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Pars pro toto... ;)


Great project! It takes a bit of fiddling to get the distance parameter right in some cases, and two possible improvements would be to allow for coordinate input rather than city name so I can point it at a specific spot as the center of the map. Another one would be to output all styles simultaneously so I can visually select from the generated images.

Anyhow, nice work. Thanks!


You must be fun at parties.


And you don't have any humor.


It's sadly true though


Can you tell me a bit more on how you use Incus.. is it just personal use, or otherwise? What type of workloads do you run on it, and how is your networking setup / experience?


I use it for professional use, running production services which don't require 99.999 availability and have relatively low traffic, basically some internal dashboards and tools.

I develop my programs as deb/systemd packages and deploy in "fat" ubuntu/debian incus containers.

I have a cluster with three machines where one is used for build-containers and second for production containers. I am looking forward having time to have ZFS streaming incremental backup of the containers.

For big servers I use Proxmox, which is great, but Incus (and IncusOS) feel a bit more futuristic, where Proxmox is more bullet-proof enterprise solution.


Not sure, but I have heard that more than plenty in public discourse (NL / W-Eur) and even the repeated blatant lies about the 2015 wave of migration to be due to climate change.


Climate change was likely a factor in 2015.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-paved-the-way-to-wa...

> even the repeated blatant lies

It is difficult to have a reasonable discourse when starting with such overkill positions. The topic is way too nuanced. The civil war in Syria had many reasons, political, economic, religious, but also environmental.

Climate change massively increases the risk on water supply and harvesting yields, and if that risk manifests in a situation where people are already unhappy due to other reasons, it can be the trigger for large-scale reactions.

With all that having many factors, you'll rarely be able to point to one thing as "the" cause. That does not make it less relevant, though.


Came here to check if someone already mentioned the Arithmeum in Bonn. :)


Although I also know a handful of (euro) people who do not have Whatsapp, and a lot of the "missing out" can indeed be absorbed as you described. However, lots of people have a need for Whatsapp which cannot simply be ignored by walking on the beach. It is all about social trade-offs, personally I have almost all apps installed, most of them (or at least the group chats) muted. Some friends are signal only, some prefer telegram etc... sometimes it is just more "social" for you to adapt to a group. If the situation is that others want something from you, you can dictate the forms of communication, however it is quite legit for people to want to be a part of a larger group. No need for snarkiness.


You wouldn't download a car, would you?


They get paid for what they do, their "profession". Most of them are not particularly good ;)


That may be true, but on average I would expect them to be better drivers than the pick-up-in-the-inner-city crowd, whose choices are already off to a poor start before they turn the ignition key, after all, they picked the wrong vehicle for the surroundings.


There are probably less than two hundred people like that in the entire EU. Kind of a pointlessly small demographic to focus on.


Please stop polluting HN threads with nonsense. Thank you.


What nonsense? Do you genuinely believe that there are loads of people driving big American pickups in EU inner cities?

I think “a couple of hundred” is an absolutely reasonable estimate. Even in big cities like London or Paris you’re not going to find more than a couple (counting all the Mercedes G 6x6s too)

The people driving these cars exist mostly outside of inner cities.

If you disagree, you can do so like an adult instead of spewing out completely unnecessary and unjustified insults.


Don't they also need special driver licences, which can have more stringent rules?


Yes, but that is mostly "one time you get it" and then some courses every now and then. You do have more stringent medical rules at every renewal.


I get the point, but myself have no intention of ever sharing a hotel room with anyone I am not comfortable to concurrently use a bathroom with, i.e. my gf/wife. I would much rather see an initiative to show me if a hotel shower has a proper way to keep the water in, so I do not have to use three towels to provide some sort of spot where I can properly dry off whilst not standing ankle deep in water. Never understood why this is the case in so many hotels, it does nt seem to aid cleaning staff either. That, and a proper filter for on premises parking (not the "public parking is plentiful around the hotel" in the fine print bs), and for wifi, show me the speedtest results please.


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