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Transit App allows you configure both your walking and cycling speeds. Works great (will show you 15-20min walking), generates lots of options on how-to-get-there (e.g. bike-on-bus…

Conversely, as a cyclist, Google Maps infuriatingly will refuse to route you along an expressway, even when it's the shortest or only route without a huge detour. e.g. Lawrence Exp…

Yes. Transit App allows you configure both your walking and cycling speeds. Combine that with selecting which other methods you allow, and you get lots of options, and more accurat…

What do you mean "but with a waypoint”? What happens if you route on public transit without a waypoint? Do you mean indirect spaghetti routings that seem ok to Google?

Yes, and during the declared drought of 2020-3.

So, the other 25% does not all go to cattle, certainly not California. Some fraction of that alfalfa is exported in containers to China/Japan/Saudi, for their cattle. Doing that fr…

Restaurant reviews and recommendations is necessarily an arms-race, and once a site gets good traction and reputation, it gets overrun with paid fake reviewers. Then the site has t…

The app sounds interesting but you need to fix the post title. "a power-user search terminal that unifies web search, academic research, media discovery, code search, AI-powered an…

> Chinese company Picea now owns the Roomba brand following iRobot’s bankruptcy... the five largest robot vacuum brands are all Chinese companies. Even Dyson relies on Chinese manu…

When I try to find out what % of California's alfalfa production is exported, I get conflicting numbers, some as high as 38%, some much lower.

Residential users' water bills aren't (currently) affected by datacenter-related demand, unlike their power bills which are. The resource contention for water is between datacenter…

Not multiple Presidential elections, possibly not even one Presidential election. A glitch which briefly existed between June 2023 - June 2024, before that Presidential election.

No they didn't allow 6,600 to vote, in NJ. The article says that: "and nearly 400 cast ballots". Not 6,600. Due to a glitch which briefly existed between June 2023 - June 2024, whi…

Set charge limits to 70%, supposedly quadruples your battery's life (in charging cycles).

with stingrays from Cognyte.

Sounds like good fodder for a videogame though...

"Bad air quality warnings this week in ten US states" is the underlying headline. Please don't quote the Daily Mail, it's notorious.

That seems irrelevant. The most commonly used ID document for many things in the US is a driver's license; it's issued by the states, not federal govt, so what. Similarly you could…

I meant online. Lower-value types of fraud, like e-commerce, prepaid mobile phone bills.

So what prevents people applying for loans or doing identity theft, in other countries?

No, the title only links to https://arstechnica.com/ . That's why I posted the right link for you.

Well, that combined with the expectation that the recipient would also try that daily challenge, then presumably respond with comment/message/reshare comparing how they did.

You didn't post the article link, it's: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/users-cry-foul-afte... Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs AMD’s…

Sounds interesting. FYI I had to vouch this comment because it got killed.

> The funding comes from a consortium of investors led by Jeff Bezos, with participation from several large sovereign wealth funds.