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by ellenhp 4y ago
Planetiler isn't for hosting tiles, but generating them. For a planet-scale tile generation job it's the difference between hundreds or thousands of dollars in VPS fees and being able to generate them locally on a modestly equippe
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by ellenhp 4y ago
I think this was the push I needed to apply for Github Sponsors. Keep an eye on the project though, I'd really love feedback from people passionate about transit! Feel free to email me too if you have ideas of what the UX should be. el
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by ellenhp 4y ago
I'm planning on tackling transit this weekend!
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by ellenhp 4y ago
Mostly just that you can self-host this stack and keep your location information private (the way it should be). If you're fine sharing your current and future whereabouts with people then there's no need to self-host so you'
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by ellenhp 4y ago
Planetiler is amazing! Thank you for your work.
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by ellenhp 4y ago
Lots of it is stuff that I've picked up over the years. I work(ed) in the maps industry for the last 4 years or so, until I was laid off about a week and a half ago. I do interact with OSM a little bit in the docker image generation bu
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by ellenhp 4y ago
They don't host anything IIRC. But most of the FOSS maps ecosystem is based around their schema. I know Planetiler uses it at least.
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by ellenhp 4y ago
That sounds wonderful! This project is primarily focused on people who want to self-host a google maps replacement, but self-hosting isn't for everyone so I think it would be really cool to host an instance that would work for most peo
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by ellenhp 4y ago
I'd really love feedback and suggestions by the way! I have a fair amount of experience in maps but I've never just built an entire maps web app from scratch so I'm kind of stumbling through a lot of it, especially the web fr
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Show HN: Self-Hosted Maps Stack(maps.ellenhp.me)
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by ellenhp 5y ago
I guess I'm also an idiot then, thanks, how kind of you to say that. Actually hang on, I'm editing this to be slightly meaner. Your whole take that doing this is a sign that she's either an idiot or on a power trip is a very
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by ellenhp 5y ago
It's also possible that she hadn't seen the particular algorithm used before, or that she was having an off day or stressing about a meeting immediately after the interview, or that there were errors that she did see and she didn&
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Yeah. If I were asking a trickier question and I got an interesting new variant of the solutions I'm aware of, I'd absolutely run it if I had time to type it up and everything. Most solutions are either something I've seen be
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Are you saying that because this interviewer needs to run code to find logic errors, she's somehow not a competent engineer? Because I usually need to run code to find logic errors. Sometimes I use formal verification instead but that&
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Not to be pedantic but that's not what that means. That means that the slide was pulled back then released with the slide lock activated either manually or by an empty magazine. It's advisable to store pistols in this way with the
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by ellenhp 5y ago
I know you said you don't agree but you left that position up without a rebuttal so here goes. What if someone managed to dump of the personal information of everyone in an online support group for LGBT folks and published it. That&#x2
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by ellenhp 5y ago
I'm not smart enough to know what some of these words mean or if this guy is being truthful, but I found this comforting to read as a GrapheneOS user: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Is the idea that a nontechnical person might trust Apple really that outlandish to you? Do you have, like, family members or nontechnical friends?
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by ellenhp 5y ago
If you have an SSB radio that you can hook up to a PC's sound card using VOX to activate the transmitter, you can use WSJT-X or similar software to do lots of digital modes like WSPR, PSK31, FT-8 and whatever's hot these days. I t
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Forget the radio heating up and cooling down, my cat walking by the coax going to my antenna is going to affect my SNR more than an airplane thousands of miles away will :)
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by ellenhp 5y ago
With a big antenna array for beamforming, sure, you can do that. You absolutely cannot do over the horizon radar on 10 watts with two omnidirectional antennas though.
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by ellenhp 5y ago
I mean, sure, measuring occlusion like this is possible in VHF, UHF and beyond. And radar is a real thing that exists, and you can even do passive radar, but to my knowledge you cannot do any of this outside the line of sight of the transmi
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by ellenhp 5y ago
Yeah I'm not an expert in this stuff but I am an extra-class radio amateur and this sets off literally all my intellectual alarm bells. I'll take one for the team and go read the report but I agree that it seems like pure unadulte
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by ellenhp 5y ago
I think this is my first-ever comment on HN, and I'm basically just chiming in to say that under no circumstances should you even be talking to police in a situation like this. You can politely ask for a lawyer, politely ask if you&#
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by ellenhp 7y ago
Google's standard issue monitors are standard density. FAANG employees aren't used to fancy monitors, and can certainly get by without them. Edited to remove a claim that I haven't seen 4k monitors, since I just realized the