[-] george@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

[-] george@midwest.social 41 points 1 year ago

Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.

[-] george@midwest.social 70 points 1 year ago

A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

$500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.

[-] george@midwest.social 28 points 1 year ago

Copyright law? One Thousand and One Nights is in the public domain.

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[-] george@midwest.social 85 points 1 year ago

To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.

[-] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Document document document.

Also, the nice thing about libraries, frameworks, and CMSs is that they already have documentation. If it seems like a pain to learn one of those, imagine how much worse it would be for someone to learn custom code that doesn’t have any resources on Google.

[-] george@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Do people these days still know O’Reilly books? I’ve seen a few posts over the past couple years that are essentially asking “how did you figure out how to program without Stack Overflow?”

[-] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.

FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.

[-] george@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

I follow a couple Lemmy communities from Mastodon. If you create a Mastodon account and search for @technology@lemmy.world you can subscribe to new posts, which get boosted into your feed. You can upvote by favoriting a post and you can reply from Mastodon and it’ll show up on Lemmy.

I can also follow Lemmy users, like by searching for mxwarp@lemmy.world and your posts (but not comments) will show up in my feed.

[-] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you make a post and tag @fediverse@lemmy.world it should post the first line as the title. ~~If you include a link, I think it will post it as a link too.~~

Edit: found the issue, it looks like links aren’t supported but it uses the first part of a post as the title.

[-] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIRC the post format is:

Title
@community@server
Body text

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Keaton Brandt: Remembering the boom and bust of the Mac platform — and what it means for visionOS.

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!annarbor@midwest.social

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Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

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