I remember watching a documentary about the chunnel back in the early 00s and the narrators highlighted how it’s enabled day-tripping to the other country for some folks, and spoke with a British couple who went to France to do some shopping that day
I live a few hours drive from Chicago and have family in LA, I would love the option to take an autotrain to visit family. The ability to bring my car to visit folks in such a car dependant place would make the cost really make a ton of sense, especially if we opted to only drive one direction and take the train the other direction.
We’re actually planning on driving out this thanksgiving (partly decided by cost and partly by making an added stop to visit family in Arizona which Amtrak and flying would both make extremely expensive in comparison) it also helps that our car was totaled by hail damage this year so since it now has no resale value despite being fairly new and fairly low mileage, there’s just no incentive to avoid putting tons of miles on it anymore. But if we could pay a couple thousand dollars for the experience of riding the rails just one direction, we probably would go that route
I was going to reference Valentine as well with the hats. Trump gives some serious Velntine vibes asthetically
There’s also rumblings of potentially setting up a new Auto train route from NYC to LA. I have wonder if they’ll do the obvious thing of making a stop in Chicago as well given most long distance Amtrak services stop in Chicago
Mumford and Sons is currently running a tour by rail using Amtrak’s services!
But I’ve also heard of private groups pooling together to buy an old passenger car and keeping it maintained and up to whatever the current Amtrak requirements are so that they can do this regularly. Alternatively there’s several private companies who you can rent and charter a car or several with if you don’t want to commit long term to owning a railcar. I’ve specifically seen this one on private charter before for some model railroad events: https://261.com/cedar-rapids/
Amtrak does have the “auto train” which runs from just outside DC to just outside Orlando. You load your car on the train and ride the train rather than driving that distance. It’s apparently really popular with both snowbirds as well as vacationers
Elmo how could you! How dare you display data on a format that poorly communicated the data! You were supposed to be better than this!
Correct, the ISP would assign you a /56 of public IPs that all share a prefix which you can slice and dice into however you see fit. All devices receive a publicly routable IP which your router/firewall would limit access to. So no running out of IPs ever, no network/IP collisions if you have to connect to another private network, etc.
I always bring it up when the network is experiencing problems that they wouldn’t have with IPv6. Running out of IPs in a given scope, increasing costs of public IPs, etc.
First of all, enterprises usually have at least one public IP (the one I work at right now has more public IPs than they have server VMs)
Secondly enterprises have big enough and complex enough networks to see other benefits of IPv6. For example IPv4 has some problems when broadcast domains are too large, so your internal network sizes are artificially limited when following best practices. Without private networks you don’t have to worry about IP collisions between different private networks that you have to route between (comes up more than you’d think!) etc etc.
I’ve encountered way too many administrators and network admins who swear that “IPv6 does nothing but cause trouble” but the truth is, the trouble it’s causing is because you can’t half-implement IPv6. You either roll it out to the whole network or you don’t, and the longer you kick that can down the road the harder it’s going to be.
Basically too many professionals who haven’t learned a new technology since 2005 and refuse to try new things keep holding the world back
I’m on one of the regions of fiber that CenturyLink spun off to a private equity firm a few years ago. Zero IPv6 support here
“They’re” is a contraction of “they are”
“Their” is possessive
“There” is a directed place
“The problem with the MTV generation is they are kids” wouldn’t make any sense
Relevant XKCD
The rule of thumb from data centers is every watt of compute equals 3 watts of energy consumption, 1 to power the thing and 2 to remove the 1 watt of heat, so high power components are really a ton of power
I mean the difference between pointing out the environmental impacts of AI compared to the environmental impacts of heating/air conditioning, industry, transportation etc. is there’s useful output from one and the other just creates low quality slop.
Most of the use of AI right now is entirely pointless. It exists purely because of the AI bubble and eventually companies won’t be burning queries on annoying sales chat bots that the user isn’t even interacting with or inaccurate search result summaries that you can’t reasonably turn off
My printer died so I go to the library to print when I need to. For ¢25 per color print or ¢10 per black and white print it’s a lot cheaper than buying another printer, plus I’ll really consider if I actually need to print that thing
This dude was honestly kinda insane. The most charitable interpretation is that he had a specific idea in his head of exactly how a given task should get done based on what works well for him and any employees deviating from that approach to the task are doing so incorrectly. He also did not maintain up to date documentation of any of his expected workflows so you’d better hope you remember his expected workflow when he comes to yell at you (and he yelled a lot!)
Notably he didn’t like automating any frequent tasks nor creating templates because he seemed more focused on what happens if the process goes wrong than what happens if a person makes a mistake. I would argue that humans are incredibly fallible and it’s better to have the computer automate the parts of the task that can be automated so that the human can focus on the parts that can’t be and work more quickly and efficiently, but he was far more concerned about the rare instances where the automation might break.
The big problem with using an LLM for formulas in Excel is you need those numbers to be right, and if you don’t fully understand what Excel is doing to your numbers you can’t know when the numbers are wrong nor why they’re wrong.
I even had one manager once who took this to the extreme and said no formulas ever just in case the individual doesn’t understand them (he also happened to be the worst manager I ever worked for)
It’s Read The Fucking Manual not Fuck The Reading Manual