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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The other way around is where OpenStreetMap is faster though. With Google a road which is closed (or gone) for a longer while means someone has to report it and Google employees verify it. Doing this automatically based on traffic dropping
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
They are using OSM augmented with their own data. TomTom employs some mappers to fix issues they run into.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Yeah, openstreetmap.org is a bit of an embarrassment for the community in its current state, although the search isn't too bad. OsmAnd and OrganicMaps are fortunately quite powerful and full-featured.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
StreetComplete is fun for casual contributions, but what OSM really needs is good local mappers. You can tell when a place has local mappers updating and monitoring changes in the real world. Even just taking care of the coming and going of
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Rutube. Those are all technological alternatives, but they lack the one thing what this is about: massive amounts of content uncensored by the Russian state.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
YouTube is reportedly throttled to near unusable levels too¹, although that seems to be done with enough deniability to back-track should it cause too much problems for the economy. In that respect StackOverflow is probably safe. 1: (Dutch)
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
There are people who do deliberately publish images of themselves under a permissive licence. Sometimes seen with photos for specific topics on Wikipedia (published on Wikimedia Commons). I can only guess at their motivations, but there see
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
You mean: https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Regardless, your experience has nothing to do with this topic or DB. And you could have gotten a partial refund quite easily, even after taking alternative transport. Refunds for delays is something DB has worked out pretty reliably. Fillin
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Villach to Ljubljana is a joined ÖBB and SŽ line, not Deutsch Bahn. Your ticket was with DB, but the train getting cancelled had absolutely nothing to do with them. If you had asked at the Reisezentrum at Villach station you would have been
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Why wouldn't he? It's not like British culture is totally impenetrable. Any European over 35 will have ingested a lot of British television reruns over the course of the eighties and nineties. While that won't allow for every
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
According to the linked support page, nothing except Apple OSes and Windows is supported; not even desktop Linux! That's quite an accomplishment in 2024. They really went above and beyond in not supporting any modern browser.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That's just normal in Italy. The seats are often missing. People are used to it.
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“So we've got this CNC controller written in Rust from 2036, and, ah, here is a GUI for something like that written in late 90's Visual Basic 6… Just combine those and…” “So uhm, you do know what you are doing, right?” “Sir! I am
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Almost correct, but you mean 'chance' where you write 'risk': Risk = Chance × Impact The chance of failing an audit initially are high (or medium, present at least). The impact is usually low-ish. It means a
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Well yeah, Belarus is essentially off-limits to a large part of the world due to Russia's war with Ukraine. Belarus does seem like a wonderful country at its core, but after the election fraud all progress just froze and the country is
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
They should add offering buy-now-pay-later services like Klarna. Unless you are selling something life saving or in the realm of healthcare or other necessities, offering this only helps financially vulnerable people into debt; young people
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Actually, booking.com has dropped that last requirement in the whole of Europe due to legislative pressure. Hotels can now offer cheaper rates if they wish. This was already the case in Belgium, Italy, and France, and is now policy for all
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
They meant here on HackerNews. The only thing I really miss sometimes is a way to quote without resorting to indented code blocks. > Just a tiny hint that any paragraph like this starting with a greater-than sign is a quote.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
No support for code blocks still: ```java String x = "xxx"; ``` No quoting: The docs for `libfloof` state: > The floof is 4 bytes long, at most. And when I type `code` with backticks at the start
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Leaving the ethical discussion aside; from a practical standpoint this won't impact anyone worried about privacy using Firefox unless they insist on not using an ad-blocker (which would be add odds with caring about privacy¹). This fea
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Ah indeed. I thought both games mentioned where Japanese; only the latter example (Fate/Grand Order) is.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Like Chinoiserie in the 18th century, with this cultural borrowing — in this case, of a bird found across most of Europe — the designers using these symbols are not engaged in, or particularly renowned for, presenting an accurate portrayal.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
There is a Dutch chain of baby necessities which is owned by a fundamentalist Christian. You wouldn't know except for the infuriating message their websites (there where some mergers and I think this affects two large online shops) on
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Believing that would be most inconvenient for a rather large number of actors though. Are there any known high-profile experiments where targetted versus content-related advertising was compared? Somehow it seems that targetted advertising
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
With no apparent way of unlocking these devices promised or foreshown in the article, I wonder how long those e-types already sold with the on-line requirement will keep working. Pretty soon the 'e' at the end of the model number
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Not at all. This appears to be an actual router for rail, not a router for public transport by train. That is, if you happen to own a nice locomotive, and miraculously have unimpeded direct access to all railways, then this tool will be a u
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It would make for a brilliant plot for a whodunnit. Who murdered Norman? Everyone claims to have loved him, yet they all stand to benefit from his demise (i.e., not getting your shit on fire every other episode). (It turns out to have been
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Only for a completely private enterprise. For public transport the tickets are only part of the income. Often citizens already pay taxes which can be used to subsidize transport. Just like roads are really.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Just enable the compose key and forget all about having to memorize numbers. Just tap [compose][-][-][-] for —, and [compose][-][-][.] for –.

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