Lib Development

Working to make American transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, and less safe | Econ & CS @UChicago | Read my blog! | More tweets at @authdevelopment

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Very typical of the CTA to have a bus get stuck in a cellular dead zone. fuck my stupid chud life

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

One of the zippers on my backpack failed and while I managed to fix it I suppose I’m now in the market for a new one. Does anyone have recommendations?

Primary requirement is that it has to fit a 17 inch laptop and have meaningful capacity beyond that.

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@_AashishReddy How the fuck are they giving 78% for essays with “no meaningful advice” for improvement

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This is bad. A part of the southernization of America. Why is there so much space under the roof and yet outdoors?

I can see my future as a 2010s retvrnposter and I don’t like it

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Hello next generation McDonald's. They trying to get away from the beige box

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@MannyMarotta do you… know what the wmata farebox recovery rate is?

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@BorisBartlog money can be exchanged for goods and services

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Korean society: so how are people going to receive old age pensions if everyone in the country is old?

Korean government: well, we, uh

Americans coming around the corner with a literal truckload of money: Are you guys the people who make RAM?

[Marco De Donno @stonksandgoats]

@citrini What it means for the Korean economy and people when Samsung and SK Hynix are about to pay $430 BILLION in taxes in FY26-28.

That's half the Korean public debt.

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

@jaketropolis doors have to open at every station (so no express) but I don’t have to actually exit the train

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Readers of the previous thread will have guessed most of my route but anyways, it starts at Washington/Wells with all the loop stations. My train is the one in 7 minutes, it’s seemingly 4 minutes early, which is likely to just be a +4 minutes penalty. Not the best start…

[Lib Development @Lib_Development]

Good morning everyone! I’m going to be attempting the CTA all stations challenge today! Longtime followers will know that I have tried to do this before, getting as close as 8 minutes away from the 8-hour 58-minute record. (thread, 1/many)

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@originalwololo no?
some of the college girls are also 22

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@MostlyMonkey >only an extra 75k
>breaks immediately
>second extra 75k

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@selfattentive behold, the time value of the college student

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@GregorStocks lmfao

i assure you though it was the same stopwatch time, its just that if you open the ios clock app after not opening it for a while theres a 50/50 chance the stopwatch has a pointer error

i had to do some googling on this and its literally the dumbest thing in the world

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@beaniebbl on to dc after I move

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Folks.

That is all 144 open CTA stations in record time!

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aaaaand that’s the game! 8:20:39

a record by 27 minutes, which I think nets out to like a 4% improvement.

It feels pretty good to have actually done the thing this time.

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@transitnerdery thank you!

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This guy has a uchicago press link in bio. He’s our fault

sorry everyone

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Not that I attend anymore but I have to imagine this probably can’t be very useful, given that most classes do not allow AI use at all

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.

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@yeahshorebud @ByungChulHarden hey all the rcds kids seemed like very reasonable people

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@2aQueer The problem with using the driving test is that it’s really easy. I could probably pass nearly blacked out

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@MagusGenji @MostlyMonkey you’re missing the fact that if not for hpmor people would just not be having the thoughts

more rationalism is good, or at least better than whatever tf everyone else does

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@Colin_d_m I think that the American interpretation of “light rail” is close enough that this post is pretty disingenuous