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> Forced to climb 21 flights of stairs,

There's plenty to be said about how we should incorporate more physical activity into our daily lives, by I think 21 flights of steps would be a turn around and go home moment for me.

Unless of course I were a ghostbuster.

Try living in a highrise and having the power go out :)

I once tried to get out at a station (I think, Queensway) in London but the lift was not working. I tried climbing up (100+ steps) and I realized I'm not good with climbing stairs. I had since then slowly kept up with walking and climbing stairs.

I climb 16 floors pretty regularly. I can do 21 floors just about fine and go on my day. My watch shows that my yearly average flight is 9 floors.

It is a habit, it has taken its own time and I like it -- trying to find opportunities to just walk and climb stairs is a fun thing. You also tend to meet and find lots of weird, interesting, funny, WTF, things/moments/people on public building's stairs.

Köln Cathedral (in Köln, Germany) is 55 flights of stairs from the bottom to the very top, and eleven stairs per flight. At least one third of that is a tight spiral staircase where your shoulders may hit the walls on both sides.

Quite a challenge, but one I'm glad to say that I was able to make back in the early 2000s. Not something I'd want to do on a regular basis, however.

As far as I know, there is just one WMATA Metro station too deep escalators, the Forest Glen station on the Red Line. One day not long after it opened, the elevators were all out of service, and passengers were allowed the choice of walking the stairs or of continuing on to Wheaton. I walked the stairs, which then wasn't that bad (I was in my early forties). But the stairs and rails were impressively dusty.

I thought it was going to go into some detail as to what happened to the elevator and how fixing it lead to Rust. It just mentions the elevator was broken, they assumed it was a memory management problem without more explaining, then proceeds to explain Rust's memory management

Spoiler: rust. Article is short.

It seems like it’s a worse version of a longer article from MIT’s Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-wor...

Nice find, I like it!

Nice one. Never knew about this story. I was still at the Mozilla CSS story.

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