lapetitejort

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by lapetitejort 15d ago
I didn't know about it until one of my submissions was chosen as a second chance. Just one of the many features that old-timers have to pass on to the new blood
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by lapetitejort 21d ago
If you like OldInsuranceMaps, check out another OSM charter project, Yesterdays! Originally created by a team in Richmond, Virginia [0], with one more deployment covering the Inland Empire [1]. They plan to merge soon. Yesterdays imports Sa
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by lapetitejort 26d ago
To extend this analogy: Using the forklift as a spotter and to assist in loading weights increased gains. Then again, a human can do all those things, and provide real human connection.
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by lapetitejort 1mo ago
The minors are not getting the money. However, if I were a minor and knew me signing up for Meta would cost them five figures, I would absolutely sign up
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
I added a MIK rear rack with pannier rails. I bought a seat post collar with screw holes in order to attach it, only to realize the bike doesn't have a seat post collar! And the collar was 1/4 inch too wide for the seat post. I we
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
In an alternate universe the cannonball runners, with their cars silent, unassuming, but blazingly fast won over the car modding scene
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
My ongoing midlife crisis vehicle swerves in a different direction: I bought a 1988 Nishiki 1207 at a yard sale for $40. Mostly stock save for a new seat. With the wheels out of true, the stickers plastered over with garbage, the brakes loo
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
The amount things you can map in OSM is impressive. However I ran into two things that have no formal tags: time capsules (historic=time_capsule), and camera obscuras (camera_type=obscura). You can add the values, but they are not official.
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
I had been using mapcomplete to add images of artwork, which in turn used panoramax. However I saw someone else use Wikimedia Commons, and to me that makes more sense. Wikimedia ties into more systems, so if you wanted to create a Wikipedia
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
I got into OSM and StreetComplete to flesh out intersections, stop signs, and sidewalks in my area. I always felt like I was doing something wrong though. I created crosswalks, then OSM would prompt me to connect the crosswalk to the road v
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by lapetitejort 2mo ago
There's been some recent developments with removing batteries glued to the device: use floss or some other thin string and saw through the glue. The string won't pierce the battery and can fit in tight spots.
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by lapetitejort 3mo ago
I love looking at historical photos of Southern California if only to re-enforce this exact phenomenon. At one point the largest vineyard in the world existed in Southern California [0]. Just a small patch of green and some abandoned buildi
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by lapetitejort 3mo ago
> The Original TV Hat works with portable media players, smartphones, Microsoft Zune, Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPod nano. See? It's possible to support older tech
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by lapetitejort 3mo ago
The differences in engineers for space versus the ocean are fascinating. You'd think space stations and submarines would be interchangeable because they both deal with pressure differentials, right? Wrong. They'd fail in fascinati
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
In California, property tax can only go up 2% every year based on the original purchase price (prop 13). For my neighbor who bought their house in the 60s, this must be peanuts.
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
Even if they are required, who will hold them accountable? The FCC?
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
Every time a city thinks flooding problems are fixed, nature invents a bigger storm
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
My dream is to one day own a Curta. I want to find an algorithm to approximate pi, one crank at a time. I had a chance to hold one at a vintage computer festival once. Smaller than I expected. Truly pocketable. I just had a thought. Why has
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
To be more effective, all drink prices should be reduced by 10 cents, then a 10 cent surcharge added for every disposable cup. The price remains the same for all customers, but the extra line item reveals the external costs.
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
With what we are learning about how gut flora, can a brain be considered conscious while detached from the digestive system?
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
The point is that we may not have plastic forever. Oil is a finite resource. An easy, cheap replacement hasn't been found yet. Either we abide by reducing and reusing (where we should be focused), or we should actually recycle.
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
Cross examination is one of the vanishingly few times you can see billionaires and executives act like human beings instead of sentient PR scripts.
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
I uploaded a PDF to archive.org that auto-OCRs with plenty of mistakes. I have found no way of updating the entire stack of documents produced. I wonder if Project Gutenberg is similar
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
Cory Doctorow recently published a history book on the topic [0]. Sorry you were left out. I am merely qubits floating in the void. Just finished reading Shakespeare's First Folio translated into Catalan for the tenth time. Wondering w
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
I am surprised that a lawsuit started in 2021 about maintaining emission standards survived up to this point. The DOGE search terms must have misspelled "emission"
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
If you are wary of all the smart features in your next car purchase, consider buying a bicycle. We do not have to entertain the creeping invasion of our privacy
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by lapetitejort 4mo ago
While all of this in happening, Metrolink, the rail service that connects LA, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, is having their own budget crisis manifesting in "temporary" reductions in service. More info
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by lapetitejort 5mo ago
> A member, officer, or employee of the __Senate__ shall not receive any compensation, nor shall he permit any compensation to accrue to his beneficial interest from any source, the receipt or accrual of which would occur by virtue of in
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by lapetitejort 5mo ago
Would Martha Stewart be sentenced to prison for lying to federal investigators regarding her "prediction" of the release timing of her next cookbook?
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by lapetitejort 5mo ago
We must eradicate mint plants. Over time the dilution of mint particles in the air will become so small that all diseases will go extinct

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