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by sleavey 7y ago
Does it work with Firefox Sync yet? That's the only thing stopping me from using containers - I've got multiple machines I would need to sync containers between. Last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago) it didn't and
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Ask HN: Are there any good, privacy-respecting health/activity trackers?
4 points by sleavey 7y ago|0 comments
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by sleavey 7y ago
Yeah when I was looking at queues I was put off by Celery since somewhere in its docs or a tutorial high up in the Google results it was suggested to use both redis and RabbitMQ as some sort of brokers/results stores rather than just o
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by sleavey 7y ago
I've not much to say other than that this is a great little library! I used RQ for a small project recently and found it to be pretty easy to use. As my project grew bigger I also found it contained extra features I didn't realise
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by sleavey 7y ago
> And I’m still unclear. Are you trying to serve these tiles to another application? Or are you trying to make a digital/print map? Serve them from local storage to a viewer application. > And SVG is probably excessive for static
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by sleavey 7y ago
Static; thanks for the info. I would ideally like to dump a bunch of SVG tiles for various zoom levels so I can store them in a static directory on my server rather than serve them dynamically. I take it that Mapnik is capable of dumps like
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by sleavey 7y ago
I think many systems are backed by a PostGIS database (an extension for Postgres) with features and their coordinates. Map zoom levels define which features should be visible as layers on the map. A rendering frontend then grabs relevant da
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by sleavey 7y ago
> And to anyone looking to learn GIS: Post GIS, GDAL and any scripting language will make you more powerful than most of the people I know within the field. Funny this article was posted today, because yesterday I was looking into render
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by sleavey 7y ago
Similar: OpenRouteService ( https://maps.openrouteservice.org/ ), based on OpenStreetMap.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Oooh that's a good idea. Does that already exist in other languages? I've not seen it before.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Fixed.
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by sleavey 7y ago
It seems like the Tories have already broken the system permanently. They have far richer supporters than Labour, so more donations, and can therefore pay more to get better prominence in online advertising and so can spread their message f
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by sleavey 7y ago
It depresses me that the World Wide Web, given to everyone for free by Tim Berners-Lee (himself a Brit), is so heavily misused, abused and controlled by corporate and political interests in places like the UK. It was supposed to democratise
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by sleavey 7y ago
And I bet the same media outlets that sent push notifications saying the staffer was punched did not send corrections via the same means. This taps into the problem that apologies for incorrect information in newspapers and TV are not given
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by sleavey 7y ago
I guess images and videos get larger and more frequent on pages as they are updated.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Kind of. It's on GitHub, but not yet in the WordPress plugin archive (I want to test it more with my organisation and some friends first). https://github.com/Academic-Labbook
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by sleavey 7y ago
> "Truly sorry" I'd prefer it if CEOs would rather say "we got too greedy and clearly the market didn't like it" rather than disingenuous apologies.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I'm a big fan of vanilla WordPress, especially the new block editor, but the plugin ecosystem is a total mess. Almost all popular plugins come with a free version that spams you to upgrade to "pro". They add menu items to the
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by sleavey 7y ago
It looks a bit like Facebook: a central column with your "feed" (which is populated with articles from a bunch of interests - "subwikis" - that you choose when you get in for the first time), a left column with other gro
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by sleavey 7y ago
I got an early invite because I donated to WikiTribune; I'm not sure if that meant I skipped some payment sign-up page, but I wasn't required to pay anything to obtain access wt.social.
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by sleavey 7y ago
> I personally think that Wikipedia is one of the most valuable resources on the internet. I would say it's the most important resource on the internet, beyond actual infrastructure like DNS. > Watching WikiTribune flounder in
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by sleavey 7y ago
I'll add my thanks to the others - you must have (had?) a very interesting career.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I haven't seen a search filter for that but you could manually check the probable aircraft on SeatGuru once you find out the flight number from the airline's website.
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by sleavey 7y ago
Me too. I lock down Firefox pretty hard so it's probably some cookie or JavaScript being blocked.
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by sleavey 7y ago
@rougier, one thing I noticed reading it: the link to your research page in the Preface goes to a 404 (for me, at least).
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by sleavey 7y ago
Or for those who disable the location requests. I never give websites permission to see my location (not that it's very useful on desktops without GPS). Almost all websites fall back to a search box when they can't get the locatio
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Ask HN: How to teach Python and good programming practices to Matlab hackers?
2 points by sleavey 7y ago|2 comments
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by sleavey 7y ago
I usually save the recipe from the site directly instead of bookmarking it. I've been burned a few times by a few of the big, spammy recipe sites (Allrecipes, etc.) when they've taken a recipe down. No idea why, but all it did was
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by sleavey 7y ago
Interesting! Yes, possibly genes have some role here. Alternatively I've heard that your taste is affected by your body nutrient levels. A friend of mine found they could not taste zinc sulfate until they started supplementing it. Once
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by sleavey 7y ago
'Old' in the sense that low carbohydrate, high fat diets have been known about for a century or more as a way to treat autism, and in the sense that there are studies from the middle of last century which replaced saturated fat in

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