Joel Haasnoot

@thenerd_be AI knows them all

Oh cool, my kids are interested in my 2009 book about algorithms. Ah nevermind … 😭

@Ogilvie_CJ @RichardWellings I mean TGV ran a mail service for 30 years right? I agree the dynamic switchover is going to be tough

@RichardWellings UK had 730m trips in 1997, now 1.8Bn, half China Rail on 10% network. Few trains 'nearly empty'. UK & Italy has done this with old trains, but didn't workout. Lowering fares best way to fill empty seats, not Amazon parcels.

This is a good idea. Passenger trains often run nearly empty, with massive spare capacity, so using part of them for freight makes a lot of sense, especially on long-distance services. Carriages could be redesigned to make dual-use more efficient.

@margauxfortis @ArmchairAtty Those are purchased right? You purchase a survey that gives you a reward if the survey is good. But you only get the survey if you want a reward

Meanwhile…Total Quality Logistics (TQL) has been certified as a Great Place to Work for 11 consecutive years (2015–2025). They have also received regional recognition, such as being named a Cincinnati Top Places to Work 12 times and achieving various Fortune best workplace awards for millennials and corporations. Same TQL that has 80-90% employee turnover in the first 12 months. All these awards are such a joke!

Imagine you're pregnant. Imagine you learn you have an incompetent cervix that requires surgery. You get the surgery. You also get doctor's orders for bed rest & you ask your boss if you can work from home. But your boss denies it, so you have to go back to the office. You work in the office for a few days, until a desperate call from your husband to the company finally allows you to work from home. And then this...

@seatsixtyone @JacobAShell Even Interrail is a barcode!

@seatsixtyone @JacobAShell Many train companies just accept a UIC barcode however you present it, so it is possible!

The European passenger rail system is very cool, but I remember having this horrible experience in '22 where I bought an Italian rail ticket to go from Munich to Rome, and purchased it online. Was told after I completed the purchase that "it was only valid if printed, and it could only be printed at an Italian printer" (I was in Germany). The Italians wouldn't let me return the ticket. Germans I knew rolled their eyes and said I should have just gone to a German train station and bought the ticket there, in person, and that buying anything online, esp from Trenitalia, is bad. 100 euros down the drain. The point of the story is that yes the EU rail system looks cool on a map. And if you go Point A to B inside of one country (e.g. Munich to Hamburg), things usually go very well. But when doing multiple countries, you can wind up back in a situation from early 20th century where you're dealing with various border-bureaucrat "Kafka traps." You'd think the whole point of the EU would be to streamline this, but no, apparently the only point of it is to deprive nations of sovereign control over labor flows.

@grok @GileraCrypto21 @TerribleMaps ya missed it. Let me help ukRAINe = rain tHAILand = hail

@GileraCrypto21 @TerribleMaps It's a classic "terrible map" joke from that account. The world map absurdly claims only Ukraine and Cambodia get any precipitation (rain/snow), while the entire rest of the planet gets none. Total nonsense = the humor. Your GIF sums it up perfectly. 😂

Countries with precipitation

@camiel_coenen @Jossedevoogd @rensvandeplas @NS_online Over Schiphol/Amsterdam? 🫣

@Jossedevoogd @rensvandeplas @NS_online Een intercity Amersfoort-Breda zou een welkome aanvulling zijn, denk ook aan de aansluiting van Noord en Midden NL richting Antwerpen/Brussel.

Waar kun je vanuit Tilburg met de trein zonder overstappen komen? Utrecht Centraal ❌ Amsterdam Centraal ❌ Maastricht ❌ Kruiningen-Yerseke ✅ Rilland-Bath ✅ Arnemuiden ✅

@geofrey_wageni Finally someone who is taking pest control seriously 😂

Chinese are inventory. They even made capsules to house the ants..

@Marko_met_een_K @robhoeij Zoek maar tot wanneer Kevers zijn gebouwd in Brazilië

@robhoeij Iets wat ik net pas ontdek; de oer-Golf is in Zuid Afrika nog tot *2009* gebouwd en verkocht als VW Citi 😵 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswage…

De VW Golf is een typische Duitse auto maar de ontwerper kwam uit Italië: Giorgetto Giugiaro Experts weten dit vast al, voor mij was het helemaal nieuw.

@IanECox Makes sense. I guess I wouldnt be worried about the odd car dissapearing, but would be about an attack. The US Embassy map isn't as detailed, but the Dutch assessment is this:

@webguy Lamu Port 2000 meters from Manda Bay.. high security area overall.. cars are all LHD, so no local value or ability to register.

Cars that were destined for Jebel Ali Port in the UAE 🇦🇪 are being discharged at Lamu Port in Kenya 🇰🇪 for safekeeping. I reckon Lamu will be at maximum capacity shortly.

@paradox542 @simonw Oh, I get it, totally! I shipped an app for a while with no backend - the SQLite file was shipped with the file and new data meant new update. It was quite efficient :)

@simonw @webguy Counterintuitively, those 281TB SQLite monsters aren't nightmares – they're secret weapons for AI devs hoarding massive datasets without the overhead of distributed systems. Forces you to rethink scalability entirely.

Got excited about a brand new PostgreSQL 18 feature (for simulating production query plan statistics locally), posted about it on the SQLite forum... and got a reply from D. Richard Hipp within minutes that SQLite has had the same ability for years simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/pro…

@seatsixtyone Is it just issues with foreign credit cards?

Needless to say, I cannot replicate the problem, even with a vpn set to USA. Geo location doesn't seem to be the issue. I'm out of ideas. Time zone/device clocks?

Remember the problems overseas users have booking GWR's Night Riviera? - GWR.com now revamped; - 1 Canadian reports success with a Canadian credit card; - But 2 U.S. travellers each report '500 Internal Server Error' even before payment stage. Any ideas, anyone?

@NoContextDutch1 /s want kan WBC niet betalen

@SchizoDuckie @Al_Grigor Automated Snapshots on RDS are often tied to the instance, manual snapshots arent (you should also have manual snapshots and S3 exports and preferably outside of AWS)

@Al_Grigor So you're saying.. Your database backups were wiped out together with the rest of the infra? I'm sorry but. YIKES Many lessons to learn here. I wish you best of luck recovering

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

@MartjanKuit Zou die 25 euro per maand voor de weg inclusief sneeuwschuiven zijn?

Rijtjeshuis met landgoedje? Het kan in Almere: funda.nl/detail/koop/al…

@_rvnx @samah_fadil @DisplayNameOpti This guy only ever flies premium, he's really not sad

@samah_fadil @DisplayNameOpti I'd honestly be pissed off too if I had redeemed my airline miles for premium seats and then had to fly economy without compensation. Considering those upgrades are like, thousands of dollars worth of flights.

laughed for 15 minutes straight at this airline reviewer claiming he got stranded in singapore on his way to dubai and that there are zero flights for at least a week but then casually drops the fact that there are indeed flights, he just doesn't want to fly economy class.

@MartjanKuit We hebben ook geen woningtekort in NL, nee, totaal niet...

Ach, DemoParkNL stopt ermee. De wat? Een soort showroom voor tiny houses, vakantiehuisjes en mantelzorgwoningen in Almere. Eind april sluit de deur: demopark.nl