- Why don't TVs support displayport? If HDMI 2.1 support is limited, a TV with displayport sounds like an obvious choice.
I thought audio might be the reason, for as far as I can tell, displayport supports that too.
- Does AMD not support Display Port? I'm not an expert on this, but that sounds to me like the superior technology.
- Or just stick to regular sims. They're very reliable, esims are not.
I don't really see the case for eSims. In theory they could save a bit of time: activating immediately upon ordering your subscription online, instead of waiting days for delivery, but my new telco still sends you a plastic card with a QR code to scan before you can download it, completely nullifying that advantage. Besides, when you want to keep your number, you can rarely activate the new subscription anyway. On top of that, there's too much that can go wrong, and recovering from problems is harder than with a regular sim which just works.
- Thanks, but that's not the issue here.
- It's a different medium, and it's intentional. And not even new either. The Singing Detective, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus did the same thing decades ago. Apparently they were successful enough that everybody does it now.
- Never had conflicts on a merge? We've got a lot of people on the same codebase. Merge conflicts are a fact of life. And they wouldn't be a problem without the stupid commit hook. It's the commit hook that makes them a problem.
- I have. Mali didn't have trains at all. Our Indonesian train was on time.
It's not like countries outside Europe can't make trains run on time. Japan's are even more punctual than Switzerland's.
- Lame excuse. There has to be a better alternative than to take them an hour in the wrong direction. Stop and shunt to the right track. Stop at one of those other 15 stations they skipped. But the best would be to simply avoid these kind of unnecessary errors in the first place.
- I would not have blamed them.
- I find this figure absolutely baffling. How can you run a train system with half of all trains being late?
- Then split your network into segments you can handle. Switzerland receives lots of international trains. Not only that; it has a lot of rail companies, serves even tiny villages, and has the highest use per capita in Europe. Size of the network is a lame excuse. German trains used to be fine. Now they're a disaster.
- I disagree. Swiss trains are a delight. They even have trains going up mountains (although some of those cost extra). Public transit in Switzerland was extremely reliable when I was there, and also according to official statistics.
- I thought they already rejected delayed trains. Trains that are on time are still allowed. But I'd love to see Switzerland take over some of those international connections.
- I was once in a train that announced Schiphol in 5 languages. That's how you announce an international airport.
- Dutch trains aren't as perfect as the Swiss, but still far, far, better than German trains. I think it was about 20 years ago when NS was ridiculed because of nonsense delays caused by leaves on the track (who would possibly expect that in the autumn?). I think they're better now. And intercity trains leaving every 10 minutes (between Amsterdam and Utrecht) helps a lot.
- Swiss trains are always on time. I've heard they've start to refuse delayed German trains entry to the country because their delays disrupt the system too much. The Swiss train system is excellent. The German train system is a joke.
- I think they look stupider by not saying anything. They look stupid by all of these constant delays, cancellations, and the occasional utterly surreal self-inflicted problem like in the article. That's what makes them look stupid.
Just explain what's wrong. Arm passengers with the best info you can give them. And figure out a way to let people disembark close to where they need to be.
DB has become a complete joke. I've had to travel to and through Germany several times these past couple of years, and almost always there's a problem.
I once paid 80 euro for a taxi from Essen to Dusseldorf because they cancelled the train that would connect to the last ICE to Amsterdam. When I got to Dusseldorf on time, the ICE arrived at a different platform than announced. I only noticed that because some people were suddenly leaving the platform. I warned a few people who still hadn't noticed it. I bet a lot of people still managed to miss that train after all the trouble making it to Dusseldorf.
- There's a weird thing happening on my current project. Sometimes I merge main into my branch and it fails. What fails is the pre-commit hook on the merge commit. Changes in main fail the linting checks in the pre-commit hook. But they still ended up in main, somehow. So the checks on the PR are apparently not as strict as the checks on the pre-commit hook. As a result, many developers have gotten used to committing with `--no-verify`, at which point, what is even the point of a pre-commit hook?
And sometimes I just want to commit work in progress so I can more easily backtrack my changes. These checks are better on pre-push, and definitely should be on the PR pipeline, otherwise they can and will be skipped.
Anyway, thanks for giving me some ammo to make this case.
- The guy who can't raise a kid without AI? I wouldn't trust his opinion on things like this.
I guess I'm in the market for a new record player. Is that market picking up again?