harry-wood

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by harry-wood 1y ago
There's a couple of options listed here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocoding "Photon" and "Pelias" which were built on ElasticSearch
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by harry-wood 1y ago
The "Learning on the job" section brought back some memories of my experiences solo-developing a rails app. I made some of the same mistakes, although I think I mostly made the mistake of avoiding learning. I knew I should be
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by harry-wood 2y ago
Simulating physics of muscles/skeleton structures has been done many times over, and I feel like the focus on eyes and vision is what makes this one interesting. Anyway it's quite a fun category of youtube video: https:/&#x2
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by harry-wood 2y ago
I've ended up keeping a bit of list of events listing websites here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_Weekend_Howto#In... So I've added radius.to to that. This is for running community events for O
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by harry-wood 4y ago
There's a typo in the "Mission" section "Only by limiting the reliance on AI and continue to create original content can propel us forward as a species". An AI wouldn't have made that kind of mistake
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by harry-wood 4y ago
yes. I see what you're saying. heads out into the street to start a fist fight
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by harry-wood 4y ago
Strong nostalgia whenever I see the BBC Elite opening screen! These days we can re-live it easily in the browser: https://bbc.godbolt.org/?autoboot&disc=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FEli... Although I can also recommend "oolit
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by harry-wood 4y ago
Similar. That Christmas when my dad & I started working through the BBC BASIC manual, I thought that this was the exciting experience of owning a computer which my friends were all on about (and I was excited by it!) ...It was only so
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by harry-wood 4y ago
If you can pinpoint the data in OpenStreetMap we could try to figure out if this is something wrong in the map data (Anyone can fix it!), or maybe it's a tag they should be filtering out on the OpenRailwayMap rendering.
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by harry-wood 4y ago
There's another site called https://openstationmap.org/ which shows some details within train stations in a fun 3D way, letting you flip through the "levels" data (Again, all data from OpenStreetMap). I feel
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by harry-wood 4y ago
Memset is based in the UK. Used them a few years back, but I'm afraid we moved to AWS after a few too many reliability issues.
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by harry-wood 4y ago
I didn't understand that bit to be honest. Maybe because I'm from the UK. Why was the media coverage in the years after 9/11 disastrous?
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by harry-wood 4y ago
But "early Rails hype/philosophy" is the only thing you've said specifically about Rails. I think I know what you mean though. There are strong philosophies in the Rails (and more generally ruby) communities. Opinionated
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by harry-wood 4y ago
Top search result for "alternative music notation" is https://www.dodekamusic.com which looks like it has the same ideas, plus a rectangular rhythm design which makes it all _look_ different at a glance (for better or
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by harry-wood 5y ago
The twinkling children's TV style background music in that video is not making it any less creepy.
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by harry-wood 5y ago
"reasonable perceived effort" or maybe "reasonable perceived smarts". I think wordle fools us into thinking we're smart. Even though on some level we know it cannot take genius, it _feels_ like we've done somet
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by harry-wood 5y ago
Yeah "not in an annoying way" is certainly debatable. Personally I'm not annoyed by it, but I can see why people would be. Whoever made this spoiler bot seemed pretty annoyed by it :-) https://twitter.com/danc
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by harry-wood 5y ago
The worst offenders seem to be news sites run by traditional newspapers. Friends share links to these quite a lot, and very often I follow the link to an article that sounds quite interesting, and then... As you say, text jumping around, gi
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by harry-wood 5y ago
Yes. I didn't do much with wordpress for years, but always thought of it as a very open-source-ish community. Recently I find myself taking on a pre-existing wordpress site with a lot of plugins. I was quite surprised by the way so man
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by harry-wood 5y ago
Yeah. There's bizarre situations where 'view source' shouldn't really be necessary/beneficial and yet somehow it's a handy life skill. I remember doing it while booking a flight on RyanAir (Very bad website. I
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by harry-wood 5y ago
Building a browser as a desktop application would be quite hard, but I reckon I do it as a web application.
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by harry-wood 5y ago
The bit about petroleum solvents, makes me wonder about sinkholes. "causes it to dissolve and break down into a non-load-bearing sludge", so if some joker tips a bottle of that in the park then a sludgy hole in the ground will sta
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by harry-wood 5y ago
Yeah that's been my impression at a lot of hackathons, but I think it has be accepted at least to some extent, as just "good preparation" rather than cheating. In fact I'd recommend doing it (Pre-wrangle the dataset into
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by harry-wood 5y ago
There's usually quite a strong "time crunch" element. In my more snooty moods I say hackathons only teach bad habits and how to throw together software in a dreadfully hacky rushed manner. But in truth these are not always ba
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by harry-wood 5y ago
yes I'd like to know more details. This video shows a bit more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hN3dBpPu8Q Bi-drectional? Looks like those adjusting flaps are to make it bi-directional yes, but maybe the angled legs
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by harry-wood 6y ago
I can recommend OpenStreetMap alternatives mentioned at the end of the article. I'm not sure why it says they "still collect data". Pretty sure OsmAnd and Maps.ME are not collecting data in any surprising/evil ways (part
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by harry-wood 6y ago
Is it open data? (meaning open licensed) https://ebird.org/science/download-ebird-data-products "eBird provides open data access in several formats" - sounds good! "to logged-in users" - less
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by harry-wood 6y ago
Also https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti and loads more: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti#notable-derivatives-or...
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by harry-wood 6y ago
I've come across these kinds of prototype link sharing sites in my battles with SEO spam. On the face of it SEO spam is simple: the bad guys bung a load of links into your wiki or blog comments in the hope of gaining google rankings fo
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by harry-wood 6y ago
My high school experience (in the UK three decades ago) doesn't really fit with this blog. We were taught quite a lot about scientific methods to the point where we often wanted the science teacher to just stop with meta-teaching and

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