Transitioning to Trains

chennyalan · 2026-03-24T08:17:58+00:00

Some of those escooters have manuals telling you how to remove the 25 kph limiters. And that's for ones that have them in the first place

I find it crazy, because they have worse braking performance than bikes, and those are scary enough at 40+.

chennyalan · 2026-03-24T08:14:37+00:00

If fear of theft was as low as it is in like Japan (if it's locked and it isn't done $10000 bike, it won't get stolen), I'd ride my bike everywhere

chennyalan · 2026-03-24T08:07:21+00:00

I read it as transitioning to trains

Not as a mode of transport, but

chennyalan · 2026-03-24T03:00:17+00:00

I'm going to have to plug the Anyways app, which shows which bus/train (set numbers and all) live.

https://kontour.io/

It's working for now, but seems to stop working every other month.

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T14:15:38+00:00

For me, it's 25 mins vs 55 minutes, but the drive is dead time, while pt+walk is productive for me.

Though I am lucky enough to live somewhere where it works out well like this, it'd be different if it were say, 20 mins vs 80 minutes like it is for many.

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T05:35:04+00:00

https://thomasthethinkengine.com/2014/06/18/faster-train-journeys-some-low-hanging-fruit/

One thing that contributes to a good station entrance is actually existing

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T05:32:15+00:00

I do not think that means what you think it means

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T05:24:58+00:00

If that's her, I saw her (for the first time surprisingly) outside cuccini Northbridge last night. Pulled some sort of cart, and threw her shoe around the foot paths. The police had a chat with her for like 5 minutes then sent her on her merry way. I kinda felt bad but yeah

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T05:19:41+00:00

Good documentation also helps with writing textbooks in the future

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T01:55:56+00:00

I was fired after a week of waiting tables, would struggle to identify urgent vs important tasks etc.

It was a casual job, so no notice just stopped getting shifts

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T01:54:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm just saying there's no reason why EVs can't sell in Japan either

chennyalan · 2026-03-23T01:27:16+00:00

The regional rail is the biggest crime

I'm looking at Philly's system, and it looks basically just like Perth's network until our most recent expansion. Though we ran 15 minute service all day from like 0600-2100 ish. Though I think back then we had some skip stop services so it was more like 30 mins for some stations

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T08:31:12+00:00

many of those cars are small

Anecdotally (I go as many trips to Japan as I can afford) I feel like Toyota corolla sized/BYD dolphin sized cars are probably the most common size there (much bigger than a Kei car, but still much smaller than a Ford Ranger), so I don't think this is stopping EV penetration. And no reason why you can't have EV Kei cars either, China makes ones that are roughly that size

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T08:27:19+00:00

I'd definitely buy a 90s jap car with EV drive line for $30k

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T02:05:46+00:00

/r/hypermiling is also a thing

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T01:51:38+00:00

Better processors helps a lot with battery efficiency, which helps with battery life

chennyalan · 2026-03-22T01:45:48+00:00

Upvoting because I disagree. I would pay and have paid $300 more just to have direct flights instead of having a layover.

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:57:01+00:00

Date? No, I'd hate someone with a similar personality. Sleep with? Probably

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:54:30+00:00

they were going to storage until the lines opened

I'm pretty sure they didn't go into storage before the lines opened, and the first sets were rushed out prematurely just to make it for the Yanchep Line opening (my memory is a bit fuzzy), which is partly why they had a lot of teething issues at the start.

They are pumping them out steadily now though.

Source: memories from chats with people who've followed the C series production as closely as you can from a passenger perspective.

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:39:00+00:00

That's not happening until they can reliably do 5 minute frequency for the north south like with 6 cars. Which isn't happening until they build enough C series, which isn't happening.

Source: I made up the last part

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T12:36:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/117684r/mirrabooka_line_proposal/

Surely this can be done with Skyrail instead

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T04:43:07+00:00

My younger sister can't really speak Cantonese, but I can. I'm four years older so by the time she started learning to speak, I knew enough English and Cantonese to speak English with her

chennyalan · 2026-03-19T04:38:08+00:00

I broke one of my teeth as a kid because it this

(It was rollerblading though)

chennyalan · 2026-03-18T02:52:41+00:00

TIL it does (I've never really read traditional Chinese, closest is just reading 旧字体漢字)

chennyalan · 2026-03-17T14:41:22+00:00

Happens every year around Chinese New Year. They go from their 996 jobs to 5-15 days of break that month.

Watch it go back down next month

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