tombh

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by tombh 3mo ago
What do you mean by credential theft? Stealing the numbers on the card or a malicious person triggering the contactless payment?
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by tombh 4mo ago
I don't know if this is related. But I've been confused as to whether these recommendations are for package-specific configs, or for system-wide home directory configs (~/.npmrc for example)? Or maybe both?
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by tombh 5mo ago
Are we talking about `cargo build` here? Because my understanding is that if a lockfile is present and `Cargo.toml` hasn't changed since the lockfile was created then the build is guaranteed to use the versions in the lockfile. If howe
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by tombh 6mo ago
They're extremely close! /ɪ/ literally sits next to /e/ on the vowel chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_diagram#/media/File%3AIP...
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by tombh 6mo ago
"Hey", /ˈheɪ/, has a dipthong /eɪ/, so é is precisely the first half of that dipthong. It may feel like it's between the “e” in “bet” and “ee” in “see”, but using the dipthong you don't have to guess
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by tombh 7mo ago
Thanks. I can't see what you mean myself. If you could paste the URL when you click on one of those incorrect views, I'd really appreciate it. For instance, this one seems correct to me https://map.alltheviews.world&#x2
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by tombh 7mo ago
Oh, that sounds like an error on our part then. I'd really appreciate if you could paste the URL when one of those bad lines is rendered.
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by tombh 7mo ago
It's just a matter of storage costs. Even storing a single line of sight for every point on the planet is over 200GB!
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by tombh 7mo ago
The AEQD projection radiates from the anchor right? Is that what you mean by polar coordinates? This was my first foray into optimising projections so if you have any insight I'd love to learn. If you know anything about QGIS plugins p
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by tombh 7mo ago
I don't know, but I really want to do it.
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by tombh 7mo ago
I see, thanks. So my thinking is that overly dark areas to the North are caused by _relatively_ low visibility. The heatmap is actually dynamically generated for every viewport. So I agree that there has to be some amazing view from those N
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by tombh 7mo ago
Actualicé el website! Es mejor así?
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by tombh 7mo ago
Agreed, pedantry very much appreciated. Website updated!
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by tombh 7mo ago
Sure!
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by tombh 7mo ago
The thing about the observer height that I always try to remember is that features really close to the observer can make an exponential difference. Like imagine how simply putting hand in front of your eyes can suddenly make the whole world
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by tombh 7mo ago
That sounds really promising. I've made a Github issue to make sure we follow this up https://github.com/AllTheLines/viewview/issues/61
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by tombh 7mo ago
Could you post a link to a view that you think might not be right?
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by tombh 7mo ago
1) So you're expecting to click and see a line of sight that you've seen in real life? Is it just that each point only every records the _longest_, which not be the best or most notable view? 2) As in, in a good way?
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by tombh 7mo ago
Do you think there's any way to automatically create these Google Earth links for each of the longest lines of sight on maps.alltheviews.world?
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by tombh 7mo ago
Oh wow, yes, very curious. I believe that is caused by the cleaning of the original NASA data by the creator of https://viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html So whilst they improved the data, it still isn't perfect. Ultima
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by tombh 7mo ago
Wooah, both "antipoles", I've never thought of that. What a great idea. In theory yes, we have the data, but I haven't begun to consider the maths to figure that out.
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by tombh 7mo ago
244km! Oh wow, I never knew people did this kind of thing. Yeah this is exactly the sort of thing we want people to use the app for.
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by tombh 7mo ago
Do you mean like if you drew a line from the surface on one side of the planet, through the Earth's core, to the other side of the planet. What is the longest line that could do that?
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by tombh 7mo ago
Oye, fui a Colombia un par de veces! Y mi profesora Español era Colombiana. So you're saying a better title for the Colombian line of sight could be "Pico Lagos del Congo to Pico Cristóbal Colón"? We can definitely change tha
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by tombh 7mo ago
The record was actually recently beaten https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/66661-lon...
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by tombh 7mo ago
It sounds like we're just not casting enough rays then.
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by tombh 7mo ago
Oh hey, I remember you from the last time I posted something about our project. That's a great app you have. We actually have a plan to aggregate world runs together, so that one run as low refraction and a short observer, then another
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by tombh 7mo ago
Thanks, yes this is actually one of the legitimate usecases we hope for from our algorithm.
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by tombh 7mo ago
This has been common feedback today. I hadn't appreciated the appetite for photos, but of course it makes sense. I think what we'll try to do is automate linking to some other tool that can produce a 3D panorama, like Google Earth
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by tombh 7mo ago
The longest and second longest haven't been photographed yet, but #3 has https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/66661-lon...

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