doctor_m

Modern cable systems are more akin to satellite broadcast systems than they are to the terrestrial broadcast systems of yore. There's an order of magnitude more content on cable these days. When you tune a channel now, instead of simply tuning to a frequency and demodulating the signal, content is spread across many frequencies, each of which carries a QAM-modulated MPEG transport stream that carries many programs. It takes longer to tune QAM than baseband analog or even PSK. So the physical frequency change takes longer than it used to do. Once frequency is tuned, decoder may need to check provisioning in order to be able to decrypt whatever program you've requested, so that adds to the time it takes.

An informative look into Amtrak's genesis and a well-reasoned argument for the establishment of national passenger rail from a policy perspective. No discussion of rail from an energy-use standpoint, though.

I feel like Wikipedia is doing a pretty solid job of holding onto that dream: no shouty content, pure information that's maintained by those who are interested in it, and a fairly well outfitted battalion of bots that fend off adversarial edits

If crinkle-crankle walls protect fruit, then I suppose the analogous software might run on some Apple device that's unnecessarily expensive, technically lagging, and probably beautiful. Hard to justify economically, but still attractive.

If only crinkle-crankle software were equally justifiable...

Is your question asking about how to understand who's visiting your site and what their motivations are without engaging in creepy, dragnet-style tracking?

What sort of men? Cisgender men? Heterosexual men? Arabic men?

There's no such thing as a man -- "man" an abstract concept that needs definition before any useful statement can be made about people in that category.

...and here I was, thinking that this would be a treatise on Haskell...