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Some background from the guy who maintains this site at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zverik/diary/399925.

There is a script (disclaimer, that I wrote) to set up a couple of docker images so you can create / host something like this yourself: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/399939. It requires downloading of a "full history" OSM data file for the region of interest.

Not necessarily cool perhaps but a critical piece of OSM infrastructure is osm2pgsql[1].

Also important tools in OSM land are osmium[2] and imposm[3] but the latter I think is Go not C++.

[1] https://osm2pgsql.org/ [2] https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/ [3] https://imposm.org/

It already kind of is crippled, compared to the Android app. The Garmin iOS app doesn't (can't?) support sending a quick reply to an incoming text message from the watch, for example, something you can do when connected to an Android phone.

Not quite sure if this is related, but since there's a bunch of statements in there referencing rust: I had to install the rust compiler on my Mac (`brew install rust` if you use homebrew). This is not mentioned in the installation instructions.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. The way I go about developing my base in Factorio reflects how I go about developing software. What's interesting is that in playing Factorio, the weaknesses in my approach are more readily apparent (because they are visual?) and consequently, I am learning to be a better developer from playing Factorio. This is coming from a hobby developer so ymmv, but this is how I justify sinking so many hours into playing this game.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - about a large scale 1950s public housing project in Saint Louis (Missouri, US). Built in the mid-50s, riddled with problems pretty much from the start, torn down in 1972. Interesting insight into the failure of post-war public housing policy in the US.

There's no shifting going on, what users put in is what OSM stores, nothing more, nothing less.

As to why, I wasn't in the room when that decision was made, but the design philosophy of the OSM data model is to leave things as open-ended as possible while still being practical. An object's attributes can be any arbitrary combination of key/value pairs. There's conventions, but no enforced standards. My best guess is that the precision for longitude / latitude is an outcome of that same design philosophy. Back in 2004 when OSM started and all of this was defined, there was no way <10cm coordinate precision was going to be meaningful, but now you see use cases where it may be, like indoor mapping (see for example https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#19/48.87598/2.32630)

They definitely don't make it super convenient. With NYT I have to jump through the same hoop every day, with WSJ about once a week. On the plus side, it helps make the decision to read an article (or the news at all) more deliberate.

Typically, you log in to your library web site, they will give you a magic link to the paywalled web site which then gives you a 'subscription' that is good for the day.

Worth noting that at least in the United States, your public library likely provides free access to some paywalled / subscription sites. Mine has NYT, WSJ, Consumer Reports and a bunch of others.

There’s Mapillary (acquired by meta but imagery is free to use in most cases) and KartaView (Grab).

Both are crowdsourced platforms.

https://www.mapillary.com/ https://kartaview.org/landing

I think that was what it was actually called back then too! Interesting that it's lived on all that time.

Very cool. Reminds me of the "Wochenende-ticket" DB sold in the 90s. It was something like 30DM and was good for travel on all regional DB trains for up to 5 people.

I used it with a group of friends to travel to Berlin from The Netherlands in 1993. I was a bit of a rail geek (still am, I guess) and had purchased a "Kursbuch" on a previous trip to Germany. This was a 2000 or so page, 3 pound book that contained all the timetables for all German trains. We pored over the timetables for hours to find an optimal route from the closest German border station to Berlin. I remember it being relatively few trains, something like Bad Bentheim - Osnabrueck - Bielefeld - Kassel - Dessau (!) - Berlin. It was a fun trip, lots of people were traveling long distance on local trains and Berlin attracted very...interesting people at that time.

After arriving in Berlin we sold our ticket, which was still good for another day, for 15DM.

As some other commenters have said -- often, the "print" function will give you a more concise / readable version. I keep a recipe folder with PDFs "printed" from recipe web sites.

It would be nice if this app would support printing. It does a great job reducing this recipe page to its essentials: https://onlyrecipe.app/?url=https://cookieandkate.com/best-v... but when I try to print, the preview shows a blank page (Safari on Mac).

Commodore DOS was never formally made open source either, was it?

Ugh, this thread made me go down a rabbit hole and I ended up bidding on a C64C on eBay. (I had a C64 as a kid but sold it to be able to afford an Amiga 500. No regrets.) Amazed at how much of a market there still is! Now I need to figure out how to connect it to a modern display, but this same web site has a pretty cool buyer's guide for that kind of stuff.

Same. GEOS was really cool, I was blown away by the 80 column mode. But it felt more like a gimmick and I never ended up really using it for anything real. But then again, I was 10 years old and more interested in playing Raid on Bungeling Bay.

That, and OP, reminded me of the Eames "Powers of 10" film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Is this browser preferable, from a privacy perspective, over using regular Chrome without signing in to Google, disabling any built-in convenience services (such as Safe Browsing) that phone home, and switching your default search engine to DDG?

I could not agree more with this approach. The Economist is excellent, and because they are a weekly publication, their reporting can be more thoughtful and detached from the outrage du jour. They also have excellent podcasts: the daily Intelligence and, for those interested in US politics, the weekly "Checks and Balance".

Supporting local news has become so much more important here in the U.S., as more and more independent local newspapers are shutting down, even in medium-sized metro areas. In addition, a lot of "Local" TV stations are owned by, and puppets of, corporations with political agendas like Sinclair[1]. From the linked article:

> About 39% of Americans are within range of a Sinclair-owned TV outlet, most of them unwittingly, because local TV stations typically use the logos of national networks with which they are affiliated, like NBC, CBS and Fox [...] Last year 37% of Americans got their news from local television, according to the Pew Research Centre, compared with 28% who got news from cable networks [...]

EDIT adding a link to 2018 reporting on Sinclair from PBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwA4k0E51Oo (less than 5 minutes)

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/04/05/orders-to...

Has the Lenovo warranty really gotten worse? The author doesn't specify but speaks of the "incredible" warranty on the Thinkpads in the past tense. I purchased an X220 in 2011 with the 3 year next business day warranty plan and it was awesome the couple of times I had to use it. I recently purchased an X13 to replace it with the same warranty plan, assuming it would still be as good. Not true?

(By the way, Kubuntu installed and ran almost without issues on this 2021 X13 out of the box. Only minor issue was with sleep / suspend but that ended up being a BIOS setting. Apparently there is a "Windows" and a "Linux" sleep state.)

Realizing that most arguments made here are perfectly valid in either case, it strikes me as ironic that nobody seems to question the authenticity of the image that spawned this discussion in the first place.

Filter by presence of header List-Id takes care of bypassing your inbox for most any list-like email.

No, I looked it up and I got this wrong:

* HAM6 (the original "OCS" HAM, A1000/500/600) supported 4096 colors

* HAM8 (AGA, A1200 / A4000) supported 2^24 colors / around 2^18 simultaneous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify

The YT link to the Computer Chronicles interview with Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery of NewTek is dead. Here is an alternate one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHjfIKD6zA

Enjoyed watching this. I remember seeing a Video Toaster in live action for the first time and it completely blew me away. It really drove home the power of the combination of PAL (or NTSC) video output with the 2^24 color HAM color mode.

I've been using the BBBike[0] service for my OSM based Garmin map needs. It exports Garmin img map files optimized for various use cases from OSM data on demand.

[0] https://extract.bbbike.org/

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Fantastic! I do think it needs webrings.

The data from the International Dark-Sky Association[0] would be a good complement to this.

In case you're interested what a dark sky town ordinance looks like for a small town that has the designation near where I live, see here[1].

[0] https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/ [1] https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/torreyut/latest/torrey...

I was searching this thread for a reference to FIRE, I see interesting parallels too.

You can take a serial (work your butt off now, enjoy life later) or parallel (OP's wish) approach to work/life, but it also does not need to be completely binary. If you can find a position that is sufficiently rewarding but not too stressful, and that allows you to save up enough that you can (semi) retire at, say, 50, that may be a great middle ground.