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Magic Earth is a good map/navigation app that uses OSM data and has a decent search tool. IMHO it does car navigation well, but I prefer Organic Maps for hiking/walking, so I keep both on my phone.

Yes, complete opposite for me, loads of single track roads and whole 4sq miles of woods/Forrest missing, including numerous public paths .

Pioneer Space Sim - https://pioneerspacesim.net/ This is an Open-Source remake of Frontier Elite 2 AND Frontier First Encounters.

I only discovered this game a few months ago and only put of a couple of hours into the game so far. For me it takes the best bits of both FE2 and FFE, modernises the UI, improves on the graphics (some of the developers were GL/D3D mod developers of Elite - Frontier). It manages to keep the essential ingredients that made FE2 good and picking out the few extra nice bits from FFE.

It make sense for Google to steer their products, not for generalised mapping.

Like Google search and maps, Street View quality seems focused on large towns, cities and areas of high population. I only live a few miles into a large rural area from one of UKs largest conurbations and our village is 13 years out of date for street view, and 9/10 years old for Satellite imagery. Google maps is missing most of the nearby small single track unpaved roads and about 75% of footpaths (all marked on definitive maps are public rights of way), its so bad there is a 2 mile long, 1 mile wide woods on the edge of our village that is completely missing (including the road and footpaths through it), there is just a big blank, yet Street View clearly shows the entrances and the woods behind.

Confused European here, I thought "America" was the same as "The Americas"

It's a new market for Jiffylube.

I pay a small amount extra a month for my host to manage upgrades of my own WordPress sites and common plugins, I keep things simple on purpose to minimise the plugin hell you mention. As much as I can do this myself, I can't guarantee timely updates as a private individual. I've migrated 2 WP sites (one for work, one for a local club) to github pages to reduce the maintenance pain of WordPress.

I'm continuing to use my own blogs/websites (not as much as social media, as much as an information store for myself as for my tiny audiences, not monetised) as an insurance; we have zero control over the data we post on any popular social media platform. One day it could suddenly disappear for a number of reasons - technical fault, decision by the platform provider, interference by the authorities, malicious destruction etc...

I know off the top of my head 2 examples where code can be stored for research:

Zenodo: https://about.zenodo.org/ OSF: https://osf.io/

Underrated comment, very factual. I skimmed through the reddit thread that this comment came from and its full of the usual arguments based on ideological belives and/or extensive reconfiguration possibilities way beyond the out of the box experience, mixing privacy with security.

That would be Geany.

One of the people in my team has a PHD in weather forecast modelling and it was only a few hours ago we were talking about the Met Office having a decade(s ?) old Fotran core with lots of stuff bolted on.

Not only are software development life cycles different, but also the attitude to development. Which is not a surprise when in most cases, the output is not the software (or system), but research or learning; the code is merely a side effect.

We are superior bots.

Tictok have agreed to a $92 million settlement for lack of notification to users about data collection. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-owner-agrees-9...

This looks great. My wife is training in sucide awareness and prevention (college level course) in the UK; how applicable is Koko outside the USA ? How are you validating how well you system works or has a positive effect,have you had input/review by qualified professionals ?

The Firefox snap is also maintained by Mozilla.

One of a number of reasons Ubuntu does not even meet the minimum requirements to tender for a cut of the millions the University I work for invests in Linux systems (research workstations (often packed with NVIDIA GPUs), clients to control specialist equipment, HPC, regular desktops/laptops/servers, network/lustre/backup storage etc).

Conversely Linux Mint has agreed for Mozilla to provide debs directly for Mint. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

Early ASP.net was a fairly awful experience for the web stuff I did. ASP.net 1 and it was missing a lot of basic functionality that came in .net 2 and was not compatible with the stuff we had created in .net 1 to fill the gaps. Visual Studio was fragile, it would work great one day/week, then one system update or one change to a project setting would be enough to make it crawl or crash. And to top it off we had the burden is having to use visual source safe as well. Then add the need to have a local IIS and SQL Server, required a seriously beefy spec desktop to run. The ASP.net viewstate was geared up for single page CRUD applications and trying to do any kind of multiple website required serious abuse of session storage (DB backed and hideously slow to serialise and unserialise each time) to maintain state across pages. We created a handful of helpers to utilise querystrings efficiently. ASP form validators often suffered edge case bugs, the javascript validations often fail and hard to debug, server side validation added an extra layer of slowness and trying to juggle everything to load, save, validate, update the html between the layers of state management (application, session, view etc) lead to some horribly complex code to work around the opaque-ness of asp.net state management. Entity framework was welcomed, but it was almost unusable to start with it as suffered critical inconstancies between 32bit and 64bit machines in the way it handled the length of integers and stored them in the EF defined databases.

But it was not all terrible, C# was a pleasant language, polymorphism useful, unit testing (nunit) worked well, Team Foundation Server is worth a mention for being a zillion times better than Source Safe. Linq was a sane abstraction. By 2007/2008 MVC looked promising and Visual Studio Pro ran quite reasonable on current spec machines and the things around .net such as SQL Server and IIS were far more pleasant to install and work with on desktop machines.

PS, Let's not forget the MSDN library, documentation and software on CD/DVD and having to strategize what you can fit on your HDD and what you will load from disk.

In theory I would like this feature for discovery, but the signal to noise ratio for me is terrible, I have tried to use it, blocking 20 topics and it's still a poor experience for me. I could well be an outlier for this feature.

Hours and days of jobs need to be rerun in my experience, our researchers do a poor job of check pointing. Of all the issues we have with lustre, data loss has never been one whilst I have been in the team.

Yes, there are reports of people having their accounts permanently deleted due to photographs on OneDrive they claimed breach terms and conditions.

I've had good luck with cheap generics (varying brand names, originating from China) from Amazon, now on my 5th battery with no issue.

If Libadwaita optionally extended GTK (based on desktop preferences) so that when Gnome apps are used on other desktops they can fall back to GTK or other inherited UI, that would be great, but at the moment, Libadwaita is a hard dependency (when used), which makes Gnome applications more different (than not using Libadwaita) on other desktops.

It's possible to design a ribbon bar that does not infringe on MS patents. IRC there are only valid patents for specific parts of the MS ribbon bar, not the whole bar.

"Although Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, similar tabbed layouts of controls had existed in previous software from other vendors, including 3D Studio Max R3 and later, Adobe Dreamweaver, Borland Delphi, HotDog and Macromedia HomeSite." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)

I tend not to return, but how do I know in advance that a site will have onerous ads ? Also generally well behaved sites sometimes serve up terrible adverts.

I only care about blocking adverts that ruin the browser experience. Is there any adblocker that allows a user to select rules to allow/deny based on parameters such as load time, CPU usage and bandwidth ?

How much energy was required to start the fusion ?