The website claims the longest line of sight in my city is 24.7km from someone's garden that is surrounded by houses. I walk past this particular spot on my way to the gym. I walk downhill from my house to get there. I seriously question the reliability of this data.
The resolution of the underlying data is only ~100m. So most houses, vegetation, etc, gets blurred into the same smooth surface. There are actually higher resolution data sets, even up to centimetre scale, using LiDAR, of cities. We'd love to integrate these but it's a few orders of magnitude more data.
I'm assuming that when the project says you can see 24 km from a given location, that you can see 24 km from that location. That's not the case. Fundamentally, it doesn't do what it claims to do.
Why allow the user to select any arbitrary location on a map and give an answer when you know the answer is most likely nonsense? You don't need to compute for 2 days to accomplish that; you could just make it up.
Surely you understand it's based on limited resolution data, and therefore intended to be used at the scale of general topography like mountains and valleys?
That it's not taking into account human construction or distances of tens of meters?
Presumably you can walk a little bit and climb on someone's roof to see the claimed 24.7 km. Assuming a sufficiently clear atmosphere, and that there isn't a tall office building in the way or something.
Why not complain that there's a point inside somebody's basement and you can't see any distance from that? Why not complain that it's wrong any time you close your eyes? Those would be about as sensible.
What's ironic about that? Of course it would. It's working off of large-scale terrain features, not structures. It will also tell you that you can see distant mountains when it's cloudy or you don't have your glasses on.
Sorry, I assumed macOS: but you're right! For Linux (and Windows, once we ship support for it) the keybinding is alt-l to avoid conflicting with tab switching.
Yes, in this case I would put something like this on top of the file:
# Fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
# Which is MIT licensed by Feross Aboukhadijeh
I am actually never completely sure how to properly do this. Would the next forker write the following then?
# Fork by Joe of https://github.com/tekmol/isBuffer
# Which is a fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
# Which is MIT licensed by Feross Aboukhadijeh
Looking at that function, I'm not convinced that it's copyrightable in the first place. Once you know what it's supposed to do, how else would you express it?
Of course it's only appropriate to credit the author anyway, and one way to do that nicely is by following the license requirements. I just think "violation of the license" is a bit of an unnecessarily strong statement, given the triviality and the likely non-copyrightability of the code.
I think it's a shame that people have bundled Elon into the Bezos / Branson battle. What Musk is doing is far more useful (and has been for a while now) than the measuring contest that's happening between the other two.
> ...do we all have telemetry in our cars, really? I mean, we have data that can be read via ODBII, but it's not exactly connecting via the cell network, it has to be retrieved with a plug.
Nissans do, my Leaf does. They connect to a mobile network or WiFi and upload data.
Yup. My Nissan gives me a monthly nag screen to accept terms in order to use my navigation map and audio system. The car has its own 4G connection (I don’t pay anything, it’s not usable to me) in order to download traffic data, send telemetry home, and I believe SiriusXM radio.
I've been driving EVs for the past 10 years (LEAF -> Model X -> I-PACE) during which time I haven't used a gas pump. After reading your comment I had to go searching for this thing about ads playing while you're filling up. I found this Reddit post about being forced to watch ads before being allowed to even start the pump!
Yeah, I'm unsurprised a Leaf does. I also remember that Nissan had a security hole back in 2016 that meant that a bad actor could drain your Leaf's battery with only a VIN.
It's definitely the way the industry wants to go - I mean, free data, why not? Bit like the FAANGs, dress up the data collection with some features people want.
Might just be a case that no-one I know owns a late model car :D We're big on older Japanese imports in NZ, god bless our lack of tariffs. Although RIP our local car manufacturing industry, god bless neoliberalism.
There is no "the camera app"; the manufacturer often provides their own. It may well be in recent versions of GCam, but quite often it requires you to bail out to Google Lens for some reason.
Android is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never quite know what you're going to get. And sometimes it's stale.
Discord API is currently thick server and thick client, as far as I understand. Have you had a chance to review the current state of the Matrix protocol, which is thin client and would be useful as an inspiration for the next API revision of Discord.
