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...when they come off the tracks.

a high-speed train travelling from Malaga to Madrid derailed and crossed over onto another track


Yes we know it derailed, that's not the answer to *how* it failed on a straight line.

How in the cause and effect sense, not which direction it went.


Does it matter? The closer they get to being indistinguishable from Windows, the better.

The problem is, Windows syscalls change around a lot. Keeping up with that is Sisyphean.

Wine, from the first moment I saw it decades ago, seems to be all about doing the sisyphean tasks no one else wants to be doing. I'm still in awe how they managed to get Wine to where it is today, so if someone can do it, it's the wine devs :)

Second, they built a 5g mast put didn't put any equipment in it and left it 3 months. Several local threads on Facebook from the tweakers about how it was causing all sorts of completely unrelated problems from tinnitus to covid to mind control. Then someone burned it. There is still no equipment in the cabinet or mast today, nearly 4 years on. No one got 5g.

Reminds me of this infamous decade-old story:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161010203002/http://mybroadban...


This is standard advice among ham radio operators. If you're putting up a tower, put it up, mount the antennas, run the feedlines, but resist the temptation to operate for a while. Or use it for receive-only.

Log your activity, or lack thereof, meticulously. Perhaps a critical part was back-ordered, or more expensive than expected, and note in the log how it still hasn't arrived so you still aren't able to operate. If complaints come in, get them to be maximally public about it, ideally in a town meeting or something, then whip out your logbook and coup-fourré. Let the wackos show themselves to be wackos, then quietly start operating some time later.


I wonder what that group of people would have made of https://youtu.be/zy_ctHNLan8

(Chaotic lawfully :D)


I'd say it's developing-world tier, but a lot of the developing world has really good 5G signal these days.

They also have a much bigger population using exclusively mobiles rather than landlines, since their infrastructure developed when the former was already available, and it's cheaper to just put up a few towers than run one landline to each subscriber.


I wonder if they considered using the existing metal tracks as antennae, or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication to feed base stations in the trains themselves.

So the ESN in the tunnels runs at 400 MHz, far lower than the 700 to 3,600 MHz range usually used by smartphones.

It's worth noting that 450MHz was listed as one of the GSM bands, but apparently was never used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands#GSM-450


> It's worth noting that 450MHz was listed as one of the GSM bands, but apparently was never used

It's specified for 4G/LTE (Band 31, 72 & 73) and 5G (Band n31 & n72) as well! The bandwidth is pretty low though at just 5 MHz, but it's used for special purpose stuff like electricity meters. I'm not aware of any consumer devices that use this frequency.


Weird because very few phones have that band. Requires much larger antennas. Twice as long as for 800Mhz.

Edit: ah I see why, this is exclusively about the Emergency Services network, not for regular phones.

In that sense it seems a bit similar to GSM-R used by the railways here.


I think that part of the article is wrong. The old radio system apparently uses ~400 MHz, but ESN seems to use the same/similar bands as mobile services (700 MHz and above).

Imagine trying to live your life where other people’s desires by default overrode you own.

Unfortunately that happens a lot; it's called the government.


Collective vs individuals desires

Collectivism killed hundreds of millions of people, so I'll take individualism thanks.

Several times I have rewritten overly-multithreaded (and intermittently buggy) processes with a single-threaded version, and both reduced LoC to roughly 1/20th and binary size to 1/10th, while also obtaining a few times speedup and reduced memory usage, and entirely eliminating many bugs.

Gray Mode, obviously. /s

Seriously, the best UIs let users adjust things to their preferences instead of forcing one or two-polar-opposite choices.


Letting the use choose is the right answer. I’d go as far as to argue that in some sense, theming is an important accessibility feature because it allows users to adjust UI to meet needs that the developer may not have even known to exist.

Most dark modes suck so much, as they're just "calculated" from whatever theme generator / CSS framework the legions of hell dragged them from.

HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.

More like, why have it regurgitate something likely to have been in its training data?

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