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Tour Down Under spoilers for stages 1 and 2
With the Women’s TDU dominated by non-Aussies, it’s actually nice to see some Australian dominance. Chapeau to Welsford, particularly today for overcoming that early crash and making it back on when he was dropped. But I still think Danny van Poppel is the true hero, Bora had to drop him back to pace Welsford back on, and Danny still had enough in the tank to give Welsford a magic carpet ride leadout and drop him off with 200m to go. DvP for the win!
No, and the majority of New Yorkers don’t own cars. Which is why it’s been mind-boggling to have the majority subsidize the minority and out-of-towners when they want to drive in an store their 3-tonne vehicles in public space, often for free.
Yeah, to be honest, that’s a crappy article from CBS. London’s Low Emission Zone is a huge success in terms of air quality and active transportation. The city has continued to pour the revenues generated from the zone fees into its public transit system, so the iconic double-decker busses run frequently all day, and they have continued to open new train lines like the Elizabeth Line. New York has never managed that level of investment, and without the income and incentives congestion pricing creates, it won’t be able to. If anything, London still prices the LEZ too low, just like NYC has priced it too low at $9, rather than the $15 was supposed to be before Gov. Hochul’s cowardice.
1·1 个月前Okay, I picked it up and blitzed through Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and it was a deep disappointment. The personal and romantic stakes and themes of the earlier books with Cordelia Naismith were coupled with other adventures or plots, and the combination of the personal and the galactic stakes was part of what made them work. I felt like Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen utterly lost the broader plot, and it was just a book about two people getting together and retiring. (Which, to be fair, is a perfectly fine plot and there are multiple genres and sub-genres built around that plot, but in the context of the Vorkossigan Saga, it was a nothing-burger of a story.) There are some revelations about things long-past, which I think Bujold did to try to flesh out the story and maybe give Cornelia’s take on some of the events that happened around her in the intervening ~30 years since she had a book from her perspective, but in this book, hardly anything happens. Seriously, the stakes are so low. It’s pleasant, but scarcely needs to exist for the rest of the characters or novels. What a baffling addition to this series.
5·1 个月前I’ve seen where doctors are using it for surgery
The article I’ve seen is one instance in Brazil (article in Brazilian Portuguese) for laparoscopic surgery, which makes a lot of sense. I don’t know how it compare to other displays, however, or if using a VR set rather than a monitor offers advantages, or if the Vision Pro did anything new or better. The same article mentions that doctors had done the same thing with a HoloLens VR headset some years before.
Oh, I have not, thanks for the recommendation!
44·2 个月前Is this the straw that will break the back of the $1.50 hot dog and drink???
Duck Detective. Charming game, but quite short.
1·2 个月前Roku Jellyfin app has been pretty good lately, few complaints now!
None so far for me, but I’ll keep an eye out.
8·2 个月前Mozilla has done some dumb stuff lately, but I’m glad Thunderbird is still out there and getting better all the time. The mobile version has been a nice step in the right direction.
2·2 个月前Just about the only thing Remco and I have in common!
I liked the first two (about Cordelia) better than the Miles books in some ways. He’s just a kid, she’s more interesting in a lot of ways.
That said, I think the best bit of the whole series is the Miles-focused novella The Mountains of Mourning.
This seems fine, so long as the journos remember how to pull up stakes once a platform decays. I hope they learn a lesson about the importance of owning your own audience, follower lists, etc.
Non-Spotify link, for anyone not wanting to support that exploitative platform.
https://techwontsave.us/episode/252_nuclear_wont_meet_techs_energy_demands_w_mv_ramana
The episode has a point, all this nuclear talk is a fig leaf for really excessive and probably pointless energy consumption. So-called AI feels like a Ponzi scheme in more ways than one.
4·3 个月前She ain’t Gainan, and she lost touch years ago. She spent a View episode with then-mayor DeBlasio whining about bike lanes in Manhattan, when more than half the city can’t even own a car and she was being driven into the city for tapings. No sympathy.
Truly superb!