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  • It is absolutely stupid to add more lines for a main road as long as the outflow from it can't handle it. Ten lanes of motorway makes no sense if the one outlet 90% of the cars want to take has one lane and nasty traffic lights at the next corner.

    City planners should be forced to play Cities:Skylines. Lessons to be learned: a) Make public transport good and free, and b) Lane Maths.

  • I read on a wall in a dominos "restaurant" that they were the first to have online orders in 1999.

    I definitely remember ordering pizza online years earlier, probably 1995 or 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Fun fact: the server used a fax modem to actually place the order. But the user interface was via browser.

  • Well, yes. Now when are you doing the right thing, and call for impeachment proceedings?

    And by the way, any impeachment process should include a stern warning for JD not to even think about any kind of pardons for Trump, or get impeached in turn.

  • My wife and I had booked a hotel with "shower en suite". We assumed that this meant that the hotel rooms bathroom had a shower instead e.g. a tub.

    Nope. In the middle of the room, there was a plastic booth not unlike those portable toilets you can find at festivals. This was the shower. You had to drop in coins to get warm water in the shower.

    There was no bathroom as such. A common toilet was half the stairs down from the room, and it ran out of toilet paper on the weekend.

    The breakfast was rather spartan, a lot of "either this or that, but not both" selections.

    This was very emberrasing for our friends who had recommended that place (and helped us with a roll of toilet paper). They had been in that hotel some 30 or 40 years before, when it still had style...

  • The compressing and renumbering seems to be more common with embedded Chinese fonts - Space-wise it makes a lot of sense. But yes, mark and copy text, paste it into word or writer, and you get gibberish. Can't verify the search, though. And, of course, Google translate can't do anything with it, either.

  • It is not a curse. It does exactly what it is intended to do: Create an archive of a document that is universally reproduceable.

    It is a very well designed cul-de-sac for exactly this purpose. Using it for anything else is calling for trouble.