Or the Hong Kong model. Railway operators are also property developers whose main profits comes from selling homes next to important stations. (This is not necessarily a good thing)

I liked Turbo Pascal when I was young. Debugger just works. Peeking into variables just works.

Unfortunately, now I used print to debug for other languages because I thought debugger is too hard to setup

I think you need to do A-B+C types? A+B or A-B wouldn’t make much sense when the magnitude changes

Sounds like minibus in Hong Kong with extra steps - we have been doing this since eternity. Driver just ask where people would stop in advance, sometimes an entire area would be skipped if no one goes there

How does that work out for someone in the unpopular destination who wants to leave?

There is a loosely defined route that still needs to be followed. You just shout you want to leave when you are near your destination. Or the driver would ask/shout is there anyone going to XXX area when it is near, you are supposed to say yes otherwise it gets skipped

I guess I’ll add an example. Let’s say the minibus mainly goes from A to B, but pass through C in the middle. Dropping people off at C is often a non-trivial task that may takes a couple of extra minutes so you need to tell the driver in advance

No, I mean, what if there is someone at C that wants to catch a bus, but all the buses are skipping C because no-one already on the bus wanted to go there?

Well, you take other transports. Or call the minibus company and sometimes they’ll arrange for you. Hong Kong is a bit unique though, that most people go to one or two areas for work, so the minibus is probably already full at C in the morning anyway

Red minibuses to be more specific.

I'm not sure if drivers can take new orders while driving. Happened to me once, the uber comes with a passenger from the previous trip who left there.

it happens all of the time. the app pops up a notification to the driver that a new ride has been assigned, and they can click to dismiss the notification. i can't think of the last ride i was in that the next ride was not assigned before my ride was completed

It's the first time I see unicode exponent numbers actually get used

A lot of why’s just don’t make sense to me at low level. It just feels like we need to address the issues in some way, so we make up something and brute force it with gradient descent with large data and enough computational power. It is unknown whether each design choice is a good idea, it will work anyway

From the first link:

> The Solar System planets accumulated from a disk of dust and gas that once orbited the Sun. Therefore, the planets move close to their common plane on near-circular orbits. About 3,000 small objects have been observed to orbit the Sun beyond Neptune (rp > 35 au); surprisingly, most move on eccentric and inclined orbits. Therefore, some force must have lifted these trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) from the disk where they formed and altered their orbits markedly.

I feel there is a strong bias towards objects that are only discoverable because of their highly eccentric orbit

at least 6-9 months too late

There was a time when you search for WhatsApp in Google the first sponsored result is a scam site

If you search for "HP Support" or "Dell Phone Number" you will get a scam site 50% of the time now.

One time an article about Facebook logins got to #1 and its comments were full of people mad that Facebook changed their website yet again, how can they login to Facebook, waah, waah!