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mineo··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
First-time StreetComplete user here. I just answered a few of these "street has a sidewalk" questions myself. Upon first clicking on one of them, I was able to answer this question for each side of the street individually. The visual selection that you mentioned only applies to one side.
mineo··on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
I believe hash -d and supsequent expansion of those paths only works in ZSH, which calls this "static named directories" (http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Static...).
mineo··on New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc (Table of contents)
Similarly, man and woman in Emacs generate a ToC that imenu (M-x imenu) can use.
mineo··on OpenSSH 7.3 released
The announcement already mentions that ProxyJump is meant to be a simplified version of indirection, not a completely new feature.
mineo··on JVM JIT optimization techniques
Or use the reader view.
mineo··on Mutt 1.6
This is why you don't let cats anywhere near your keyboard ;-)
mineo··on The text/markdown media type
I agree on the section definitions. It's very hard to remember which underline I need to use because every project (or even document) can just define their own order implicitly. The sphinx project recommends a specific order somewhere in their documentation that I look up every time I need to write rst, but markdowns just-count-the-hashes is much easier.
mineo··on Python moves to GitHub
To be honest, I don't find this to be true. To email a patch, you usually have to

* figure out if you can use git-request-pull or git-send-email * sign up for a mailing list (which, depending on the mailing list software the project uses, can take anywhere between a few seconds and annoyingly large amounts of minutes) * optionally figure out how to not receive the whole traffic of the ML or set up custom email filters * figure out if you have to CC the people responsible for the area of the code you're going to send a patch for (which might be written down in a wiki, some CONTRIBUTING file or somewhere else) * figure out if the project wants an extra cover letter for the patch series or not (and optionally search the man pages for how to write one).

With GitHub, I just use [hub](https://hub.github.com/) or an Emacs package or plugins for other editors to

* fork the repository * (without additional tools, I now have to add my newly created remote) * push to my own remote * create the pull request after reading CONTRIBUTING<tab>

which so far has been the exact same workflow for every project I've seen (ymmv of course).

mineo··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
Note that not all of those use Phabricator as a bug tracker (KDE, lighttpd, LLVM, Haskell, I imagine a lot of bugs for Wikimedia are reported through project chat pages on the wikis themselves).
mineo··on Berlin public transport in real time
The same thing exists for regional and inter city trains in germany that the Deutsche Bahn is responsible for: http://www.apps-bahn.de/bin/livemap/query-livemap.exe/dn?L=v...
mineo··on “Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”
If by "hardcodes" you mean "can be changed in the configuration file", then yes, that's true.
mineo··on Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
Fun fact: google code now has a " We have some known issues with hg repositories. " banner up since a few days ago.
mineo··on Yum is dead, long live DNF
503s for me, here's the article on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150517152126/http://dnf.baseur...
mineo··on F# Survey 2015 Results
This might sound a bit stupid, but I was looking into F# a while ago (26 days ago, if the timestamps of the few files I wrote don't lie :-) ) and now I'm wondering I could have found those things (especially RWFP because I usually don't like learning from videos) if I start on fhsarp.org?

http://fsharp.org/about/learning.html does not list them, and going from http://fsharp.org/about/index.html via the "Language Reference" link to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233181.aspx doesn't list RWFP in the sidebar anymore.

mineo··on Arduino-Org: “Rename this fork and use less confusing versioning”
It's possible to "lock" [0] conversations on GitHub. This means that only collaborators of the repository are able to add comments to the issue/pull request.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/locking-conversations/

mineo··on Notes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids
Some of the movies those kids had already seen are rated 16+ as well.
mineo··on Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie
You can just use udiskie (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/udiskie) to automatically mount exernal drives, even if you're not running a DE.
mineo··on IPv6 Adoption Statistics
They were talking about Austria (in Europe), not Australia :-)
mineo··on GCC Function Multiversioning
That's because gcc is trying to compile it as C, not C++. You need to call the file "test.cpp" or explicitly use g++ instead of gcc to compile it. (You'll also need to "#include <assert.h>" or it won't compile.)
mineo··on IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
The website doesn't seem to work reliably at the moment, here's the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20131021002154/http://www.ibibli...
mineo··on Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming
That should be "foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs" because the function f takes two arguments (the whole thing boils down to "(((z `f` x_1) `f` x_2) ... `f` x_n)").
mineo··on The first stable release of PyPy3
The PyPy people themselves have a benchmark portal at http://speed.pypy.org/ with graphs and everything.
mineo··on Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks
In case anyone's interested, the Chrome extensions is IPvFoo [0], a similar one for firefox is IPvFox [1].

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipvfoo/ecanpcehffn... [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ipvfox/

mineo··on ipython 2.0.0
Looks like there's no changelog available (yet), so here's the rst file on GitHub: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/rel-2.0.0/docs/sourc...
mineo··on Brick. Webfonts that look good
Except for the `fi` ligature and the thing with the Q, they look the same in Firefox on Linux as well.
mineo··on German freemail sites trick Firefox and Chrome users into removing AdBlock
According to https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/unternehmen/rechenzentrum they only have data centers in Nuremberg (Bavaria) and Falkenstein (Saxony).
mineo··on Academic Torrents
I think he's referring to the "[edu]" label on the browsing pages (like [0]) which indicates that the uploader has a .edu email address. I'm not too sure about other countries, but at least in Germany, not many academical institutions actually have those, just normal .de ones.

[0] http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=5

mineo··on Why IPy: reasons for using IPython interactively
It prints a warning if you're running ipython inside a virtualenv that some features might not work but in that case, you can just install ipython itself inside the venv (I haven't yet found any problems caused by using ipython inside a venv). Using a python2 ipython inside a python3 venv might not be a good idea, but you probably knew that already :)
mineo··on New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling
The text and images also cut off on the left and right if your browser window is "only" 1200px wide.
mineo··on Teeworlds for Mac, Windows, and Linux
Can't hurt to mention Hedgewars as another really good open source game, though.
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