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by qrohlf 2y ago
Not sure if you're looking for paved or unpaved backroads, but if it's the latter I recently shipped a feature at my day job ( https://ridewithgps.com ) that highlights all unpaved backroads, visible up to zoom level 8 (
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by qrohlf 2y ago
Prior art here would be relive.cc which pretty much built their whole business on this concept applied to the cycling market
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by qrohlf 2y ago
There’s some regulation here to contend with that mandates these EV sounds have to include a 1khz-4khz tone which is probably what you’re noticing since it’s on the higher end of the usual urban audioscape. The Verge did an interesting piec
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by qrohlf 2y ago
Definitely reminded me of the classic Mickens usenix login;logout columns! Just overall a very engaging communication style for adding some entertainment value to what might otherwise be pretty dry to read in one sitting.
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by qrohlf 2y ago
While it's not particularly surprising that the location of a piece of radio hardware that broadcasts a static identifier is trackable, it is pretty interesting how the location awareness and ubiquity of modern smartphones are effectiv
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by qrohlf 3y ago
> renew it and cancel it immediately This is the way I use most subscription products. There are a lot of pieces of software that I think do actually make sense to charge a subscription for rather than a one-time payment; almost all the
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by qrohlf 3y ago
I’m also curious to see some examples – I used to work at a well known software company in the outdoor recreation / fitness space that made a really big deal about social justice both internally and externally. You would think they’d a
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by qrohlf 3y ago
I’m curious what their best-case outcome is here. It’s fully transparent at this point that Apple has no appetite for a third party iMessage client on any platform and will take whatever technical steps needed to prevent this from happening
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by qrohlf 3y ago
Early versions of Trianglify supported noise addition using feTurbulence but I ultimately removed it because of some of the rendering inconsistencies mentioned in this thread, alongside performance issues on certain platforms (you would thi
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by qrohlf 3y ago
https://mela.recipes/ does this with its built-in browser/parser thing (and it has a bunch more incredibly useful stuff). Highly recommended, it's from Silvio Rizzi of "Reeder" fame so it's a one-ti
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by qrohlf 3y ago
I know some folks who are doing this in the food blogging space, see https://tastytango.blog/ It's hard to pin down exactly what I find so unsettling about the practice – it's almost like the uncanny valley, but f
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by qrohlf 3y ago
For anyone else who follows along in this domain, there's an interesting competitor in the space I stumbled across recently: https://felt.com/ Pretty nice looking product and robust feature set. Love to see GIS tooling
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"Unauthorized Bread" (2020)(arstechnica.com)
10 points by qrohlf 3y ago|2 comments
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by qrohlf 3y ago
You want "Unauthorized Bread" [1]? Because this is how you get "Unauthorized Bread". [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
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by qrohlf 3y ago
> We were adding in new features like huddles, canvases, lists, and others into a UI system that was originally designed solely for messaging capabilities. Meanwhile, research showed users on the biggest and most active teams were strugg
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by qrohlf 3y ago
This exact SSD failed on me in a similar way. They also recently had a firmware issue that borked a bunch of drives, and they only released a fix tool for Windows users (I guess macOS/Linux users can pound sand?) I will say that the wa
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by qrohlf 3y ago
Before you attempt to do anything, first try to assess whether your organization and/or management has a strong “don’t rock the boat” culture. In my experience, an isolated contributor moving super slow might be down to the individual,
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by qrohlf 3y ago
Have a peek at https://doingmiles.com/hike-sf/ for some longer itineraries like this. Lots of options if you're willing to do a little stealth camping (please be ethical/considerate [1]) [1] good writeup from
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by qrohlf 3y ago
I solved the response-time problem in a different way, but that would be one option you could use to cut down how much a notification pipeline contributes to your time-to-claim-permit latency.
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by qrohlf 3y ago
You can browse the site and look at the network traffic in your browser's devtools. There are some radically different response structures for the various different land management agencies.
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by qrohlf 3y ago
The complexity comes in the fact that there are different data formats and rules in play for almost every single management agency's permit/reservation system on Rec.gov - the JSON responses for, say, a trailhead in National Fores
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by qrohlf 3y ago
This is something where every single person who appreciates public lands should be mad as hell, and letting their elected officials know. For a more in-depth analysis of the dubious legality of the whole situation, see Matt Stoller's e
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by qrohlf 3y ago
Yeah, exactly. THAI_SPICY_HOT was just one of many signals that I got that the MonkeyC project could have very much started out as an intern project or similar. The list of languages the documentation claims MonkeyC takes inspiration from a
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by qrohlf 3y ago
My sense, as someone who has written more than one CiQ app is that Garmin got caught completely by surprise with the popularity of 3rd party apps on wearable platforms and MonkeyC graduated from “interesting side project” to “critical ecosy
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by qrohlf 3y ago
The funny (unfortunate) thing is that this used to be the opposite - years ago, Chase's in-house travel service was as close as you'd get to a white glove phone support experience in this day and age. Then they outsourced it to Ex
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by qrohlf 3y ago
The problem is the duty cycle, not screen real estate - if you show a relative time, it needs to update frequently to remain accurate. If it's 5:27 right now and the BART comes at 5:38, I need to update once per minute if I'm show
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by qrohlf 3y ago
They’ve offered this product in 5.7" and 7.3" sizes for at least a year. I have one in the 5.7" size that I use to show realtime BART departures for the station near my house. It's useful but the 30sec refresh time means
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by qrohlf 4y ago
Yep, exactly. My personal vehicle is a 2000 model year Toyota. It has an incredibly good, stable, and modern CarPlay head unit from Sony, because back whin the car was made we had standards like double-DIN head units and you could just plop
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by qrohlf 4y ago
I was recently an owner of a Merced-Benz commercial van, and the software was by far the worst part of that whole experience. It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its ten
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by qrohlf 4y ago
privacy.com does this and it is quite good. You do lose the ability to collect rewards points on purchases though.

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