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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If your options are waiting at the station up to 2 hours for a pod or waiting anywhere else 3 hours for a train, are the pods better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it though? It’s just vans on tracks instead of roads.

  It’s not going to be more energy efficient with individually powered cabs. It’s not going to be more convenient unless your origin and destination are near a station. It’s not going to be more time efficient because of the extra distance getting to and from tracks and because you aren’t going to drive highway speeds in tiny self-balancing cars on old rails, especially when passing cars going the opposite direction. It’s not going to be more cost efficient because it’s more total moving parts requiring maintenance per person per trip.

  It sounds like they are solving the problem of turning around only for terminal stations. This might make sense for trains that carry many people, but if you’re making cars on tracks there is no good solution. If you need to spend money on a system that turns the cabs around, then you either spend more money installing those systems at most stations or you spend money maintaining cabs that are driving around empty. Either way, cars on roads are cheaper.

  They say it’s good for people who don’t want to wait for public transit, but they don’t say how this solves that problem. With public transit, you know when the train will be there. With this, unless they have a way for the cabs to wait at the station without blocking other cabs going the same direction, you have to wait for a cab to come and you can’t time your trip to the station around when the cab will be there. Maybe they have one? It would be a disaster if you wanted to get on from near the middle and needed to wait for either a cab that has already been vacated to come or for a cab to come all the way from the start of the track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this just Reddit with more steps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ADL make a list that explains what obscure symbols a very small number of people use, possibly ironically, and promote it via their website to turn it into a more powerful hate symbol.

  The Roman salute used by Italy and Germany and the Bellamy salute used by Americans were similar but not exactly the same. Americans possibly created the Nazi salute’s use as a hate symbol by changing their own salute to be different and then showing people using either of the original salutes as Nazis in propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people in this article really suggesting that the 100% emoji is racist? You can never get a perfect score or agree with anything again because a small number of people have used that number to mean something else and now somebody will interpret it as a hate crime.

  At first they were arguing that somebody writing “shit” in an exaggerated way, and the occurrence of two other numbers and an elongated asterisk were Nazi symbols, and they could be, but the only evidence is that somebody said they thought it was too many coincidences. I don’t know enough about the circumstances to say it is or isn’t intended that way. Management apparently thinks it isn’t. But saying multiple people reacting “100%” to a message they agree with means they’re all using the number 100 as a sign of white supremacist solidarity is ridiculous. What else are they going to do? React with the “OK” hand? No, the ADL also decided that one is racist. React with thumbs up? No, younger people have decided that one is rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it’s time to find a new instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn’t really federated yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook is not (yet?) negatively impacting the fediverse. Fediverse users are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure this difference isn’t real. On both, the UI is supposed to be for the UI and anything that takes longer is supposed to happen on a different thread. Even Windows Phone had that. However, in practice developers don’t always do it and this isn’t as great as it sounds. If you’re scrolling or something and scroll faster than the background threads, it will stutter. If the app has a resource leak, it will stutter. If the graphics are too complicated, it will stutter.

  RAM requirements depend on what you’re doing. I had a Pixel 4 and it always ran great. I had to get rid of it because it was physically falling apart and Google stopped releasing security updates for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest winners in tech in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can the Vision Pro be a winner if it doesn’t exist yet?