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by jakecopp 3y ago
Canberra, Australia (the capital) also has banned outdoor advertising since the 1930s (except near the airport): https://www.abc.net.au/canberra/programs/breakfast/should-ad...
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by jakecopp 3y ago
> RSS isn't dead, it's the backbone of podcasts, but it's such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn't available as RSS. In case you didn't know - you can append .rss at the end of a Mast
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by jakecopp 3y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. Moderation in the fediverse (inc. Mastodon & Lemmy) means defederating from "problematic" instances, where problematic is defined in the rules of the server doing the federating server (which
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by jakecopp 3y ago
Definitely would prefer the map (and associated pages/possibly form in future) to the be main interface. The Google Form makes it very easy to bootstrap collecting emails (reliably) to prevent any spam that may be submitted, but it&#x2
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by jakecopp 3y ago
You don't have to set up another instance - this site works for anywhere in Australia (or the world - but maybe their traffic lights are too different. Currently I just default the view to Sydney but this could be modified to view wher
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by jakecopp 3y ago
I also wrote a blog post on beg buttons in the Sydney CBD: https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/sydney-cbd-is-bringing-bac... (194 comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058004 )
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by jakecopp 3y ago
You can add data for intersections in Melbourne! The default view is Sydney but it works everywhere. PRs welcome for setting initial landing coordinates to rough geolocation!
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by jakecopp 3y ago
Transport for NSW, the government agency which controls traffic signal timing in Sydney and NSW, has an excellent stated goal of increasing walking and cycling trips – and reducing pedestrian wait times at intersections. However, there is n
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Mapping pedestrian traffic light timing in Sydney, Australia(jakecoppinger.com)
79 points by jakecopp 3y ago|51 comments
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by jakecopp 3y ago
> Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Yes we do! It's called Lemmy - it's built on ActivityPub, is Mastodon compatible, and people actually use it! https://lemmy.ml/post/1147
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by jakecopp 3y ago
Open Standard != open license, in case you the title also made you think that!
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by jakecopp 3y ago
Original has a 429, alternative link for this post thanks to the Fediverse! https://mastodon.social/@jonty@chaos.social/1103075321453803...
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Bank failures as a stacked bar chart(observablehq.com)
2 points by jakecopp 3y ago|0 comments
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‘Knee-jerk reaction’: Sydney cycle path to be ripped up months after opening(smh.com.au)
2 points by jakecopp 3y ago|0 comments
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by jakecopp 4y ago
I wrote this blog post about creating a 3D model of Town Hall train station by walking around with an iPhone, and then creating a poster of a cross-section projection of it! Aren’t the escalator and staircase crossovers a beautiful symmetri
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Subterranean Sydney: A Cross-Section of Town Hall Station Made with iPhone Lidar(jakecoppinger.com)
3 points by jakecopp 4y ago|1 comments
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by jakecopp 4y ago
In case anyone doesn't know - the founder of Beeper is Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble! Beeper originated out of their troubles getting messaging on the Pebble working. > “We really wanted Pebble to be able to send iMessages,
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by jakecopp 4y ago
I see the quantized model is supplied. > Note: the full model on GPU (16GB of RAM required) performs much better in our qualitative evaluations. Is there a download for a trained full model?
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Meta Is Creating a Decentralized Twitter Alternative Reportedly Codenamed ‘P92’(forbes.com)
12 points by jakecopp 4y ago|1 comments
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Is it possible to download alpaca models with more than 7b parameters?
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Great use of OpenStreetMap data! It would also be interesting to see the distribution of `bus_stop`'s with shelter and seat (full service) verses just a pole. Maybe amenity=shelter or covered=yes - I'm unsure if they're usual
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Similar alternatives exist - see Mapillary [1] (owned by Meta now, but they support OpenStreetMap and allow usage for that [2]) or KartaView [3] (owned by Grab). I'm not aware of an OSM/open place to store/contribute pointclo
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by jakecopp 4y ago
> it would be neat to also have (e.g. open source or DIY electronics) projects which enabled use of lidar tech at home-user prices. I agree! I've heard of "cheap" lidar scanners (Intel Lidar Camera L515 for $375 apparently
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by jakecopp 4y ago
That's not my experience at all - even just driving the drone in a straight line with a 2 second (repating) self timer on I get great models processing in WebODM with the default settings. > it usually entails flying low enough to a
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Thanks! I've moved the table of contents to be just below the images (so the image and intro is above the fold), and "read below" text to the signup. I'll improve the background/design of the subscribe block when I
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Fixed.
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Thanks, fixing now Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20230314002734/https://jakecoppi...
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by jakecopp 4y ago
I haven’t yet, thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look into it!
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by jakecopp 4y ago
Thanks for that - I've heard that feedback once before. I've changed the h2 to an h3. Do you have any tips for how I could make it feel less like the end of the page?
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by jakecopp 4y ago
> The problem (I guess) is that aerial/satellite/orthorectified are not equivalent. Yep I agree - I would call it orthorectified georeferenced imagery but unless you're in the GIS/OSM space you probably don't kno

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