That was surprisingly loud, I almost fell off the toilet

You can derive them from footprint, height and basic roof type

As a kid I always wished I could play video games in my home town. Imagine games like GTA in your neighborhood. Of course we are far away from that, but it is a great idea to dynamically generate environments based on available geo data. I can also imagine this can motivate people in mapping. Gamification is a strong vehicle, look at apps like StreetComplete that have gotten really popular in a short time and play around with badges and levels etc. thanks for sharing!

I didn’t know either, but it seems to be an often picked ‘random’ number by people. Here is an article about it, I didn’t read it though.

I haven’t seen the rate limitation issue for a couple of months now. The issue is not new, IIRC the Aurora team needs to provide more and more anonymous accounts as the user base is growing. Some months ago we had this problem for more than two weeks. I just checked and Aurora finds no connection, but until today everything worked flawlessly. And I expect it to work again soon.

I feel your pain though. I am degoogled for more than 5 years now and what I learned is that Google will always look for ways to make our life harder. More and more basic functions such as network location were seperated from the AOSP into proprietary google services. I am pretty sure this will get even worse in the future.

We must not forget that we rely on open source software and a hand full if developers, everything can break tomorrow and we are fucked.

I’m not sure if that is a sustainable model for the whole society. Pirating as a solution for everything feels like giving up to me. Also I can’t pirate my vacuum cleaner.

What you say is true and I can understand it is frustrating. But I really don’t know how to convince people. Convenience is king and you need to have strong political opinions to abstain. I am a nerd, but still I often need double the time to find the “alternative” way of owning things.

I recently wanted to get the Harry Potter audio books for listening on my phone. I basically had two “official” options:

1. Buying all E-books as mp3 download for 235€
2. Amazon Audible for 10€ per Month

You can clearly see that in reality, the industry gives you only one option - audible. For 235€ you can have 2 years of e-book subscriptions.

Maybe you would say “hey, 235€ may seem expensive but in exchange you will get to own the stuff you pay for!”. The thing is: you can get the whole audiobook collection on mp3-CD for just 70€ on Amazon?

In the end I bough an external CD-ROM drive and bought the mp3-CD box used for 40€.

It’s not about that stupid Audiobook or whether the price is justified. The point I want to make is that the industry makes is so hard for individuals to own things, that I almost see this as a lost battle. The way I chose, took almost 2 weeks, days of research, a frustrated lemmy post, two online orders and 2 hours time to copy the mp3s.

And the thing is, it’s the same for everything else - you want to buy a vacuum cleaner? Oh better look if it comes with special cleaner bags for 30€ per bag. Let’s not talk about printers.

Every little item needs so much research, only for the aspects of planned obsolescence and true ownership. We do not even talk about social or environmental aspects…

How the fuck should I expect others to spend so much time on energy on consumption things? Honestly, sometimes I am a bit envious of the people that just do not care. But only sometimes.

Sorry, that somehow developed into a rant

I think it’s a good thing polars developers are heading toward interoperability. The Dataframe Interchange Protocol the article mentions sounds interesting.

For example, if you read the documentation for Plotly Express

I know this seems to be an important topic in the community. But honestly, I rarely use all the plotting backends at all. They are nice for quick visualizations, but most of the time I prefer to throw my data into matplotlib on my own, just for the sake of customization.

polars.DataFrame.to_pandas() by default uses NumPy arrays, so it will have to convert all your data from Arrow to Numpy; this will double your memory usage at least, and take some computation too. If you use Arrow, however, the conversion will take essentially no time and no extra memory is needed (“zero copy”)

I don’t want to complain, it is definitely a good thing polars developers address this. pandas is the standard and as long as full interoperability between polars and the pandas ecosystem is lacking, this “hack” is needed. However, data transformation can be an incredibly sensitive topic. I do not even trust pandas or tensorflow in always doing the right thing when converting data - processing data in polars, converting it to pandas and then process it further - I am sceptical. And I am not even talking about performance here.

If you’re doing heavy geographical work, there will likely someday be a replacement for GeoPandas, but for now you probably going to spend a lot of time using Pandas

This is important. Geopandas is one of the most import libraries derived from pandas and widely used in the geoscience community. The idea of an equivalent like “geopolars” is insane in my eyes. I am biased as a data scientist mostly working on spatial data, but this is the main reason that I watch the development of polars only from the sidelines. Even if I wouldn’t work with geographic data, GeoAI is such an important topic you can’t just ignore it. And that’s only the perspective from my field, who knows what other important communities are out there that rely on pandas.

MozillaCoin /s

I’m just speculating, but I could imagine they personfied objects and maybe transfered gender to objects that way?

As I understand your suggestion this would mean one super community might get moderated from 5 different instances and 5 rule sets. It is definitely the right direction but not that easy to design…

I’m sure the Huthi has the skill to launch missiles on boats from a distance of 180 km and specifically only hitting the parts of the boat where nobody of the crew is unfortunately smoking a cigarette at that time.

If I remember correctly it was always the clown Medwedew who threatened to use nuclear weapons and throw them on London or some other bullshit, but never Putin directly

My problem is not their design but the fact they are Google phones, as I boycott Google. Also second hand Pixels are hard to acquire for a reasonable price…

I own fluent Python and it is defenitely not for beginners.

Just ask him to add some more details to the question, no need to be an ass about it. Beginners often do not know how to ask for things efficiently, a skill you have to learn on your journey to being programmer.

Automate the boring stuff and Python Crash Course are 2 standard books that are often recommended. The first one is freely available as PDF. I haven’t read them myself though.

Hopefully in the future repairable and used can go hand in hand! Those are not mutually exclusive attributes.

That’s true. I use LineageOS to get at least OS updates, but firmware is definitely problematic. I just wished mobile hardware would be more generic like in Desktop PCs, that would solve a lot of problems.

It’s a great thing, and I hope the industry (with motivation by EU) will follow a trend towards repairability and sustainability. However I think the most sustainable way is buying used devices.