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woolly··on Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
In Sydney, it's generally the case for established neighbourhoods close to the CBD. Walkability in inner city suburbs like Balmain, Leichhardt, Rozelle, any of the eastern suburbs really is super high.

Contrast this to urban-sprawl created suburbs like Marsden Park and a few of the Hills district burbs and it's the opposite - barely any public transport and next to no community infrastructure.

There's a good channel on YT that documents this sort of stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDhbm-t3dXU

woolly··on Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers
I have used lodash/fp successfully in Javascript projects at current and previous job. Not sure about the TypeScript support.
woolly··on The Betrayal at Krondor Help Web
It's recently been re-optioned after the initial deal fell through to a company called Six Studios: https://www.tor.com/2022/02/03/riftwar-cycle-series-in-devel...
woolly··on Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
The article also mentions this:

> February 10 was the last day Wordle was still available at its old site.

Which doesn't appear to be the case, it is still accessible at the powerlanguage address.

woolly··on City roads – This website renders every single road within a city
If you like the minimalist rendering style, you can buy prints that are similar from https://routelines.com/
woolly··on One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden Building a Log Cabin
Another very deep hole to fall into if you're into log cabin builds is Nik Rijavec's build here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjAl_0yeKwUAQ2A3tQFcnA

And for the cabin/upcycling vibe, Modern Self Reliance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClhInAMlPM1UcjD8lI4o7UA

And for more solitary living-off-the-land type stuff, Shawn James at My Self Reliance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXKin1fXXCeq2UJePJEog

woolly··on How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights
Is it possible to view this article without creating a medium account?
woolly··on Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin? Have Spain produced a more up to date statement changing their position? If not, then are you not just spreading FUD?

edit: Also, Johnson shutting down the possibility of a second independence referendum is not the be all and end all: the Scottish government could pass legislation for one without a section 30, which would likely be challenged in court by the UK government. If the supreme court upholds the right for Scots to vote in a referendum, then it goes ahead.

woolly··on Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
To your last point: have Spain changed their position since they said they would not veto a Scottish application to rejoin [1]? I haven’t seen anything to suggest they have.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/02/spain-drops...

woolly··on Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
Some other issues that I don't think have been mentioned:

- A lot of the trees are eucalypts which are super oily and incredibly flammable. Some have been known to explode when they get too hot.

- It's been getting incredibly windy, which is taking burning embers far ahead of the main firefront and starting advance fires. Recently, a firey was crushed to death after the fire engine was blown over on top of him the winds are that strong.

woolly··on Update on free software and telemetry
In addition to dessant's links, the European Commission has a good page which lists out examples (including IP address) of what is considered personal data[1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

woolly··on Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
Can you point to some specific parts of the article that made it sound like it was general 3rd party ads, because I couldn't see any?
woolly··on Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
You're right, of course: hadn't had the morning coffee. It should have been 'takes 100% longer' in the 1 second/2 seconds example. The point I was trying to make is that you have to factor in the initial 100% which doesn't contribute to the final value.
woolly··on Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
Should that not be 346% faster? If A takes 1 second and B takes two seconds, then B is 100% faster than A. So the calculation would be (B/A - 1) * 100. Applying this here gives around 346%.

EDIT: B would, of course, take 100% longer than A, rather than be 100% faster.

woolly··on To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
I think the logic is: "If you're willing to gather evidence against somebody illegally, then you'd also be willing to fabricate evidence that doesn't exist".
woolly··on To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
While the majority of it probably isn't 'how the world should be', a man is going free because (we speculate) that the evidence against him was gathered illegally. This bit probably is 'how the world should be'.
woolly··on Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
A site for people to discover running groups in their local area
woolly··on Australian traffic button pushes beautiful design
I love the big chunky button on these things, but I have a few implementation niggles that someone might be able to shed light on.

My main gripe is that the buttons aren't symmetrical with their partner button pairs on the other side of the traffic flow. If I'm approaching the junction and there's someone on the other side of the traffic waiting to cross already, the green man on my side should also activate when the lights change. Means I end up having to do this jaunty quick-step fencing lunge to stab at the button if I see the lights changing, which I usually just miss out on then have to wait to cross.

woolly··on Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3
Is it the exact same thing, though? Can I send Lob a picture via SMS with some text and an address and have a postcard sent? If not, then maybe that's where the extra cost comes from.