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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 wasn’t super convenient timing on either end. Also the cabins were super claustrophobic for me when the beds were folded down. Fun once but I would probably fly next time.

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 on it.

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 depending on whether you want a sleeper or want to go through Switzerland or want to go the fastest route. And then specific instructions for booking each trip on the various country's railway websites, and connection info for the train stations. Ridiculous.

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 can either carve in linoleum which is softer and easier but less precise, or in wood. We’ve done Christmas card this way a couple of times and the results have been great if a little “rustic”.

OTOH, doing multi block, perfectly aligned woodblock prints like the ones in the link is quite difficult. There’s no shortcut, you have to carve each color block by hand.

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 as he has gotten older but has taken up training a new generation of artists which is very admirable.

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 of parking, but they don’t want to have to rubber stamp developments that they don’t like. So they waive the parking requirements of people that make the changes that they want.

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 duolicates.

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 use schoolbuses with no AC. But the second class buses made the trip in half the time of the first class, because they could go over the mountain instead of around it. Fascinating choices.

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 much harder to stock. Also the stronger your prescription, the more alternative material options there are to keep the thickness down, which again makes it harder to stock everything.

Does anyone know why java.com only offers to install Java 8 for a desktop user?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205160

“Magic Keyboard, Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Trackpad 2 have a built-in rechargeable battery that lets you use the devices for extended periods between charges.

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If you have an earlier Apple wireless mouse, keyboard, or trackpad with removable batteries, learn how to install batteries.”

Is it better to test audio products with a meter or with double blind humans?

Craft breweries are still small businesses and live and die by their business decisions. If you borrow millions to build a fancy new brewery/attraction, and then people don’t come, it doesn’t matter how good your beer is.

It doesn’t help that the url doesn’t give any clue either. If this post was on their domain, then that would probably give enough context.

I know Apple and Steve Jobs are closely linked but I’m surprised Apple would have any claim to its former CEOs name.

Try google searching for anything Angular related.