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stardenburden··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Love this, but is it just me or can it not read the location data embedded in images?
stardenburden··on 43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
It still isn't true when I took Amtrak back in August. Maybe it's just that one route, or that the train was sold out?
stardenburden··on Wonders of Street View
And also https://geotastic.net for a free alternative
stardenburden··on Automobiles are the most egalitarian form of transportation since walking
Poorer households are actually the majority of users in Los Angeles [1].

I suspect this isn't the case in many other American cities, because

a. Transit is a luxury good, raising prices and gentrifying an area

b. Transit is the easiest to build to close places (from the CBD), which are often rich

c. Poorer communities just aren't a priority for most cities, at least not until recently.

Anecdotally, in Europe the modal split is probably more even.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/11/11/meme-weeding-l...

stardenburden··on Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
I am aware of that. But I didn't buy a proton version, I bought a Linux version.
stardenburden··on Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
No longer if you were playing on Linux
stardenburden··on Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned
The linked blog post has some details: https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-n...
stardenburden··on Waymo's collision avoidance testing
> literally the richest person on Earth

Not anymore https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63963239

stardenburden··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
The neighborhood was safe, but the cop made the strawman argument that the kid could've been kidnapped for a sex trafficking Ring Downtown
stardenburden··on Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
wasnt that one chevrolet
stardenburden··on Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
According to the top commentator that's exactly why it's happening
stardenburden··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
On my pixel 4a there's a "critical security" update available for download. (Current patch level is one month old)

I will try to exploit before and after downloading.

stardenburden··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
It doesn't get decrypted. The data is still safe after a reboot. That's presumably why the phone hangs for the author after a reboot. Although some comments have said Android itself loads (and I guess also the launcher) but they can't really do anything
stardenburden··on French senate: parking lots for 80 cars must be covered by solar panels
Urban Heat Island effect for one. The dark pavement stores heat and raises the temperature of the surrounding area
stardenburden··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Most Garmin watches fit your formula
stardenburden··on T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades
Worse, this is like Amazon charging you everytime you add a new address
stardenburden··on Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666
Berlin uses a different system in the older parts of the city

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-hous...

stardenburden··on Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published
This is exactly what city planners call the missing middle in the US. There's skyscrapers, and two blocks over you have single family suburbs.

If it wouldn't be for political opposition most cities, undoubtedly, would upzone (permit higher density) areas near downtown and other hubs, but even in "progressive" cities progress is slow because of opposition of the people who currently live there (commonly called NIMBY's)

stardenburden··on Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist
You can still buy DJI drones. It's only that the military can't anymore
stardenburden··on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
It certainly seems this way. But something must've changed later on, otherwise Musk wouldn't have tried to buy Twitter.
stardenburden··on Finnish as a world language?
Now I need to know if this is also satire or if I need to start learning Japanese
stardenburden··on Things people blamed on bicycles
Here's a hilarious article from the New York Times, in 1894.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/08/12/106...

They blame biking for everything from insanity to killing pedestrians at random.

There's a few snippets the twitter thread could include lol

stardenburden··on High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California
SunRail is high speed rail? Something tells me your claim of the Chinese system is just as credible as the SunRail one...
stardenburden··on Photos of trains in the American West (2017)
Those diesel engines are crazy strong. You feel the earth around you rumble when one of them rolls by.
stardenburden··on Take my app ideas
Everything but the last idea seem very annoying, prone to failure and highly battery-draining
stardenburden··on Website Will Self Destruct
Not just that, the worldle guy also invented r/place
stardenburden··on 50+ years of Japanese concept cars (2010)
Much safer? Only for the person inside the metal box. Pedestrian deatgs have been rising for years now, thanks to bigger and heavier cars.

There has to be some middle ground for safety inside and on the outside.

stardenburden··on PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
Poor is exactly what it is. The converter is so broken, that a space in the wrong place will cause it to not work. IIRC something like 5m to ft works but not 5 m to ft
stardenburden··on How to Walk (12 miles a day)
oh wow that's very impressive

How did you deal with keeping yourself hydrated and filled? Did you drink caffeine to keep yourself awake?

I would love to try something similar when I'm in a new city once

stardenburden··on How to Walk (12 miles a day)
I don't like planning walks. In fact I think it's best to just go out and see where curiosity leads you. This only really works in urban environments, but then you can also drop the supplies and instead just take money with you.
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