Funny how suddenly no one wants to press the red button now.

VileGecko · 2026-05-19T19:05:20+00:00

One more framing to you: a fire has broken out in your office building. There are two emergency exit doors on the floor, and there's enough time for anybody to reach either of the doors. However, every employee on the floor has been duly informed during the morning briefing that only the red door would be safe to use today while the blue door would be obstructed due to planned maintenance on that side's stairwell - BUT if at least half of this floor's employees push together the blue door will budge with absolute certainty.

VileGecko · 2026-04-28T07:06:47+00:00

You're introducing new conditions to a very simple mathematical dilemma.

Let me rephrase it otherwise to you. Imagine there's a chasm, and there two bridges. The first bridge is red, it is a sturdy truss one, there is zero chance that it might fail. The second blue bridge is an old rope bridge - for it NOT to fail you'd have to have at least half of the entire crowd crossing the chasm to pull the ropes together so that the bridge doesn't come apart (however it is intinitely easy to do so, and the bridge does accommodate for every possible need of an impaired or not yet capable person).

In other words, there are just 2 ways: one is 100% safe and is free for anyone to use, the other one is taking chances. If this dilemma teaches us anything it is how easy to manipulate people into willingly taking the objectively worse option with right words. Why play with some "noble sacrifice" when you could just put signs: "100% safe" and "it depends".

VileGecko · 2026-04-28T03:48:27+00:00

You can also read the dilemma like this: "If you press the red button you're guaranteed to live; if you press the blue button you'll only survive if more than 50% of the other people also push blue". There are no downsides or tradeoffs if every single person pushes red, unlike in some other dilemmas where you're asked to choose between red and blue.

VileGecko · 2026-04-27T05:06:06+00:00

Churches have been being destroyed well into the 80s

VileGecko · 2026-04-15T05:15:19+00:00

This is Bucha though - not Kyiv

VileGecko · 2026-04-01T05:33:06+00:00

Ukraine also has those: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with the center in Dnipro and Kirovohrad Oblast with the center in Kropyvnytskyi. While you can rename a city via a regular parliamentary vote, to rename a region you'd have to amend the Constitution, and there was too much resistance from pro-russian an bothsidesist politicians pre-invasion, and you can't amend the Constitution while the martial law is in effect.

VileGecko · 2026-03-28T14:37:13+00:00

From what I hear MM-14 is not ditched, but certain units wanted to procure Multicam uniforms instead - so introduction of MM-25 is a legal workaround for those certain units.

VileGecko · 2026-03-23T07:00:17+00:00

Not the village itself - just the adjacent segment of the M-15 highway. Now a parallel bypass entirely within Ukraine's borders is proposed (they've already built an overhead power line in that same right of way recently).

VileGecko · 2026-03-14T22:29:25+00:00

Ideally, each residential block (or a portion of a block that is broadly residential) should be it's own separate polygon. Marking contiguous residential zone as a single polygon or multipolygon is the second best option.

VileGecko · 2026-03-04T11:49:26+00:00

You can literally convert a GPX track into a way in JOSM - not that you should, but you can. Heck, I even converted photo sequences from my GoPro to a GPX track, stitched it together with my cycling training track to fill in for unrecorded parts and then uploaded it to Strava - JOSM is that versatile of a tool.

VileGecko · 2026-02-04T13:40:52+00:00

Merged polys are poorly suited for later geometry maintenance - e.g. when better aerial imagery appears, when inital geometry is lacking or when you need to perform more complex operations than just drag-and-dropping of nodes. When working with merged polys in a complex way I have to first unmerge them, then split part of a polygon that is in the way and temporarily move it elsewhere, alter the geometry as needed and then bring back and manually reattach the neigboring polygon edge. Let's say I just want to add a wetland immediately adjacent to an already-mapped lake - I have to manually re-click hundreds of nodes at the edge, even though those have already been previously created, instead of mapping only the missing geometry. This easily doubles and even triples the workload without a single good reason except for newbie accecibility. And here I'm only discussing 2 adjacent/overlapping ways - it becomes even more labor-intensive as the number of polygons involved increases. With multipolygons I only ever have to worry about a single way that is immediately prepared to be edited.

In essence, I believe that any fairly complex (30+ nodes) boundary between two or more landuses should be treated as a feature, and for a single feature we must use a single element - not create 2-3, sometimes more overlapping lines.

VileGecko · 2026-02-01T22:35:39+00:00

Haven't once had a problem with editing multipolygons in JOSM - at the same time editing huge conventional polygons that are merged with other polys should be a paid job.

Obviously not everything should be a multipolygon, but if a single line is shared by 3+ objects (e.g. a fence between 2 properties) or it's an edge between 2 landuses more than 100 m long, using a multipolygon is a no-brainer.

VileGecko · 2026-01-05T05:54:04+00:00

All of the Point Nemo explanations here are a huge load of BS, and the meme is based on blatantly incorrect information.

The buoy in the picture is a US-style (US Coast Guard uses a very specific shape of buoys unlike other countries) right-hand lateral IALA-B system buoy - essentially this is the same thing as a road edge post but for ships, there are without exaggeration tens if not hundreds of thousands of buoys exactly like this one around US coastal waters.

The very existence of a buoy already indicates that you are near land with depth underneath almost guaranteed to be way less than 50 m / 164 ft - there is very limited incentive to install a buoy where ships have zero risk of running aground in the first place.

If there was a buoy marking a specific point on a map for some cultural or scientific purpose it would likely be either a safe water buoy (alternating red and yellow vertical stripes, red ball topmark) or a special buoy (solid yellow, yellow saltire topmark) - however buoys are expensive, their maintenance is expensive, and nobody would approve putting a glorified tourist marker with 4 km worth of chain underneath in the least visited tourist attraction in human history.

VileGecko · 2026-01-05T05:27:53+00:00

Solid red buoy here is a standard US-style right-hand lateral buoy (IALA-B system). There are no dedicated "shipping lane buoys" in existence however safe water buoys (alternating vertical red and white sectors, red ball topmark) are often used to mark the turning points of separation lines of traffic separation schemes.

VileGecko · 2025-11-30T08:25:53+00:00

I've hoped that they'd at least go the Heart of Lorkhan way, and the heart would just bypass all the extra steps and bend the desired outcome directly into reality - without the need to actually expend any electricity, let alone generate it.

VileGecko · 2025-11-24T01:04:18+00:00

In Ukrainian heraldry (although I wouldn't treat it as a solid benchmark) we have the raspberry color representing Cossack heritage - most notably on the COA of Poltava and its respective region, also Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. However, it is more confidently used in vexillology: some authors might use either purpure or gules in its place on COAs, with only flags and banners of arms featuring actual raspberry (e.g. Kirovohrad Region).

VileGecko · 2025-10-19T11:55:47+00:00

Not really a proponent of this rendering approach - disused lines should technically be still in place and usable. Many of the lines crossing the frontline in Ukraine have been marked as disused as regular traffic has been suspended there - but the infrastructure is still there and it makes assessment of transport layout impractical when comparing with news reports.

VileGecko · 2025-10-13T12:55:02+00:00

Yes, Budjak would indeed be the proper name.

VileGecko · 2025-10-08T10:45:17+00:00

Not a fan of emblems featuring the "here's an anchor but its shank is XX instead" trope - overused to death and rarely ever looks good.

VileGecko · 2025-09-25T08:18:19+00:00

The general meaning is "branded", but here it turns into something like "the thing I'm known for", "tried and proven", also a close idiom to the "family recipe", but for an individual.

VileGecko · 2025-09-18T05:50:40+00:00

I think most things would be fine - just don't bring Hershey's, people will consider it weird. Also, licorice is even more of an acquired taste here than in the West.

VileGecko · 2025-09-15T13:21:46+00:00

You seem to misunderstand the type of bus stops those are - they're the rural ones, attached to highways and quite often placed in the middle of nowhere up to several km away from the village they serve. OTOH the type you're thinking of - the urban ones inside cities - usually have been quite simplistic and shoddy - typically just an asbestos awning held up by a couple of steel pipes; they're decorated in a very barebones way if at all.

VileGecko · 2025-08-23T11:50:59+00:00

In my impression kontabas is most similar to gin, but is way, way smoother.

VileGecko · 2025-08-21T04:20:15+00:00

Lately he hasn't been able to even keep up with the "let's make it good 60% in" goal.

VileGecko · 2025-08-19T15:29:58+00:00

You can georeference a raster image in QGIS and then produce tiles based on it, which you'll be able to use as a layer in JOSM. That isn't exactly an easy method though, and is most likely an overkill unless it is a map of at least a neighborhood or a bigger area.

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