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New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20"

ZanyProgrammer — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:16:29 +0000

Yes they'll unfortunately continue to run freight trains on those tracks. Also the corridor down to Gilroy from Tamien won't be electrified.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

ZanyProgrammer — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:23:19 +0000

"Permanently" what? the harbor will be cleared, probably sooner than later, and there will be a new bridge/tunnel built in a few years. Like that's not permanent.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

ZanyProgrammer — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:38 +0000

that collapsed almost 40 years ago, which really emphasizes it's flat out uncommon, no "buts" needed.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

ZanyProgrammer — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:18:08 +0000

general aviation, small airports have been closing down for years. It’s not a growing hobby.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

ZanyProgrammer — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:40:19 +0000

General aviation is in decline, so really there's no need to build new airports.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous"

ZanyProgrammer — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:55:49 +0000

Canada is already a federal state with sub national entities that don’t have all the rights of the federal government. Pretty much any state that has a federal system already deals with this.,

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Oregon passes right-to-repair law Apple lobbied to kill"

ZanyProgrammer — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:51:53 +0000

Yes, it's such a giant handout that Apple came out against it.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Much of North America may face electricity shortages starting in 2024"

ZanyProgrammer — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:51:13 +0000

Well, it is in distress because of their extreme fetish for austerity over a growing economy that is enabling the rise of the far right and Wagenknecht's socially conservative GDR vanity project.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada"

ZanyProgrammer — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:07:25 +0000

By any definition but yours Acela is indeed HSR, it’s the fucking fastest train in North America!

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada"

ZanyProgrammer — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:49:36 +0000

PSR would like a word with your categorization. Indeed the Class 1s are the mortal enemy of decent intercity and commuter rail.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada"

ZanyProgrammer — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:29:48 +0000

Obviously it’s not the first credible foray into HSR in the US-that honor is Acelas.

Edit: if you’re referring to Brightline West, construction hasn’t even started.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024"

ZanyProgrammer — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:29:11 +0000

I assume they always kept it shitty as to not cannibalize VS Code, which does get a lot of use (obviously it's very popular). If you ever used it you'd see that it doesn't feel like normal Windows VS, and it doesn't really feel like a good native Mac app either.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour"

ZanyProgrammer — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:01:14 +0000

Assuming you don't get caught, which if you keep on bank robbing probably increases the odds you do.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline"

ZanyProgrammer — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 02:56:11 +0000

If you’re worried that bananas have too much sugar for you personally you have bigger fish to fry than cereal.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline"

ZanyProgrammer — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 02:33:25 +0000

The solution is to eat dull cereal.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Dollar Tree is the latest retailer to say shoplifting is squeezing margins"

ZanyProgrammer — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:00:09 +0000

OTOH you shouldn’t necessarily trust what corporations say about this. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says"

ZanyProgrammer — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:24:59 +0000

so you totally backtrack your comment because someone else an hour or so later disagreed with you? Based on nothing more than sounding authoritative?

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago"

ZanyProgrammer — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:43:57 +0000

You forgot the mandatory MSFT accounts to sign in with no way around last I checked (a few months ago).

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Bluesky Custom Feeds"

ZanyProgrammer — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:55:26 +0000

This would be great if Bluesky still wasn't invite only.

New comment by ZanyProgrammer in "Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking"

ZanyProgrammer — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:58:22 +0000

I say this as a fan, but to be precise it’s Millennial Mental Health Twittersphere.