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by jmkb 7y ago
No way anyone in West Texas would bother driving all the way to Sabine... see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22149320
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by jmkb 7y ago
OpenStreetMap's definition of Beaverton is quite complicated: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/423111 It includes several cut-outs for neighborhoods (including Cedar Hills) and other features. I'd guess
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by jmkb 7y ago
Wordpad is great for reading and authoring documents with text attributes but without page formatting. It's comparable to TextEdit on MacOS. And compared to Word or LibreOffice it produces extremely clean RTF code. (Or it used to, have
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by jmkb 7y ago
It's more like a usenet/twitter hybrid than reddit.
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by jmkb 7y ago
Car burglary != car theft. The 70/day number refers to break-ins, generally a broken car window and stolen belongings -- loose change, usb charger, fuzzy dice, laptop, whatever.
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by jmkb 7y ago
Are "pants" good or bad? I can never remember...
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by jmkb 7y ago
N.b., it's the stated policy of OpenStreetMap to not take information from Google... not primarily out of zealotry, but because Google's terms of service conflict with the ODBL license, and they don't want the organisation
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by jmkb 7y ago
It's an early implementation of the same idea as the mouse scroll wheel. Engage scroll lock, and the arrow keys are used for scrolling the current text view instead of moving the cursor. The idea of also using it to pause scrolling con
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by jmkb 7y ago
> When all three switches are off, power is also killed to sensors a la "Lockdown Mode" Personally, with all these switches off, I'd still want GPS for offline navigation.
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by jmkb 7y ago
If your browsing history is of value, than giving it (or even just the portions of it that are manually typed into the url bar) away is a cost to you. You can't point to a dollar amount on an invoice, so in that sense it's not &qu
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by jmkb 7y ago
Seashore (a severely gimped GIMP) is a decent simple editor for OSX. https://github.com/robaho/seashore
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by jmkb 8y ago
I could imagine having a file with correctly-synced subs in the wrong language. Maybe that would be a good reference file. (I think you're correct subbing "subtitles file" for "video file".)
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by jmkb 8y ago
While we're dreaming, how about ports in the front! Miss my aluminum tower.
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by jmkb 8y ago
In my experience, most people simply use "alum" for the singular, "alums" for the plural. Dropping the n, even!
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by jmkb 8y ago
(a.k.a. former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, for the title-too-long-can't-parse crowd.)
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by jmkb 8y ago
The article's a fun read, and indicates that the originals were a product of Chinese tailors using Japanese kimono fabric in a hybrid Filipino/European style at the request of middle-class Hawaiian school boys.
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by jmkb 8y ago
You can try Kurviger -- it uses OpenStreetMap data and chooses "fun" curving routes using the Graphhopper routing engine. https://kurviger.de/en
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by jmkb 8y ago
The New York City Office of Emergency Management has a "pre-fab brownstone" demo assembled in downtown Brooklyn. They're hoping to be able to relocate entire neighborhoods when another event like Sandy hits. https:/&#x2
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by jmkb 8y ago
And it's similar in form to verbs like detect and protect. Maybe the noun should be architector.
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by jmkb 8y ago
On both Aloha 243 and United 811, it was the first-class cabin that broke apart. In both cases seatbelts kept passengers from being sucked out of their seats. Aloha 243 lost a flight attendant who wasn't buckled in... but United 811 lo
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by jmkb 8y ago
> “we found the suspect’s fingerprints at the scene, is it possible the suspect wasn’t there?” This is a perfect example of "begging the question"! Hopefully we can ammend the question with "we found a fingerprint at the s
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by jmkb 8y ago
The default search functionality on OSM ("reverse geocoding" in mapspeak) does, indeed, need a lot of improvement. It's actually a separate project called Nominatim[1]. It's on Github and you can browse the issues and se
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by jmkb 8y ago
> Creating an account is a pain point for some people. Fair enough. And even fairer, if you're not an experienced mapper you may easily be able to spot a problem but not be sure how exactly to fix it. OSM has you covered -- right-cl
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by jmkb 8y ago
After spending some time adding info to OSM, you'll start to see plenty of cases where Google and Yelp have info for an establishment that's nowhere to be found on their website. And even for some businesses that don't have a
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by jmkb 8y ago
Go Map!! ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!! ) is pretty good for iOS.
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by jmkb 8y ago
Updating OpenStreetMap is incredibly easy. Create an account, click edit (iD, the javascript-based map editor, is intuitive and highly functional), make changes, click "save." The hard part is learning how to map well. The documen
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by jmkb 9y ago
Yes, compañero, this is pretty much what I was getting at. I said it was a little more understandable, but I didn't mean to imply it was correct.
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by jmkb 9y ago
I guess "Fifteen years ago, American armed forces and American mercenaries destroyed my country at the bidding of the democratically elected leaders, but with only partial consent of the citizens" was too wordy. To be serious, bla
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by jmkb 9y ago
It's a little odd to hold a civilian citizen of a despotic regime accountable for his government's actions.
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by jmkb 9y ago
The obvious solution is to remove the on-street car parking on at least one side of any street that hosts a bike lane, and use the space for a separated bike route with a protective barrier. Unfortunately I doubt it's politically feasi

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