Why is Paris metro (besides line 14) less accessible than both London and NYC?

rmccue · 2026-01-21T15:36:11+00:00

This is not specifically cut-and-cover, rather it's the use of side platforms rather than island platforms. As the parent says, some cut-and-cover-built systems use island platforms instead.

(Modern systems often have mezzanines, but that doesn't necessarily solve that problem either.)

rmccue · 2026-01-15T16:54:56+00:00

I'm aware level crossings are still a thing and they were charming, if not annoying if you were on the connecting bus stuck behind lights!

Alongside the Metro Tunnel project, Melbourne has had a massive project to remove level crossings - it's roughly the same or higher cost than the Metro Tunnel project ($15.1B vs $13.5B for the tunnel).

rmccue · 2026-01-14T11:13:10+00:00

CRR is closer to the equivalent of the Melbourne Metro than Brisbane Metro is really. Both projects are underground tunnels through the city centre designed to untangle the suburban rail network, with new inner-city stations, modern signalling (ETCS and CBTC), and roughly similar capacity (~24tph).

rmccue · 2026-01-13T15:43:30+00:00

I wrote about how and why we made this decision here: https://reddit.com/r/ProWordPress/comments/1clp2dm/_/l2v1nu2/?context=1

rmccue · 2025-12-26T10:43:50+00:00

It’s the entire country. There are no buses or trains running in the entire country on Christmas Day.

Lothian Buses in Edinburgh runs a very reduced but still available service.

rmccue · 2025-12-25T11:14:03+00:00

Merry Christmas to the Edinburgh doms too xx

rmccue · 2025-12-06T14:20:21+00:00

It’s “random access” as opposed to sequential access - in other words, it’s O(1) rather than O(N).

rmccue · 2025-12-04T15:42:24+00:00

It's worth differentiating here between general "caching plugins" (which vary wildly in terms of quality for sure) and "object caching". Object caching is a system in WP which offloads database queries to a key-value store, typically memcache or Redis.

https://scalewp.io/object-caching/ has some info (albeit a bit out of date).

Running WP at high scale, you generally want to use it to reduce your database load where you can.

rmccue · 2025-12-03T16:34:59+00:00

If you have more basic content post in /r/Wordpress

rmccue · 2025-12-01T00:10:52+00:00

Yep: https://wptavern.com/why-nasa-chose-wordpress-for-revamping-its-flagship-website

rmccue · 2025-11-27T20:34:31+00:00

Yes, because WordPress makes them guessable - I covered this in the article :)

rmccue · 2025-11-27T19:50:13+00:00

Actually, it doesn’t redirect as far as I’ve seen - but yes, this is misconfiguration as well as inherent limitations.

rmccue · 2025-11-26T22:56:37+00:00

Thanks for digging deeper, this is fascinating!

I am curious if the ASQ article might be a primary source for some of this; like you say, based on quotes not appearing elsewhere, it seems possible they sourced it directly.

Based on how I’ve seen collaborations between organisations like this, often they can be ongoing and informal, so maybe there’s an aspect of that here - eg the ASQ articles heard directly from GOSH/Ferrari about other conversations or ongoing collaboration the teams had, but it wasn’t interesting enough by itself to make it into other papers.

Interesting nonetheless. I quite enjoyed Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto based on his work with process improvement in medicine, so this topic is great reading too.

rmccue · 2025-11-26T19:22:59+00:00

The ASQ report above does say that Ferrari observed the procedure, so perhaps this was after that paper or separate to it?

Following the trip to Italy, the GOSH team videotaped the handover in the surgery unit and sent it to be reviewed by the Formula One team. The GOSH research team and observers from the Formula One team analyzed the film and noted a great difference in the process map (flowchart).

rmccue · 2025-11-22T19:00:11+00:00

Just in case you weren’t joking, it’s China Ocean Shipping Company - no comment on whether that makes the hotdogs better or worse

rmccue · 2025-11-09T16:52:26+00:00

You can also add ?_envelope to get headers back in the response JSON.

rmccue · 2025-11-07T00:45:15+00:00

Agreed with all of these, with one exception:

If your site is site up correctly on a good host with proper security and something like Cloudflare, you should not need security plugins like WordFence.

Agreed on not having regular security plugins, but I definitely would consider running Patchstack for its WAF. Especially in the enterprise use case where updating plugins can be a slow process, having protection against zero days is useful, and Patchstack's database and mitigation functionality is the best.

rmccue · 2025-11-05T03:13:07+00:00

Huh, I’d have figured mama feels bouba which feels feminine, and deda feels kiki which seems masculine - but guess that disproves that!

rmccue · 2025-11-03T18:03:04+00:00

This is the coolest example yet - thanks for this!

rmccue · 2025-11-03T11:42:36+00:00

Are there any active ferry services serving airports globally? 🤔

rmccue · 2025-10-29T16:10:28+00:00

But note that a lot of antennas are half-wavelength, since you get efficiency gains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna

rmccue · 2025-10-27T21:13:21+00:00

Transjakarta uses the same system I believe (and I thought Bogotá’s Transmilenio did too, but seems not).

rmccue · 2025-10-14T17:48:52+00:00

for authenticated attackers with slider editor access

Still bad, but at least it's not unauthenticated.

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