Toni was in fact the adult supervision brought in by Automattic’s board when the company was young and Matt was inexperienced.

And apparently adult supervision was needed.

And still needed...

This predates the social media laws which only started in December.

> If young people are eschewing helmets, I can see making a helmet law

Australia already has mandatory helmet laws for cycling; the person quoted is pointing out that they’re breaking the law.

A 450kph limit for the rolling stock is great, but how many lines are actually capable of these speeds? There's only a single line (Chengdu–Chongqing, currently under construction) which is designed for 350kph, with sections capable of 400kph. Aside from that, most lines are at 350kph - unless I'm missing something.

This is how you start something and get progress.

More lanes on the highway are not progress.

I’ve been procrastinating on one as well, but I can recommend the Inkplate devices, which come with a ESP32, battery, and a case (optionally); handy platform to hack on. (If only it were so easy to finish the project…)

Thanks for the hint!

They consented to their data being used to verify their identity, not to train an AI on their data. Each separate purpose the data is being processed for needs its own basis.

Nexstar's stations blocked access from European IPs, providing a 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons response code; Nexstar are the largest TV station owner in the US, so a large number of sites for local affiliates were unavailable. I think other networks (Sinclair) may have also one so.

Here's a HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27854663

(I worked with Nexstar and experienced this directly. Looks like this may have changed recently.)

For Virgin Media, redirects to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

> Virgin Media has received an order from the High Court requiring us to prevent access to this site.

> Boring Company has actually built tunnels and passengers are actually riding it. No one else is even trying.

Boring Company bought an existing tunnel boring machine (TBM), and used it to dig a car tunnel. Their only “innovation” in terms of any cost savings is to dig smaller tunnels - which we already knew could be done (tunnel cost grows with diameter), and which we don’t do for good reasons (capacity, emergency egress).

The branding and marketing exercise was excellent though.

> Not as bad as the Glasgow one, which feels like travelling on a 2/3 scale model of a subway with alarmingly narrow platforms.

For anyone who's not aware, the Glasgow Subway is literally smaller - the track gauge is 4ft (85% of standard gauge), and the rolling stock (trains) is similarly scaled down, to the point that you probably have to duck if you're over 6ft.

I remember that one of Stockholm's train line is also endearingly tiny too?

Half the Berlin lines are weirdly narrow, but not short.

Budapest subway is something similar, too.

The oldest line which was inaugurated in the late 19th century, yes. (Though IIRC it is standard gauge.)

The three modern lines are spacious and high-capacity.