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Comment · 8 months ago
> This isn’t advisory. It’s a physical limiter in the engine’s ECU. The truck cannot go faster.

I live in Latvia (in the EU) and see a significant part of our ARTICs on the roads go well past 90km/h daily. I presume their fleets do monitor the speed and alert the driver if speeding for a prolonged period of time but they are obviously not physically limited. Maybe the limits do come from the factory but get disabled? I really couldn't say.

A recent journalistic investigation uncovered a problem with the weight limit not being followed on a mass scale too. Specifically by our lumber industry whos drivers are incentivized to break the law. Even if you see a dangerous overloaded truck on the road and call the Police, it is likely no action will be taken because there only a couple of units in the country that are equipped to weigh a freight truck out in the field.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for trying it out! There currently are only 18k playlists indexed, so only those can be found. I've been planing a feature, where users can suggest playlist search terms by which I should extend the index.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it!
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for trying it out! The site only includes indexed playlists and tracks, which have to be updated semi-manually, so currently only 18k playlists can be found. I plan to increase this, of course, but not at a crazy rate, because I'm hosting this out of my own pocket.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Currently the site only works with Spotify tracks and playlists. If you care to create a public spotify playlist, I'll gladly add it in.
Comment · 4 years ago
There's a post in their official forums with 60+ pages from 2012, but they state that there's not enough demand...
Comment · 4 years ago
Awesome, glad you like it!
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! You are supposed to click on a song to see playlists it contains. Sorry for the unclear UI.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback!

Currently the database contains only ~18k playlists and ~1.4M tracks. So only the relationships between them are used in the app.

Edit: theres even a counter at the top of the page, but it takes a while to show up, because of the HN effect.

Comment · 4 years ago
That functionality already exists, but is prompted for only on large screens, because I didn't think anybody would use it on mobile. And thanks for the feedback!
Comment · 4 years ago
I'll check out the write-up, thanks. As for user-data, the request count limit is not even the limiting factor. If you want to request data with a users token, you can't at all, without getting a quota extension (apart from 25 pre-registered developer users).
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you very much!

I also use the Spotify radios a lot, but they are heavily curated - they contain a lot of songs that you already have in a playlist or have liked. So they are useful for listening, but slightly less for strictly music discovery.

Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting idea!

Slightly off-topic, but originally I had planned to organically grow the playlist count by allowing users to login with their Spotify account and reading their playlists. I even made a prototype...but turns out Spotify only allows working with user data once you have your API quota extended, which seemed like quite the undertaking.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not a 100% on how it works myself, just a stong hunch based on the site speed and results.

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