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yagurastation··on Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
Have a look at the map.
yagurastation··on Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
Thanks - lol, hopefully this comment doesn't get buried as well. mapbox, ESRI, Geotab, and Grab will have "sponsor booths" as well. See https://2020.stateofthemap.org/#sponsors
yagurastation··on Teensy 4.1 Development Board
Example project: https://luftdaten.info/laermsensor-bauen/ (only German and French translation ATM)
yagurastation··on US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
I'll just drop this book recommendation here, which I found to be an interesting read during this pandemic: Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late (2012) Marc Elsberg
yagurastation··on Google App Maker Shutting Down
Ex-user myself, and although I can empathise with your disappointment, I frankly have to disagree with your small business owner parable.

It was never easy as advertised. Novices even had trouble following the tutorials and making significant modifications to them. Basic tasks, as those mentioned, were easier accomplished with Google Sheets. And if they needed more they'd get someone professional to do Apps Script. Hence how I know of their pains.

yagurastation··on Luhmann's Zettelkasten
You haven't looked properly ;-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22086716
yagurastation··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
Unfortunately, yes, the space is fragmented. A long while ago I chose https://luftdaten.info/en/ because sensor firmware, DB, and tools are truly open source (GPL, ODbL, MIT). Next to supporting many sensors, it also allows for your own back-ends (API, InfluxDB). The community is awesome and has hacker values.

The inexpensive part makes citizen science viable in sub-economic and hobbyist settings.

https://openaq.org/ is trying to consolidate air quality data, but I'm uncertain of their licensing and goals.

yagurastation··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
Certainly. When using the flashing tool referenced here: https://luftdaten.info/en/construction-manual/

...you simply select the English firmware `latest_en.bin`. Or one of the languages you prefer.

yagurastation··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
This open source air quality citizen *science project now also has noise sensors going: https://luftdaten.info/laermsensor-bauen/
yagurastation··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
The inexpensive SDS011 holds up very well and works for this global citizen science project very well: https://luftdaten.info/evaluation/
yagurastation··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
Anyone interested should also check out the open source citizen science project https://luftdaten.info/en/

Build your own inexpensive sensor, contribute to the global network. See also https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart

yagurastation··on An update on Sunday’s service disruption
There were an hours' worth of tweets before the status page changed. For Ops quite a shitty hour of uncertainty.
yagurastation··on Status: Investigating reports of connectivity issues
For people using GCP, this could be a viable contingency: Mirroring GitHub in GCP Cloud Source Repository https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/connecting...
yagurastation··on Why Go is my favorite programming language
Tooling in regards to formatting: I guess you get to appreciate it when using gofmt automatically with your editor, eg. with Go extension for Visual Studio Code or vim-go.

Turns out pretty much as he says (see given example at play.golang.org). You just type in the style you always have, but with the certainty that in the end it will be the same as the other's, easy to read, easy to maintain, and uncontroversial in terms of formatting. You could agree on google-java-format, I guess. But also potentially waste plenty of time on the decision itself :-) compared to a dictate and tool originating from the language itself.

yagurastation··on Upspin – Another option for file sharing
"An Upspin user joins the system by publishing a key to a central key server. We’re running our own server for the moment but anticipate converting to Key Transparency." https://upspin.io/doc/security.md