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ocschwar··on Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap
Right now I'm using my work Mac, which I can't install Minecraft on. My personal Mac is not in my hands, and the kid using it is the one I want to surprise with a Minecraft level of the area.

If anyone could post a zip file of Minecraft worlds so I can fool this app into using it, I would be much obliged.

ocschwar··on They have not been trained for this
I kind of envy Germany's large array of possible corporate charters for non-profits, for-profits and kinda-sorta-nonprofits. I wish America had the same menu to pick fro.
ocschwar··on They have not been trained for this
I think disabling the firmware in circumstances that are clearly defined but not disclosed to the customer is very much outside existing IEEE ethical rules.

And making a Professional Engineer sign on to the software release before the release would be a good way to prevent shit like this.

ocschwar··on My Colleague Julius
That's why the B-Ark was built.
ocschwar··on 'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images
Providers are liable for malpractice if they approve un-needed treatments, and all drugs have side effects.

And they meanwhile have their own liability insurance to pay, as well as medical student debt. So not going to be profitable either. Unless they start prescribing Carnival Cruise therapy or stiff like that.

ocschwar··on More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
I'd be asking "how bad is the fentanyl situation in your are?"
ocschwar··on More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
The Venn diagram for EMTs, paramedics, and motorbikes is disjoint.
ocschwar··on How Boston City Hall was born
The one nice thing about the plaza is that when protesters show up there is no questioning their sincerity. You know they're not there for the fun of it.
ocschwar··on How Boston City Hall was born
It will not. I guarantee it. The vehicle emissions worming into the bare concrete are acidic. The water from rain and from the humid air slowly degrades it. The salt air doesn't help. At some point, sooner than you think, the corrosion will reach the rebars inside the concrete.

All this could be prevented with sacrificial applications of stucco, but brutalist architects insist on keeping the concrete bare. It takes a lot of work to keep a building like that from crumbling under these conditions, and city hall is not loved enough to get the work done.

ocschwar··on Half My Life with Perl
The things you need from Awk you can also find in Perl and learn in an afternoon. Whether you need anything else from Perl is an independent question.
ocschwar··on Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch
I'm hoping the author of FPiLean adds enough to the book to let the language function as a competitor to Haskel.
ocschwar··on A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects
Even before the crisis you had lead times of over a year.
ocschwar··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
What damages it more? The court playing "calvinball" or a Putin puppet wrecking Romania?
ocschwar··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
Okay, so the interference has succeeded. So what?

If the success is limited to repeating the first round of voting, that's a lot of Ukrainians who will still be alive next year.

ocschwar··on Are Grownups Just Giant Kids?
If you want to know the answer, read "The Disappearance of Childhood" by Neal Postman.
ocschwar··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
Falsely?
ocschwar··on A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
Walmart is cheaper for the customer (modulo the expense of driving to a Walmart).

But Walmart is also a lot cheaper for Walmart. One delta is larger than the other.

ocschwar··on Advent of Code 2024
Just give up on the main leaderboard. Maybe join another, preferably with people who share your time zone and schedule.
ocschwar··on Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system
Thanks for this! I am looking forward to putting this together with the Zola CMS for some hobby applications.
ocschwar··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
The key indicator is a simple question: how many of Australia's teenagers continue to use social networks now.
ocschwar··on The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
I stand corrected.
ocschwar··on The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
In the 1960s there was a long overdue correction to the Australian constitution because the preamble mentioned the continent's "flora and fauna" in a way that implied Aborigines were part of the "fauna." The wording was grossly racist, and had to be changed because of the politics, but from an ecological standpoint, there was some truth to it. Australia's ecosystems were stable because of how Aborigines interacted with them.
ocschwar··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
What we'll learn first is how schools use the new law as a tool for limiting device access in general and kids spend 8 hours a day reliving Gen-X.
ocschwar··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
> I shared those concerns at first - as that was similar to my situation (though less lgbt+ but more just on-the-spectrum stuff)

The catch is, unfortunately, that our social media data trails make it all to feasible to detect which of us is on the spectrum using machine learning.

And which if our kids have what is vulgarly called "daddy issues."

And which of us are beginning to succumb to schizophrenia.

We've only begun to see the creepy dystopian consequences of centrally archived social media.

ocschwar··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
Frankly I want Australia to go ahead with this law so the rest of us can have a test case for it. If it works well we can copy it with tweaks. If not, then we know to seek other options.
ocschwar··on Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them
So the chimps will be the ones to finally bring open office plans to an end?
ocschwar··on It's 10am and Dad's Doing Jell-O Shots. Must Be Parents' Weekend
If I do this, I want my daughter to just arrange an "accident" and let the life insurance cover the tuition.
ocschwar··on California's gas prices to increase 65 cents per gallon with new fuel standards
I literally cannot live in Los Angeles because of the constant smog. Yes, it's much better than it was, but Los Angeles is still in a bowl, and it's bad enough that I cannot live there.
ocschwar··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
Remember the DVD decoding legal battles? I wrote a Perl parser (using RecDescent before GCC decided to use it, making my script extra-useless) that translated C code to an English quasi equivalent, and back. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ Voila.
ocschwar··on MQTT turns 25
So you basically implemented an MQTT-Sockets protocol. Which you could then use to connect to a WebSockets server on the other side.
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