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Yes they'll unfortunately continue to run freight trains on those tracks. Also the corridor down to Gilroy from Tamien won't be electrified.
"Permanently" what? the harbor will be cleared, probably sooner than later, and there will be a new bridge/tunnel built in a few years. Like that's not permanent.
that collapsed almost 40 years ago, which really emphasizes it's flat out uncommon, no "buts" needed.
Re:Why is it so hard to build an airport? on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:18AM (#39790993)
general aviation, small airports have been closing down for years. It’s not a growing hobby.
Re:Why is it so hard to build an airport? on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:40AM (#39790096)
General aviation is in decline, so really there's no need to build new airports.
Re:Vancouver's New Mega-Development on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:55PM (#39709950)
Canada is already a federal state with sub national entities that don’t have all the rights of the federal government. Pretty much any state that has a federal system already deals with this.,
Re:Oregon Passes Right to Repair Law Apple Lobbied to Kill on Thursday March 14, 2024 @09:51AM (#39704003)
Yes, it's such a giant handout that Apple came out against it.
Well, it is in distress because of their extreme fetish for austerity over a growing economy that is enabling the rise of the far right and Wagenknecht's socially conservative GDR vanity project.
By any definition but yours Acela is indeed HSR, it’s the fucking fastest train in North America!
PSR would like a word with your categorization. Indeed the Class 1s are the mortal enemy of decent intercity and commuter rail.
Obviously it’s not the first credible foray into HSR in the US-that honor is Acelas.

Edit: if you’re referring to Brightline West, construction hasn’t even started.

Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:29PM (#38134569)
I assume they always kept it shitty as to not cannibalize VS Code, which does get a lot of use (obviously it's very popular). If you ever used it you'd see that it doesn't feel like normal Windows VS, and it doesn't really feel like a good native Mac app either.
Re:In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour on Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:01PM (#37967929)
Assuming you don't get caught, which if you keep on bank robbing probably increases the odds you do.
Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:56PM (#37541067)
If you’re worried that bananas have too much sugar for you personally you have bigger fish to fry than cereal.
Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:33PM (#37540925)
The solution is to eat dull cereal.
OTOH you shouldn’t necessarily trust what corporations say about this. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...
so you totally backtrack your comment because someone else an hour or so later disagreed with you? Based on nothing more than sounding authoritative?
Re:Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:43PM (#37178304)
You forgot the mandatory MSFT accounts to sign in with no way around last I checked (a few months ago).
Re:Bluesky Custom Feeds on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:55PM (#36901641)
This would be great if Bluesky still wasn't invite only.
I say this as a fan, but to be precise it’s Millennial Mental Health Twittersphere.
Re:CSS Findings from the Threads App on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:10AM (#36747202)
This is the kind of HN comment I come for in these kinds of threads. One person saying one thing (CSS Grid is the one thing keeping me sane!) Another person coming in to say the exact opposite.
Re:CSS Findings from the Threads App on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:09AM (#36747189)
Nice, another comment showing the utter obnoxiousness of programming interviews.
Re:Maker Faire Bay Area Returns on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:25PM (#36704337)
It's honestly nice that such a relic of 2010s geekdom is making a return (yes, I know it started in the aughts, but I'm associating it with the 2010s).
Since this is HN, isn't someone obligated to say that they've tried klotho for a few years with their klotho delivery startup they founded?
Re:Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:37AM (#36573523)
Ah yes, the famously narrow, cramped and heavily utilized by pedestrians streets of Phoenix.
San Francisco is not like that though. that's the whole point of the article. They could also take transit.
Re:Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:34PM (#36563048)
That's a very weird phenomenon that I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's certainly a disorienting user experience.
Re:Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:18AM (#36562238)
It feels empty, like people created accounts then left after a week since there was never the critical mass to support a constant buzz of information. And (this is just my weird very subjective opinion) Mastodon often feels like the unholy child of 2010 Tumblr and Stackoverflow.
Re:A Look at Bluesky on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:13AM (#36562169)
It's 2023 and Jack is on the board, someone needs to be throwing money at them to solve their scaling problems-this ain't 2005.
Re:Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:54AM (#36561998)
Basically if you had a Twitter presence with at least several hundred followers, you probably knew someone who knew someone who had codes.

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