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Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

Stupid people on bluesky not understanding the difference between a joke and a serious post are a great opportunity to test the remote blocking thing through the bridge.
(minutes later)
What do you know? It does work. :)

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

January 6th, early morning Finnish time, there was quite a few people on Freeciv forums. No idea why. Some media coverage that we are unaware of? Or just a bot attack of some sort?

Automated All-RF Tuning for Spin Qubit Readout and Control
Cornelius Carlsson, Jaime Saez-Mollejo, Federico Fedele, Stefano Calcaterra, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, Georgios Katsaros, Natalia Ares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10834

Automated All-RF Tuning for Spin Qubit Readout and Control
Efficient tuning of spin qubits remains a major bottleneck in scaling semiconductor quantum dot-based quantum processors. A key challenge is the rapid identification of gate voltage regimes suitable for qubit initialisation, control, and readout. Here, we leverage radio-frequency charge sensing to automate spin qubit tuning, achieving a median tuning time of approximately 15 minutes. In a single continuous run, our routine identifies spin qubits at 12 distinct charge transitions in under 17 hou…

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 10 minutes environ pour le train KUMO suivant : -KUMO : départ Paris Lyon 15h46, arrivée Montereau Š 16h44
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : train retenu en atelier de maintenance.
🤖 10/06 16:08

Excited to try Apple’s new Containerization stuff when I have a few minutes to experiment with stuff that’s not due 3 months ago.
Maybe I can get rid of Docker (and Colima etc.)…
The minimalist approach is super interesting (static, no libc even). They claim you can launch a container and have a shell in “a few hundred milliseconds” and I definitely remember waiting longer than that for `ruby` to start, back when I was doing a lot of Vagrant work.

OKC : la secte bouddhiste qui a abusé de ses enfants
20 minutes pour récapituler les origines d'OKC et comment des enfants, aujourd'hui adultes, ont échappé Š une dérive sectaire dans laquelle iels étaient nés et endoctrinés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/okc-la-secte

Le trafic est ralenti de Paris Gare de Lyon vers Montereau via Moret Veneux les S. et de Paris Gare de Lyon vers Montargis. Prévoir des allongements de temps de trajet allant jusqu'Š 15 minutes environ Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : conditions météorologiques. ( Limitation de vitesse dans le secteur de Combs la Ville )
🤖 12/06 14:01

Quick tip for those with young kids who want them to learn how to use a watch with an analogue (dial) style interface.
While the likes of Flik Flak make nice kids watches, they are a little on the pricy side.
Potentially better IMHO however are these kids field/pilot style watches from AliExpress. They cost basically nothing [<$5🇺🇸] and the hour hand points to an inner ring of numbered hours, while the minute hand points to an outer ring of numbered minutes. So simple!

"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/

The TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: 10,001 uniformly-vetted and -validated Eclipsing Binary Stars detected in Full-Frame Image data by machine learning and analyzed by citizen scientists
Veselin B. Kostov, Brian P. Powell, Aline U. Fornear, Marco Z. Di Fraia, Robert Gagliano, Thomas L. Jacobs, Julien S. de Lambilly, Hugo A. Durantini Luca, Steven R. Majewski, Mark Omohundro, Jerome Orosz, Saul A. Rappaport, Ryan Salik, Donald Short, William Welsh, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Cledison Marcos da Si…

The TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: 10,001 uniformly-vetted and -validated Eclipsing Binary Stars detected in Full-Frame Image data by machine learning and analyzed by citizen scientists
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed nearly the entire sky in Full-Frame Image mode with a time resolution of 200 seconds to 30 minutes and a temporal baseline of at least 27 days. In addition to the primary goal of discovering new exoplanets, TESS is exceptionally capable at detecting variable stars, and in particular short-period eclipsing binaries which are relatively common, making up a few percent of all stars, and represent powerful astrophysical laboratories for …

L'autre aménagement des rythmes scolaires : le report de 30 minutes du début des cours en secondaire, en test dans le canton de Vaud
#enseignement

Learn #CSS Subgrid in 14 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8hg2FG20Q

Paradromics implanted and removed its Connexus brain implant in a patient for ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-neuralink-rival-tested-brain-impl…

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person
Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later. - POLITICO
https://archive.is/20250531001439/https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-administration-deports-fourth-immigrant-court-order-violation-00378173

Good morning from Mimi, who doesn’t know that we‘ll be off to the vet in a few minutes to get her bloodwork

Départ différé de 35 minutes pour le train suivant : -PUMA, départ Montereau 09h15, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 10h13. Modification de composition, ce train passe de long Š court.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 10/06 10:07

Départ différé de 25 minutes pour le train suivant : -PUMA, départ Montereau 09h15, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 10h13. Modification de composition, ce train passe de long Š court.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 10/06 09:38

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16772 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Trends and Reversion in Financial Markets on Time Scales from Minutes to Decades
We empirically analyze the reversion of financial market trends with time horizons ranging from minutes to decades. The analysis covers equities, interest rates, currencies and commodities and combines 14 years of futures tick data, 30 years of daily futures prices, 330 years of monthly asset prices, and yearly financial data since medieval times. Across asset classes, we find that markets are in a trending regime on time scales that range from a few hours to a few years, while they are in a …

Départ différé de 15 minutes pour le train suivant : -PUMA, départ Montereau 09h15, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 10h13. Modification de composition, ce train passe de long Š court.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 10/06 09:25

Départ différé de 15 minutes pour le train suivant : -PUMA, départ Montereau 09h15, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 10h13.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 10/06 09:16

"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/

The programme is live in about 15 minutes! Tune in over at https://uncertain.fm

Le train suivant voit son départ différé de 10 minutes environ :
- KUMO : départ Paris Lyon 15h46, arrivée Montereau Š 16h44.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : train retenu en atelier de maintenance.
🤖 10/06 15:52

I don’t know how I did it, but I completed Stage 4 in Resident Evil: Outbreak 😂
The virus was pushing me to the limit. I finished the chapter with 93% of the virus in my body.
I was stuck for about 10 minutes or more, just wandering around like an idiot.
But yeah, it’s done!
Cheers! ✌️
#residentevil

Okay, I have my page on Codeberg as a guide on how to install Chimera Linux. That helps a lot (and it works 😄)
But 28 minutes for an install, everything updated, services started, some bells and whistles and a running terminal in a labwc session is still pretty good.
Off to the races!
Cc @…
#ChimeraLinux

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 25 minutes environ pour le train suivant : -KOHO départ Melun Š 19h48, arrivée Montereau Š 20h25.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : panne de signalisation en gare de Vernou.
🤖 09/06 20:48

Le trafic est ralenti entre Melun et Montereau via Héricy dans les 2 sens.
Prévoir des temps d'allongement jusqu'Š 20 minutes.
Motif : panne d'un passage Š niveau dans le secteur de Vernou.
🤖 09/06 21:16

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 15 minutes environ pour le train suivant : - PUMA : départ Montereau Š 13h15, arrivée Paris Lyon Š 14h13.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : acte de vandalisme en gare de Villeneuve Saint-Georges, fin d'incident.
🤖 07/06 13:38

Le train suivant voit son départ différé de 10 minutes environ : - PUMA : départ Montereau Š 13h15, arrivée Paris Lyon Š 14h13.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : acte de vandalisme en gare de Villeneuve Saint- Georges, fin d'incident.
🤖 07/06 13:10

Le trafic est fortement ralenti entre Melun et Montereau via Héricy dans les 2 sens. Prévoir des allongements de temps de trajet jusqu'Š 60 minutes et des suppressions. Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : obstacle sur la voie dans le secteur de Champagne sur Seine (incident terminé).
🤖 06/06 21:08

I have a relatively new #ASUS ProArt13 laptop where I still have a #Microsoft #Windows installation so I can keep upgrading its firmware (I planned removing it once I have a stable #Linux distro with kernel >= 6.14).
I'm surprised by how unstable it is. Just leaving it doing nothing for more than 10 minutes is enough to trigger a #BlueScreenOfDeath (I can reproduce the issue). If I keep doing stuff, it does not crash.
At this point I'm not sure if it's Microsoft's fault or ASUS'... but I suspect the blame falls on Windows side (nothing like that happens on my Linux installation).
#Windows11

Allongement de temps de trajet de 8 minutes environ pour le train suivant : - PUMA départ Montereau 05h44, arrivée Paris Lyon 06h43. Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : prolongation des travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.
🤖 28/05 06:03

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 15 minutes environ pour le train suivant : - GAMO départ 11h15, arrivée Montargis de 12h55.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : incident affectant la voie dans le secteur de Bois le Roi.
🤖 27/05 12:10

Le trafic est fortement ralenti entre Melun et Montereau et entre Melun et Montargis dans les 2 sens.
Prévoir des allongements de temps de trajet allant jusqu'Š 15 minutes, des modifications de dessertes et des suppressions.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : incident affectant la voie dans le secteur de Bois le Roi.
🤖 27/05 13:09

Départ différé de 20 minutes pour le train suivant : - POMA, départ Montargis 08h07, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 09h48.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 24/05 08:20

Allongement de temps de trajet de 13 minutes pour le train suivant : - POMA, départ Montargis 08h07, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 09h48.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : panne d'un train. (incident terminé)
🤖 24/05 08:32

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 25 minutes environ pour le train suivant : - GAMO départ Paris Gare de Lyon 18h32, arrivée Montargis 19h56
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : malaise voyageur.
🤖 22/05 19:46

Le train suivant voit son départ différé de 10 minutes environ :
- POMA départ Montargis 19h02, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 20h43.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : régulation de trafic Š Montargis.
🤖 22/05 19:09