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Samuel slater is exactly who I was thinking of, I didn't know the Lowell story but it looks like I should do some reading about it. From that link it seems like they were involved in stealing ideas for similar machines with the difference being the amount of intervention required to operate them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater


The transit strikes where they operate lines without collecting fares are a good example of this.


Another may be volunteering company time to contribute to open source (outside critical path requirements). What would be tech worker analogs?


It might be better to find a tailor/repair shop. I lost a favorite pair of ski pants when I sent them in for azipper replacement. Not sure if something got mixed up in the paperwork but I requested they be returned, not replaced if the repair was too expensive/difficult. The pants I got lasted many more years but the others would have too. Unfortunately zippers are just hard to replace if the teeth get damaged. They tend to be sewn in early in the assembly process.


I thought this was going to be the seaweed chicharron snacks. There's surprisingly not bad, in fact I might prefer them to almost any packaged chicharrones. If they'd been called seaweed puffs they might appeal to a different audience, the way I see veggie crisps placed near the produce in some grocery stores.

https://www.seacharrones.com/


Recently there was an interesting discussion on here about a blog post discussing pigs in medieval times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33318215


There seemed to be pretty good indications that Russia has blown up things in the EU in the last decade. For example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/28/bulgarian-pros...


In the last decade. Not the last 4 days.


The firm that owned Haggen paid for most of those stores by selling off most of the real estate and sticking the stores with rental payments. As I recall they expanded into CA, AZ, and NV before failing.

I don't have a good timeline in my head but I remember they did a push to make the stores nicer, adding things like a wine bar. And then suddenly they were heading downhill. They had good produce, but I think some of that was turnover. Once the customers moved stores that went away.


As I understand it nachos weren't invented in America and were originally chips with cheese and jalapenos. The platter style nachos came later.

Here's a link to support the claim. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/dining/nachos-recipes.htm...


The article itself relates the story of nachos being invented in Texas in the 40s.


Which article? Both linked articles describe nachos as being invented in a Mexican boarder town; the post article adds color commentary about a group of Texans ordering them


I had the same reaction to his post. Regional ingredients popularized by the same person…


A similar attempt to recreate a historic to happened recently with a descent of the Grand canyon on a tule reed boat of sorts.

https://www.blm.gov/blog/2021-02-24/tule-reed-boat-runs-gran...

There's a video here https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/03/did-indigenous-pad...


Agreed on the minimetro feel!

I thought it was live too, I wonder if there's a way to do that? I like that you can see both the s and u bahn, though I kind of wish the abstract map would carry over.


Thanks a lot for the feedback!! The "live mode" is already developed using hafas-client[1] and VBB-API[2]. I just asked VBB to give me API access, I'll release the feature when I get it. If you are interested, VBB already made a live map[3]

1: https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-client 2: https://www.vbb.de/vbb-services/api-open-data/api/ 3: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/


Author of hafas-client here!

Do you know about v5.vbb.transport.rest's /radar API [1]? Because it wraps VBB's de-facto-open unofficial API [2][3], it doesn't require authentication or even signing a contract.

If you have problems using it, please get in touch with me!

[1] https://v5.vbb.transport.rest/api.html#get-radar [2] https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-client/tree/5.25.0... [3] https://github.com/public-transport/transport-apis/blob/8e05...


Hi, I know you! You're hard to miss when working on public transportation. Very happy to see you're looking at my project! I sent you an email.

v5.vbb.transport.rest's frames were missing something I needed, if I recall correctly. With a fork of hafas-client, I got something to work okay. I was going to release it too, but then I realised I should use another user agent than 'my-awesome-program' which only VBB can provide, I think.


> v5.vbb.transport.rest's frames were missing something I needed, if I recall correctly. With a fork of hafas-client, I got something to work okay.

It would be great if you could create an Issue in hafas-client about this, so everyone can benefit from the changes.

> I realised I should use another user agent than 'my-awesome-program' which only VBB can provide, I think

If you're talking about hafas-client: No, you can use anything! It's merely about being transparent towards VBB who/what is using their API, but they don't have to approve it beforehand; They can't in fact, because the "mobile" HAFAS API just uses a static auth token.


Oh okay. Here is an old version of Ubähnchen with the toggle for "live mode / planned mode" on the top right: https://ubahnchen-inona1te6-lzear.vercel.app/?live The URL parameter still works in the current version by the way.

When I changed 'my-awesome-program' to 'ubahnchen' or something else when creating the hafas-client, it stopped getting valid responses. So I thought I should wait for VBB to give me an ID that works.


> When I changed 'my-awesome-program' to 'ubahnchen' or something else when creating the hafas-client, it stopped getting valid responses.

Please report this as an Issue in the hafas-client repo, so we can discuss this further.

> So I thought I should wait for VBB to give me an ID that works.

This is not how it works: - The official VBB API is an entirely different API, which they give you an auth token for when you ask. - hafas-client uses the "mobile" API, which has a static universal auth token. But it sends a (slightly randomised) User-Agent in order to communicate who/what is making requests. It might be that some User-Agents are blocked.


There is definitely a way to do it, actually the Munich S-Bahn has a realtime map : https://www.s-bahn-muenchen.de/fahren/live-map - not as smoothly animated though, and I'm not sure if the data used there is publically available. As an Easter Egg, the "50th anniversary" train (photo here, but the article is paywalled: https://railcolornews.com/2022/04/26/de-expert-s-bahn-munche...) is highlighted on the map.


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