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I thought this was amusing, but also fun is this side discussion about why in reality, you might actually request a box of defective parts from a supplier.
![See new posts Conversation Benjamin Schneider @urbenschneider As soon as electric Caltrains enter service in fall 2024, riders will experience huge benefits: —Local trains from SF to SJ will take 75 min, instead of 100 min today —Express trains will take 59 min, instead of 65 min —7 more stations will get service every 15 min at peak See new posts Conversation Benjamin Schneider @urbenschneider As soon as electric Caltrains enter service in fall 2024, riders will experience huge benefits: —Local trains from SF to SJ will take 75 min, instead of 100 min today —Express trains will take 59 min, instead of 65 min —7 more stations will get service every 15 min at peak](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf30f611-ab2a-45a4-bb4c-ed10439b6c79_1166x1142.png)
I'm so excited about Caltrain running the new electric trains, Schneider has a short post about Caltrain electrification as well.
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There's a ton more examples at the announcement site. It'll be exciting to compare this to Midjourney, which is what I usually use for image generation.
![See new posts Conversation Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias Basically nobody seems to know we're on the verge of a government shutdown. And I'm not even talking about Real Americans not knowing them, I'm saying people who live in DC don't know. See new posts Conversation Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias Basically nobody seems to know we're on the verge of a government shutdown. And I'm not even talking about Real Americans not knowing them, I'm saying people who live in DC don't know.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55194cdc-3b23-4490-96ee-35f0c25657b8_1154x290.png)
Among many other problems, a government shutdown would mean that the Fed would no longer have access to up-to-date info about how the US economy is doing, because the bureau of labor statistics would stop publishing data.
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Ah yes, "blue"
Longer Reads
• Shortwave (my email client, an alternative gmail frontend) just added a ton of AI features that look really cool.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Senate finally confirmed someone to a top military position. (src)
– Generative AI uses orders of magnitude less energy than doing tasks manually (src)
– Despite it's purported purpose, in practice, zoning doesn't even end up preventing oil derricks from being built in single family neighborhoods. (src)
– Arguments over the definitions of pseudoscience (src)
– The right-wing government of El Salvador did an extreme crackdown on crime and it seems to have worked. No one is sure why it works for them and not previous administrations in other countries who tried similar stuff. (src)
– Detroit trying a land value tax, very exciting! (src)
– Nintendo adopting passkey for logins, very cool (src)
– SF no longer tows for parking violations, no matter how many. Seems bad. (src)
– Yikes, Germany is falling behind in weapons production for Ukraine. (src)
– Argument that US manufacturing pay is not rising because worker productivity hasn't been improving. (src)