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> Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crud, and that explains almost everything

> In professional settings, approximately all of my time goes into solving problems introduced by people that are just indescribably bad

Translation: everyone except me is stupid.

Why do we let people say things like this without calling them out on it?

I haven't noticed that myself but it's been 5 years since I've been there (Zürich) - how recently did you move there and which canton are you in?

I do agree that most UK shops (Waitrose/ Sainsbury's like you mention) are really good compared with most stuff in Switzerland

In the UK, ordnance survey does this. It's better than osm for most things, and worse for others

You're right. But I think it can really vary based on which community you ask in.

I think most people dislike how hostile the main stack overflow site is to beginners, who despite being the ones who need the most help, are the most likely to get their question closed/ downvoted. It's unfortunately necessary to maintain the high quality of the site.

I'm glad its a tossup for other people! I've been debating it with myself for a long time.

I agree very much with your "cartographic control" point.

I should have been more specific when talking about performance. For a raster tile, if it is performing badly on the server, that is solvable because you can pre-render beforehand. For vector tiles (which I guess most of the time are coming from a MBTiles file which is a cache) if they are performing badly in the user's browser its not really solvable because you can't do this pre-render step. The only solution would be to find a way to simplify the data more to lessen the load on the user's browser. I don't know if you have a similar experience?

I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?

It sounds mean to say it, but it's 100% true. I moved away from using python wherever I can. I've had colleagues struggle for days to install well used packages like pandas and numpy in conda.

I second this - there's been a bit of budget cutting at my current company but really nothing has changed. Not sure why we're so unaffected here (touch wood). Perhaps there is less work on "bubbles"

> Often I think new software is designed around looking impressive and fast to upper level management

Bingo, and it also impresses the upper level management at customer companies - i.e. the ones who make the decision to buy the software, not having to use it themselves

No, usually linq is used in combination with an OEM (e.g. entity Framework) to avoid writing raw sql. From the parent comment, I thought he meant something more like sqlx for rust

Hello! I've been looking for a library like this for C# and another for Python - I'm not sure which terms to Google to find them!

I watched a dude in front of me at work make a whole PowerPoint using chatgpt, then used it to reply to all his emails - then back to copy pasting from chatgpt into some word doc

Raster tiles are smaller in terms of amount data sent over the wire and work better for users with less powerful computers/ mobile

Really if you aren't interacting with the data on the client I would stick with good old rasters - it's harder to get set up with them but they perform way better

Interesting. How would you compare the developer experience between the two approaches? And what was your use case?