jdranczewski

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Comment · 16 days ago

I've recently found out that this is not quite true - while the primary purpose of their tile servers is mapping and editing applications, they do allow third party apps to use the servers as long as they follow usage policies: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

This recently came across my radar as Home Assistant has migrated to the vector tiles hosted directly by OSMF for all deployments: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/53816

For my own needs I usually just go for https://openfreemap.org/ though, I like the default style, and it feels maybe a little faster.

Comment · 24 days ago

Finally, the previous implementations were very silly! OpenAI had a nice tool, but it only detected their own watermarks, and Google's process was "upload the image to Gemini and ask if it's AI generated", which seemed like a perplexing waste of tokens and breath.

(While a sibling comment points out putting the image through Google Image Search as an alternative, I don't remember this being signposted in the support article I've read, so I unfortunately didn't know about it)

Comment · 1 month ago

https://jupytext.org/ may be what you're looking for! It saves Notebook files as Python/text files, and can open them as Notebooks. I've mostly used it for improved version control and easier file inspection, but they recently started advertising the agent use case on their website.

Comment · 1 month ago

I have also spent an incredible amount of time looking at slowly moving Street View footage, but it was through https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/ - a "game" where strangers collectively vote to move around Street View coverage at slightly faster than walking pace.

It was a great community, and good fun to see so much of North America that I would never visit. It's still going, but I don't visit as much (it used to be basically permanent second/third monitor content while I wrote my thesis). A cool opportunity for programming too: I made a bunch of mods for the game (https://greasyfork.org/en/users/1473129-jdranczewski) and a basic ambient viewer where you can just watch the Street View go by (https://jdranczewski.dev/irt/viewer.html).

Comment · 1 month ago

Yes, as someone who doesn't use Apple devices Pairdrop is pretty useful.

Comment · 1 month ago

I think it's fair to say that if the wiki's intent is to share information with people, you want people (and not just the inner circle of those in the know) to be able to find it. And the way most people find things is on Google.

Comment · 5 months ago

They were originally planning to not do hot staging, aiming instead for a somewhat funny approach where they spin the ship and booster slightly so they are passively separated by centrifugal forces. A bunch of things went wrong in the first test flight, so this was never attempted, and they switched to the "simpler" hot staging in flight 2.

Comment · 5 months ago

I've really enjoyed reading the Grid World piece linked at the bottom of the post: https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world/

Comment · 8 months ago

The article mentions this only briefly, but browsers already do this kind of heuristic protection! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Defending... or https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i... for a Chrome-specific blog post.

I think the lack of exploration of the context around the problem and current mitigations is an issue with the article - it spends a lot of time talking about the possible threat, but very little time on whether the attack is actually practical with modern mitigations.

Comment · 8 months ago

On Android they've actually rolled out the 3D view in Maps recently! Took them long enough. I now have an "aerial" button in the bottom left corner when viewing Street View imagery that switches between the two.

Comment · 8 months ago

If anyone in the comments is in a similar predicament to the author and would like a book logging app, I will say that I disagree on their judgement of StoryGraph - I've found it a pretty decent interface, the search function is very good, and the (anti)features mentioned in the footnote are incredibly easy to not use, as the creators seem to understand that many of their users have a very strong preference to avoid AI bloat.

Comment · 8 months ago

For large communities, the very granular role-based permission system of Discord can be put to some good use, I don't think Slack has a trivially equivalent feature.

Comment · 8 months ago

You can, but the heat needs to go somewhere, and now you're back to square one, with "how do I get rid of all this heat". Earth refrigerators have a large heat exchanger on the back for this purpose. In fact now you need to get rid of both of the heat your compute generates and the energy your refrigerator pump uses - an example people often give is that a fridge with an open door actually heats the room, as it spends energy on moving heat around pointlessly.

Comment · 9 months ago

To add to the points raised by others, "just install LaTeX" is not imo a very strong argument. I prefer working in a local environment, but many of my colleagues much prefer a web app that "just works" to figuring out what MiKTeX is.

Comment · 10 months ago

If you've managed to find more details about what process exactly they're implementing I'd be glad to see it - I assumed plasma-based growth, since the BBC article mentions that it's a plasma that is at 1000C here (making heat dissipation less of a problem too), but if they're growing ingots that would usually be done from liquid silicon, which sounds like a mess in space. So are they doing plasma-growth of ingots (which I haven't heard of, but I haven't heard of many things), or are they bringing wafers up and growing ultra-pure layers on top... The website is not super clear on this from what I've seen.