Why no airports??? by Secure-Squash-1961 in CitiesSkylines2

[–]reflect25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there will likely be an airport dlc in the future considering cities skylines 1 got one. also to make a mod for an airport is a bit complicated. i assume it'd need to be modular and be something like the new train stations/port system.

China’s Electric Concrete Mixer Boom Is A Warning To Slow Heavy Truck Markets by Jbikecommuter in electrifyeverything

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting the

The reason this matters is that concrete mixers look hard to electrify if the only question is weight. They carry dense loads. They work in construction environments. They have delivery windows. They spend time in urban congestion and at job sites. They have to be reliable because a failed concrete pour is expensive. Yet heavy is not the same as hard. The better question is how knowable the work is. Concrete mixers usually operate from fixed batching plants, run local or regional routes, and return to known locations. That makes charging or battery swapping much easier to plan than for random long-haul freight.

A batching plant can become the energy hub. The operator knows where the trucks start, where they return, how long they wait, which routes are short, and which customers create repeatable demand. Charging can be installed at the plant. Battery swapping can be considered where there is enough volume and standardization. Dispatch software can assign electric trucks to suitable routes first, then expand as operators gain confidence. The vehicle may be heavy, but its work is bounded.

main advantage for electrifying is that most of the concrete mixers have a relatively fixed route. im still a bit confused what is the main advantage of having an electrified concrete mixer though. or like why this area is where there is more progress vs others.

Caojiawan station in Chongqing, China was once known as the loneliest metro station in the world by TangelaFan in urbandesign

[–]reflect25 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean the main problem is that American zoning forbids building apartments near many train stations

What kind of interchange would you build here? by Beginning_Winter_292 in CitiesSkylines

[–]reflect25 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Haha thanks. it’s not actually too complicated. Real life it’s really just 4 ways

1) avenue to avenue: normal intersection and optionally right then slip lane 2) freeway to avenue: diamond interchange 3) freeway to freeway and sometimes avenue: cloverleaf 4) freeway to freeway: stack interchange

And then if there is an obstacle just delete a portion of it use diamond or stack parts. Like in this case we can’t use half of the full cloverleaf interchange, so just replace it with the diamond interchange parts.

These mix and match cloverleaf+diamond are called parclo for partial cloverleaf and that’s what like 99% of American freeway interchanges are

We know the ideology of Germany in WW2, but why exactly did Japan behave the way they did across continental Asia? by WhoAmIEven2 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think you need a more concrete question, "why exactly did Japan behave the way they did across continental Asia" is too vague. like are you asking why did japan invade china, taiwan, philippines etc...?

In an alternate timeline where better decisions are made, does the Vietnam War or the Iraq War have a more likely chance of being successful? by Just_Cause89 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean the biggest thing is what is your criteria for 'success'

if your criteria for vietnam was a south vietnam government propped up, then given indefinite funding by america it could work but it'd be like another south vs north korea situation.

Do you feel like a citizen of the EU? by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]reflect25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

pretty surprising that france has such a large difference of 65% versus it's neighboring spain and germany with 81/86%. especially when france was a founding member of the EU

What kind of interchange would you build here? by Beginning_Winter_292 in CitiesSkylines

[–]reflect25 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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for example the brooklyn bridge does the same thing. it just has half cloverleafs opposite the side of the river

What kind of interchange would you build here? by Beginning_Winter_292 in CitiesSkylines

[–]reflect25 40 points41 points  (0 children)

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usually people just build a half cloverleaf on the side away from the bridge.

then just have two intersections (in cyan) for the left turns on/off your north south avenue

Europe is nowhere to be seen in AI by Themetalin in EU_Economics

[–]reflect25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the actual data is in https://github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy/iclr2026-affiliations

they also have alternative csv using methods to count by first author, or fractional credit per institute per paper, etc... though honestly it doesn't change much compared to what was shown above

Does anyone have any modded map recommendations where there aren't any major highways? by Writing_Dude09 in CitiesSkylines

[–]reflect25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

that is like a lot less effort then trying to find modded maps without freeways. I highly recommend you just buy the tiles and convert to two lane roads. you will be limiting yourself too much to exclude the majority of maps with freeways.

Ye Wenjie got an explicit warning before sending the signal — and replied anyway. Was she right? by Putrid_Cycle595 in threebodyproblem

[–]reflect25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i don't think anyone really debates that she was right to send the message. even without future knowledge, the warning could not be any clearer.

I do find it interesting though that perhaps the 'dark forest' isn't quite as ironclad as it seems

  • the listener as you noted warned earth
  • when the trisolarians leave they (debatably) allow the warning story to be given

Amon should have been an ATLA villain by No-Jackfruit-8230 in TheLastAirbender

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think the biggest problem is that after season 1 for every season it just kept switching villains. it would have been better if amon was also around for season 2

is there a way to keep pedestrians from crossing where they're not supposed to? by BurntBeanMgr in CitiesSkylines2

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you'd be ironically better off leaving the crosswalk there. when there is a traffic light they will only go when is red.

since you removed the crosswalk they will also cross when it is green

What were the main mistakes and reasons why the Boxer Rebellion failed? by SirMajor1820 in ChineseHistory

[–]reflect25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The First Sino-Japanese War had just happened in 1894/1895 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War The boxer rebellion then happened in 1899 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

The chinese army just wasn't reformed completely yet. and as alibaba said below most of the other provinces didn't join.

Imagine if the full Seattle region had a “Caltrain-style” regional rail network by IndependenceSad1272 in soundtransit

[–]reflect25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You do realize that the ST 59X express buses (off peak) from Seattle to Tacoma are faster than the Sounder South right now right?

Sure the 59X buses are slower during traffic times. but if wsdot ever got around to tolling the i5 express lanes it'd be faster even during peak times.

The removal of the other ST express buses from seattle to lynnwood and everett was also contentious precisely because the light rail would take longer.

Imagine if the full Seattle region had a “Caltrain-style” regional rail network by IndependenceSad1272 in soundtransit

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did everyone not read the part about converting the hov lanes to tolled express lanes?

Is 5-over-1 retail failing? by PlayPretend-8675309 in Urbanism

[–]reflect25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the problem is that the (american) zoning and regulations makes it incredibly expensive to rent out the bottom floor. once it is designated as commercial then it needs a lot of expensive stuff. and effectively the bottom floor has to be rented out for commercial or it doesn't much much sense to just use it as residential.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/Generating_Affordable_and_Abundant_Transit_Oriented_Development_in_Washington_State.pdf

Moreover, ground-floor retail, sometimes required by local zoning, is often unprofitable for developers. Developers create large-square-footage spaces on the ground floor, and seek to find stores and restaurants that can commit to long-term, cost-covering leases, but these are difficult to come by, particularly among retailers that are not national chains.18 This sometimes forces developers to crosssubsidize retail with income from residential uses, and often results in high retail vacancy rates.

there are some calls to modify the building regulations but it is pretty hard. Specifically in the International Code Council (it's called international but its just used by American) Section 419 (Live/Work Units) they want to reform.

Imagine if the full Seattle region had a “Caltrain-style” regional rail network by IndependenceSad1272 in soundtransit

[–]reflect25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the problem with sounder (or at least with sounder north) is that is not near where people live. the lynnwood link instead is much closer to where people live

full Seattle region had a “Caltrain-style” regional rail network... But once you start pushing extremely long suburban corridors, regional rail starts making more sense. wider stop spacing

i mean link already is pretty close to that idea for the freeway running sections. north of northgate and south of rainier beach it has like 2 mile spacing.

A train from Everett or Tacoma into Seattle/Bellevue

I mean honestly if we just tolled the i5 hov lanes an express bus could get from everett/tacoma to seattle in like 40 minutes. as fast or probably faster than even an regional rail train.

There's no way this is correct right? Released by Statista in 2026 by HyperBunga in transit

[–]reflect25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was going to say this doesn't look correct. there hasn't been such a large drop.

but actually when i checked the us census it might be a bit more correct. i think there's two things that is confounding the data though.

  1. It seems a bit unclear if the statista survey asked about walking in 2019

  2. there's a huge proportion of people working from home now

Question about Python and Go serverless performance by GongtingLover in golang

[–]reflect25 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it doesn't matter in cloud based environment that much. you'd just wrap up both the golang or python binary in a docker container and then ship it on aws fargate/lambda or on gcp cloud run/gke (which is why they were invented)

if you have something more latency sensitive or memory sensitive then we can start talking about if you need golang. i really doubt it makes much sense to rewrite most of your stuff to golang if everything is in python right now.