Strength exercise keeps your joints working well long-term

Indeed, wild statement if I ever heard one

It can also be good and expensive, but that expensive is really damn expensive in that case.

I’d take a good train ride any day over it though

It’s denoted as being only slightly lighter, which I guess might be doable if you’re optimal about the construction. It is indeed a bit weird though, on average a bicycle should be possible to build lighter than a velomobile

🎶 I love stealing, I love taking things 🎶

But existing is basically all I do!

Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourself

‘Our boys have taken up stealing - one of the worst and coolest of crimes’

or wondering how you’ll close up a veggie bag.

Get yourself some of these for all of your bag-closing needs: https://www.ikea.com/se/en/p/bevara-sealing-clip-anthracite-dark-yellow-90524179/

Costs just above 1 EUR for a set of 6, so you can probably even afford to get 2 or 3

There are tariffs on Chinese EVs in the EU as well.

The primary use-case for LLMs once again appears to be gooning

It’s a mix of both, really. They would not be losing significant time by actually going to the sidings and letting passenger trains go by, and time is less significant in freight anyway. The longer trains let them do some (fairly questionable) optimizations in their freight delivery though, and since they go unpunished, they go for it.

That’s true - they do this by making their trains longer than the sidings.

You’d think they’d make that illegal, but no. Political failures are incredibly common in the world of rail

That’s a problem that is easily solved by building less trains in places with no people and more trains in places with lots of people.

To be clear, the U.S has plenty of places that could easily support rail transit, and High-speed rail. That they are not getting built is just good old political failure.

Freight and passenger trains optimize for very different things, and those things are largely incompatible.

Passenger trains want speed, quick turnaround on the vehicles, frequent stops etc.

Freight wants efficient transport (= lower speed), few stops, turnaround time is less important.

That’s the joke

It’s mostly a skill issue for services that go down when USE-1 has issues in AWS - if you actually know your shit, then you don’t get these kinds of issues.

Case in point: Netflix runs on AWS and experienced no issues during this thing.

And yes, it’s scary that so many high-profile companies are this bad at the thing they spend all day doing

You prepare for these by doing specific exercises for them, sad as it may seem.

Leetcoding problems? You grind them out for a month or two to prepare for doing them during interview loops.

Mock interviews can help too, to get you better at handling the stress. You can use services/groups for these, or just go interview for random places you’re not necessarily planning to actually say yes to.

It’s cringe

No need for the likely-qualifier - it definitely won’t make a difference in perceived sound quality.

You basically need expensive gear under the right conditions and training to be able to tell. Modern audio codecs are extremely good - the main thing you will get out of lossless is more storage/data usage