I personally like it, although it is good to check what the optimal place of the stations is. It should be both benefitial to the North of Germany and the North of the Netherlands, and connect as many people in that area. So maybe you’d need an additional station near Oldenberg or Bremen to not skip over too much of east Germany.

If you also place a High speed line south from Amsterdam-Essen-(further south like) and Essen-Hanover-Hamburg, you have most of that area covered.

But my guess is that they’d build an Amsterdam-Hanover-Berlin line, especially when they don’t plan ahead.

At somepoint probably yeah. Unfortunately, it does seem that Amsterdam-Berlin seems to be pushed for a lot, and I fear for that poor decision fucking up the rest of the raillines.

An Amsterdam-hamburg-berlin line makes more sense imo, especially when you push it more towards the north as it doesn’t cut the countries in half. It also gives you possibility to expand both north towards scandanavia, which you can extend further south to the rest of europe, or eastern europe through berlin.

But I doubt that will happen, because that is a bit slower than through hanover

No they don’t, most people live outside of the capitals.

Amsterdam-Berlin is vanity project that is a diservice to both the Netherlands and Germany. The only benefactors are Amsterdam and Berlin

It’s not like this initiative disallows you from building other high speed rail connections.

It does though, raillines cost money and money is finite.

When you build poorly planned highspeed lines any new line you want to build after that is going to be underutilized. Underutilized raillines will be (and have been) scrapped, which makes certain areas even less reachable by train

I think a Rome-Berlin line makes somewhat sense, due to the south-west - north-east coverage you get. But Amsterdam-Berlin does nothing more than isolating the North of both the Netherlands and Germany even further

I don’t agree with it. There are many capital cities that are in terrible locations for highspeed rail and are would be a diservice to the rest of the country.

Cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, and Viena are just the worst places to reach for most of their respective countries. Say you live in Munich and you want to travel to Amsterdam, you are still stuck on the slow train if you focus on a Berlin-Amsterdam route.

If high speed rail is supposed to be successful it should be about covering geographical distance fast. Or the car and planes are still going to be the prefered option.

I do have quite a laundry list of remarks for Lemmy too. The bugginess and lack of features is understandable. But it is quite centralized and I see a future where it will be more centralized the more users will join due to a bit of a fundemental flaw of federation.

Maybe these problems will be fixable. I hope so, because I think it is a really cool concept. But I am not sure if I agree with the execution of it. I would love to contribute to this project if these problems are fixable.

Well, looking at all the comments in this post, not everyone agrees with that. i do think the Apollo dev is a king in how he has handled everything though

You don’t have to care, nor do I care

There are a multitude of reasons for making the API paid or rate limited, I don’t think the CEO went with the right approach. But it was due time at some point

Of course you can complain about reddit. It just makes you look like a tantrum throwing toddler, especially when you complain about the reddit users that do choose to stay. How dare they make different choices than you

Ask the CEO, not me 😂 I’d have approached it differenly

I agree with both yeah. Personally I would have made different choices than the CEO has.

Have a more realistic planning for developers to adapt. Offer different types of api pricing models.

It all could have been handled more strategically, which makes him a poor CEO in my opinion

This thread really makes everyone look like a bunch of toddlers throwing temper tantrums.

The fact is that Reddit is a a company and companies exist to make money. 3rd party apps are hitting their bottom line and they’re losing out on the 12 cent per user per month they are normally getting. Which roughly translates to a couple of million USD per year. Be honest, you would not donate millions of dollars out of the kindness of your heart either.

They have the right to do this, and you have the right to leave reddit. But stop complaining about the people that do keep using reddit and want to keep using reddit.

My personal opinion is that I do think the CEO has made some poor decisions, and the API pricing is on the high side. But there are many good arguments to be made to make the API priced

Edit: these downvotes though, true reddit moment 🥲

I just like the idea that they build it in a day and finished it the night before the blackout at 23:59:59. So with only one second to spare before the deadline

Kind of thinking the same thing, I want to learn rust, but have not gotten an excuse to start using it. Maybe dedicating 8-16 hours per 2 weeks could help me learn rust and do something more complex than writing hello world. I have some additional time in a month or so, so might as well try

I was thinking about learning rust and contribute to open source projects, so it might be a good option. I do have a laundry list of notes about the platform itself though

I picked my regional one (technically also better for latency)

I don’t make the rules 🤷 Maybe easier to prove? The media just doesn’t like getting sued.

The article does say:

The man was reported to have sexually assaulted one of the women

They can’t say it is sexual assault, until the person has been declared guilty in court. So they put it in quotes to indicate that is has been alleged by someone else

This is something I explained to a client of mine. I do see AI as part of the Future in software development, but it won’t replace programming as it is just the most precise way to tell a computer how you want things to work.

I think / hope AI will help get rid of a lot of boilerplate code. Where you’ll have AI driven programming languages that only require you to write business logic and define architectural requirements and AI can handle all the details of how it connects, where to fetch and send the data and to do it efficiently