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Why not link to the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail which states:

" Since its inception in 2008, the Group has issued 18 letters and members have testified before Legislative and Congressional committees 15 times. In reviewing past letters and testimony, a consistent theme emerges: 1) project costs, schedules, and ridership estimates are uncertain and subject to significant risk of deteriorating, a typical experience for mega-projects; 2) the project is underfunded, and its financing is unstable, raising costs and making effective management difficult if not impossible; 3) more legislative oversight is needed. This letter reinforces the message, but with a sense of urgency over the ever-higher stakes.[6] "

Also:
"Per the 2023 Project Status Report, the authority indicated the Interim IOS will go into service before December 31, 2030, with a "risk factor" of three years (which runs until the end of 2033)."

In the period between 2008-2023, several other countries (not just China) have started and completed many HSR projects.
Americans are deluded with cars. America is just huge and our cities (metro + suburbs) are huge. Meaning to use a train requires driving to the train stop, parking, waiting for train, etc. and if that entire process isn’t meaningfully better experience or meaningfully faster why wouldn’t I choose to drive.

It’s like Caltrain, for many driving is actually a faster commute than taking Caltrain. People took Caltrain though as the 20mins ish more the train takes makes up not sitting in standstill traffic.
I have always wondered why the timezone of India is written as "Asia/Kolkata" instead of "Asia/Delhi", as Delhi is the capital.
Me as well as my company https://pinggy.io is located near Kolkata.
Nah I'm pretty stupid and follow the herd, its the reason for my success too!
Rust is C++ done well.

>turns out people with money on the line will not use a language that simultaneously takes away power from the programmer while also being more difficult to write.

Rust reduces the number of Bugs by being harder to write. C++ is already an incredibly complex and incoherent language, like any language "vendor lock in" works against people choosing the right tools.
There are several talking points mentioned in this thread that are explored more on the NotJustBikes YouTube Channel.

- When Canada built a relatively recent urban rail to Toronto, they built it so you have to drive to the train station, and used the high value land right around the station for ... surface car parking. This is absurdly wasteful of valuable real estate and makes the expensive train add much less value to the people. Also the train only runs around rush hours, making it useless for almost anyone who isn't driving to the train for a commute to work. "The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA

- "Why city design is import (and why I hate Houston)" [it's not walkable] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54

- How American urban transit is built misunderstanding the way transit needs to work to be successful, notably trying to build transit as a bandaid over car problems, but not making it regular, frequent, reliable, fast, convenient, instead plonking an isolated transit connection from nowhere to nowhere which runs once every couple of hours and then pointing to it as an example of how transit doesn't work in America - "America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyeRlMsTgI

- Addressing the "America is too big and spread out for rail" arguments, notably that USA and Canada were built by trains, and streetcar suburbs, and that most journes Americans take every day are less than 5 miles. - "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ
Sweden rejects thousands of asylum cases each year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/697824/rejected-asylum-a...
Most of my family is shocked that I haven't vested in a 401k account. The fact that I haven't decided to funnel upwards of 5% of my income straight into the big craps table elicits an almost medical concern from them. They come to me in hushed tones and ask why I'm making such an obvious mistake, so I ask them why they expect their portfolios to perform well, and of course they can't answer.

I think that's what GP is talking about. I don't think it's unreasonable to put your money into stocks, but there are a ton of people in America that put a ton of money into the stock market without even getting to the point of doing some of the reasoning you do in your post.
Yes, like all keynotes in all industries, it is about the larger ecosystem and new developments.

Cardiology keynotes are about global attention to heart health, not how a cardiothoraccic surgeon can rotate a stent to improve success.

Energy conference keynotes are about changing patterns in production and use of energy, not the novel polymers in the latest solar cells.

Keynotes are by definition intended to tie everything together (I like to believe the word was used a playful anagram). Pointing out that a keynote is not the most personally/professionally relevant part of a conference for the average attendee is not going to surprise anyone who’s been to conferences.
I've been hearing about a bullet train between Houston and Dallas for over 30 years. Guess what?

Over the years, there have been plans for the train to complete the triangle to go from Houston -> Dallas -> Austin/San Antonio. Some people here are saying it's about car culture preventing this from happening. Maybe that's part of it, but it's also about land ownership and nobody wanting to sell their property in order to all for the tracks to be built. Imminent domain has been mentioned for over 30 years, but again, guess what.

Edit: to add another Texas tall tale to go along with this bullet train. There was/is also another plan to widen/deepen the Trinity river to allow cargo ships to come to Dallas. There are a few bridges in the Dallas area that cross the Trinity that are way taller than what one would imagine from the worst 1000 year flood. They were built around the time of this dredging being a hot topic, so they were unnecessarily expensive. Some ideas just won't die
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In the image the green square is actually less tall than the pink, which is really misleading.
Yes and no. I think we should at least treat them as intelligent beings and give them enough information to understand the world around them.

"As adults" though is super difficult to balance. They'll still do illogical things (you can explain its cold outside and they need a coat, they'll still get out in t-shirt) and need a ton of flexibility. It's kinda hard to square that they have a brain but don't use it the same way when looking at them in terms of "partially adults". My mental image is of aliens learning about our society.
yes, I think this is the crux of it.

Even if you're actually able to accumulate masses amounts of wealth, would you be able to better redirect it based on 1. other ideas of 'better' 2. how you achieved it.

It's a very tough question to answer.
Go to college, regardless of tuition.

The average student loan debt per student is around 30k, which is easily negated by the college wage premium, and also a much lower unemployment rate for college grads. it is not even close. This holds even for low-ROI majors and low-ranking colleges.

Put your money in the stock market, regardless of its health and structure.

after factoring in dividends , S&P 500 has pretty much outperformed everything and has a 10 % annual return, which solidly beats inflation.

Own a house, regardless of market conditions.

same as above. even someone who bought a home in 2004-2008 would be ahead now. home ownership easily beats renting.

market timing has generally been shown to be futile. the best time to buy stocks is always now.
Have you read the comment op was replying to?
You can believe that collection agencies behave illegally and also think that is unethical not to pay your debts to the best of your ability. Even if paying consumer debts is optional, not being able to get credit in the future, especially a home mortgage, is an incentive to pay. Some employers check the credit scores of applicants, and such scores probably are a decent indicator of whether someone has their life in order.
And now "DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools. Florida’s Department of Education has approved classroom use of videos that spout climate disinformation and distort climate science" [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desantiss-florida...
I'd recommend learning Type Theory (if you need languages – learn HoTT or just read papers on type theory around borrow checking etc.) to understand how Rust type system works, and assembly/LLVM (and again, papers) to understand how it's implemented. Not C.

The notion of "last language" that I used is, however, a bit different. It just meant that if you've implemented something in Rust, you won't need to rewrite in C or C++ due to presence of garbage collection or a need to integrate it as a library.
do you mean archive your contacts log? (their conversations with others)

It could be a per user option with new layers of encryption applied to the log at some slow interval. You would get something like a soft delete that would take n hours to decrypt even if you had the keys. Could gradually make stale conversations harder to decrypt with the oldest messages de hardest.

you could have part of your data stored with each contact in decryptable form and the rest stored with them too but in increasingly unreasonable. If enough contacts preserve your data you can easily decode your logs, with less it takes increasingly more cpu cycles.
This has to be a scam.

First thought is some company trying pocket a bunch of federal grant money to do “research,” or perhaps, trying to get somebody to buy their land.

There is no way this gets built in Texas.
> On the one hand, the distance [...] make this look potentially attractive.

Edit: The Dallas to Houston time is very wrong, against a 3+ hours drive trains have a chance.

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Planes succeed at competing with cars because they can turn a 10 hour drive into 1 or 2 hours, 2 or 3 hours including time to get to the airport and get through TSA. If it can't cut down on travel time by at least 50% then I think it won't succeed, and getting the whole journey under 30 minutes seems implausible. These cities are just too close together to make it work.
If you can't be arsed doing the heavy lifting answering your own question then that's on you.

You're not paying attention.

I'm saying, without validation, and proof, no one should be saying dams aren't as green as, for example, wind.

You've basically made my point for me, in that, no one has a clue, and everyone is just repeating a random thought someone had, without any comparative study done.
I had to walk back pretty quickly and save the credibility I had. So I pivoted to something like "There is no 'or else,' you'd just better not--as in it would really be better if you did not. I think you'll be pretty sad and miserable if you do that."

This turned out to be a step down the correct path, even if pretty embarrassing in the moment. Someone with a better relationship with the kid stepped in and used that relationship to de-escalate, á la "please don't do that because it will hurt you and I wouldn't like that because I care about you."

What I found to be key in a situation like this was: (1) focus on the person, not the behavior; (2) Have full attention on the situation; (3) try to determine/address root causes. It's obviously impossible to do all that stuff in real life sometimes, but I can try.
Reporting Spam Originating from Onmicrosoft.com?
I just got a phishing/spam from that originates solely from the Microsoft managed networks.
Google has method to report such these types of emails. I would expect Microsoft would as well.

My searches have all turned up Microsoft suggestions of adding mail filtering to my email client or using a magic button my email client doesn't have.

Is there a way to submit the headers to Microsoft so that they can manage their users appropriately?
Sounds like someone doesn't understand the relative importance of the kernel vs the ancillary parts of Linux. The Linux kernel is overwhelmingly responsible for every aspect or attribute you can think of when you say "Linux is <fill in the blank>" or "Linux supports <blank>" or "Linux does it <blank> way". And likewise, it is where a disproportionate number of fixes happen relative to the entire system - even non-driver, non-security things. There's a reason distros update your kernel every time there's a new graphics driver update, or a new systemd version, and it isn't just a "might as well update the kernel too" sort of thing.
And getting sick is a great reason you might use the phone to call into work but it doesn't imply getting sick is therefor the way to run all other phone usage through. I.e. it changes the behavior of the screen reader because it hides the content of the document and a screen reader knows it doesn't make sense to read content that was removed but that doesn't provide any support for why content which only affects screen readers belongs in the styling language as well.

Further point, in case you still disagree whether it makes sense for CSS to include the ability or not: CSS supports pseudo-elements but that doesn't mean tags in your page should be turned into pseudo-elements just because you can.
I'm sorry, but what? If you can't even remember what list/set/map whatever is called, how are you going to use them? We're not talking about exact syntax here, just what data structures you use...
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It is quicker because Rosetta is a proprietary Apple technology which apparently works superb, but only supports userspace code. Emulating x86 with qemu does not work as fast, unfortunately. I'm not qualified enough to judge whether it's qemu shortcoming or it's just not possible to emulate entire VM as efficiently, but the practical result for today is that you want to use Rosetta.
Full on the spot, yet some reality check is also required when talking about Rust.

Most language runtimes and compiler development frameworks aren't going to migrate from C++ into Rust anytime soon.

When I feel like contributing to JVM, CLR, node, GCC, LLVM, I need to provide my contribution in C++.

Same applies to anything related to GPU programming, AI frameworks, HPC, HFT, game console SDKs and major commercial engines.

Eventually it might be relevant enough that we can finally reach out for Rust in such domains, maybe even the reference compiler will be bootstrapped and no longer depend on C++, it will take some time though.
At its core, How closely related is this to Hamiltonian Chain Monte Carlo(HCMC) methods?

Reading about waiting to reach equilibrium state, extracting paths and integrating it(IIRC this is analogus to estimating the expected value) in a space made me think of that :). Sorry if the comparison seems naive.
If it were a proper random sample then it would be a decent-sized sample that should permit the calculation of a useful confidence interval on a non-negligible proportion. The cool thing about random samples is that the size you need is generally not dependent on the size of the population you're sampling from.

If it's not a random sample then I think we probably shouldn't allow them to get away with using the word "sample" at all. It's a bowl of cherries that they picked.
Can't believe people rely on solutions tied to a single editor.

Do you really have nobody on your team who doesn't use vscode.
You don't understand the feature. Devcontainers can use any plain old dockerfile or docker compose file, it's literally part of the spec.

You can do exactly what you're saying--have a dockerfile as the source of truth--right now. And you can install the devcontainer CLI and use it outside vs code if necessary too: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/devcontaine...
I was an exec at a smaller company acquired by Salesforce and met a few of the C-level and President level people a few times (not Marc). All impressed me with their intelligence and humility.

Parker just felt like a smart regular guy. He showed up at our small office (15 or so people) with his Starbucks cup, grabbed an open desk and got to work. I wasn't even sure it was him until I saw "Parker" as the name on the cup. We ended up chatting a bit and grabbing a conference room and doing both a product and technical deep dive. He grokked things quickly, asked good questions, and was super chill. I can't imagine him firing anyone.
They have hard time keeping up with regular python packages, I don't think Rust will make a difference. I just do "pip install uuid-utils" and get a uuidv7 implementation in my Python.
Sort of. I got into a rough spot after I got out of the military and I ended up defaulting on all my credit card debt. I got kicked out for being gay with no notice and had no savings. What little I had went to moving and finding a new job.

Only AmEx sued me (and we settled). I later sued most of the collection companies with the help of a lawyer and netted about $40K in settlements. Some had called my parents and told them they’d call the police and arrest me that day (they paid). Another called me work repeatedly and told my boss (he didn’t care other than the endless harassment).

It took 7 years for my credit to be clean. I still get calls from scummy bottom of the barrel collectors about debt I paid/settled - even 20 years later. They give up easily though, statute of limitations is long past.

Anyway my point is it’s not optional, you can get sued. And they'll harass you endlessly.
FWIW, I found Amtrak between Boston and southern Rhode Island to be reliable enough for a daily commute (a few years ago at least).
Monads are a discovery from category theory.
If that’s the case, then Scala and similar should also enter the question. That is at least an expressive language compared to Go, and if you don’t need rust’s performance it may be a good tradeoff.
I'm glad Rainer recommended his video, because I learned Concordia purely by word of mouth and exploration. There's a paper by Janet H. Walker, the principal on Document Examiner/Concordia for a hypertext convention https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/317426.317448, but it's more about DE.
I’ve been hearing about a train from Houston to Austin or Dallas since Nolan Ryan was throwing no hitters

Never going to happen
I think your example falls under the cloud use case, it's a form of IaaS. The reason it doesn't scale is at some point it becomes cheaper to own the hardware or you need better scaling/redundancy and switch to managed cloud VMs/containers/functions
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There are a ton of dams/reservoirs on the US East Coast (I'm most familiar with New England) that flooded out towns. For better or worse, those types of projects would be extremely difficult to do today. See also the interstate highway system.
> We're economies broken by people who will not allow to take one step back to allow two steps forward.

The core issue is that the people that are negatively impacted by the construction are not the same people that stand to benefit from the construction. They would take one step back in the short run without going two steps forward in the future.

It's a promising route for high speed rail, so I wish them good luck. It's quite cheap to fly betweens these two cities though.
In fact, the voice narrating Hardcore History is so.. American (no offense to anyone), swapping in another voice would actually be an improvement for me.
That is very interesting, and I am staring at the precision that they decided in the conference: "5 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds" or "UTC+5:21:14". I'm only accustomed to timezones that are minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes off. But never down to secondes. Were there other time zones that were seconds off, and did they all get abolished?

Can you imagine if this had survived into the present, how difficult it might be to code against or the kinds of mistakes that would happen in the minute-precision assumptions we make.
> The TSA/etc overhead make this suck for short-distance hops

It’s more than that. Downtown airports are very few and far between. It’s not uncommon to have to spend more time traveling to/from the airport than in the air on a short flight.
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Do I understand it correctly that it also builds the user provided packages? I guess that's similar to [0] but having something (semi?) official is pretty nice.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie...
Couldn’t resist but China is same land size and 4+ times the population of USA yet they do have a huge high speed network and pubic transport

The issue therefore is not size but attitude/will to have public transport
It was a software limitation, IIRC. There were hacks that allowed you to record and play the small videos it generated.
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I need to vent. Sorry if this comes out mangled and repetitive; emotions cloud my mind. My working life has been a failure. I’m in my thirties and I have only had a couple jobs, all between the age of 16 and early 20s. I lost them for various reasons: stupidity, clumsiness, distraction and excessive daydreaming. Needless to say, I might have missed the train to financial stability and employability. Especially so because I didn’t finish high school. I don’t know if I can change my situation or if I should resign myself to waiting for death. Time will tell.

It doesn't help that I'm overwhelmed by guilt because my partner supports me financially, making me wonder if she would be better off without me. She is the only person who cares about me and she is the kindest and most patient person I know; I hate myself for being a burden to her. I really do. I want to change it but it looks like a fight against myself.

What I do all this time? I try to do my best at housekeeping: cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, keeping plants healthy, fixing house problems...The rest of the time is spent sending a resume here and there, reading, writing and studying topics ranging from literature to mathematics. Mostly in my native language. The only thing left is curiosity, but one can’t eat with curiosity alone. For some time I even pursued the illusory and unsuccessful idea that I could create startups without having the essential requirement of ability; mental or physical I don’t know.

My only success, if you can call that, is having her get a job as a programmer, a better and stable one, after having taught her programming for a few months and preparing her for the interview. She has a university degree and decent work experience to show though; me? Not even a high school degree and almost no job on my resume. It's understandably skipped by employers.
Very well done

So pulsars are not regular at the tick level as they can spin faster and slower but have 100 nanoseconds accuracy (Way worse than an atomic clock) when doing an average profile -

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/p/Pulsar+Timing

This is a cool line -

"In effect this allows changes in the relative distance between the pulsar and Earth to be computed to an accuracy of 30 metres (~100 feet)"