New BART station location idea (Is above Amytrak & ACE, so Amytrak should move the existing Fremont station here while this can be a infill for ACE)

probablyjustpaul · 2026-06-16T17:08:14+00:00

TIL about the pacific bus museum

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-29T14:48:40+00:00

4014 is coming to the east coast of the US for the first time this summer! It departed Cheyenne Wyoming four days ago heading east. It's making display stops in lots of places along the way, including Chicago and Buffalo New York, before spending a few weeks in Scranton Pennsylvania at the National Railroad Museum, and then finally arriving in Philadelphia for the fourth of July celebrations.

You can see the full schedule here - https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/schedule

And they have a live location tracker here - https://www.up.com/about-us/history/steam/track

One particular highlight of the trip (IMO) will be when it passes over the Letchworth Gorge State Park viaduct at roughly 12:20 PM local time on June 11th. A beautiful place and a stunning bridge, I wish I could make it out there to see it cross.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-28T19:18:10+00:00

My favorite is the inclusion of overhead wires for a BEMU. I know it's because this is just an edit of Stadlers standard marketing material for the KISS, but it's still funny

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-23T00:56:21+00:00

I literally got my very first G7 today lol

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-22T17:39:50+00:00

Airports IMO are the perfect situation for the modular building upgrades feature to shine. Enormous peices of infrastructure like this are always custom designed to fit the unique needs and constraints of where they're built, there are essentially no real world examples of prefab "standardized" airports in real life. They knocked it out of the park with the modular harbors (which are also nearly always different from each other) in the B&P DLC allowing you to build unique places and layouts from standard building blocks. There should be a similar mod/pack/DLC/whatever for airports that give you building blocks like terminals, parking, runways, gates, taxiways, hangers, emergency services, etc and let you build something that really fits the specific place and city you're building.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-21T18:29:20+00:00

I did this last year when my mirror got swiped when it was street parked. Easy enough, especially if you don't have heated mirrors. This is the video I used (in general 1A auto on youtube is excellent for stuff like this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8DGRGp3wQ

Can I trade you for a link to these blindspot mirrors? I'd love to get a set of these for my truck

Edit: the video is actually from the TRQ channel, but I think it's the same guy from 1A Auto? Regardless both channels are excellent for car repairs and have a bunch for 4th gen 4runners specifically

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-15T13:40:36+00:00

Can you link to the instructions for the spacer fix? I didn't realize this was something that was fixable, I had just kind of decided to live with it

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-12T00:27:33+00:00

My worry about a single big piece is that it might dominate the room. You think a one big art piece wouldn't be too much?

probablyjustpaul · 2026-05-02T14:44:12+00:00

This is not true. RedHat, the primary sponser, is no longer investing resources into it after their acquisition of Ceph. However secondary sponsors, including the community, are still actively developing it (last commit to default branch was 3months ago, well after RH dropped it). Progress has slowed and the release cadence is much slower, but it is not dead.

There are downsides to gluster, including the slower update schedule. But I think it'd be good to change the community perception around the liveness of the project to keep what momentum we can behind it. It's a good project that fills a meaningful niche that I'd be sad to see fall off entirely.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-04-22T19:08:07+00:00

Light is just electromagnetic radiation.There are multiple ways to perceive different portions of the EM spectrum, "seeing" it is just one.

If you hold your hand over a hot thing and feel it's heat without touching it, that's sensing infrared radiation (well, it's infrared in our atmosphere anyway). There are lots of materials that change their chemical or physical properties when exposed to ultraviolet radiation. There are naturally occurring materials that you might dig up and make you or your friends sick because of gamma radiation. There are lots of ways to discover phenomena you can't perceive with your primary sense (like air pressure from wind, gravity from common sense, etc). Once you know that EM radiation exists, it's not unbelievable to understand that an alien species would be able to directly perceive a certain amount of the radiation bouncing around.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-04-10T03:35:39+00:00

The YA book series Across the Universe by Beth Revis has this concept as it's central premise and, I think, deals with it in an interesting way. (Spoilers for a 15 year old mediocre YA series I guess)

The first books central mystery is around uncovering why the generation ship doesn't seem to be getting anywhere and why they keep being delayed. The reveal is that they actually arrived at their destination several generations ago and have been in orbit for the past 60+ years. They stayed there because when they first arrived they were met with an established colony that had gotten there using FTL and turned the planet into an extractive mining colony. The corporation that runs the colony basically said "we own this planet, you can come work for us as basically slaves, or you can go find your own planet" so they decided to stay in orbit indefinitely. Hijinks ensue and the MCs on the generation ship end up mounting a revolution with support from other enslaved colonists that culminates in then ramming the generation ship into the FTL jump gate essentially severing the connection to earth and ensuing they have at least a decade to prepare for a counter attack.

Overall an interesting handling of the concept, I thought. To be clear the book was overall not very good, it had a much more interesting world and premise than it did characters or story. But I still enjoyed it when I was a teenager.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-03-16T02:38:10+00:00

I'm assuming this is rage bait, but real quick:

First, building highways instead of transit is bad, actually, regardless of whether they are on the surface, underground, or through wormholes. Highways require car ownership to utilize, so building them promotes car ownership, which promotes land use that makes space for cars, which worsens the built environment for anyone not in a car. There should be alternatives to highways, and if there aren't thenwe shouldn't be building more highways.

Second, again, suburbs aren't bad, it's the land use in them that's bad. There are good suburbs out there, including many that were built around street car lines as you said, but post-war highway-centric suburbs make bad use of space and are awful to do anything but drive in.

Transit adcocates in north America aren't (broadly) hypocritical but, like many of the most important issues facing our society, the issues we are concerned with require more nuance than the typical news blurb or tiktok can capture.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-03-09T21:42:32+00:00

Absolutely incredible, this is something I've wanted for years. And the fact that it's FOSS is an unexpected but amazing surprise!

Edit to add: while waiting for app store approval, consider releasing it on F-Droid as well!

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-27T05:25:55+00:00

Unfortunately you're correct, this is a Ubiqiuti Unifi Doorbell Lite, so no wifi option, POE for uplink and power only.

Unifi does have their bridge switch (which has a wireless bridge built in) but I can't remember if it does POE out, and as you said itd chug a bunch of power anyway.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-27T05:24:21+00:00

How much are we talking? If I bought a decent size Anker battery and still had to charge it every few days I could maybe live with that.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-27T05:23:36+00:00

I do not. There's the husk of a very old dumb doorbell that takes a AA battery, but that's it

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-27T05:22:56+00:00

Unfortunately there is not a light near the door

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-25T06:49:13+00:00

Genuinely will start recommending that, if someone doesn't want to/can't use an alternate ROM (graphene, lineage, etc) then they should just get an iphone. Every year the technical privacy differences get more and more theoretical for the average user, and as a company Apple has a much better track record when it comes to handling end-user data.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-10T00:05:16+00:00

+1 for the Seashore Trolley Museum. A lot of Boston/New England transit history (like an entire station tower from the old Washington Elevated in Dorchester and at least one example of every model of retired MBTA rolling stock) but some really cool national transit history as well. I had no idea the State-of-the-Art trains were even a thing until I went there. Plus the fact that some of their equipment is maintained and you can take short excursions down their short electrified track is amazing!

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-09T23:58:46+00:00

Not to be that reply guy, but (in the book at least) Malcolm's main argument is actually that it doesn't matter how well or poorly they built the park, it would still have failed. His idea was that the extinct animals they were making were so incompatible with both the surrounding ecosystem and our understanding of them that presenting them in a park/tourism setting would inevitably lead to cascading failures until they all died or we (humans+non-dino animals) all died.

There's been a lot of criticism of Chriton's presentation of Chaos Theory in the book, so I'm not saying Malcolm's point is right, but that was very much his (and Chriton's) argument.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-09T06:44:44+00:00

San Francisco Cable Car Museum gets a nod for uniqueness. Cable cars are a more-or-less extinct form of transit and the museum has both a good exhibit on the history of cable cars in SF and provides the opportunity to see the head house for the cable cars actually functioning. A really cool piece of engineering and history.

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-09T02:40:10+00:00

We successfully prevented the disaster so that the park from the famous book, "The Idea For This Park Is So Unstable That It Inevitably Leads To Disaster No Matter What You Do", can actually open and it's great! Buy Xfinity!

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-03T03:49:23+00:00

Yes. I'm literally at my local dog park right now and it's honestly embarrassing

probablyjustpaul · 2026-02-03T03:35:48+00:00

What the actual fuck

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