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[–] randy@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).

I can't say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I've noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn't always give results as good as calculating routes on Google's servers.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

I used to have scripts like that, but eventually switched to ssh aliases. You can set up an alias for each machine in ~/.ssh/config with lines like this:

Host p1
    HostName 192.168.1.123
    Port 22
    User pi

Then access with ssh p1. Slightly more typing, but avoids adding more commands to your $PATH. Also has the benefit of letting you use the same alias with other ssh-related commands like sftp.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Automatics also allow for engine braking. From a quick search, it sounds like a toss-up as to whether that triggers brake lights. Regardless, the article mentions the benefit is not only from cars slowing down, but also from indicating that a car is preparing to stop or "that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement". Neither of those can be done by an engine brake, so front brake lights would still have a benefit even with a driver that likes engine braking.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Oddly enough, that convention isn't universal. Top-to-bottom is typical in the US, UK, and Commonwealth, while bottom-to-top is common in continental Europe and non-anglophone Americas.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you may have misunderstood the article. It's talking about how support is increasing for dedicated Copy keys, and that programmable keyboards make it easy to use dedicated Copy keys. The article does not mention changing the behaviour of Ctrl-C.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like she's trying hard to distance herself from Trudeau, but after years being right beside him, I doubt she can shake it that easily.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Note the article is from two months ago, on October 10, but it's still relevant. I was confused when I saw Chrystia Freeland quoted.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You can only pardon someone who was convicted of a crime.

I don't believe that's true. See the pardon of Richard Nixon, who was never even impeached, let alone charged. I believe there's some debate on the validity of such a pardon, but none (including Nixon's pardon) have been challenged in court.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

The comic was released the day after the election, by an author who lives in the United States. I suspect the comic is explicitly about American politics.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

I’m sure plenty of pedestrians have been killed by cyclists.

I did some quick searching and found 2019 data from Europe. In all of the EU that year, bicycles killed 19 pedestrians while cars killed 3200 pedestrians. Over 168 pedestrians killed by a car for each killed by a bicycle. I know there are plenty of irresponsible cyclists, and yet they are still a tiny fraction as dangerous as a driver.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

It sure feels like we're at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we'll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it's difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

The original blog post (linked in the article) refers to this as a DynaRec, i.e. a dynamic recompiler. So it's not exactly emulating, but nor is it the ahead-of-time recompilation that Rosetta 2 can do.

 

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