Yup. In basically all terms, rail is more efficient than airplanes.
The only thing that makes Amtrak less efficient in the US is the fact that it’s unused. And the reason it’s unused is because it’s an afterthought in government spending.
Amtrak isn’t funded by the US government. They have to extract all their funding from operations.
Amtrak’s service is bad mainly because the line operators have found ways to make it impossible to effectively operate. That means late and long delayed trains with unpredictable arrival/departure times.
Amtrak is slow, mainly because it has almost no dedicated lines. It has to share them with line operators.
Very few people use amtrak.
The end result is a high price. Few people using amtrak means it has to hike ticket prices up.
The only way for Amtrak to get better is extensive investment by the feds and regulation of rail lines in general. Without that, as you’ve correctly observed it will always be disadvantaged compared to other modes of transport.
But hey, the war in Iran might make it cheaper than driving so that’s something.
I looked at the lawsuit details. Steam basically did what everyone else does. Apple, google, EA, everyone.
They charge 30% of the sale. They require that the steam price be the same as an external price.
It’s the most nothing of nothings.
To compare, what MS did when they got smacked with their monopoly lawsuit is bundle IE with the OS and they both made it hard to switch the default and they’d constantly try to switch you back to IE.
Red green color blindness is the most common form of color blindness.
To someone with that form of color blindness these shirts would be different shades of the same color (think, dark red vs light red).
I have one coworker with red green color blindness that said that peanut butter and zucchinis were roughly the same color to him (Oh, it’s also more common in men than women).
Given CXMT doesn’t just up their prices after gaining market share too.
They might eventually, but certainly not immediately. In the process they are going to force the other big players to lower their prices to compete.
Also China can just ban the export, or tariff it.
I don’t think China has ever banned an export. It’s pretty rare to tariff an export, basically only happens when it’s a limited good that the government wants to ensure a local supply of. I think the only country I’ve heard of doing that is Greenland due to some british wankery.
Maybe. I mean at least a major part of it is that AI pays a lot more money than the consumer does, and even if the consumer market pulls back, they are banking on the raised prices to stay around even if they can increase capacity.
I think what scares them is that CXMT is rapidly catching up to the state of the art. If they dick around for too long, they run the real risk that China and CXMT will do what China does and sweep the market with really cheap memory they can’t compete with.
These companies still care about non-ai servers, and that’s a big part of the market that could be obliterate pretty quickly.
Hey, can we stop calling everything with a computer “AI”? Order management systems have been a thing long before LLMs were invented (I’ve worked on one). This was perhaps one of the first applications of computing. Humans hand writing an order form in a major grocery store hasn’t been a thing since like the 80s.
Also, I’m like 80% sure this article was barfed out by an LLM. The em-dashes be everywhere.
People don’t like hearing this, but streaming services tune their codecs to properly calibrated TVs. Very few people have properly calibrated TVs. In particular, people really like to up the brightness and contrast.
A lot of scenes that look like mud are that way because you really aren’t supposed to be able distinguish between those levels of blackness.
That said, streaming services should have seen the 1000 comments like the ones here and adjusted already. You don’t need bluray level of bits to make things look better in those dark scenes, you need to tune your encoder to allow it to throw more bits into the void.
I like to subscribe to the “magic makes it’s users imbeciles” fan theory. (Though the truth is that JK just isn’t all that bright).
It isn’t that the killing spell is unblockable. Harry and his mom managed to block it twice. But apparently magicians in HP universe are just completely dumb and unwilling or incapable of innovation. That was spelled out clearly in book 1 where an elementary logic puzzle was seen a good way to protect the greatest treasure on earth.
Ron’s dad, for example, lived in England. He could wander the muggle streets freely if he wanted to. He had a deep fascination of basic muggle items, yet he didn’t just go to his local library to check out a book or log on to the internet to learn about things that were his passion.