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by jmkb 4y ago
GeoApify[0] is one of these commercial services using OpenStreetMap data. They have a no-friction isochrone "playground"[1] that's sufficient for casual exploration. You can switch the travel mode to "transit" to in
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by jmkb 4y ago
In the vein of principals, yes, privacy for its own sake is valuable to me. In the vein of practicalities, both Google and the justice system (USA for me) are monstrously large bureaucracies known to make difficult-to-redress errors. Google
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by jmkb 4y ago
The language of coding is almost all metaphorical, some food & food-adjacent terms offhand: - bit, byte - server - curry - salted hash - spaghetti code - code smell - syntactic sugar - java And the hardware world is
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by jmkb 4y ago
You missed (at least) one: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddrinking_...
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by jmkb 5y ago
I've always imagined a solar-powered scientific calculator.
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by jmkb 5y ago
Many Houston neighborhoods are quite livable on foot and bike, if you don't mind a little perspiration. There are shops and restaurants scattered all around, sidewalks, even some multiuse trails. The mainstream culture is still overwhe
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by jmkb 5y ago
I tried it in NYC... the map says "Google." If I'm going to be using Google anyway, why not just use the real thing? (This thread lists some possible reasons, obviously.)
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by jmkb 5y ago
> Looking inside changelog of OsmAnd+ I really can't understand why Android 5.x support was dropped It might have something to do with the requirements for the Android Auto integration, which was just added recently.
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by jmkb 5y ago
For hiking and biking, I like Windy Maps. It shows terrain contours and highlights foot and bike trail relations, and has an easy-to-use GPS track recorder. You can also ask for future weather forecasts along a navigation route, which is pr
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by jmkb 5y ago
The 3M "Aura" N95s have a generous and durable nose pad that's basically eliminated this problem for me. They do get extremely humid on the inside though; I have to carry two and swap them every hour.
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by jmkb 5y ago
It sounds like carrying Apple hardware may be the only decent way to detect an unwelcome Airtag. Are there any Android apps that monitor bluetooth traffic for possible stowaways?
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by jmkb 5y ago
Here's a fun story from back in the decade-ago-ish days: My wife couldn't stand cellphones, so I got her hooked on Google Voice for texting, which was great -- texts would show up in the gmail inbox, and you could just reply to th
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by jmkb 5y ago
personally I'm looking forward to "this gourd does not exist"
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by jmkb 5y ago
My favorite skit: "Hey, what are doing inside that crate? Where's the new loudspeaker I ordered?" "I *AM* A LOUD SPEAKER!"
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by jmkb 5y ago
I've spoken with both Amazon delivery workers and Amazon warehouse workers. Small sample set, but the delivery workers seem reasonably satisfied, and the warehouse workers seem abused. In both cases former employees were more willing t
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by jmkb 5y ago
Certainly the phone manufacturer (and OS provider if different) can have a go at anything they want. I'm not sure what all counts as "getting data off" the phone, but some other methods of smartphone tracking: - wifi (som
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by jmkb 5y ago
Supports every written alphabet out of the box, including custom emoji. Compatible with any brand of stylus. Can run thousands of games. Can go years without a charge. Never needs OS updates. Sustainable, recyclable, compostable. Flashlight
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by jmkb 5y ago
The notion of paella purity is powerful enough that Valencians successfully protested Apple's rendering of the "shallow pan of food" emoji because it evoked a non-Valencian paella (or, as they would say, not paella at all but
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by jmkb 5y ago
It usually features shrimp and chorizo, while the classic Valencian paella has chicken and rabbit. (There are many regional paella variations but don't tell a Valencian that.)
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by jmkb 5y ago
Everyone's still trying to top "Headless Body In Topless Bar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style
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by jmkb 5y ago
When it comes to that sort of fine tuning, there's no substitute for JOSM, which is the all-powerful java-based desktop editor with a hundred plugins and a somewhat inscrutable UI. But it's great because it can load several source
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by jmkb 5y ago
Not really. I'm a very happy user of Go Map!! for iOS, which is a much more full-featured map editor but doesn't have the streamlined workflow of StreetComplete.
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by jmkb 5y ago
The last person to edit the page, of course! ;)
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by jmkb 5y ago
Hah, this was my jam in the day. I wrote mods and utilities, custom map generators, custom ship types, fixed a lot of bugs that cheaters would use. Stepped through the code in an assembly language debugger and reverse engineered all the dat
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by jmkb 5y ago
Hah. I assume the English were looking at the budding shoot (aka "garlic scape" [0]) when they named it, whereas the Germans were looking at the knobby root (Knoblauch = knob leek). [0] https://ediblejersey.ediblecommun
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by jmkb 5y ago
My favorite piece-of-land word is "gore," which is either a triangular parcel formed where roads intersect at an acute angle, or a narrow strip of land (usually also an acute triangle) of uncertain ownership resulting from inaccur
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by jmkb 5y ago
Dispatch knowing drivers' locations in realtime would have made this a killer app imo. Car services used to assign pickups based on drivers reporting their location by radio.
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by jmkb 5y ago
Moving in the direction of The Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
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by jmkb 5y ago
Most entrances do not have a human attendant nearby, and the general trend in NYC (and probably most places) has been to replace the humans with vending machines.
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by jmkb 6y ago
Had this in a 70s F150. A "Main - Aux" switch on the dash, right above the 8-track player. I used to let the main tank sputter out on fumes and then triumphantly shout "Rerouting auxiliary power to engine!" while sliding

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