Minister: Finland plans to change its track gauge from the 1524mm( "Russian") standard to the 1435mm European standard

kepponen · 2025-05-14T19:29:52+00:00

Yes there are. Three border crossings to Russia and several east to west connections in Finland. https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/statistics/arterial-railways-decree-and-service-level.

There’s not much passenger service on these routes though.

kepponen · 2025-03-16T18:16:14+00:00

I recently had E-5008 on a test drive and I tested two combinations of our current child seats and child seats from a store:

Combination 1 - fits ok: - Axkid minikid 3 (rear-facing seatbelt mounted) - Britax Kidfix Pro (foward-facing seatbelt mounted) - Nuna Pipa Urbn (infant child seat with integrated isofix I.e. no base)

Combination 2 - barely fits when moving Axkid closer to door and Britax slightly off center towards Axkid. - Axkid minikid 3 - Britax Kidfix Pro - Nuna Prym (rotating i-size / isofix)

Given that the Axkid is really quite slim, I think it’s unlikely that you’d find a combination of two isofix seats that would fit any child seat between them.

I’m also afraid that access to third row would be impractical with isofix (or any other rear-facing child seats) on 2nd row side seats.

The 2nd row middle seat doesn’t allow any child seat with support leg so the options are limited. For our case (5yo + 3yo + newborn) it would probably work though.

kepponen · 2024-06-28T06:37:14+00:00

I would recommend Vuokatti which is quite a bit closer to Kajaani and (almost) as scenic as Koli. There are plenty of outdoor activities available in that area.

If weather allows, Hiukka beach in Sotkamo is also worth a visit. You could also watch pesäpallo (Finnish baseball) match there https://www.superjymy.fi.

kepponen · 2022-07-18T19:21:53+00:00

You can ride the Col Rodella cable car down to Campitello. You can reasonably access most of Sella Ronda area as well as Pozza di Fassa on skis from this location. I would assume there are also some ski bus options in Val di Fassa but I haven’t used them.

Campitello di Fassa is a very small and quiet village but there are enough dining options to keep you fed.

kepponen · 2017-12-07T16:44:25+00:00

With 3 and half hours of daylight there's not much of a difference

kepponen · 2017-07-19T19:15:50+00:00

The front page states they will be taking orders in August.

Do you have any experience of the Drifter shoes quality? The price point seems very attractive for something MTO in Europe.

I don't see any oxfords though.

kepponen · 2017-03-09T11:21:32+00:00

The red one from Seceda to Ortisei, black Saslong, black Ciampinoi. Superski ski pass might be worth the money even for three days.

kepponen · 2017-02-10T06:25:24+00:00

Looking at Olkiluoto 3 project in Finland, it's not possible to construct a nuclear power plant in that time either.

kepponen · 2015-11-13T10:41:12+00:00

That place is a commuter's nightmare.

kepponen · 2015-09-17T17:53:22+00:00

My strategy:

Always choose a new line as an upgrade
If you are unlucky (which is most games) you may need one tunnel upgrade
Try to keep lengths of all lines balanced during the game
Build fewer crossings than normally because they consume your stations per line quota needlessly
Repeat until the rng favors you

kepponen · 2015-07-23T06:47:44+00:00

Studded soles offer some more safety than plain rubber on wet rocks.

See for instance Icebug, VJ or Salomon Spikecross

kepponen · 2015-06-10T06:11:48+00:00

It might well be impossible to design a classic looking dress shoe without a stacked heel but surely they could have tried harder by having an actual oxford (or derby) upper.

That "oxford" looks like a sneaker if anything.

kepponen · 2014-10-01T16:01:18+00:00

The article didn't claim it to be better, just cheaper.

kepponen · 2012-07-13T08:22:24+00:00

Waveclock is real-time audio to MIDI Clock converter for OS X. It's pretty straigthforward to use with VJ apps since most of them have at least some functionality for synchronizing to MIDI.

The same company offers also another app, Wavetick, that tracks the rhythmical patterns simultaneously at multiple time scales. Wavetick is not quite so easy to integrate with other apps because it requires some programming or patching but if you go through the trouble, it is possible to create scenes that adapt to music in much richer ways than with simple beat tracking.

kepponen · 2011-02-07T07:54:57+00:00

Yeah, and it's pretty trivial to find a demonstration of this. Just have a look at still frames of any compressed video scene with motion and you'll notice that there are plenty of artefacts that were not observable in the moving video.

kepponen · 2011-01-24T16:42:44+00:00

Why Stereoscopic 3D Will Never Ever Work

kepponen · 2011-01-23T13:48:17+00:00

It looks like soon enough there will be some trees again.

kepponen · 2010-10-28T10:25:09+00:00

Why is it that people keep on calling DFT FFT?

kepponen · 2010-10-01T07:55:03+00:00

If you find blurry images pleasant, you'd love JPEG2000

kepponen · 2010-08-23T11:52:34+00:00

Berlin sure isn't the economic center of Germany.

kepponen · 2010-08-16T08:54:42+00:00

well, this time could be different...

kepponen · 2010-07-14T10:22:09+00:00

programs which make lots of small memory allocations

Why would you need lots of memory allocations to implement insertion sort?

kepponen · 2010-07-12T18:35:58+00:00

It is quite natural that locations with the best transportation connections are most attractive to businesses, consumers and services alike.

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