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1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail

This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

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Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.
It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it. The resultant noise drowns out thoughtful work.

The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East
as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada”
led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran
after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncer…

Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running

I don't need to buy gasoline very often thanks the the PHEV, but I did ned to fill up last night. It was an Esso station where in addition to showing me ads on the pump screen, the tiny speaker started squawking audio for the ads. This happened to me previously on a road trip. The other brand stations—around here at least—don't play obnoxious audio ads.
No one is measuring my displeasure here. There's no cancel/mute button.
I'm done with Esso. I'll go out of m…

Finally. Thanks to the unbelievably flexible configuration options that Morningstar Engineering offer with their controllers, I was able to use their iOS editor app to correctly configure the 2 1/4 inch midi out ports to the different requirements of the Keeley and Meris pedals.
The little Chase Bliss distro box you see with the 3 outs only offers 2 non-standard options out of the four that are commonly implemented by different pedal manufacturers.

dasBlog is now on .NET 10! It turned into the largest release I’ve shipped. Copilot in Visual Studio made space for work that would have been out of reach otherwise. The whole effort became exactly the kind of learning moment I need as we shape the tools for the future we’re aiming toward.
https://git…

Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world,
a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote village of South Sudan known as Old Fangak.
Situated in a deep pocket of grassy swampland formed by floodwaters from the Nile that haven’t receded for five years thanks to climate change,
Old Fangak was home to thousands of internally displaced South Sudanese women and children
— inclu…

Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.