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by omnibrain 1y ago
For development (and experimenting & learning) I run my own Nominatim instance. My customers who use the geocoding and mapping feature in production are very into data privacy and sovereignity, so they had Geofabrik build them their own
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Positionstack is missing from the comparison, so I spare you the story how they had a weeks long outage right after I implemented it in our software... The trouble with most of the geo and map stuff is, that pricing is one dimension, but mo
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by omnibrain 1y ago
> Cosmos 1999 Space: 1999. Do you happen to be french or polish? In Germany they called it "Mondbasis Alpha". As I child I really liked this series and it's predecessor UFO made by the same team (Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
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by omnibrain 1y ago
Buying a dishwasher with a third rack right at the top for cutlery fixes that.
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Funny seeing Kerala here. Just a few days ago I got a post into my timeline where someone wrote about taking a forest road out of Kerala in the evening and what a bad idea that was, because of Google Maps not working right and wild animals
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State of Vue.js Report 2025(monterail.com)
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Or when they renamed Lync to Skype for Business, which had nothing to do with Skype.
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by omnibrain 2y ago
I can pinpoint the burst (at least for me) to a very specific date. March 21st 2000. When Lycos Europe IPOed and closed the day below its issue price.
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Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany(sciencedirect.com)
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What would a EVE Online Internet look like? (2019)(blog.benjojo.co.uk)
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Laetrile: A Lesson in Cancer Quackery(acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Could have been part of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_anthology_television_se... There must be tons of stuff locked in the Disney vaults to never surface again.
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by omnibrain 2y ago
This is a true piece of art!
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Back in the 90ies, in "middle school", we did the layout in our school newspaper with that. It made me even considering a DTP career.
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by omnibrain 2y ago
> If you have any important posts that you would like to keep, now is the time to copy and save them for yourself. Have you considered putting the site into "readonly-mode"? Or are you afraid of skeletons in then closet?
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by omnibrain 2y ago
My personal head canon is that Steve Jobs personally cancelled ZFS in OSX because Jonathan Schwartz prematurely announced it.
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by omnibrain 2y ago
In my mind it's the most beautiful building in Germany. Change my mind. ;) I knew for years that this building exists, at least by name, but nothing prepared me when I visited and event at the neighboring fairground in 2018 turning a c
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Europe's $1B Abandoned Mega-Build [video](youtube.com)
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Well, SAP initially stood for "Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung".
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by omnibrain 2y ago
10 years or so ago I shocked coworkers with using U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE mid in filenames on windows. So funnypicturegnp.exe became funnypictureexe.png Combined with a custom icon for the program that mimics a picture preview it was
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by omnibrain 2y ago
> It has _a lot_ of mosquitoes Can mosquitoes transmit prions?
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Donglegate(en.wikipedia.org)
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Open Perspectives Exchange Network (Open)(openpublications.org)
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Capitalism?
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by omnibrain 2y ago
The state of all things Me/CFS is so bad. I remember reading about cases as a child in some boulevard or women’s magazine at my grandmas house, so it must have been about 25 years ago. Seemingly nothing happened since then. Even the ex
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by omnibrain 2y ago
There is also the ikey ak-39. And I think that was it (apart from custom builds). I would have imagined that you can stuff like this on Ali & Co., but no...
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Tryna? (2012) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution(meaningness.com)
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by omnibrain 2y ago
Who's next? Sam Bankman-Fried or Elizabeth Holmes?
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by omnibrain 2y ago
No, "Rule of Law" means "Rechtsstaatlichkeit". What you mean is "It's law, so it's always right" i.e. "Rechtspositivismus".

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