Indeed! For example, the Tōkaidō high speed line between Tokyo and Osaka runs almost 400 trains every day with an average delay of about 12 seconds 🤯

Bear in mind that this is just the high speed service (Shinkansen). There is also a parallel line for local trains.

Seize the means of computation!

Signed up when the Apollo app stopped working due to Reddit’s API restrictions.

Now, now, I’m sure there’s a kernel of truth in there!

In your defense, it’s actually spelled “albedo”.

It is indeed a global standard!

It is the PLU code used for bananas in grocery stores. The PLU code is the code the cashier punches in before weighing the produce to get the correct price.

Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.

My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.

That’s not how that works, though… It is 100 % what they meant, but not at all how you use greater than/less than signs in text.

All of those images are AI generated. I would love for this to be real, but it is just a joke.

Indeed! And they do under representational democracies. In a community there will always be some sort of law or code, whether written or not, that some members of that community disagree with.

Absolutely agree! First past the post will always drift toward larger and less representative parties. Even proportional representation can have this tendency, but it is much more resilient.

This is exactly what happens with democratic societies

No. This is what happens when you have two sides, both too large to really represent anyone, battling for a sliver of majority using increasingly diverging views and then exercising as much power as they can before the roles flip again.

In an actual democracy representatives of the people, with many differing views, sit down together and decide case by case on a solution that most can be happy with.

Someone will always disagree with any decision when we live in a large society, but a functioning democracy is the closest thing we have ever come to making sure that as many as possible are happy (and more importantly get a say).

Had? I bet you they still have people pushing the doors all the time.

No, but they have that at a museum in town!

I remember seeing one of those! Wasn’t brought to our school, though (I went to school in the middle of the city), we went to a farm.

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Why not both?

I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲

TBF the AI features in Arc are actually pretty good! Just quality of life-stuff like renaming downloads and getting summary previews when hovering search results. I have a suspicion they’ll push it farther with Dia, though…