Doctor_Fegg

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by Doctor_Fegg 3d ago
I had a brief chat with the dev at State of the Map (the OSM conference) a few weeks ago. I think he'd appreciate some help, maybe even a co-maintainer.
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by Doctor_Fegg 7d ago
My 10-year old loved it. I'd shown him a few Road Runner cartoons on YouTube beforehand.
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by Doctor_Fegg 17d ago
> The OpenStreetMap community operates under the “on the ground” principle, recording what is actually currently used in a particular area, giving preeminence to data collected in situ. https://osmfoundation.org/w/
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by Doctor_Fegg 18d ago
> No one stopped to question whether a shapefile of points of park benches could even be copyrightable in the first place. Lots of people did, in fact, consider this.
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Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by Doctor_Fegg 23d ago
Ah, the irony of posting "Your Mac is slowing you down" on the bloated JS hellsite that is X. That page took 10s to appear on my machine (before even thinking of rendering the video) whereas the HN front page is <1s.
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by Doctor_Fegg 23d ago
That’s right, you should do the conventional thing by using gmail, and then you’ll never encounter any difficulties because Google never make capricious decisions like (checks notes) blocking access from certain paying customers using a hal
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by Doctor_Fegg 29d ago
I worked for a public sector organisation around then that had the same chairman (not CEO) as Iceland, sorry, “the Big Food Group”. He was genuinely one of the most obnoxious, bullying people I’ve ever encountered - known internally as the
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by Doctor_Fegg 1mo ago
I remember seeing a river cruiser called "Sir Osis of the River"
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by Doctor_Fegg 1mo ago
I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time. I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contributors' something like "Write about what will be interesting to t
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by Doctor_Fegg 1mo ago
Bending Spoons are all in on AI development. Look at Komoot’s release cadence but also the skyrocketing number of bug reports in the Komoot subreddit.
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by Doctor_Fegg 1mo ago
Generally this means “national” and the sub-board on the OSM discussion forum.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2mo ago
Google employs _engineers_ to figure out the truth. If an import pipeline is causing problems, a higher-up can just say “stop doing that or we’ll stop your pay cheque”. OSM doesn’t have that option. If it didn’t have these guardrails in pla
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by Doctor_Fegg 2mo ago
2018 Mac mini, running Monterey, for webdev and Ruby scripting and it’s still fine. The biggest issue, as ever, is that the OS can only feasibly be upgraded to a certain point and that ultimately limits whether you can run current browsers.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2mo ago
> There only seem to be two things that this “app” does, that a webpage might not have, and they’re both anti-features: > It reports tracking data associated with your Google Account back to the developers. Fortunately webpages never
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by Doctor_Fegg 2mo ago
CRT data is not open - it has an (entirely pointless) non commercial clause.
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by Doctor_Fegg 4mo ago
Your regular reminder that OpenStreetMap has something like two or three FTEs and anchors $1bn of value.
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by Doctor_Fegg 4mo ago
Please consider diverting your efforts to OpenStreetMap! The TIGER-derived basemap still needs fixup, but your work will benefit everyone, not just the Google shareholders who ultimately own Waze.
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by Doctor_Fegg 6mo ago
Switching modes like that was common practice on the Amstrad CPC (which used the same 6845 video chip), but as time went on, people also learned how to change the base address of screen RAM part way through each frame. This gave you super-s
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by Doctor_Fegg 6mo ago
> I’ve never actually had anyone complain about me sending them ODT or ODS files since even the said MS Office doesn’t have a big issue with those. On a Mac, I can read .doc(x), .xls(x) and .rtf without installing any additional software
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by Doctor_Fegg 7mo ago
Luxury. I dialled into FidoNet with my 64k Amstrad CPC (contd. p94. Mein gott I’m old)
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by Doctor_Fegg 7mo ago
Mapillary is of course owned by Meta these days.
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by Doctor_Fegg 7mo ago
Ah, we haven't had an "ORMs bad" post for at least three days.
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by Doctor_Fegg 7mo ago
Disk was already the standard spelling in the UK by 1984 (in a computing context), just as program was used in preference to programme. But Amstrad mistyped it as disc on the plastic mouldings for their first CPC, and were too cheap to chan
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by Doctor_Fegg 7mo ago
Interesting! I've recently plumped for UIKit (with bits of SwiftUI dropped in) for a new mapping app because, as you say, SwiftUI map support is virtually non-existent. Have you thought about adding Maplibre support as an alternative t
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by Doctor_Fegg 8mo ago
You literally get shadowbanned for posting the three letters “cis”.
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by Doctor_Fegg 8mo ago
Absolutely yes. It’s happening every week of the year with the better Substack-style startups in the UK (London Centric, Manchester Mill etc.).
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by Doctor_Fegg 8mo ago
Also known as Oxford Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_time
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by Doctor_Fegg 9mo ago
Organ improvisation is a remarkable art, whether or not accompanying a silent film. In any of France's great cathedrals, the foremost musical experience is to hear the "titulaire" (essentially the headline organist) improvisi
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by Doctor_Fegg 9mo ago
It’s second nature very quickly. Our train into Oxford leaves at ten past the hour. You find yourself thinking “oh, I’ll aim for the ten past eleven” an hour or two beforehand and organise your morning accordingly. It’s absolutely no hardsh

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