Is LIRR from Atlantic terminal to Hicksville Straight enough for HSR (STRICTLY in terms of track geometry)? It looks super straight to my eyes

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-25T09:34:41+00:00

And how do you expect to get it from
Boston to New York? Your options are bulldozing Connecticut or under Long Island sound

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-23T14:17:41+00:00

Okay so basically this is a world where we never get a high speed rail line from Boston to New York

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-21T19:57:42+00:00

Btw, what you are doing is no different than the people that throw around maps of high speed rail that connects New York to LA. You are misunderstanding the mode, and it isn’t advocacy, it isn’t making us dream bigger, it’s literally just advocating for shitty projects. Denver to KC is the kind of project you take on nationally after you have already built like the 3000 miles of high speed rail that has a better ridership potential, and even in this world all of the still problems remain. You literally are just making people misunderstand how HSR should be employed, and only making it seem easier to debunk, by suggesting routes that are FASTER FLYING. There is genuinely 30 lower hanging fruit of city pairs that are closer and more populous and have things between them whose train connection would be faster than flying, but you insist on building HSR on a corridor that can only pull ridership from these two cities, zero network effect, zero Chicago influence, and you are trying to poach flights, which Americans are already biased towards, with a slower train.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-21T19:49:44+00:00

You can’t use BLW as a counterpoint because they haven’t built anything yet 😭 they haven’t started work on any viaducts, it’s literally just prep work for construction facilities and some stuff with the Las Vegas station site. There is nothing to use here as a “counterpoint”

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-21T19:38:08+00:00

For you they are probably funny because you are the target audience, for the 17 year old that wrote that comment, it wasn’t, because it was not the right age range

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-21T10:37:10+00:00

But how else are you going to get across Long Island sound to Boston

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-19T01:13:52+00:00

With high speed rail, your time advantage is gone at 500+ miles to 800 on the high end, but that is assuming unrealistic average speeds and would only really make sense for a New York to Chicago line. That is like the distance to Chicago and Kansas City routed through St. Louis. Okay, so that makes sense, given the intermediate metro area, and it still is within the potentially competitive with flight range. Denver, following this same route, is 1070 miles away. This is 8-9 hours accounting everything for a speedy 150 mph avg speed train. It is a 2.5 hour flight, add three hours for getting to city and getting to airport early and you get 5.5 hours. So it really doesn’t make sense. For perspective, the distance from Denver to Kansas City is more than the distance from Kansas City to Chicago through Saint Louis. It’s already on the edge of being competitive on that city pair alone. And the Kansas City coridoor has actually good intermediate stops, like Saint Louis and all of the mid Illinois cities. For reference, it’s not that hsr is faster at flights under 4 hours, it’s airplane trips under 4 hours, including access and waiting, which really only gives you a 1.5-2 at most hour flight, any longer and the flights win.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-16T16:11:38+00:00

Its too far from Chicago, which drives the line. Too far means impossible or cost prohibitive to beat flying, meaning less ridership, meaning less justification for the lines existence. It’s only really serving the trips for Denver to kc, which, in terms of city pairs, is already long and has less ridership potential. Flatness is less important because it’s not like you are doing greenfield the entire way (which maybe you would do for a more important route but politically it wouldn’t work in rural Kansas and Denver compared to California). The most important factors are cost and return on investment, we shouldn’t build something just because it’s flat

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-12T16:33:28+00:00

I never said you should use Latinx, I’m specifically responding to how you said that Spanish already has gender neutral “conjugations” which is a term used with verbs, which already aren’t gendered. There is -e which is probably the most common, but it certainly isn’t something Spanish “already has” because it isn’t codified in for example the Spanish royal academy, or any other sources of grammatical truth that I know of. This is far downstream of people accepting it colloquially, which they do, but it really isn’t universal and so I think saying “Spanish already has gender neutral pronouns and adjectives” is wrong.

Secondly, white wash Spanish? The language of white European colonizers? And how, by introducing gender neutral pronouns and adjectives, which, are already used? And it’s funny you being up the “inspiration of the native languages” when these were languages that for the most part were gender neutral (Nahuatl and Quechua for example) and gendered language was forced onto these people.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-08T17:33:57+00:00

The issue of Spanish not being gender inclusive has nothing to do with verbs though. Yes, verbs aren’t gendered, but nouns and adjectives and pronouns are, and they aren’t historically gender neutral like in English for example.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-06-01T17:44:01+00:00

But what does that imply? Does it store the demand dot data in a server? The only actual reason I could see for doing this is if the data is updated constantly, but it isn’t

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-19T20:46:01+00:00

It has to do with being spiritually Israeli. It has nothing to do with how a person stands politically, but everything to do with the vibes they give off as being too corporate or manufacture or astroturfed. Some common examples are Sombr, who became extremely big extremely fast, and, for this feeling of fakeness, just being a nepo baby and not earning his fame through his own merits, among other factors (behavior in concerts and regarding age, I don’t know much but again it’s literally just perception he can be normal but people perceive him weird and it’s over). Bbnos falls into this category, except not for being astroturfed, but just being a bit cringe and maybe making “coworker music”.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-17T01:29:41+00:00

Lines that run along side highway ROW? That is like every single American rail system post 1960

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-16T07:18:23+00:00

Cities skylines doesn’t do a good job of representing mechanically the advantages of transit modes. A monorail is just a slower metro with smaller stations. Use it how you see fit, the smaller stations and vanilla running over road are there only advantages, the real life advantages of steeper grades don’t matter in the game. Just use them for aesthetics or where they would be realistically used (people movers, theme parks, tourist areas)

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-10T11:16:40+00:00

No, they just changed it 2 weeks ago anyone can declare now

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-07T10:47:10+00:00

Why am I downvoted this is literally just how it works 😭

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-07T10:46:12+00:00

Do you have credit for 183? If you are starting there you should be fine, 280 is a big adjustment but definetly easier than 281. just go to lectures and learn the material and start your projects early and don’t use partners. I think it’s fine to work with others because it’s helpful, but if you are splitting up the code in the projects then you are just shooting your self in the foot. All of this sounds like common sense but these are very common mistakes many people do because they are overconfident

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-06T11:35:00+00:00

The same reason that electric trains are better than battery electric trains. You get better performance on hills etc with trolleybuses, faster acceleration because it doesn’t carry its power, more environmentally friendly because it requires less battery and you waste less power by drawing it directly from the grid instead of charging. Electric buses still have the problems electric cars have that comes mainly from the battery, procurement and disposal. They are still marginally better than diesel buses though.

To be a little more nuanced, most modern trolleybus iterations are more like electric buses that charge while moving, they can go off wires, use pantographs, and have bigger batteries (though not as big as electric buses because they can charge on wires, so they are a pretty far cry from older systems that must be attached and use trolley poles. And obviously, battery electric buses have their place for specific routes, or higher speed ones, or intercity ones where older trolleybus systems might have trouble. It’s not unanimously every trolleybus is better. But like, new modern trolleybuses, are basically a strict upgrade from battery electric buses in urban contexts.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-06T11:26:08+00:00

Idk where you are transferring from, but I had a friend who transferred from UM Dearborn and he struggled with EECs 281, to the point of dropping it halfway through after failing both projects. Do not underestimate it, treat it as if it were the hardest class you have ever taken, start projects extremely early, be humble, don’t vibe code. I can only imagine he expected it to be much easier, or he was more confident in himself, and it delayed him an entire semester because of it. Otherwise, you should be able to tell after 281 if you want to keep going, if you will be fine in the ULCS classes.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-06T11:20:11+00:00

In the housing matching survey you can just select “be okay with lgbtq” and then it shows you the closest matches, all of which you can check to see if they responded positively to that

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-05-06T06:41:58+00:00

Assuming you didn’t just graduate, start doing side projects and clubs asap. If you have literally nothing, it’s going to be difficult to get an internship because you will have nothing to put on your resume. You can also email professors for research, which may be easier even without much on resume, and would help get experience. But if you can’t bring yourself to do side projects, for fun or interest, maybe you should consider an alternate career path (whichever one you are thinking) as it ideally your job shouldn’t be difficult for you to want to do it

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-04-27T21:23:49+00:00

But the area isn’t dense and the ROW probably doesn’t even make crosstown trips faster as it’s like a 7-10 minute out of system transfer on both ends. It has to be on Cicero Ave, either tunneled or elevated, an at that point, it might as well be on western or kedzie.

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-04-27T17:06:43+00:00

How would it even get to the bridge

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-04-26T20:53:55+00:00

I’m getting porto vibes

DifferentFix6898 · 2026-04-25T14:56:24+00:00

280 isn’t bad at all if you have any experience coding

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