tppiotrowski

Business Profiles on Google Maps drives the monopoly.

If you want your business found on Google Maps, you need to provide the address, hours, etc. This is one of the first things you do when you open a business, even if you don't have a website.

Not many people bother to add the same to OpenStreetMap and that's why everyone uses Google over OSM to search for businesses.

Google made a change a while back to offer the most energy efficient ("greenest") route. Maybe a frontage road at 40mph burns less fuel than 75mph on the interstate?

OpenStreetMap collects data via volunteers entering information about their neighborhoods but there is also government generated data from surveys so I think they aim to automate combining the two in a unified open source format.

What's the licensure/legal restriction in using OpenStreetMap aside from including attribution?

Way back in 2006, as a CS major with networking emphasis, I did a summer internship at NASA APL (Applied Physics Laboratory) My task was to modify Linux networking stack to simulate deep space communication packet loss and throttling. Then to implement something called Bundle protocol over UDP and run a lot of throughput simulations.

The idea was to maximize data throughput between Mars and Earth by routing data packets from the rovers to the orbiters because the orbiters circled every 90 minutes and the rovers had to wait hours for Mars to rotate to get line of sight with Earth. Also, some orbiters can send at higher throughput than others.

It was a fun project but way over my head at the time. I do remember walking into mission control a few times and ESPN was playing on the big screen. World cup was going on that summer.

I don't think celebrity is a precondition. People in general are tired of fake reviews and marketing and would rather get a recommendation from someone they trust. It could be the Kardashian's or it could be their neighbor.

Yes. The fact that these influencers seem less intelligent than the average human being makes their lifestyle appear attainable to most.

> History will surely uncover a Machiavellian plot about usurping control over the web, but at the time the story was pretty simple, at least as it was explained to naive pawns like me. Google wanted the web to succeed and even had a team of people contributing to Firefox. Google wanted more influence over the product, Mozilla was (reasonably) uncomfortable with that, so we went our own way.

This resonates with me. Often the narrative is that big tech is malicious. I think that evolves way down the line. Initially it's just about getting stuff done.

Is there a list of some popular blogs available?

Also an indicator of cognitive distortion and breeds extremism, but we are told to endure because of the principle of charity...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#All-or-no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

I thought CircleCI offered iOS builds which neither Github or Bitbucket did in the past (maybe they do now?)

Long gone is the age of self-funded aristocrat scientists who experimented to satisfy their curiosity.

Curious if there's any renowned independent scientists producing research at home and sharing directly online (bypassing universities and journals)

I bought a used RadRunner. The disc brakes are prone to warping especially if you transport your bike and lay it on its side. Try not to put excessive weight on the discs. I just fix mine using pliers and manually bending back or forward the warp parts of the disc. It's quite simple and YouTube explains it well.

I did replace the front fork because the previous one was bent. I think this happens when you're going 20mph and hit a curb or sharp bump. Replacement part was $60.

Kickstand spring broke and Rad gave me another for $1 along with nuts and bolts that were missing from the previous owner.

Electric motor and battery is doing fine. I purchased another battery for long rides. Because Rad is so popular there are great/cheap OEM options that other e-bike manufacturers don't have.

I think for the price Rad is amazing if you're willing to tinker with it occasionally.

Someone said to me a long time ago that the best camera in the world is the one you have with you. It turns out they were right.

> Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand

> But no widely available shipping or packaging material can match cardboard’s recyclability, which hovers annually between 90 and 91 percent.

This begs the question: what is cardboard being recycled into?

My privacy stance has evolved to just assume everything I do online is public.

Even if we fight and succeed in stopping a tracking mechanism (third-party cookies) we discover that another one is developed (fingerprinting). It's times when you think you have privacy/no one is watching that you're most susceptible to doing something you might regret.

If you consciously acknowledge that your digital life is public, you can consider performing activities using other mediums. Calling instead of messaging. Shopping at stores with cash. Journaling in a paper notebook.

What's the mechanism here? I thought it's sharing a cross domain cookie that allows you to identify a user as they surf from one domain to another.

Are those users using the web interface and using a Mail app to read their Gmail emails?

My knowledge might be outdated but back in 2014? Gmail decided to download and cache images embedded in an email. This meant that a tracking pixel was only downloaded once (before a user even opened an email) and every subsequent time the email was opened, the cached image was served from Gmail's servers, not the image origin server. This meant that tracking pixels became useless for Gmail (web based) users. I'm still under this impression today but maybe something has changed?

Edit: I said the pixel loads before the email is even opened. This is incorrect. The pixel loads the first time an email is read. Subsequent loads come from Gmail's servers.

I've never been sold on Gore-Tex. It's not a great value for most people.

Shoes: good for a few outings (really nice on snow) but then lose their water repellency. If you have sweaty feet, your socks will get wet from sweat anyways. Just bring extra socks or wring them out periodically. Wool socks will feel warm even when wet.

Jackets: great in a downpour but if you're wearing pants, all the water just rolls off your jacket and soaks your pants. Use a weather forecast and just don't go or choose another location if it's going to be pouring out and instead settle for a much lighter water repellent layer for 100s of $$$'s cheaper that works in a light rain or snow. I use the OR Helium. Packs real small.

Otherwise, if your job requires you to stand in the rain all day, definitely invest the $$$.

Riding a bike with GPS leads me to more retention. My theory is that it's the driving speed and number of other drivers on the road that prevents our brain from retaining a route.

"I like to think of CSS as a collection of layout modes. Each layout mode is an algorithm that can implement or redefine each CSS property. We provide an algorithm with our CSS declarations (key/value pairs), and the algorithm decides how to use them."

Brilliant. The way basic CSS properties are taught often ignores the layout mode. Even MDN does not mention that "width" is a CSS property that is not always respected when "display: flex". Making this distinction more prominent would reduce the amount of confusion/frustration when certain CSS properties appear to "not work".

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/width

Privacy considerations aside, I switched from Alexa to Google Home Assistant because Google is a search/ML company and best poised to understand a question and provide relevant context (like Google search result snippets).

Search is not Amazon's or Apple's main business so they will have a hard time competing. (last I checked, Siri just does a Google search and provides links when it doesn't understand a question)

However, both Amazon and Google seem to sell their devices at cost with the hope of finding a revenue model while Apple charges a premium for their Home Pod. That makes the Apple approach most sustainable at this point.

SBF sold a portion of his shares in the company for $300M instead of selling other outstanding shares. This meant he got to cash out before investors which is frowned upon because it signals that SBF believed that a $300M investment in another place was more valuable than keeping his $300M invested in FTX.

> git blame tells you nothing about the skillset it takes to be successful at any large tech company at a senior level

100%. I don't care who has "scope" or "impact" or is "senior". I want to sit next to the developer I can ask about the pro/cons of any web development framework, that can help me analyze a heap dump, or explain why some transitive dependency is getting pulled in at compile time.

These are the ones I'm successful finding with git blame. They're the ones that can help me get stuff done.

Interesting. I find git blame sufficient to assess engineering talent on a shared code base. Sometimes I read through a file and there's clarity and other times it's spaghetti. The ones who write with clarity are the ones I want my desk next to. Sometimes they are not even the ones that management is promoting.

"including a loan of FTT tokens to BlockFi Inc. in a principal amount of FTT tokens valued at $250 million as of September 30, 2022." [1]

[1] https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188450/042020648...

Live broadcast: https://youtu.be/CMLD0Lp0JBg

Check out Organic Maps. It's a fork of maps.me and basically the same app without the crypto/monetization

I'm willing to give a little leeway with donations. I'd rather have Wikimedia run a surplus or embezzle the money than see Wikipedia having to count every penny. I pay $17 for Netflix and I also donate $17 for Wikipedia every month. My Wikipedia "subscription" is hands down the one I'd keep if money was tight.