It could take the same route, just flattening out the hills and valleys.

If there are sharp corners that might not work, but even lower speed rail doesn’t really like sharp corners. They can be mitigated up to a certain point with banked curves.

It’s possible to upgrade a line like that, but it will involve a lot of cutting through hills or building bridges over valleys

Also known as the “fuck everyone not in a car”-setting

How many minutes would it be to cycle to work?

Credit cards have good protections against fraudulent webshops and often provide free insurance against damage and theft. This makes it worthwhile for buying a new laptop.

My card is automatically fully paid off at the end of the month, so mhe debt is very temporary

Well, shit

edit: in my defense, |i’ve never seen a single firefly, so ten thousand would be enough for me not to believe my eyes

When ten thousand fireflies

I love it when they have a crunchy outer side. Much stronger flavour

Making a second decision mandatory makes it harder to change existing laws. This can be a good thing in some cases, but not always. It increases conservatism (in that it’s harder to change things).

IR bottom heaters are usually not strong enough for reballing. They’re for boards that are hard to solder, because there’s a lot of copper or a heatsink for example.

The bottom heater preheats the whole board, not to soldering temperatures but enough to make soldering a lot easier.

It’s true. Cancer (kanker) is a very common swear word, as is kankerlijer (someone who suffers from cancer) as insult

The ID.4 doesn’t just have capacitive buttons, it has swipe controls on the steering wheel.

And of the most frustrating cars I have ever driven.

But are we capable of only wiping out the human biting mosquitos without affecting other mosquitos, or even other insects?

I don’t care if it was meant for it, it is the best tool I’ve found so far for what I want to do: put text over an image to create a custom gift certificate.

It works perfectly for what I want to do with it, except it doesn’t understand .webp. It seemed like it is implemented, but didn’t work. It does take .jpg.

I had issues with Libreoffice and Inkscape yesterday. Had to open it in paint.net first, and save it as jpeg.

There’s a toilet in the museum of modern art in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, that features this exact setup, but with mirrors