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Mostly by spending more money. Especially France and Japan built special rails only to be used by high speed trains. While those exist in Germany, there are less of them and they mostly don't reach from station to station but instead near the city centers high speed trains share rails with slower trains.

If you live in the Apple ecosystem you could use something like FSNotes and icloud for 7$ for FSNotes plus 1$/month for icloud.

The space of markdown based note taking apps is getting more and more crowded. I'm wondering how many more are sustainable, especially as many free (and open source) ones are available.

Regarding Inkdrop: this page really doesn't tell me what's their USP, why would I use this over something like Obsidian or Roam (just to name some examples)?

While the specs sound very underwhelming at first (geo-fenced on some roads, very low speeds, no bad weather), they seem to be so confident in their system, that they will take responsibility for the car when in autopilot. AFAIK, no other manufacturer does this for their systems (which capabilities they often make rather wild claims about).

Does anyone have any personal experience in applying mypyc on type-hinted, but otherwise not specially optimized python code? I'm especially interested in what kind of performance speed-ups could be achieved.

Especially reading and understanding the "moderately" optimized Python version is a lot harder than reading the C version.

Also I really dislike python optimization tricks like `output = stdout.buffer.write`.

You live in a very different world than I if for you, the associating of Twitter with Mr. Musk improves Twitters image.

You are implying, that current staff of twitter is not effective. How do you get to that assessment?

> Here in Germany, for as long as I can remember, the government praises itself every year for investing as much in rail as never before.

Unfortunately, that's not true (the investment part). In preparation for the IPO (that never happened because of the crash) Deutsche Bahn was heavily tuned for profit since the mid 90s which led to a massive decrease in investment. As rail infrastructure has a rather long service life, a lot of those cost-cutting measures have only beginning to be felt rather recently. Now not only do the investments that have not been made have to be made up for, but the funding gap has caused the infrastructure to decay even further.

Also, a lot of money has been spent on vanity projects like Stuttgart 21, instead of much-needed extension of freight lines like the one in the upper Rhine valley.

This.

As I commented recently on another thread:

This was done on purpose. There was the hope, that strong economic ties would make war between Germany and Russia impossible. While it now looks really stupid, it worked really well between Germany and France after World War II (first with European Coal and Steel Community and then later with the European Union).

I'm not sure if this is the right answer.

The prevailing political view, was that strong economic ties would make war and violent conflict between Germany and Russia impossible. This is basically what happened intentionally and successfully between Germany and France after World War II first with European Coal and Steel Community and later the European Union.