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I’ve been working with OpenStreetMaps a little and I must say, they’ve done an incredible job. The data are very detailed and accurate, I can’t believe they’re free to use. Someone must be paying all those topographers somehow or I don’t understand how this can be achieved by volunteers. This project, Warsaw in Voxels which uses them inspired me to play as well.

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nobody is paying us. It's a work of love :)

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you may start with StreetComplete to contribute easily. With time, you may need more capable interfaces like Vespucci. Seems like i can't post links on textlog for now. Both apps are available on fDroid

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You delete a file on Linux while a program has it open. What happens?

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even vanguard supports passkeys now investor.vanguard.com/…/trust-security

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Microsoft Excel 1. Pre-requisites 2. Foundation 3. Core Knowledge 4. Intermediate 5. Advanced 6. Application / Mastery

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Pre-requisites

Basic computer / file skills
Arithmetic, percentages, averages
Basic logic (AND/OR/IF thinking)

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My son's new class doesn't have a Smith, Johnson, or Williams. It's the Hughes kid who breaks in at . I expect these kids with strong stage names to have pants and personalities to match.

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What is the simplest physical system capable of open-endedly creating new knowledge?

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Looking at the list of domain names bought over the years: Ah yes my idea graveyard.

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Are you planning to let it all go?

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Never, I'll slowly get around to building them.

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Trying to gently work my way back to the target intensity needed for the Norwegian 4x4 to get my weekly dose of suck and feel accomplished after. Chronic left leg pain unfortunately likes reminding me it's there though.

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Productive weekend started four hours ago for me (at 06:00 EDT). Visited aunties and mum. Just got home, and waiting for wife to finish preparing to get on the road again. Next destination: nursing home (visit family, and “adopted” elders).

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how many texts are here

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look at the url

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we can't see the url in the app 🤷

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OMP + OpenCode Zen + Ox Alpha is too good to be free.

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The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

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They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.