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How Payment Processing Works https://visualmodo.com/how-payment-processing-works/ 🔌💲🌐 #Payment #Processing #Works #technology
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Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that "done" #means #it actually #works #everywhere, not just on your personal island of misfit code. 🏝️🤦♂️ Who would've guessed that in the realm of #engineering, imaginary completion isn't quite the victory lap? 🎉🔨
https://adi.bio/done #done #lessons #coding #reality #check #HackerNews #ngated -
"MindHacker - ZERO - New identity forms"
#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works #aesthetic #90s #y2k #playstation #psone #psx #futuristic -
"MindHacker - ZERO - Neo Tokyo servers Breach"
#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works #aesthetic #90s #y2k #playstation #psone #psx #futuristic -
"MindHacker - ZERO - Friendly Black - Market Server"
#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works #aesthetic #90s #y2k #playstation #psone #psx #futuristic -
"MindHacker - ZERO - Digital yourself"
#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works #aesthetic #90s #y2k #playstation #psone #psx #futuristic -
///Europeana///
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage. Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions.
https://www.europeana.eu/en
More free resources at https://www.libresites.org
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The Degraded Walking Habit
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor many years I went for an after lunch or after work walk. I would easily walk eight to ten kilometres per day. With road works in Nyon that have already lasted for many, many months, and that should last for another year, for several hundred meters of road my walking habit has been made toxic through traffic density and exposure to toxic driving behaviour.
I used to love heading out for an hour or two, to see the fields and crops change with the season. I used to love walking a multitude of routes. With aggressive cars and dogs I shifted to rural walks. This worked for a while, until road works redirected traffic along a critical section of my daily walk, so now I no longer walk at all. I run instead. Even cycling has suffered. I didn’t want to drive during Caribana, because it’s during this event that someone crashed into me driving the petrol scooter for stopping to allow a runner to cross the road and during Paleo in around two weeks because traffic will be much denser.
Traffic is also denser on other routes because the Route de St-Cergue is closed to go upwards for road works for the entire summer. This means that traffic along one of the quieter climbs is also much denser. There are other road works along the lake road, and other places. I don’t want to drive when road works and diversions make car drivers angrier and more impatient. It’s not that I faced such an issue.
The other reason for cycling far less, is of course a scheduling reason. There is a run at eight, and another one at nine thirty and the ride is at ten. I can choose between two running groups and one cycling group. Of course it doesn’t end there. If I was motivated I could also cycle with Geneva groups on Saturday mornings but that requires getting up to start cycling at seven to be in Geneva by eight to ride with that group.
There is also the matter of the zero four thirty wake up to run with the Morges group at six AM. That one does have consequences because I am tired for the rest of the day, and into the next morning, especially with disrupted sleep due to living under a roof during the summer months when a cool night is thirty degrees.
## Safe Nodes and Walkability
Before the road works I had two choices. I could walk down to Route Du Stand and although it was not COVID safe the road was quiet, so I could walk along it. When they re-designed the road, and diverted traffic they avoided Route Du Stand which is fantastic, if you live on Route Du Stand, but awful if you live in Eysins, especially during the road works, because it meant that a main road filled with people either leaving Nyon, or transiting through Route De Crassier were now diverted into Eysins for months at a time, making the village unsafe. There are few pedestrian crossings and pavements are rare, so cars always go onto the pedestrian parts, even when people are walking.
The second issue is that the Route that passed by Terre-Bonne was blocked so that pedestrians were funnelled onto a narrow road with main road traffic. The result is that you have cars, driving at speed behind you, with no safety measures. A painted line doesn’t make a route safe for walking.
If this had lasted for a week or two, we would be uncomfortable but it would be for days, rather than months. When you’re in danger at the start, and end of every single walk, for months, walks go from being healthy to being toxic. That’s why I stopped walking. That’s why I reverted to using the car.
## Urban Walks for Urban People but Not Nearby Villages
They spent over ten million to requalify the RC 11 from one type of road to another, with the disguise of encouraging walking and cycling but they forgot that the key issue is traffic density, not road user types. They forget that if you want people to replace driving with walking they need to be able to get from A to B without a car. Walkability is good, once you’re in Nyon, but awful when you’re not. Walking from Trelex and Asse might be possible, into Nyon, but walking from Arnex, Crans, Borex, Grens, Signy, Eysins, Gingins, La Rippe and other villages is not.
Pedestrians have no alternative other than to walk on the road. When the grass is cut short that’s not so bad, but when it’s long you have to choose between cars, ticks, or wet grass when it is raining. Buses, since they are once per hour, are not convenient.
The Pandemic Illumination
During the Pandemic Honeymoon, when people left their cars at home, the entire region, and all the villages that I mention were connected for the first time since the start of the 20th century. They were pleasant to walk from and to because cars were not being a nuisance. For disambiguation, a car that slows and passes pedestrians at a safe, and respectful speed is not a nuisance. Cars that pass pedestrians as if they are bollards, at the side of the road are a nuisance.
A Gravel Connection
If every village was connected to every other village with a gravel path then walkability would increase because people would be safe from road traffic at a fraction of the cost of the pharaonic RC-11 project that doesn’t even address the key problem of traffic density.
## Urban and Automative Blindness
Having had the London experience, of trains every two to four minutes, I see the requalification of the road as blind to the core issue of traffic density. The region around Divonne, Gex, but also La Cure, and the Jura has seen a massive increase in the number of cars travelling up to two hours per direction towards Nyon and Geneva.
The requalification work that is meant to widen the road, add cycling infrastructure, reduce noise pollution and more has one fundamental flaw.It completely ignores that to increase bus punctuality, the best solution is to provide people with an alternative to using their cars.
I used to walk into Nyon, until it became toxic to do so, due to traffic density, and exposure to heavy traffic on secondary roads that now have main road traffic.
The best cycle lanes are those that separate you from traffic, without requiring you to cross main roads. The best cycle lanes do not throw you into car parks or force you to cycle by parked cars, with pedestrians walking in the cycling lane after parking their cars.
The Benefit is Not Worth Two Years of Disruption
The Route De Stand works were an inconvenience but I suffered through it because I expected fantastic things to be achieved. I expected the road to be widened for pedestrians, and cyclists on both sides, and for the volume of traffic to remain the same as it was.
They made cycling bi-directional, one lane on each side, but for pedestrians they exposed them directly to cyclists, so if you’re not attentive you’re in danger with cyclists. The volume of traffic has increased so that a train of cars is driving through Eysins for hours per day at rush hour.
Given the failure of the Route Du Stand changes I expect the same failure with the Route De Crassier works, especially if they have bidirectional cycling, and bi-directional pedestrians, and traffic heading into and out of the Terre-Bone parkings. I also think that by forcing traffic out of Geneva to cross the main road twice, once exiting Nyon, and again, exiting by the busy Landi parking they are endangering cyclists twice.
The Abandoned Walking Routes
Aside from cycling, and running I no longer go to Nyon, despite living two point eight kilometres away because it’s not worth taking the car for such a short trip, and I don’t want to risk having my bike stolen. I also don’t want to drive into Nyon because I don’t want to pay for parking just because walking no longer feels safe.
Silver Lining
They re-surfaced the road this weekend, so in theory those road works are now finished with. In theory tomorrow I can resume walking along the route that I enjoyed walking along before they decided to make a pig’s breakfast of local walking routes. In practice I think that the cycling segment, that I used to walk along, is months from being completed. In theory I can resume my old walking route in the Autumn of 2027, over a year from now.
In the meantime I now combine my morning run on Monday, with the morning shop, the Thursday run with the Thursday weekend shop, and I run with a group in Morges at 6am in Morges,
The biggest consequence of the never-ending road works that made my most used walking route toxic is that now I go for social runs multiple times a week. Monday with one group. Saturday with a choice of three groups and Friday with a morning group. I could even add a Thursday group to the mix if I wanted to.
It’s a shame that when they plan road works, for soft mobility, that they don’t consider pedestrians and their existing walking habits. I was forced to change my habits, to find a safe alternative.
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この度、Vtuber夢見しずく様の配信部屋をデザインさせて頂きました！
ほんのり動く幻想的なお部屋です。何卒よろしくお願いいたします。
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Did someone say … instrumental? I remember when CBS Sports would use chunks of this one for its TV promotional spots in the 70s.
#MusicOfMastodon
#70sProgressiveRock
#Works
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Tja, da wollte Microsoft wohl im Jahre 1994 schon ein Bisschen sparen und hat ihr Programmpaket "Works für Windows" einfach mal auf nur noch 4 HD-Disketten veröffentlicht. Jeweils zwei Datenträger wurden zu einem zusammengefasst. Im Jahre 2026 macht das - wie ich finde - aber dafür noch ein nettes Sammlerstück!
Wie immer im Internet Archive zum Download:
https://archive.org/details/ms-works_for_windows_2.0a_deViel Spaß damit! 😉
#Retro #90er #Windows #Win311 #RetroComputing #Microsoft #Works #Oldschool #16Bit #90s
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///Albert-Kahn Museum///
More than 69,000 works from the museum's collections, including the Archives of the Planet, created at the beginning of the 20th century.
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/
More free resources at https://www.libresites.org
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Reading up on #Wellington #Water #Works, it seems that
Rates are going down by a whopping $10-$15 a week
Water rates are coming in at about $50/week.
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#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Pretty/Handsome
* Pretty/Handsome is a 2008 television pilot by Ryan Murphy that was not picked up to series by FXhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty/Handsome
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pretty/Handsome -
A quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works
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Weekend Side Note
If a hypothetical investment fund of significant size, say $180B, were to badly underperform for 2025, the results have serious implications.
In Canada, the TSX performed an astoundingly rare return of 28.5%. A well- managed fund performing at the rate of the market should expect a return of $50B resulting in a fund sized around $230B at year end.
If a hypothetical, poorly managed investment fund gained, say, a paltry 7.5% on such a generously giving market year, they should get a return of around $14B and final fund total of $194B at year end.
Counted in billions, 14 can appear a big number unless weighed against its absence of return. The poorly managed fund has actually incurred a short-term “loss of gains” in a rarely generous year of around $35B.
In the long term, over say the next ten years, that loss of $35B increases, at a yearly return of the initial paltry 7.5% (normally good for an underperforming year), to roughly double or $70B.
Fortunately, if the hypothetical fund continues under its current mismanagement, the ten-year 7.5% return is unlikely, thereby reducing the “missed out on” $70B to around $40B as best, or in this case worst, result from an extreme hypothesis of missing funds during one calendar year. Such “loss of gains” exaggerated annually accumulate to massive losses of squandered opportunity over decades.
In the real world, it is merely $14B thanks to the generous “hard to lose” market year, and the loss of opportunity goes unchecked while the pennies get counted.
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"…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily #reproduced lengthy excerpts from #popular — and #protected — #works, with a stunning degree of #accuracy."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books
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◆動く背景素材◆
ファンタジー世界の酒場をイメージした動く配信用背景素材を公開しました。
昼と夜の２バージョンをBOOTHにて販売中です！
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A quotation from Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
“His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and VerseMore about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing
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On Cycling and Walking Infrastructure
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When I hear that new cycling lanes will be created on a new segment of road I feel excitement, at the prospect of cycling being a pleasant, streamlined experience. Often though, in Switzerland, especially in the French speaking part they will spend months digging up a road, and then putting the road back down, and painting lines and saying "There, we have cycling infrastructure.
They don't widen the road, and they add the bare minimum. On the most dangerous bit of road they leave it as it is. Those lines were just to tick a box, not to provide cyclists with a better experience. In this case I'm thinking of the road between Crans and Eysins.
For the road between Eysins and Arnex-sur-Nyon they closed the road for months, entirely, and they resurfaced it, and that was it.
In Geneva, near the Pont du Mont Blanc cycling infrastructure is awful. Cyclists are mixed with tourists, pedestrians and thrown from one side of the main road to the other, without any thought for continuity and flow. As a result accidents between bikes and pedestrians happen.
Along the road between Morges and Geneva, along the lake, cycling infrastructure exists but you are often thrown into the traffic, with cars going fast on a busy road. In summer the cycling lanes are full of pedestrians and the pedestrian paths are used as parkings so the cycling lanes cease to serve as cycling lanes.
On the road between Eysins and Nyon there are road works now, and it's taking them three months to remove the road, add back the pavement, and seperate cyclists from cars, but for less than a hundred meters before throwing them back into traffic. In my eyes this is worse than nothing.
Before they add a cycling lane it is tolerated that bikes and cars will share the road, but when cycling lanes are added, to seperate bikes from cars, cars will insist that bikes use the bike lanes.
If you're riding slow, and alone, or with children, then that's a good change. If you're riding at 30-40 kilometres per hour on a bike, as I do on that segment, then I will burn a lot of energy if I have to take the cycle lane, and stop where I didn't need to, because the cycle lane was designed to stop bicycles from being a nuissance to cars, rather than to provide good cycling infrastructure. In my eyes the change is lipstick on a pig. It's an opportunity for people to say "we have x meters of cycling infrastructure" without considering what cyclists actually require.
Silver Lining - Fantastic for Pedestrians
I want to add the positive, for years I have felt that they needed to have a pavement for pedestrians on both sides of the road rather than just one, especially since the pandemic. Since the pandemic I have felt that having two sides, to avoid people, is key. From a walking and hiking point of view the change is excellent. I wanted this change.
What's especially bad in villages/towns such as Eysins is that when the pavement is angled, cars mount the pavement or cycling lane to make space for cars, instead of slowing down and waiting.
Pavement Mounting
Yesterday, or the day before, I was walking in Eysins and I could see that a woman was going to mount the pavement, instead of slowing down to let cars pass, or waiting for me to clear the way. She automatically mounted the pavement as I was using it, and I stood firm. The zone is a 30 zone, pedestrians have priority. (I have to find the exact language)
KISS - Keep it Simple and Social
The irony is that for the road works for the new cycling path between Nyon and Eysins, by the Boiron river they created a gravel path, temporarily for bikes and pedestrians. If they had spent half a day compacting the stones into the gravel, then this gravel path, for a tiny quantity of money, would be fantastic for bikes, and walkers. You don't need tarmac. Well maintained gravel does the same thing at a fraction of the cost, and a fraction of the time.
In the Swiss German part of Switzerland they have gravel cycling roads that would be fantastic to ride along, if I lived there.
The Voie verte between Crassier that heads towards Grilly and beyond is excellent for cyclists. It's wide, it's aside from road traffic, and it flows, except where we intersect with the main road. Having said this, roads, and railway lines, that are given to cyclists are great. That's what would really help.
And Finally
When you cycle, and walk, and hike as much as I do, and when you go for group rides, and group hikes, and more, you learn about the routes that keep you away from cars and traffic, where you can cycle with a minimum of friction with cars, and along routes where conversations between cyclists, and hikers are possible.
The preconception that cyclists ride on the road, to get in the way of cars is wrong. If I could walk without crossing cars, and if I could cycle without touching main roads, then I would. The route that I drew two weekends ago for a group ride maximised the amount of time we spent off of main roads.
I suspect that if I am tired after a long ride I will use the cycle path, but if traffic is dense and I'm as fast as the cars, I will stay with the cars. I don't want to have to stop, wait for a train of cars to pass, before I can set off again, especially on such a short stretch.
Strong Opinions
When I drove all the time I didn't notice the weaknesses of the current walking and cycling infrastructure. It's because I have been walking so much, and cycling, that I have become so opinionated on what can be improved. I'm sad that the walks I loved to walk during the pandemic are too dangerous to enjoy now, due to traffic, a simple gravel path, beside roads would really improve the enjoyment of walks into the countryside.
