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by Skye 4y ago
I may be wrong here, but I think purple was going to be the colour when it was still gonna be called "crossrail"?
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by Skye 6y ago
There is such a thing as "light rail" though. Lighter tracks, lighter trains, and cheaper construction. Also if you want small trains, just look at the UK. Normal trains here are much narrower than normal US trains, they are about
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by Skye 6y ago
I have a few nitpicks... Making train tunnels cheaper by making them smaller is not a new idea. it is a very old idea. Have a look at the deep level tube lines of the London underground. In some ways, we regret having trains that small sinc
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by Skye 6y ago
For some lines that go above ground (Northern, Jubilee, Central), the driver sometimes had to put it into manual mode to compensate for the worse breaking when it's raining outside.
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by Skye 6y ago
Well in the UK the subjects you select is very closely tied to which University you can go to. Some universities require maths and will not accept people who haven't done it (sometimes even more advanced maths is required). Some univer
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by Skye 7y ago
In my case, I have two card from one bank has sort code and account number. I also have one card from a different bank has none of that.
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by Skye 7y ago
In the UK the details needed to transfer money into an account are on most bank cards (Account Number and Sort Code), so that's enough identifying info. That would also mean someone can send you money if your card is blocked or cancell
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by Skye 7y ago
This font reminds me a lot of "Rail Alphabet" which is a font designed by British Rail in the 60s which was used to railway signs and also in hospitals. Newer fonts are starting to replace it, but there is still a lot of it around
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by Skye 7y ago
It seems to be a diesel locomotive pulling passenger carriages (almost certainly ones that were obsolete at the time). It's still a pretty impressive way to show how strong they are...
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by Skye 7y ago
This concept is not new at all, From what I understand the tunnel sizes proposed are barely bigger than the London Underground "tube" tunnels. (Glasgow's subway has even smaller tunnels too). Now, don't get me wrong, it
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by Skye 7y ago
On old British rail trains, commuter trains had many doors, I think on each side there was a door for each pair of row of seats? There was also no door lock, so people could start leaving the train before it fully stopped. The lack of a doo
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by Skye 8y ago
In the UK, ballots are still done with pen and paper. You put a cross in one of the labelled squares and fold the paper, then drop it into the ballot box. Also, while the guidelines say it has to be a cross, it could be any clear mark (thou
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by Skye 8y ago
The trains in the narrow tunnels push air around, so recent stuff like full height platform screen doors help improve conditions (allowing platforms to be air conditioned without having to air condition the tunnels)
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by Skye 8y ago
IIRC the main heat source is the breaking of the trains combined with the high frequency of them. I suspect that using many cars will still release a lot of heat into the tunnels.
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by Skye 8y ago
There are trains that run in narrow tunnels in London (12 feet wide I think?). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_London_Undergrou...
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by Skye 8y ago
The uploader can't do anything short of paying money to keep the images up. They could move them, but that is still link rot. I would help with archiving stuff, but I don't have the resources unfortunately. All I can do is not del
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by Skye 8y ago
As I mentioned in another comment thread (is that the term used here?) about this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354066 ), I can understand why they want to limit the free service, the only thing that makes me a bit
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by Skye 8y ago
Well... It would have been nice if they warned people earlier because it is quite a big thing to happen. A possible reason why someone running a website should care about keeping stuff up is to avoid link rot, to me it feels like part of be
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by Skye 8y ago
Huh... Maybe I misread, either way, its a similar sort of concept, and still ends with deletion.
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by Skye 8y ago
It says that they will be "actively deleted", which doesn't sound like they're going to be hidden. EDIT: correction, it says they'll first be hidden for about a month, then they will be "actively deleted".
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by Skye 8y ago
While I understand why they are adding a limit, the concept of just deleting the photos over the 1000 limit just unsettles me, and will almost certainly cause link rot, which is both sad and annoying when I encounter it. I don't know w
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by Skye 8y ago
From what I understand, it's not exactly easy for an indivual to "fix". From my limited knowledge about the US economy, it's not easy to get a well paying job quickly, the examples there showed that they tried to get job
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by Skye 8y ago
Ah, then in that case, it's not against the GDPR, but if it was accessible from the EU, then it would be. In a way, this is the sort of thing the GDPR is designed to prevent.
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by Skye 8y ago
I am not fully sure about this, but it might be against the GDPR? From what I understand you aren't allowed to block someone if they opt out of non-essential stuff. However the GDPR hasn't been tried on anything like this yet, so
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by Skye 8y ago
https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/cctv/ at least in the UK, you can request people who have CCTV footage of you, and also note that people have to delete CCTV when they no longer need it (how long that should b
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by Skye 9y ago
...and how is wanting to know what a company has about you a bad thing? I'd be worried if a company cannot answer this, because that means they haven't got a handle on what data they store, which means that when they get hacked, t
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by Skye 9y ago
Sounds like the "Sam Vimes 'Boots' theory of economic injustice", from the Discworld novels. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom... https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Skye 9y ago
It seemed that way, then I got a train driving simulator. Buy a train simulator (Train Sim 2018 is what I have) and try to drive a train to the timetable. Then play with the conditions (raining, autumn, midnight). Then realise that you need
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by Skye 9y ago
Well... The Victoria Line was a form of automatic since it was made, so it seems to be more practical to have a new system created as an automatic one rather than upgrade an old system. Even with the new systems on the Underground, the driv
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by Skye 9y ago
Here are some ideas from the top of my head: * Many trains are old (at least in the UK), and tend to be very slowly upgraded, so the trains on the network were built before it was considered practical to automate them. * Signalling systems

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