mvexel

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by mvexel 4y ago
The statement is at least partly true. Nearly all big corporations and many smaller ones have people on the payroll contributing to OSM. And there are entire countries where paid / commercial editing makes up the majority of contributi
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by mvexel 4y ago
This is a pattern that OSM could adopt. OSM data is used by about half of FAANG and countless smaller companies and organizations directly and indirectly (through Mapbox for example), so your contributions are seen by millions if not billio
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by mvexel 4y ago
I maintain a website called MapRoulette which is not pure gamification but breaks down map contributions into small tasks. It has some elements of gamification (badges, leaderboard). For more task-based editing with gamification elements ch
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by mvexel 4y ago
Some background from the guy who maintains this site at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zverik/diary/399925 . There is a script (disclaimer, that I wrote) to set up a couple of docker images so you can crea
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by mvexel 4y ago
Not necessarily cool perhaps but a critical piece of OSM infrastructure is osm2pgsql[1]. Also important tools in OSM land are osmium[2] and imposm[3] but the latter I think is Go not C++. [1] https://osm2pgsql.org/ [2] htt
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by mvexel 4y ago
It already kind of is crippled, compared to the Android app. The Garmin iOS app doesn't (can't?) support sending a quick reply to an incoming text message from the watch, for example, something you can do when connected to an Andr
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by mvexel 4y ago
Not quite sure if this is related, but since there's a bunch of statements in there referencing rust: I had to install the rust compiler on my Mac (`brew install rust` if you use homebrew). This is not mentioned in the installation ins
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by mvexel 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this. The way I go about developing my base in Factorio reflects how I go about developing software. What's interesting is that in playing Factorio, the weaknesses in my approach are more readily apparent (
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by mvexel 4y ago
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - about a large scale 1950s public housing project in Saint Louis (Missouri, US). Built in the mid-50s, riddled with problems pretty much from the start, torn down in 1972. Interesting insight into the failure of post-w
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by mvexel 4y ago
There's no shifting going on, what users put in is what OSM stores, nothing more, nothing less. As to why, I wasn't in the room when that decision was made, but the design philosophy of the OSM data model is to leave things as ope
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by mvexel 4y ago
They definitely don't make it super convenient. With NYT I have to jump through the same hoop every day, with WSJ about once a week. On the plus side, it helps make the decision to read an article (or the news at all) more deliberate.
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by mvexel 4y ago
Typically, you log in to your library web site, they will give you a magic link to the paywalled web site which then gives you a 'subscription' that is good for the day.
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by mvexel 4y ago
Worth noting that at least in the United States, your public library likely provides free access to some paywalled / subscription sites. Mine has NYT, WSJ, Consumer Reports and a bunch of others.
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by mvexel 4y ago
There’s Mapillary (acquired by meta but imagery is free to use in most cases) and KartaView (Grab). Both are crowdsourced platforms. https://www.mapillary.com/ https://kartaview.org/landing
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by mvexel 4y ago
I think that was what it was actually called back then too! Interesting that it's lived on all that time.
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by mvexel 4y ago
Very cool. Reminds me of the "Wochenende-ticket" DB sold in the 90s. It was something like 30DM and was good for travel on all regional DB trains for up to 5 people. I used it with a group of friends to travel to Berlin from The N
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First-Hand: ETAK, an early vehicle navigation system (2015)(ethw.org)
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by mvexel 5y ago
As some other commenters have said -- often, the "print" function will give you a more concise / readable version. I keep a recipe folder with PDFs "printed" from recipe web sites. It would be nice if this app would
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by mvexel 5y ago
Commodore DOS was never formally made open source either, was it?
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by mvexel 5y ago
Ugh, this thread made me go down a rabbit hole and I ended up bidding on a C64C on eBay. (I had a C64 as a kid but sold it to be able to afford an Amiga 500. No regrets.) Amazed at how much of a market there still is! Now I need to figure o
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by mvexel 5y ago
Same. GEOS was really cool, I was blown away by the 80 column mode. But it felt more like a gimmick and I never ended up really using it for anything real. But then again, I was 10 years old and more interested in playing Raid on Bungeling
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by mvexel 5y ago
That, and OP, reminded me of the Eames "Powers of 10" film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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by mvexel 5y ago
Is this browser preferable, from a privacy perspective, over using regular Chrome without signing in to Google, disabling any built-in convenience services (such as Safe Browsing) that phone home, and switching your default search engine to
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by mvexel 5y ago
I could not agree more with this approach. The Economist is excellent, and because they are a weekly publication, their reporting can be more thoughtful and detached from the outrage du jour. They also have excellent podcasts: the daily Int
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by mvexel 5y ago
Has the Lenovo warranty really gotten worse? The author doesn't specify but speaks of the "incredible" warranty on the Thinkpads in the past tense. I purchased an X220 in 2011 with the 3 year next business day warranty plan a
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by mvexel 5y ago
Realizing that most arguments made here are perfectly valid in either case, it strikes me as ironic that nobody seems to question the authenticity of the image that spawned this discussion in the first place.
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by mvexel 5y ago
Filter by presence of header List-Id takes care of bypassing your inbox for most any list-like email.
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by mvexel 5y ago
No, I looked it up and I got this wrong: * HAM6 (the original "OCS" HAM, A1000/500/600) supported 4096 colors * HAM8 (AGA, A1200 / A4000) supported 2^24 colors / around 2^18 simultaneous https://en.w
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by mvexel 5y ago
The YT link to the Computer Chronicles interview with Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery of NewTek is dead. Here is an alternate one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHjfIKD6zA Enjoyed watching this. I remember seeing a Video
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by mvexel 5y ago
I've been using the BBBike[0] service for my OSM based Garmin map needs. It exports Garmin img map files optimized for various use cases from OSM data on demand. [0] https://extract.bbbike.org/

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