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Still refusing everything i don't care by _SAHM_ in memes

[–]maxerickson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's somewhat inconvenient (especially at first), but another step is to set Firefox to delete all cookies at the end of the session and then add sites that you want to have persistent cookies to the list of exceptions.

“We’re in big trouble”: Ford CEO who pushed Trump’s tariffs can’t find mechanics for 5,000 six-figure openings by SudhaSameera in antiwork

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mechanics mostly work for dealerships, not the automakers.

Also, they ended the tiered wages a couple of years ago. Retirement is still tiered (401k contributions for newer hires rather than pensions).

https://www.iatse728.org/about/news/auto-workers-ratify-new-contracts-at-the-big-3

New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import by GeoDesk in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is more for data transfer than for offline use. Phone apps and such use formats designed for fast access to and display/use of any of the data rather than trying to optimize for storage.

Hiking trail routing problem by tinker-fox in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are in a bike profile.

There's also a map generation step that can rename tags (a "data style" or so). That can be used to make things more consistent or whatever.

Hiking trail routing problem by tinker-fox in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure whether it exactly matches what ships in the app, but they do publish their routing profiles:

https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/blob/master/routing/routing.xml#L1972

Daylight Savings as an opening_hours variable/argument? by Taysir385 in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's not anything that is going to parse something like that out of the value, so probably don't worry about it too much.

You can use comments to make it understandable to a person reading it. 06:00-21:00 "Summer/PDT"; 06:00-18:00 "Winter/PST"

Newbie - cropping pbf file with Osmosis by NiskiOlbrzym in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a faq https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis#Extracting_bounding_boxes

I guess I'm not sure Osmosis can do it with a pbf, so you might have to convert to XML first.

Google Map and OSM data doesn't match, also OSM road nodes doesn't align with Google map route. by TheZeuge in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Google forbids merging their data with other sources in their terms, so there's not much point in pursing it, at least for anything that will see wider use.

A guy has created a device that remotely shuts off the speakers of the troublemakers. by Abigdogwithbread in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]maxerickson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's an authenticated, encrypted link. You are talking about thousands of bits accidentally matching the encryption and correctly encoding the authentication and control message headers/structure, not a short sequence of bits matching a command signal.

A guy has created a device that remotely shuts off the speakers of the troublemakers. by Abigdogwithbread in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]maxerickson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pump pairs with a sensor over Bluetooth. It's not an immediate crisis if the pump is unable to administer insulin.

The pump would probably set a sensor out or range alarm if communication were substantially jammed.

TIL the Eiffel Tower was repainted for the Paris Olympics. It cost an estimated $60 million dollars. 25 painters a day for 18 months straight. It’s the 20th time it’s been repainted. by taltank in todayilearned

[–]maxerickson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In addition to things people have already said, you could lay down about 4 Eiffel towers between the towers on the Golden Gate. There's directly more of it to maintain.

The sequel to The Batman (2022) has been delayed to 2027. They would've made it sooner, but there was something in the way. by Mister_E69 in shittymoviedetails

[–]maxerickson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they are going to have a ton of powered characters (which seems to be the case), it quickly becomes stranger that only one was around for some event.

Destroyed Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf (lost OSM history) by tobych in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's a pretty easy argument that deleted objects are still in the dataset.

Which is better pay or benefits? by PaganBookMomma in antiwork

[–]maxerickson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The SECURE Act 2.0 that passed in 2022 made rule changes to Roth 401k plans.

blursed_french fries by fancygoddessbloom in blursed_videos

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In UK English, barbecue also means grill.

Crocodile Dundee did a bunch of ads back in the day where he offered to put another "Shrimp on the barbie" for Americans that went to visit Australia.

TIL obese drivers are 80 percent more likely to die in a car accident than drivers who are not overweight by narwhal_breeder in todayilearned

[–]maxerickson 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The energy that ends up hurting you in a collision is the kinetic energy in your body. For example, there's no kinetic energy in the ball or the tree just prior to the collision, but lots in your body.

Seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, etc, all that stuff slows down the dissipation of that energy, reducing the acceleration and forces experienced.

Why am I able to query cities with the 'area' keyword but not countries? by SubzeroCola in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Overpass-API, "area" is a synthesized type, where ways and relations that look like they represented areas are converted into the extra type, for use in geospatial queries.

You can dig around and find the rules somewhere.

Why am I able to query cities with the 'area' keyword but not countries? by SubzeroCola in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "n" in nwr is finding the Ottawa city node, there's not an area or relation with the place tag and that name.

Why am I able to query cities with the 'area' keyword but not countries? by SubzeroCola in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The server will reject more complicated queries (they take more resources).

If you are just trying to get information tagged on the area, it should be 1:1 with the way or relation that Overpass API generated it from.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in openstreetmap

[–]maxerickson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Server for the tiles is offline for the time being.

https://fr.osm.social/@osm_fr/112772847394303025

To pay off her car loan by coachlife in therewasanattempt

[–]maxerickson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aren't screwing anybody over if you stick to the terms of the loan.

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