Live And Kicking Part 1
A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail
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Zero Is the Equivalent of Zero in This System.
In switzerland, a had like a counter, and each time a wheel hits the counter, it would count one. But if a train had 256 axles, exactly as it goes by, it 'ld be counting like, click, click, clicking, one, two, one, from zero. And then the's a train with 256 accs can just roam the swiss network like some kind of ghost train, which is apparently ill advised. This is what was happening on the swiss railways, except they weren't using four possible values, they were using eight. It's the first ever hardware problem solved with an admin solution. Pi, we got a regulation patch that'll that
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