Doctor_Fegg

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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Though the problem is that delayed trains are often overcrowded trains. And overcrowded trains are not conducive for doing work on a laptop, unless you like sitting on the vestibule floor outside the toilet door with your laptop on your kne
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Now try closing the railways of south-east England and see how well the roads hold up without them.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
TBH most programming languages' alleged "English" is their own weird dialect anyway. Take Ruby's "include?" (should be includes?, and yes I have read the rationale), for example, or the eternal weirdness that i
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Not every codebase. OpenStreetMap uses British English, for example.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Not the best day for Americans to chide others about having a king.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
CSS it, say it, sorted.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
It’s “licence” with a C in British English.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
You tried openstreetmap.org. That isn’t a consumer mapping site, it’s the community site for the OSM project. The idea is that the data is published as open source for other apps/sites to build on.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
If it were called Primoz I’d be wary of how often it might crash
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> It mostly appears in French borrowings like naïveté That's a very American English example. In Britain, you can’t drive[1] far without seeing a Citroën. [1] generic verb for "proceed along a road"; personally I do it on
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> Just let me write TextEdit all the way. I used to edit a market-leading print magazine with TextEdit. I don’t need layout features, the designers do that in InDesign. I don’t need a grammar checker or AI because I can write.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/arcade-raid-the-duke-of... is a much better article. Here’s the list of games: http://www.opdenkelder.com/muerto/arc/shiplist.png
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Absolutely blows my mind that, in 2025, anyone can treat getting in a car drunk and causing death as anything less than premeditated. Motonormativity strikes again, I guess.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> Edit: I mean on purpose, obviously. Drunk driving hardly counts. What?!
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
IIRC (as a fellow spacebar aficionado) position:fixed breaks spacebar scrolling but position:sticky generally doesn’t.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
I pay for both now (Kagi, Runbox). It’s just so much better.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
As a cyclist I’d rather take my chances with streetcar rails than with cars. Rails don’t appear from nowhere and hit me.
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The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child(oxfordclarion.uk)
62 points by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago|26 comments
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
No. Not at all. String splitting is a couple of lines' code. I don't want have to think about a logging framework just to read a protobuf - it can send stuff to stderr like everything else. If Google wants protobuf to be a widely
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Protobuf depending on Abseil (which has ongoing macOS build issues) is clinically insane. I tend to use protozero now which trades half a day’s boilerplate for two days’ build heartache. https://github.com/mapbox/protoz
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Sure, you can add up to 200 waypoints - if you want to do that via the old-school click-click-click there’s a toggle, or you can just drag the route. I ride for fun too which is why I built a routeplanner that likes quiet and scenic roads!
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Yeah, waymarked routes in much of the US are an absolute embarrassment. Last time I went cycling in NY State the worst part of the whole route was the official State Bicycle Route. The quiet roads were lovely. cycle.travel treats routes in
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
cycle.travel (my site) aims to do that - the advantage of developing your own cartography! Minor roads in rural areas are shown earlier than in most other styles, but in urban areas they kick in later to avoid cluttering the map too much.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Nice! I added a similar feature to cycle.travel (my site) a few months back. 5% of the work was writing the code to route only on waymarked routes, 95% was writing code to "heal" the accidental breaks in OSM bike route data...
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Raster tiles hosted at tile.openstreetmap.org are not intended for widespread production use, they’re principally for mapper feedback. If you have a business need for something that doesn’t look “amateur” you should arguably be using a thir
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App-controlled bike U-lock stops working overnight(old.reddit.com)
3 points by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago|1 comments
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Indeed. I lost several essays before figuring that Tetris and MacWrite Pro wouldn’t coexist.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
In the 1990s, the British musical press (NME etc.) decided it couldn't possibly print "fuck", but "fook" was fine. So whenever they interviewed Blur (from London) it would be f--- this and f--- that, but Oasis (from
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
fs_usage is my favourite - find out what's thrashing the disk. (Usually Spotlight or Spark...)
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Slightly OT, but really good to see London Centric on the front page of HN. Britain's local media has basically collapsed in recent years - it's now owned by three conglomerates (Reach, Gannett/Newsquest, National World) who

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