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by mvexel 8y ago
It's surprising how little you actually need, and as you point out, how little more you need for a 3 week trip than you do for an overnight trip. I don't backpack much but my bikepacking checklist is pretty much the same regardles
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by mvexel 8y ago
Okay, there goes my morning... Fascinating. This would have been a fantastic podcast!
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by mvexel 8y ago
I had a chance to visit David Rumsey and his map collection (which this map is a part of) at his home in 2013. The breadth of that collection and this man's dedication to maps is fantastic. This is a picture of his 2013 digitizing setu
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by mvexel 8y ago
Perhaps an example would have helped. With numeric coordinates relative orientation is fairly intuitive. It's simple arithmetic. How does your proposed system replicate that?
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PacManhattan (2004)(pacmanhattan.com)
1 points by mvexel 8y ago|0 comments
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by mvexel 8y ago
> Would beat a 6AM flight (so up at 4:30) Agreed. When the option exists, it's so much nicer than flying. At one point in my career I traveled from Amsterdam to various other European cities for 3-5 day work trips fairly frequently.
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by mvexel 8y ago
I just read that the Austrian national railway is planning to re-introduce them and was surprised. Europe had a pretty decent overnight train network in the 90s and even into the 2000s. Then flying got cheap and people basically didn't
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by mvexel 8y ago
I'm confused about the return policy, on the glossy ordering web site it say 7 days / 1000 miles, but on the T&C page it says 3 days / 500 miles. It's an interesting policy regardless. In sounds like it's pretty
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by mvexel 8y ago
I quite like the design philosophy behind the Punkt phones. It looks like the MP01 is 2G only which would disqualify it for U.S. use. For the MP02 they say > "Please note that some mobile phone service providers in the USA have not
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by mvexel 8y ago
Same. I love it. The things I replaced in the 8 years I've had this machine: Stock HDD -> Samsung 840 SSD, Keyboard (failed within 3yr warranty, they shipped me a new one overnight), and the trackpoint cover. Oh, and the OS, from Wi
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by mvexel 8y ago
I came here to recommend Thinking Fast and Slow. I'm not surprised that it was mentioned a few times already. I am about to head into my third read of it. If I had to pick one concept from this book that had the most impact on my decis
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by mvexel 8y ago
Where I live, all too often there just isn't any runway to do this. When you're trying to merge, say, here: https://binged.it/2DTnemt then all you can really do is rip right into traffic and people will just have
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iPhone SE Makes Another Appearance in the Apple Store(apple.com)
2 points by mvexel 8y ago|0 comments
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by mvexel 8y ago
Perhaps it's time for more granular Javascript blocking. Since forever it's been 'Enable Javascript yes / no'. This makes no real world sense to me anymore (if it ever did). Could there be an end-user friendly way t
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by mvexel 8y ago
Not much better but there's a press release also. https://www.barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_25_anniversar...
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by mvexel 8y ago
I don't think there was an article, hence the link to a merch page, sorry about that. I was a BBEdit user in the late 90s / early 00s. Interesting to see they are still around. I thought it was a magnificent editor at the time.
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BBEdit is turning 25(merch.barebones.com)
32 points by mvexel 8y ago|14 comments
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by mvexel 8y ago
"States' rights" is actually one of the valid answers to question 74 on the naturalization civics test. ("Name one problem that led to the Civil War.") Now I wonder what process led to these 100 questions, and their
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by mvexel 8y ago
Looks like https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61555047 may have been the source of this. It's the only changeset in the history of OSM for the area that contains the offending term. It's from August 10,
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by mvexel 8y ago
If you're looking for something OSM related, be sure to join the OSM US Slack channel and join #jobs there. It's formally for OSM US but people hang out there from all over. Join here: https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com&
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by mvexel 8y ago
Probably not the same cause but the disk ran out of space just now because I neglected to properly purge temp files.
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by mvexel 8y ago
That is a good way to find the boundary relation and one I had not thought of. As for the Overpass API limits -- yes, if folks start to actually use this on any kind of scale, this will croak. I should perhaps do some logging, https:/
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by mvexel 8y ago
Sure, author here. The OSM data model does not have a concept of areas, or polygons. A line feature ('way' in OSM parlance) that shares the same point ('node') for its start and end is usually considered to be an area. T
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by mvexel 8y ago
It works worldwide as long as the ID entered is an OSM boundary relation. Do you have an example you tried that failed?
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Meet Your Mappers: A tool to find OpenStreetMap contributors near you(ma.rtijn.org)
92 points by mvexel 8y ago|24 comments
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by mvexel 8y ago
> My Amiga 1000 handled all my computing for a decade, and it was still a downgrade in 1995 when I begrudgingly switched to a 486. Yes. Many Amiga owners I knew, and I myself, felt that way when it became clear around 1993-4 that the Ami
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by mvexel 8y ago
What does Google Chrome track beyond what you can disable under the Privacy and Security settings, when you're not signed in with a Google account?
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by mvexel 8y ago
I'm seriously curious how they were able to sell that last inventory. Folks buying them for nostalgic reasons? Was there a real market left for top of the line film SLRs that wasn't served by the used camera market? You can get re
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by mvexel 8y ago
Yes, interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. This indicates that there is work to do. All the more reason to open source it.
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OpenStreetCam sign detection code and training data open sourced(openstreetmap.org)
76 points by mvexel 8y ago|6 comments

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