I’m partial to a desire path being “the path of least resistance”. And in that sense, it’s still a desire path because it still carves a path that gets more defined as more people use it, whether or not it’s fully developed. The second person didn’t have to choose the same path as the first, but they did. And so did the next. And so on.
I grant you, it’s kinda like the philosophical question of: how many grains make a mountain.
A recommendation from the “Boglehead” community within personal finance circles is this book, which is a good primer for getting started with investing. https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/portfolio/the-bogleheads-guide-to-investing/
It includes a discussion highly germane to Americans, but it may also be broadly applicable in aspects such as managing risk and timescales, especially the difference between younger investors with the capacity and time horizon to save, versus late-starters with less time available for compound interest to work its magic.
This is the book I lend to friends, and would recommend.
Very nice! How did you do your joinery? Glue? Screws? Pocket screws?
As a side note, the development of the corridor would not only improve connectivity of Central California residents to the Bay Area and SoCal, but also to the Sacramento region. Although the Capitol Corridor does reach Sacramento via the Bay Area, this section is crowded by commuters and the train must navigate the slow curves of San Pablo Bay west of Martinez. From the thumbnail above, someone in SLO might have a quicker journey to Sacramento via Paso Robles and Hanford, bypassing the Bay Area entirely.
The inland town of Hanford is presently served by the San Joaquins but is also home to a future High Speed Rail station, as part of the first operating segment from Bakersfield to Merced. It is reasonably expected that when that high speed section is complete, travelers from the Paso Robles bus can board a high speed train north to Merced, with a cross-platform guaranteed transfer to the conventional San Joaquins train waiting at the station to continue north to its existing destinations of Sacramento or Oakland.
Though as it happens, the San Joaquins itself is pursuing an expansion to the north, beyond Sacramento towards Chico, overlapping communities which are served only by the two one-way Coast Starlight trains. This expansion will use UP’s Sacramento Subdivision that runs north-south.
An odd quirk of Sacramento is that the principal train station sits only on UP’s Martinez Subdivision, which runs west to the Bay Area and east to Reno. The only junction between the Martinez and Sacramento subdivisions is Haggin Junction east of the station. But Haggin is not a complete junction, and northbound traffic on the Sacramento Subdivision must pass north of and then reverse into the junction to enter Sacramento station to the west.
This is not ideal for the San Joaquins northern expansion, and so they’ve decided to outright skip the main Sacramento station in their plans. Accordingly, for someone in SLO heading to Chico, it is indeed more advantageous to travel inland by bus and then train, to avoid the Bay Area congestion and a connection from the Capitol Corridor somewhere in Sacramento. But for a destination east of Sacramento, the Capitol Corridor route would be more advantageous.
No plans exist to upgrade Haggin Junction, nevermind the disruption it would cause to downtown Sacramento. Instead, the transfer to Sacramento station would likely happen from a new San Joaquins station linked to SacRT’s Gold LRT line in Midtown Sacramento.
As for why San Joaquins couldn’t expand operations on their already-occupied Fresno Subdivision and has to build these new stations just to head north, it is because the Fresno Subdivision is at max capacity, and because turning north would require a brief traversal west onto the Martinez Subdivision, until turning north at Haggin Junction. This is too much impact for UP to accept, in addition to wholly bypassing the communities between Lodi and Sacramento which don’t yet have passenger rail service, even though they see freight trains on the Sacramento Subdivision.
OSM can definitely find you a bank near a freeway ramp, but it can also find you a bank near a creek to make an inflatable boat getaway. What it can’t do is arrange for decoys to confuse the police while you eacape.
The inflatable boat robber was ultimately caught and sentenced a year later.
I read this, and thought it was kind of all over the place. Even the first “falsehood” about always immediately crashing is answered as “true for some languages but not some others”. Even the motion of superlatives in CS like “always” and “never” rarely hold, including this very sentence and almost certainly when talking about multiple programming languages.
And on that point, it’s a minor quibble, but while Go’s nil pointers are similar to C null pointers and Rust’s null raw pointers, it’s a strange thing to have the title be about falsehoods about null pointers.
But then much of the other supposed falsehoods are addressed only for the C language, such as null deference being UB or not.
I would like to see a ©itation [pun intended] for this being a supposed falsehood, since my understanding is that if an implementation uses 0x0 as the null pointer, then the check for a null pointer is to check if it’s equal to 0x0, which would require that no “thing” in C use that address.