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It’s not hard for a visual model to score the quality of that output though, which would be a pretty good fitness function.

This is impressively full-featured for a new app. I tried it out for some route-planning and tracking a hike and kept finding the features I was looking for. Can you share anything about your development approach?

I tested it out for route planning and it seems very nice. I’ll be following along!

Feedback:

- Bug report: on my phone, the “measure distance” tool sets the marker far away from the crosshairs, about halfway to the top of the screen. This makes it impossible to set the first point accurately. - bug report: in an area near me, the base map contains two separate overlapping (slightly differing) sets of contour lines. - feature request: when planning a route, it would be big to be able to drag the route anchors and add/remove anchors, rather than just removing the latest anchor.

Thanks for this app!

Yes. Even standing outside a straight-through tunnel, you can get some echo back to you off the walls.

It’s still there, but the builder is only in the web UI.

I’ve been working on a homemade CPU (in simulator) and I’m in the middle of implementing an ISA and assembler as a bug step up from working in machine code to working in assembly. I’ve been looking at Forth as a good option for a next-level-up language which is relatively easy to implement and easy to script with.

Look into keyboard macro programs for a much easier way to do this. I use Espanso and have it set up to paste the time anywhere I type `;tm`.

Representative line from a previous post:

> You probably don’t remember from a post almost two years ago, but I already implemented generation of temperature, wind and precipitation patterns, and inferred the local climate from those. That was still in C# on a spherical world though, so I dutifully started porting it all to Rust on a flat world.

I absolutely loved FrozenFractal’s Around the World hackathon pixel art game. It has really good gameplay and I find it pretty satisfying and absorbing for such a simple game.

I’ve been enjoying the blog posts about development of the larger Around the World; but it seems like the absolute opposite of a hackathon project. And that’s okay. But based on the pace of development it seems like there’s still plenty of time to wait for something playable.

But aren’t toasts fundamentally different by being intentionally designed not to block your work?

How can this be true? If my parents and spouse and friends were all hairdressers, I definitely would never pay for a haircut.

Still a supported feature! You can find it if you dig around in the menus long enough.

This would work! QR codes would be even more opaque.

Their status updates look clearly like AI-generated blurbs saying the same thing with varied phrasing, hour after hour. Thanks for the slop? I know writing status page updates is annoying, but “a human is paying attention to this” is the specific thing that status updates are trying to convey, so trying to get info from this page felt dispiriting today.

Edit: this would also explain why some details of the updates were nonsensical.

A “fifth” of alcohol is a 750ml bottle (about a fifth of a gallon). So someone drinking a fifth is drinking more like 15 shots.

> are people not taught this in school?

I agree about standardization, but I think this framing comes off as lacking empathy. Plenty of folks either

- Avoided the topic in school or put all their effort into other subjects

- Didn’t learn this in school—there are a wide variety of education systems across all the decades and distances that folks on this site may have grown up in

- Learned this in school, but a lifetime ago, and haven’t had a reason to revisit it. At a certain distance, your life experience and work experience massively overshadow what you learned in school.

Forgive the inference, but based on your recall of specific grading policies I would guess that your time in school is still near to you, or at least very important. It’s not that way for everyone.

(I am of course doggedly accurate with my unit abbreviations.)

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