• teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 days ago

    the Dutch train system is so incredibly cool, you can get from one end to another end of the ‘main’ part of the Netherlands in an hour and its so easy to just get to any station anywhere and then you can just go everywhere for so incredibly cheap. Literally the only thing you need to get anywhere in the Netherlands is a bike and something to buy train tickets with. You dont even need to buy tickets, you can just tap your debit card on the gates in the entrance station and then tap it when you exit and it just handles everything for you

    • glaber@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      you can even tap on sone bikes to rent them. everyone saying owning a car makes you free can suck it

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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    19 days ago

    I also really like that every time I see some dumb idea to “improve vehicles” there a long comment chain improving it even further into a train.

    • rothaine@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago

      Hey there 👋, I know you mean well by that comment, like I get it, I do. ☺️ But I just wanted to let you know:

      THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO STUDIES DONE ON THE SAFETY OF CRAB TRAINS.

      ZERO.

      But despite that, they are gaining widespread support, and now even people like yourself are calling them “optimal.”

      Listen: Someone I know lost an arm in the pincer mechanism of one of these trains. More work needs to be done before we can consider them safe, nevermind “optimal”. Don’t buy into the techbro BS.

      Friends don’t let friends crab train.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Minimum rolling friction by having hard wheels on a hard surface. Minimum wind resistance by making it long and narrow. Minimum stop time by having big doors.

    BAM: train.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    “we heavily biased the network against trains and now it’s just saying the optimal car consists of several metal struts connecting just two thinned out wheels that the driver sits on top of and propels themselves using pedals. It was busy redesigning intersections to have clear safe lanes for these bi-cycle ‘cars’ with plenty of trees / room for pedestrians when we pulled the plug…”

    • 257m@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      Even in bike racing the optimal form ends being to become a train. A peloton is just a train made up of bikes.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        And then imagine if instead of wheels a bicycle was on a track with even greater reduced rolling resistance than skinny overinflated tires and didn’t require lumbar strength for balance.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Ha! I was thinking along these lines reading science fiction the other day. In every novel where stuff has to get moved overland, it’s always a train. No matter their tech level, trains are the simplest, most efficient solution.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      the last time I gave factorio a serious run was waaaay back in its beta, before it was even finished and had an end game.

      its just gotten so complicated since then that I get overwhelmed, especially when you start to scale up and realize you fucked something up and have to undo an entire day of shit to move something 2 tiles or something.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Bots can do that shit. Ctrl+X, select, move the two tiles, place. Realize that’s still a tile off on the Y axis, and repeat. The bots don’t complain.

        I will hand make the hundred or so blue science I need to make construction bots if I have to.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          19 days ago

          I tried about 6 months ago after falling deep into DoshDoshington’s various Factorio Mod and Challenge series.

          I got about 15 hours in before I was just overwhelmed with what I was doing. I miss being young and eager.