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Love this, but is it just me or can it not read the location data embedded in images?
Re:43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:51PM (#34649560)
It still isn't true when I took Amtrak back in August. Maybe it's just that one route, or that the train was sold out?
Re:Wonders of Street View on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:07AM (#34503085)
And also https://geotastic.net for a free alternative
Poorer households are actually the majority of users in Los Angeles [1].

I suspect this isn't the case in many other American cities, because

a. Transit is a luxury good, raising prices and gentrifying an area

b. Transit is the easiest to build to close places (from the CBD), which are often rich

c. Poorer communities just aren't a priority for most cities, at least not until recently.

Anecdotally, in Europe the modal split is probably more even.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/11/11/meme-weeding-l...

Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:49PM (#34056739)
I am aware of that. But I didn't buy a proton version, I bought a Linux version.
Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:39PM (#34055813)
No longer if you were playing on Linux
Re:Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:56PM (#34003951)
Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:57PM (#33988235)
> literally the richest person on Earth

Not anymore https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63963239

Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a Mile on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:57PM (#33627500)
The neighborhood was safe, but the cop made the strawman argument that the kid could've been kidnapped for a sex trafficking Ring Downtown
wasnt that one chevrolet
Re:Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:25PM (#33599498)
According to the top commentator that's exactly why it's happening
Re:Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:55PM (#33550430)
On my pixel 4a there's a "critical security" update available for download. (Current patch level is one month old)

I will try to exploit before and after downloading.

Re:Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:49PM (#33550327)
It doesn't get decrypted. The data is still safe after a reboot. That's presumably why the phone hangs for the author after a reboot. Although some comments have said Android itself loads (and I guess also the launcher) but they can't really do anything
Urban Heat Island effect for one. The dark pavement stores heat and raises the temperature of the surrounding area
Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:29AM (#33452536)
Most Garmin watches fit your formula
Worse, this is like Amazon charging you everytime you add a new address
Re:Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666 on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:49AM (#33317399)
Berlin uses a different system in the older parts of the city

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-hous...

This is exactly what city planners call the missing middle in the US. There's skyscrapers, and two blocks over you have single family suburbs.

If it wouldn't be for political opposition most cities, undoubtedly, would upzone (permit higher density) areas near downtown and other hubs, but even in "progressive" cities progress is slow because of opposition of the people who currently live there (commonly called NIMBY's)

Re:Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:23AM (#33163046)
You can still buy DJI drones. It's only that the military can't anymore
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:34AM (#33034627)
It certainly seems this way. But something must've changed later on, otherwise Musk wouldn't have tried to buy Twitter.
Re:Finnish as a world language? on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:02PM (#32610762)
Now I need to know if this is also satire or if I need to start learning Japanese
Re:Things people blamed on bicycles on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:20AM (#32577857)
Here's a hilarious article from the New York Times, in 1894.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/08/12/106...

They blame biking for everything from insanity to killing pedestrians at random.

There's a few snippets the twitter thread could include lol

SunRail is high speed rail? Something tells me your claim of the Chinese system is just as credible as the SunRail one...
Re:Photos of trains in the American West (2017) on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:50AM (#32459229)
Those diesel engines are crazy strong. You feel the earth around you rumble when one of them rolls by.
Re:Take my app ideas on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:48PM (#31389922)
Everything but the last idea seem very annoying, prone to failure and highly battery-draining
Re:Website Will Self Destruct on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:50PM (#31381667)
Not just that, the worldle guy also invented r/place
Re:50+ years of Japanese concept cars (2010) on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:26PM (#31357166)
Much safer? Only for the person inside the metal box. Pedestrian deatgs have been rising for years now, thanks to bigger and heavier cars.

There has to be some middle ground for safety inside and on the outside.

Re:PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:06PM (#31305880)
Poor is exactly what it is. The converter is so broken, that a space in the wrong place will cause it to not work. IIRC something like 5m to ft works but not 5 m to ft

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