Surely the American word "movie" is simply an abbreviation of "moving picture"? It's true that Hungarian "mozi" (meaning "movie theater" or "the movies", not "[a] movie") is itself short for "mozgóképszínház" =…
Hah. So, the thing is, Amtrak gets priority over freight trains so long as it is running according to schedule. Amtrak essentially never runs according to schedule -- many of its trains have 0% on-time performance -- so…
For a second I was expecting this to be an April Fool's post about a "fast" way to calculate the inverse of the square root function, i.e. x*x :-)
Surely the American word "movie" is simply an abbreviation of "moving picture"? It's true that Hungarian "mozi" (meaning "movie theater" or "the movies", not "[a] movie") is itself short for "mozgóképszínház" =…
Hah. So, the thing is, Amtrak gets priority over freight trains so long as it is running according to schedule. Amtrak essentially never runs according to schedule -- many of its trains have 0% on-time performance -- so…
For a second I was expecting this to be an April Fool's post about a "fast" way to calculate the inverse of the square root function, i.e. x*x :-)