People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.

Suck them both.

"buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions."

You just replied to a well known bot some clown has created by training a LLM on rsilvergun's posts. And you did it by saying something really stupid. Nice work there, sport.

I am not allowed to install software on my work machine and there's an approval process. IT can have a real text editor but I can't.

Granted this is partly a problem with my employer but it wasn't a problem until Microsoft ruined software I was using daily.

And why do they keep giving them?

At this point it's natural to conclude that B1zX is run by literal Nazis.

Some bitch came along and down modded my last three comments again. What a shock. It's too bad slashdot is now anti fact and anti science.

That would be the Sanyo Shinkansen then, and it's 100% grade separated, and always has been.

If it was near the Marine Corps base it would have been the Sanyo Main Line. I don't know what the historic speeds were, but these days the maximum is 130 kph. The Shinkansen line is some distance from there.

130 kph (about 80 mph) might not seem like much, but it can appear pretty quick when you are very close to the train at a crossing. The Shinkansen line was around 250 kph when you were there I think, now up to 300.

The same Technology that made the "white man" more fit is also now destroying the environment and making us all unfit.

Ukraine can't be Nazi because it is not operated along Nazi ideals, and because the majority of the population is not made up of Nazis, not because of who sits in the big chair. Having Nazis in it doesn't make it Nazi. Nazis went all over the place, and there are descendants of Nazis who may still hold Nazi ideals all over the place. Ukraine has a neo-Nazi problem, but so does the USA. Do you call the USA a Nazi country? It sure does look a lot closer than Ukraine right now.

Probably they are tired of people's stupid fucking responses. This is approximately the first time I've pointed that out without getting downmodded, and it's not too late for that to happen either. Only one of these proposed reactors has received type approval and then NuScale decided not to build one because it wouldn't be profitable even if someone else split the costs with them. My only question is, are the people I see frothing for SMRs invested in the scams, or just so dazzled by promises of shiny shit that they will attack anyone who points out the emperor's lack of clothing? I suppose that this can only be answered on a case by case basis, but I'm having trouble imagining a credible third option.

Native means comes with the system. If you have to download it separately, it isn't native. It used to mean built in and operating without translation layers, but modern software is generally built with layers on layers from the get-go so that's no longer a meaningful distinction.

Windows' support for basic VGA mode does not constitute meaningful support for GPUs which have not been released because you can use almost none of the functionality. So sure, it "supports" them... but only well enough to download a driver for actual support. Anything supported for more than the most trivial mode actually is supported with a driver more complex than Standard VGA already included in the system.

"Linux" does not have printing support, it has support for the technologies needed to connect to a printer. "<x distribution> Linux" has printing support.

Somehow the Japanese are building new HSR lines right into the centre of their two biggest cities, Tokyo and Osaka. Grade separated. 90% tunnel through mountains, elevated in urban areas.

They have earthquakes and even more densely built up areas to contend with. Somehow they manage it, regularly. And not just for HSR, the Tsukuba Express line is another example that is not high speed but is fully grade separated and runs right into the centre of Tokyo. Partially underground, partially viaduct.

More high speed rail than the rest of the world combined, all built in the last 15 years. It's some of the fastest too, with peak speeds exceeding those in Japan (where they are limited due to noise concerns rather than safety or the capabilities of the trains).

They are also now building new maglev lines, starting in Beijing, which will be the fastest in the world, and are going to be the longest and most extensive in the world as they rapidly expand.

They also have more underground rail than the rest of the world combined, all built in the last 20 years.

It's not just about travel time, it's about comfort and emissions, and arriving fresh instead of tired from a long drive.

In other words commercial rivals will sabotage it.

When you factor in time taken to get to the airport and go through security, and the fact that flights aren't as regular as HSR typically, even for very long distances rail is competitive. Maglev will make it even more so. It's much more comfortable too.

Even if you still can't cope with it for very long distances, for shorter ones it will definitely be a lot faster than flying.