Ben Matthews

It’s nice to have a map-based interface. However, while you can only start at one of four cities in one country, it feels a bit exaggerated to publicise this as ‘trans-europe’. I can already go to DB site and get a long list of options from say Belgium to Poland, most with prices too, and can specify details like via, transfer-time, train-types. However I can sometimes find more interesting or cheaper combinations by splitting the trip, consulting openrailwaymap to understand where are fast/slow/wiggly lines, or consulting a european night-trains map etc… So such a route-map interface has potential, especially if it would extend to smaller places and more obscure cross-border connections whose location most people don’t already know.
Also - the background map shows motorways and forests before it shows railways - and then road numbers … why not build on openrailwaymap as a base ?

Useful compact image to explain to people who don’t know the fediverse.
On the other hand, it makes me think - why are so many boxes necessary when we have activitypub? Why should anybody need to go to a different tool for each service, why no one-stop-shop software, at least for casual beginners?
(btw I’m aware mbin and friendica had that concept to some extent, but don’t try to cover everything, and I fear that if they did and it took off, scaling-up might be an issue with such php-based stacks).
So, instead of re-implementing 2nd-hand concepts from big-tech, fediverse “killer-app” should be that you just need one identity in one place - you still have to choose that instance, it’s decentralised, but it can do more than any of those big-tech services.

Maybe stupid provocations by US can galvanise climate cooperation by rest of the world. I remember COP6 in Den Haag - which failed due to miscommunication between US (end of Clinton admin) and EU (within which, FR and UK failed to understand each other). Six months later at COP6bis, with the US then led by Bush administration (after blocking recounts in Florida) and similarly pulling out of Kyoto protocol, the rest of the world united against US, the deal was done and the whole COP went for a celebration party cruise down the Rhine (yes the numbers were smaller then, but the boat did feel a bit ‘top-heavy’).
Now, compared to then, US controls much smaller chunk of total emissions and GDP, and the technology transition has momentum. The bigger questions are whether India will follow a similar coal+concrete pathway as China, and eventually how Africa will evolve.

Can use Scala to gradually transition away from java - convert code module by module, interop just works, until eventually no java left, can then compile instead as js, native or even wasm (i recently tried this for my climate-system model which evolved from old java). Also, btw, made in europe, not big-tech, and scala3 looks more like python.

Is this also a double-source-trolleybus ? How much of Mexico has infrastructure ready for that ? Or are they pure battery, it’s not clear to me (trolleybuses are still used a lot in eastern europe, also in switzerland, but i wasn’t aware that was so in Mexico ).

Thanks for this explanation, better than anything i read in media. However, is it really plausible for the student-professor transitional government plan to happen ? (Maybe recent events in Bangladesh inspire hope, although that’s a very different country). If they don’t get this , but there is instead a “routine” election under SNS management, would most opposition participate or boycott again ? I guess like many countries in europe, the mood in villages is rather different from in cities ?

I recently switched to Mill, after years with sbt - find it easier to customise as my project gets more complex. But I’m using it mainly for scala.js ( retain the structure to compile a jvm version too, but rarely using that, may switch to scala-native for probabilistic calculations and data-processing, for which I used to use jvm).

Good article, it makes sense to plan heat-pumps on a larger scale, hope support for such initiatives survives russian disinfo.
Couldn’t they pump some heat directly from the Danube, or would that be too problematic for ecology and countries downstream ?

Wasn’t this last week’s news?
So, if it reopens, here’s a longterm-scenario: suppose US and Canada both split into oceanic versus central, meanwhile Russia is weakened and blocked from europe, but these fossil-fuelled conservative autocratic mid-continentals want to forge a new empire across the arctic, where’s their strategic hub half-way between Texas and Muscovy - Greenland of course !
( Prefer a simpler explanation? - maybe it’s just punishment for sending F16s to Ukraine, hey you might need those ? )

Quel horreur - il faut consulter M. Einstein, avec tel difference de vitesse relative, peut-être pour compenser les horloges à l’est vont plus lentement que ceux à l’ouest, et dans ce cas qui va croire aux montres suisses ?

Which U.S. is trying? At least with a legal process in London, there is some hope it continues.

Long ago, as a student, but not so much has changed. Due to ancient geology the main roads, railways and tram already run east-west, which is why a tunnel would complement that for north-south, although trams across the bridges are an obvious first step to replace the queue of buses.

If you look at Hong Kong from satellite (e.g. google earth), it’s remarkable what a large fraction of green forested space remains, compared to similar landscape just across the frontier in Shenzhen. This is obviously relevant to the housing issue. So is China planning to retain the difference in land-use planning concepts?

Which infrastructure improvements? How about a north-south metro or tram? And is that guy meant to symbolise what happens if you don’t pay the tax?

I agree that the chinese dams pose risks to India (although also some potential benefits if they could agree about management, but then look at what brotherly neighbour Russia did to Ukraine’s dam … ) - however it’s not obvious how building another dam downstream really helps - unless the volume retained is as great as for the chinese dam which seems unlikely since India doesn’t control the deepest part of the gorge, and they keep it half-empty just-in-case there’s a surprise release. So I reckon the unspoken logic is rather - since china broke the concept that it’s a wild river, we might as well exploit it too.

Interesting. Five million years is not so long in geological time, so how is that such “exposed section of lithified sediment deformed by the megaflood” (note photo) are now above sea-level, did Sicily rise so much since then?

I’d guess the chinese dam is rather an excuse, and the real motivation is electricity - potentially a lot from that river, although that end of Assam doesn’t yet have a huge population to use it. Also, the Brahmaputra riverbed is wide but variable, so maybe they hope by taming it they can grow crops there. But there must be a huge amount of sediment, what’s going to happen to that?

I checked out xiaohongshu (‘rednote’) since it was in the news, and reckon it might be good for re-learning chinese, since there are now bilingual comment threads (to facilitate this they added an option to translate each comment). I wish there were more multilingual threads here on Lemmy - language groups are too isolated.

I saw somewhere a neat idea to align the panels vertically along N-S axis, two sided facing both E and W to catch morning and evening sun at low angles. This helps to top up the grid at periods of higher demand and lower supply, while leaving a wide open strip in the middle for growing normal crops, benefiting from the midday sun (a time when we already have plenty of electricity).

Strange that Genoa controlled off bits of coast (yellow) all the way to Crimea, Azov sea (is Tana now Azov?) , and Circassia, how did they manage all that? And who’s in that purple-coloured “Theodoro”?