9.05 EMERGENCY WALKWAYS. An unobstructed emergency walkway at least thirty (30) inches wide and accessible to persons getting off disabled trains shall be provided along all trackage in subways, tunnels, on bridges, and on alignment Classifications 9.04a, 9.04b(l), and 9.04b(2). Walkways shall have a reasonably regular surface and shall not have a slope exceeding one (1) foot vertical to six (6) feet horizontal. A single walkway may serve more than one track.
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Well, NYT finally locked Wirecutter behind a paywall, so this will be an easy one.
But also, goddamn, all of Wirecutter striking from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday is a big deal. That’s by far the busiest 5 day span of the entire year for them.
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ok yeah sure whatever, if you want to only buy the recipes, thats great, good option, but i was already giving these mfers a huge premium subscription (for many years, mind you) and they *locked me out of the recipes*
Wirecutter was increasingly like bad consumer reports anyway. "Hey here is something we had no one test and just ran analytics on the reviews for! Sounds legit, here is our affiliate link!" Granted I'm sure that model worked great, and I get it, but I can get non-review reviews anywhere else.
Wirecutter used to be one of my go-to's but ever since the acquisition they test far too few products to really give enough solid advice. It's almost as if they just look at what the top products on Amazon are for something and just suggest those ones without doing any real in depth testing. Just anecdotes and observations.
KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
I need to figure out a new product-recommendation site as an alternative to wirecutter. Has it been established that there are... I dunno, like procedurally generated fake review sites out there? I feel like when I do a google search for recommendations, the results are suspiciously on point. Like I'll search for "what's the best cheese grater" and i'll get a link to "cheesegraterreviews.com's top 15 cheese graters of 2021" and the website is all polished and real-looking and like "We at CheeseGraterReviews.com have been researching and recommending our favorite cheese graters for the past 12 years"
I need to figure out a new product-recommendation site as an alternative to wirecutter. Has it been established that there are... I dunno, like procedurally generated fake review sites out there? I feel like when I do a google search for recommendations, the results are suspiciously on point. Like I'll search for "what's the best cheese grater" and i'll get a link to "cheesegraterreviews.com's top 15 cheese graters of 2021" and the website is all polished and real-looking and like "We at CheeseGraterReviews.com have been researching and recommending our favorite cheese graters for the past 12 years"
Yeah, there are thousands of those junk sites and it’s seriously like a handful of people who run them as affiliate revenue/ad revenue farms. It’s all run on templates, and in most cases in addition to the affiliate revenue, those sites charge the manufacturers obscene amounts of money to be listed on their “top ten”.
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I like the America's Test Kitchen Gearheads reviews. They obviously don't cover everything though.
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America’s Test Kitchen is real good for anything kitchen related, yeah. I haven’t really found anything in the same ballpark for stuff like consumer electronics or appliances outside of Wirecutter, unfortunately.
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For specific, but extremely in-depth reviews of TVs, headphones, monitors, soundbars, various peripherals like mice and keyboards, and a few other miscellaneous appliances, rtings.com is worth a click and their site isn’t bogged down by clickbait bullshit. In fact it looks like they’ve been broadening their categories so enjoy it before someone buys them.
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My only gripe with Rtings is that it’s the driest, most by the numbers, specs-only sort of reviews imaginable. Not bad for TVs and monitors where it’s shockingly hard to get reliable info about response times, color accuracy, inputs, HDR support, etc. but for a lot of things I would just want more of a high quality real-world usage review sort of thing, with more of a slant towards usability, quirks, etc.
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9.05 EMERGENCY WALKWAYS. An unobstructed emergency walkway at least thirty (30) inches wide and accessible to persons getting off disabled trains shall be provided along all trackage in subways, tunnels, on bridges, and on alignment Classifications 9.04a, 9.04b(l), and 9.04b(2). Walkways shall have a reasonably regular surface and shall not have a slope exceeding one (1) foot vertical to six (6) feet horizontal. A single walkway may serve more than one track.
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Seems pretty clear to me that they won’t get into trouble. They will argue that they are running a private car pipeline, not tunnel due to a hyper specific interpretation.
To be clear, this is bullshit and they should all be fired out of a very large pipeline into the sun.
I still would put money on no Hyperloop ever opening for public operation, it's bullshit from to to bottom. I read some old articles from 2013 about it and the transition from "extreme high speed underground train" to "underground car mover I guess" just illustrated that those assholes are grasping at straws in an attempt to keep the business going.
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I still would put money on no Hyperloop ever opening for public operation, it's bullshit from to to bottom. I read some old articles from 2013 about it and the transition from "extreme high speed underground train" to "underground car mover I guess" just illustrated that those assholes are grasping at straws in an attempt to keep the business going.
So they are two different concepts at this point. There is an underground people mover in Vegas that is operational that is made by the Boring company, and hyperloop these days references more pie in the sky train capsules in a pneumatic tube, that as far as I know is just a concept and no company Elon is a part of is making it.
there are a few test hyperloops out there, but the big issue is building thousands of miles of completely sealed vacuum tubes. Any problems, any leaks and you have to shut down a section of the system and I can bet you that they would be way more susceptible to terror attacks than regular rail, and even with the speed increases you increase complexity and decrease reliability and throughput making it not make sense for any kind of serious cargo moving. Freight trains are still a better concept there for just sheer capacity, and regular high speed rail would be cheaper and less complex.
I know it isn't a direct a to b between those things but the evolution of the thought doesn't fill me with confidence, it didn't start as a good high concept that got refined into a good practical concept. It started dumb and got dumber.
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I know it isn't a direct a to b between those things but the evolution of the thought doesn't fill me with confidence, it didn't start as a good high concept that got refined into a good practical concept. It started dumb and got dumber.
The thing with that boring company video they made me laugh is just like… so they imagine that there is just an expansive void underground you can fill with endless single lane tunnels?
Like, dudes there are pipes and wires and cabling and underground parking lots and more. And good luck in any area where proper soil compaction is critical to earthquake safety and building codes.
The thing with that boring company video they made me laugh is just like… so they imagine that there is just an expansive void underground you can fill with endless single lane tunnels?
Like, dudes there are pipes and wires and cabling and underground parking lots and more. And good luck in any area where proper soil compaction is critical to earthquake safety and building codes.
just as the last generation of city planners was influenced by simcity's RCI system, the next generation shall be influenced by nightmare cities skylines tunnel systems
Got the Nest hooked up, was pretty simple. Not sure why but I was expecting it to be more complicated.
I have a little humidity controller box next to where the thermostat is, so maybe on the weekend gonna check to see if the Nest supports that.
I'll just have to fish wires from that back into the wall and to where the Nest is.
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Yeah, I figured once Wirecutter was bought by NYT it was going to become trash sooner or later. Shame the union and its workers are getting shafted, all the same.
Especially in a place like Vegas that's utterly reliant on tourist dollars, the techno-wizard vision of the future bullshit that Boring represents is absolutely irresistible, there's no way you want to be the city administration that said no the coolest new thing around.
Even if the coolest new thing around is self-evidently a terrible, awful idea that will almost certainly result in a horrific tragedy and embarrassment for everyone involved.
Well sir there's nothing like a genuine bona fide electrified six car monorail
Vegas actually has a monorail, which is fairly good at a very specific task (shuttling people up and down a limited section of the strip). It's stuck in that infinite loop of having too-limited a reach to attract lots of riders, which means the city won't fund any expansion, which means the reach and ridership will remain limited.
The Boring tunnels are gonna be like this, but worse, because there's no way they don't fuck up surrounding traffic and injure/kill a bunch of people in the process.
What's a good affordable modern replacement for a Nexus 2013 because I really need to recycle the one I gave to Chris years ago before it literally explodes
Stipulations is Android, we don't do apple stuff, preferably under a hundred bucks, and similar form factor.
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Sort of tech related, in that a lot of people apparently haven’t mastered this new email technology yet:
I’ve come to realize that hoarding all the variations of my first name + last name on gmail 15 years ago was maybe a mistake. I own first.last at gmail.com, as well as shortenedfirst.last and first.middleinitial.last. And on gmail it disregards dots, so I also get email sent to firstlast, shortendfirstlast, etc.
Over the last couple of years it has gotten to the point that I’m getting at least a dozen emails every week that are intended for other people with my name. Mostly from dummies who forget the middle initial in their email, or forget that their email is actually at yahoo or aol or Verizon or whatever instead of at gmail.
Sometimes I can reach out and get people to go fix it. Sometimes I have to reply all to a church mailing list that’s getting a dozen replies an hour telling them to remove my fucking email nowwwwwwww please.
And in the worst case I had to log into someone’s food delivery account and cancel their account because there was no option to stop receiving emails or even change the email on the account.
Sometimes I hate modern life.
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9.05 EMERGENCY WALKWAYS. An unobstructed emergency walkway at least thirty (30) inches wide and accessible to persons getting off disabled trains shall be provided along all trackage in subways, tunnels, on bridges, and on alignment Classifications 9.04a, 9.04b(l), and 9.04b(2). Walkways shall have a reasonably regular surface and shall not have a slope exceeding one (1) foot vertical to six (6) feet horizontal. A single walkway may serve more than one track.
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and operate a counterfeit jeans ring
Were these ever to get built, whomever manages it can look forward to the rudest possible customer base.
But also, goddamn, all of Wirecutter striking from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday is a big deal. That’s by far the busiest 5 day span of the entire year for them.
i think i was paying 25 dollars a month? and they wanted another 10 on top of that just for the recipes, lol
Yeah, there are thousands of those junk sites and it’s seriously like a handful of people who run them as affiliate revenue/ad revenue farms. It’s all run on templates, and in most cases in addition to the affiliate revenue, those sites charge the manufacturers obscene amounts of money to be listed on their “top ten”.
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Seems pretty clear to me that they won’t get into trouble. They will argue that they are running a private car pipeline, not tunnel due to a hyper specific interpretation.
To be clear, this is bullshit and they should all be fired out of a very large pipeline into the sun.
So they are two different concepts at this point. There is an underground people mover in Vegas that is operational that is made by the Boring company, and hyperloop these days references more pie in the sky train capsules in a pneumatic tube, that as far as I know is just a concept and no company Elon is a part of is making it.
there are a few test hyperloops out there, but the big issue is building thousands of miles of completely sealed vacuum tubes. Any problems, any leaks and you have to shut down a section of the system and I can bet you that they would be way more susceptible to terror attacks than regular rail, and even with the speed increases you increase complexity and decrease reliability and throughput making it not make sense for any kind of serious cargo moving. Freight trains are still a better concept there for just sheer capacity, and regular high speed rail would be cheaper and less complex.
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Oh yea, both things are a fucking trash fire.
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Like, dudes there are pipes and wires and cabling and underground parking lots and more. And good luck in any area where proper soil compaction is critical to earthquake safety and building codes.
just as the last generation of city planners was influenced by simcity's RCI system, the next generation shall be influenced by nightmare cities skylines tunnel systems
I have a little humidity controller box next to where the thermostat is, so maybe on the weekend gonna check to see if the Nest supports that.
I'll just have to fish wires from that back into the wall and to where the Nest is.
Vegas actually has a monorail, which is fairly good at a very specific task (shuttling people up and down a limited section of the strip). It's stuck in that infinite loop of having too-limited a reach to attract lots of riders, which means the city won't fund any expansion, which means the reach and ridership will remain limited.
The Boring tunnels are gonna be like this, but worse, because there's no way they don't fuck up surrounding traffic and injure/kill a bunch of people in the process.
Stipulations is Android, we don't do apple stuff, preferably under a hundred bucks, and similar form factor.
Probably a Kindle fire 8 right?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/jack-dorsey-resigns-as-ceo-of-twitter/
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I’ve come to realize that hoarding all the variations of my first name + last name on gmail 15 years ago was maybe a mistake. I own first.last at gmail.com, as well as shortenedfirst.last and first.middleinitial.last. And on gmail it disregards dots, so I also get email sent to firstlast, shortendfirstlast, etc.
Over the last couple of years it has gotten to the point that I’m getting at least a dozen emails every week that are intended for other people with my name. Mostly from dummies who forget the middle initial in their email, or forget that their email is actually at yahoo or aol or Verizon or whatever instead of at gmail.
Sometimes I can reach out and get people to go fix it. Sometimes I have to reply all to a church mailing list that’s getting a dozen replies an hour telling them to remove my fucking email nowwwwwwww please.
And in the worst case I had to log into someone’s food delivery account and cancel their account because there was no option to stop receiving emails or even change the email on the account.
Sometimes I hate modern life.