jabyess

the craziest thing about this is:

The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin,[7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Most browsers have a reader mode. Firefox has one built in, I just click the icon to at the right end of the URL bar and it does it nicely for me.

That's the upper end of US salaries for engineers, it's definitely not the median. But in general US, tech salaries are higher than every other location. If you can swing it remotely, it might be worth it for you.

which part seems unbelievable to you?

mapbox studio will let you custom design layers, but i haven't gotten very far into it so i can't speak to the level of control you get.

Once again, XKCD[0] proved to be right

[0] https://xkcd.com/1172/

This is surprising to me because it wasn't that long ago (~3-4 years) that I bought an XPS developer edition and it was $100 cheaper than the windows version. At the time, I assumed that was just the cost of the windows license.

There's also a FOSS version called foam https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact.

Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.

Why not put all this info on the site?

The real answer is that cars are incredibly expensive in many ways - vehicle maintenance, infrastructure maintenance, pollution, etc.

Taxis are often 2-3x more expensive than ridesharing because that's what the cost is to pay someone to drive you around, and maintain a private vehicle.

The solution should involve reducing the need of private vehicles. But that's a much bigger conversation.

If you're a programmer, and this interests you, then I urge you to check out the game Factorio[1] which is all about hyper optimization and layouts.

Stardew valley is a great game too, and much more peaceful.

[1]https://factorio.com/

That's basically what I meant, sorry. It's an insight into what could have been a problem back then, and clearly became a serious problem.

From the article linked in the gist:

This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is.

I don't even think I need to comment on how poorly this has aged.

A friend of mine worked on this project.

He said the methodology of dividing up into hectares had to do with squirrel behavior. They tend to mostly live within about a 100x100m area, so it was an easy way to be relatively accurate.

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