Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s…. Oh wait. Some people do. I guess I should put something worth reading in here then. Well here’s a test. How much text can you put in here? Who knows? We’ll find out together.
I could write just about anything here, and it wouldn’t really matter. I could go on an on about nothing in particular, and there would still be space left unused. If you’re like really verbose, you could write about any pointless topic without ever reaching a conclusion, and you wouldn’t even hit the character limit. Like, how long could this text be before you hit the wall? Surely, there’s a limit? You can’t just dump a chapter of lorem ipsum in here, now can you?
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Wow, that’s a lot of text. Previously, you couldn’t have this much, but now they’ve changed the settings, which is pretty neat.
The older parts of town definitely seem that way, although those streets weren’t really designed in the modern sense of the word. In suburbs though, you do have intentionally narrow sections and bump, occasionally even combined to a brutal choke point. Either way, people don’t want to drive there unless it’s absolutely necessary, so they’ll take the PT instead. Seems to be working.
Makes sense, but I’m not a traffic design engineer, so what do I know. I’m pretty sure traffic congestion has been studied extensively, so there should be a pretty good model on how they develop and what causes them. Speed might be one of those factors.
However, I have seen some videos about speed change causing congestion. Let’s say someone panics because of a moose on a highway, breaks abruptly for a while, and then moves on. That spot will continue to have some sort of congestion long after the incident took place.
Take a look at the description of these two:
If that ever becomes a law, I would really like to see what’s the official legal way to describe that type of car.
Here’s one. The others tell the same story with different words.
speed limits are one of the most important
I’ve seen a few YT videos that tell you the exact opposite. If you design the streets to feel “dangerous” to the driver, they will naturally pay attention, slow down and make the streets safer for everyone. You could plant some more tress, make the streets narrower etc.
Sure, people can’t drive to places as fast, but that’s not really a problem. If more people decide to use public transport instead, it’s just going to make the city nicer for everyone.
Long ago, I made the observation that only small countries can have a reasonably humane system in place. The larger the country, the more likely it is to be a dictatorship of sorts. Obviously, history plays a significant role too, but population size is probably more than just a coincidence.
Sounds great. I can’t wait for the price of gold to crash. There are so many applications that would benefit from having a cheap chemically inert metal. Also, the electrical conductivity is pretty amazing, so I don’t think the demand for gold is going down any time soon.
As it stands, gold is way too expensive, and we’ve had to come up with all sorts of exotic alternatives to it. The obvious choice has been sitting in front of our noses all this time, but price has prevented us from actually using it very much.
https://sheaffer.com/ seems to be American.
Oh, thank you so much! ♡
I wish I had a list like this a few years ago. Anyway, here are a few I would like to add to the list.
Then there’s also
But it seems to be a bit complicated. It started as a German company, but then it went American at some point, and I don’t know what’s going on with them nowadays.
Miksi pitää kirjoittaa nettiin omalla nimellään yhtään mitään? Ennenvanhaan kaikki käyttt tekaistuja nimiä, mutta jostain syystä facebook muutti tämän perinteen. Nykyään porukka sitten kirjoittelee omalla nimellä ja naamalla kaikenlaisia hurjua juttuja. Sen siitä saa.
Many years ago, I wanted to buy a fountain pen. I found lots of pen stores in USA, but since shipping and tariffs have been outrageous as long as I can remember, those stores were completely out of the question. Around that time, UK was still in the EU, so I ended up ordering my pen from one of those pen stores.
A few years later, brexit happened, but I still wanted another fountain pen, so I ended up browsing some EU stores instead. Having an updated list would be nice though.
Currently, my pen collection is as large as I need it to be, so buying more isn’t on the top of my mind. However, other fountain pen enthusiasts might benefit from an EU based fountain pen store list.
Oh wow. Those people at Quora are something special.
Disney: hold my beer
Among other things, the code requires companies to provide and regularly update documentation about their AI tools and services; bans developers from training AI on pirated content; and comply with content owners’ requests to not use their works in their data sets.
If Meta can’t agree with basic decency like that, I take it as clear evidence that Meta needs more regulation. I get the feeling that we’re watching a replay of the tobacco-asbestos-oil story again. Strict regulation seems to be the only way to control these corporations.
Gotta admit, I didn’t do a thorough comparison. I have no idea if the other serves are better. However, this one was recommended by a bunch of videos I watched…
However, I did test it on two devices for a few months, and realized I need more capacity. I was happy with the filters, logging and other features, so I figured it’s fair to charge for all of this.
It’s basically like having a pihole, but someone else takes care of hosting, admin work, updates, hardware maintenance, software troubleshooting, mobile client development and all that. Sure, admin stuff can be fun when it’s a hobby, but I felt like I get plenty enough admin work. That itch gets sufficiently scratched as it is, so paying for someone else to take care of it is fine.
Started using NextDNS to block ads and other internet cancer on all mobile devices in my household. Best 20 € deal ever.
When you build walls, people learn to climb. Dig a moat, and they learn to swim.
People prefer to drive at the speed dictated by the road design. If it feels natural to drive at 60 km/h, people will do exactly that even if it is illegal. if it’s a narrow cobble stone path with poor visibility, it feels much more natural to slow down to something like 20…40 km/h. The legal speed limit might be higher, but people just don’t feel comfortable driving faster, so they won’t.
In rural areas you can find some absurdly tight bends that have been there for at least a hundred years and were probably designed by cattle or sheep. The speed limit could be 80 km/h, but there’s a warning about a tight bend and a recommended speed. You slow down to 60 km/h, but it feels kinda dangerous. You slow down to the recommended 40 km/h but it still feels uncomfortable. You finally pass the bend at 30 km/h and that felt like you barely made it.
Every now and then, you’ll also find some fearless people, who usually end up wrapping their car around the nearest tree. They are immune to speed limits and only mildly resistant to good road design. These concepts don’t apply to the people who are striving to win the Darwin Award, but they are still relevant to everyone else though.