. One could argue, it doesn't need to be faster, after all it is just an experiment. But I say, what if it were faster? Would we look at the same thing? Or rather, would he / she have added more features, maybe drawing on the map, planning trips or additional heat maps? Maybe some gamification? Oh the possibility! But no, because its JS it's the en…
This is a free website. How would you make it worth the author’s while to spend more effort to make it more performant?
Re: How far can you go by train in 5h?
#10depends on the speedQ