erwan
@erwan@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 3 hours ago:
The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won’t work.
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 9 hours ago:
Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it’s not worth it
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 10 hours ago:
OK, it’s 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.
And you might say “let’s have trains run at least once per hour then”. That means running empty trains all day, not sure it’s the best way to spend public money.
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 10 hours ago:
Trains suck if you don’t have frequency, and because of the population density with a good frequency more than half of the trains will be completely empty and the rest almost empty.
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 10 hours ago:
It’s from Valve, they’ll make sure it works on the Steam Deck.
- Comment on What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs 2 weeks ago:
Reading the article, it’s not the content that caused the ban but sharing it to too many people (her beta readers) she was seen as a spammer.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the Steam Deck plays PC games, that were designed for a big screen. You can’t make the screen much smaller than the current Deck while keeping it legible.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.
This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
In his video, he shows that the more common answers are actually 42 and 69.
I discards them because they’re picked for a reason rather than a human genuinely trying trying to pick a random number, but they’re still way more common than 37.
- Comment on Great question Michael 2 months ago:
Enterprise can afford more than individuals and all businesses always find a way to make enterprise customers pay more.
For example when you buy a plane ticket, it’s much cheaper if you have a weekend between your onward and outward trip. Because business travelers will travel during the week.