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durkie
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About durkie
riding every road at https://wandrer.earth co-founder http://www.concrete-jungle.org co-founder https://www.comingle.io (NSFW)
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Comment #48988710
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goomba+falla... Maybe
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Comment #48626133
Why does that seem important? The “in mice” one makes sense (such results might not be the same in humans), but is there a reason to think that results achieved here in England cou…
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Comment #48354326
They may have requested to be anonymous
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Comment #48014289
i believe it is self-declared.
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Comment #46893495
It’s a common thing for speakers of Singaporean English to end sentences with la/leh. But no idea if that’s what’s going on here.
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Comment #46779262
i have questions about this! is there a way to get in touch with you?
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Comment #44485591
Seriously. I feel like “performative” gets applied to anything imperfect. They’ll never stop 100% of murders, so these laws against it are just performative…
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Comment #44410614
There are bee diseases that are so serious (American foulbrood) that if your hive gets it then the dept of agriculture will come out and not leave until you burn the affected hives…
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Comment #44250814
Wow this is my first time hearing about the Geodesk format. It seems super useful...I do a ton of OSM data processing, and I can't really do anything with it until it's loaded in t…
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Comment #44230264
From the way you described it, it sounds like there were openings and Biden appointed folks to fill those openings. How is this different from any president filling any vacancy? By…
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Comment #44023555
I was looking to use this with the iOS Books app, but I can’t share text to your app from there (but something like safari works). Any idea why?
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Comment #43940375
Same! I reach for crystal when I need something that is going to perform faster than ruby, but man I get my hand slapped constantly when writing it.
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Comment #43904061
This is mentioned in the John McPhee book referenced elsewhere in the thread, because there is actually an answer: when the cantons stopped fighting and Switzerland/Helvetica Confe…
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Comment #43602798
another option that would have been interesting to see here is serving PostGIS GeoJSON export -> tippecanoe encode. Tippecanoe is super fast, parallelizes well and built solely for…
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Comment #43138755
https://www.todayintabs.com
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Comment #42481169
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Comment #42388817
What is amazing to me is that this post references an "epidemic of slipping on banana peels", was posted within a day of a wonderful (33 minute long!) video about the history of sl…
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Comment #42185684
Yes, they could. You can attach whatever metadata you want to a vector tile feature.
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Comment #42184629
Something like https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl can serve raster tiles from a vector tile dataset
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Comment #42153907
A great book about how animals survive super cold winters is "Winter World" by Bernd Heinrich. Bernd is a super fascinating biologist who really dives deep in to things. At one poi…
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Comment #41718932
But the software is called WordPress. How else should they say that they can host WordPress on their site without referring to it? This feels like if you were to go after someone a…
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Comment #41538560
I think it’s an ambiguity in how the GP worded it. Since it’s a solo record, they could have also written it: “that record requires no drafting”
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Comment #41013559
But you're saying the speed limit (being too high or low) makes the road dangerous. Aren't the people driving their cars too fast making the road dangerous?
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Comment #41013393
How does setting a speed limit "too low" make a road more dangerous?
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Comment #40905584
What's the reality check? It sounds like your result basically agrees with the link title.