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by MRPockets 7y ago
Their new pricing is listed here - https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/ I don't know what their previous prices were, but iirc, Map Loads for Web previously got 25000-35000 free loads/month. I have never come clos
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OpenStreetMap Foundation investigation into unusual membership signups [pdf](openstreetmap.lu)
106 points by MRPockets 8y ago|12 comments
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by MRPockets 8y ago
>The big difference is that the chance that ALL devices on a brand new laptop will work out of the box (including all the bells and whistles like sleep modes, audio routing when adding/removing Bluetooth gear, multiple external disp
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by MRPockets 8y ago
I had not considered that. I definitely "turn the page" much more than once every 15 minutes when I am reading on my ereader. When you take that into consideration, these Rdot screens are roughly 4 times as efficient AND have colo
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by MRPockets 8y ago
My calculations might be wrong, but it looks like these Rdot displays use significantly less energy than Memory LCDs. Using numbers from Sharp[0], Memory LCDs use ~226µJ/cm2 each second when static. I'm assuming they are 60Hz disp
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by MRPockets 8y ago
I'm not sure I am reading the article correctly, but it looks to me that this new display tech uses less energy than EInk for the initial image creation, but then requires quite a bit more (0.25mJ/cm2 is greater than 0mJ/cm2,
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by MRPockets 9y ago
I use Wire[0] now. It offers IM, voice messages, voice & video calls, & a decent set of unobtrusive "silly" features (voice filters, ability to send drawings, etc). Finding people is generally easy but for some reason, it
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'No compelling technical reason to return to Windows,' says Munich's IT chief(techrepublic.com)
5 points by MRPockets 10y ago|1 comments
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by MRPockets 10y ago
As an infrequent but repeat contributor to OSM, this is fantastic! While there is an historic bias against automated edits (sometimes for good reasons but I do often wonder...), automating the tedious parts of mapping is, imho, a very good
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by MRPockets 11y ago
I don't have an answer for where to bury it (though recycling it really ought to be an option. Politics prevents that right now) but the movement of the waste is actually a problem that has been largely solved. Nuclear flasks are desig
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by MRPockets 11y ago
The answer lies in your question. State =\= Congress.