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by ImaCake 3y ago
There is a QGIS plugin for this API as well which is excellent. Note that in openstreetmap.com you can zoom in and query items (cursor with question mark icon) to get the feature information that you then use in Overpass. Very useful!
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yep. This is what makes QGIS such a great option. Being open source means it is both free and you can easily get your hands on old versions should you need them. It’s success comes from having a good enough GUI these days.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
At least for static representations, you can get some amazing quality GIS visualisations from QGIS with minimal experience and a bit of work. Paid online GIS visualisations have to compete with some pretty good open source stuff that is o
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by ImaCake 3y ago
> It’s not that I think the companies are the problem, it’s the machineries and imperatives of Late Capitalism, which for a while we foolishly thought Internet companies could route around. Blaming “late capitalism” for google’s institut
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by ImaCake 3y ago
My entry into birdwatching was a superzoom camera and the AI identification tool in iNaturalist. These days I don’t need much tech to ID a bird, but it is what helped me enrich my world in a wonderful way. Smart binos like this just lower t
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by ImaCake 3y ago
For those keeping score. There are roughly 9-11k bird species. So these binos claim to be able to ID +90% of them.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
> So they angled it, changing flight characteristics. Thus, MCAS, because the entire point of keeping the 737 - a 55 year old design - alive is pilots not having to do an entirely new type certificate. Holy hell, anyone who does computer
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I find this genuinely incomprehensible. I have never encountered a single person who was not technically proficient in the team’s tasks across the 10 years of my hodgepodge career in a variety of semi-independent small teams and currently a
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Depending on which Aussie state you are in, there are consumer protections which allow you to exit these contracts with a simple email. At least this is was the case for me in WA.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I could see iOS safari doing this. It often has a suggested page when you type in the search/URL bar.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Is this because of the data quality and difficulties with merging across CRSes or otherwise slightly differently aligned datasets? I dabble in geospatial data for my work in air quality modelling, accuracy for me means being within approxim
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by ImaCake 3y ago
While there isn’t anything particularly novel in this list, I do like how this highlights the process of technical/science communication. The way to get good at sci comms is to practice it and to query your audience when they don’t und
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by ImaCake 3y ago
In defense of the distracting open plan office, I find that I can only really be productive when I am being disrupted semi-regularly. My talkative boss or my noisy coworker are distracting and theoretically take me out of flow, but ai would
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by ImaCake 3y ago
The internet repeats itself a lot. If you want truly novel and thoughtful content you will want to turn to books. Audiobooks are fine, so are obscure technical corners of the web, what you want is the deep and expert content that is not sur
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by ImaCake 3y ago
That seems like a pretty accurate take on the rationalist movement though? My skepticism with it is that awareness is not enough to overcome bias.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
They do mention it in passing, but there is no way to statistically control for that without a randomised controlled trial (or Mendelian Randomisation). There is no reason to think that working outside hours is the cause of the problem. It
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I had some issues with several sites around 2-3 years ago but I haven’t been experiencing them recently. I guess FF has issues on a fairly small set of sites which some users use a fair bit while most users don’t see those sites at all. The
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by ImaCake 3y ago
The OP link is to a very much alive mastodon instance… so yes its doing fine. No idea about Threads but apparently some people use it.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This is part of the current cycle of fragmentation. Twitter is no longer the centre, but it still holds certain cultural niches. Other niches have migrated to Mastodon or elsewhere. I am personally pretty excited to see this diversification
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Its not just Tesla. Recent Jeep models have a digital speedometer with no analog backup. From an engineering perspective these changes just introduce needless risk of complex failure for no real gain. Surely the speedometer is not the make
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by ImaCake 3y ago
As a counterpoint; I really like threaded posts like these. Each post in the thread becomes a kind of sub-heading or meta-paragraph which allows the user to disengage at well defined stops. At the same time, it’s understandable that people
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by ImaCake 3y ago
You should read the reference we are discussing which makes no such mistakes.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Thanks for stating just how much of a statistical minefield this is. The reference does a great job showing just how wrong the DK studies are. Unfortunately, most people have already made up their minds and are happy to link conflicting blo
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This seems like a blow to accessibility too. Beyond impact adblockers, would this also make it difficult for me to use tools like DarkReader which dynamically overrides the site's styling to implement a less jarring one for my astigmat
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Its the same as Covid where people said it was going to kill everyone or was an authoritarian conspiracy. chatGPT is neither the singularity or useless junk. I use it everyday at work to write code but it’s not about to take my job either.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Similar for me, I take the smallest possible dose of vyvanse that works to balance off the positives and negatives. Honestly, its a similar trade-off with Coffee or sugary foods.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I would argue spotify is more consequential than a new tool generate music then. Spotify et al commodify the access to very obscure and niche music so people are now much more able to access or express themselves with whatever they want. Ma
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Although your point still stands, the iron ore goes out through different ports mostly in the Pilbarra or northern Queensland.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I find it to be much, much faster. Not sure what might be the difference between our experiences here. I basically dont open the windows menu bar anymore, especially since the powertoys run bar has a shutdown keyword too.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
These headlines only work if you are stuck in a behaviouralist view of biology where all animals behave essentially like dumb robots. It was a common view in academia until the 1950s and even later in psychiatry. These days things are muc

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