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You can bring the water to a boil and dial back the heat when you add the pasta. Will still cook, but no boiling over. Saves a bit of electricity as well.

Yeah, StreetComplete helps both with adding the data in the first place and then keeping is current, since it will also ask those questions again after a while (which also gives an…

Well, those things can be added: - opening_hours=* - amenity=cafe - website:menu=* But they can easily become outdated again. Still, local QA via StreetComplete, MapComplete, Every…

> Where is Windows' equivalent of APFS / BTRFS (or even EXT4)..? NTFS is more than 20 years old by now. There's ReFS, but a lot of NTFS features are basically baked into the filesy…

They still do.

There's a companion app, StreetMeasure, that uses Google's AR measuring capability on compatible phones. Personally, I carry a laser distance measure.

Wikimedia Commons also requires more up-front work by the uploader to categorize the image properly, which can be daunting if you're new to how things are organized there. But yeah…

> think for crossings StreetComplete now only asks about the actual crossing nodes, so no more duplicate quests. It can be confusing for roads where both sides are separated or whe…

The overlays are intentionally a bit hidden, since they're more of a power-user feature and I appreciate that StreetComplete retains beginner-friendliness as a core tenet. But the …

Google can cheat a little, especially for new roads since they notice when someone is driving over it. When there was a redesign of an intersection near here, someone marked the ro…

As a frequent contributor myself I love StreetComplete and I wouldn't worry about it perhaps generating a few changesets more than strictly necessary (it tends to make one changese…

Some apps don't edit OSM directly, but rather add a note on the map for others to edit. Maybe that's what they meant. E.g., OrganicMaps often creates these kinds of notes: https://…

Nota bene: those end up as notes on the map which another mapper has to input manually. There's a lot of spam and dubious entries so I often no longer bother entering them, especia…

Both this and addresses is something that's really easy to survey with StreetComplete. Google has the benefit of having their own street-level imagery for house numbers and street …

Looks to be this building at that address and I can see the solar tiles on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ECbTUVwiUuDEPy6SA The article from which I've linked the image is he…

This is the roof of an industrial building near here which seems to go with that idea: https://nabendynamo.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/20210426_1... While not quite panel-sized, …

Euro NCAP will also only give the highest safety rating to cars with physical buttons for common functions.

Trucks need a lot more infrastructure in a lot more places than ships, though. I guess that's not often factored in.

This concerns Widerrufsrecht, i.e. the right to cancel an order or contract shortly after signing it. For certain services you also waive this when you get to use it immediately (c…

We first need to get rid of the current one in a few billion years. That won't end well for Earth, though.

That only helps with multiplications by statically known word sizes (4x, 8x, etc.) and not arbitrary x·y. It can help with many smaller constant multipliers if the complete is clev…

So, like edit.com and QBasic. What is old is new again.

> Did you know Windows comes with a bare bones C# 5 toolchain, with csc.exe, and even vbc.exe and jsc.exe? Even with MSBuild 4. From the days when .NET Framework was an OS componen…

Oh, that's something I also did in QBasic ages ago. I since lost the source code, but it basically worked by querying the screen from bottom to top, finding snow pixels (white) and…