I was planning a trip recently, so what I did was save all the places I wanted to go to into a list, and Maps would put a little pin there, and then I could use that to see what was close to one another (I'll add a screenshot later)...
Garmin Explore has a bit of a learning curve but offers a variety of very good maps and (once you've discovered where the web developers have hidden them) tons of nifty features. One of them is waypoints: you stick a flag somewhere and can give it a name, icon and colour. That sounds like the thing you're looking for.
The downside is that it's made for outdoor stuff so you get street names and some POIs, but no turn-by-turn navigation.
I use the website (https://explore.garmin.com/) to plan my tours and import/manage GPX files, and the Android app and an inReach 2 Mini satellite messenger while underway. The three sync seamlessly.
Since I have a paid subscription (required for satellite access) I can't tell you what (if anything) you get for free, but it should be relatively easy to find out if you think it might be what you're looking for.
For car navigation I used TomTom Go - it costs something but the quality of POIs and navigation is far superior to Google Maps in my experience. You can also add your own locations but have to do it on the phone by hand.
In my new car I use Google Maps because it came with the car and there's no real alternative at the moment. I do miss my TomTom app.
An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.
According to FlightStats and FlightRadar24, the original plane was a Boeing 777-206 from 2003, which has been replaced by a 777-300 from 2023. It's en route now over the Atlantic.
So an issue caused by Boeing's recent series of quality problems seems unlikely, unless there was a dodgy spare part involved.
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
This is actually a super smart move, from an evil genius point of view. The plaintiffs now have an interest in the company growing instead of shutting down.
Though I really hope some judge somewhere stops that deal.
It's a rant opinion piece about the caveats of mixing async and sync functions, and divides code into 'red' (async) and 'blue' (sync) functions to explain the various problems associated with it.
Not the greatest solution, but... living in a place where it's mostly been raining for the last 7-8 weeks makes it easy to cool down.
I'd love to write something about A/C and going for a swim/dive instead, like last year. Maybe in July?
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
I offer you a third option: at least one Lidl in Croatia uses blinking tags for stuff they really want you to look at.
Sometime soon we're gonna have to invent a spam filter for real life. Hey, maybe that's the use case that the Vision guys at Apple have been looking for?
I feel so guilty because I'm honestly spiraling but everyone keeps telling me I'm not. I can't, because it makes them look worse.
I don't even know where to begin.
Going through difficult times is not a weapon in a dick-measuring contest to determine who's owed the most pity. Downplaying somebody else's problems in order to make one's own problems seem more important is not something a friend* does, period.
But then again, those people may just be unable to imagine you holding yourself together so well if you really had all those problems you describe. That's still no excuse though, a real friend should listen to you and believe you.
I think what (some of) your 'friends' are doing is reminiscent of crab mentality. That's the mechanism that makes sure you're being gifted a never-ending supply of chocolate and junk food as soon as people notice you've successfully lost weight, or alcoholics insisting that their dry friend has just one small beer with them for old times' sake.
One of the foundations of crab mentality is the assumption that life is a zero-sum game and/or desired resources are scarce, i.e. if you get more sympathy/attention then somebody else will get less.
I'm not saying you should do this - that would require some hefty assumptions about you and your life - but one of the best things I've ever done is ranking all my friends and family by the degree to which they've made my life better or dragged me down over the years, balanced scorecard-style. It sounds heartless but with some people was a real eye-opener for me.
Either way, surround yourself with people that give something back. If that means losing some 'friends', then so be it. A handful of real friends will get you much further than hordes of false ones.
( * I'm including family members here, though they can generally get away with much more BS than a friend just because they're family.)
Logically, I know it's true that demeaning and comparing other people's experiences is wrong, but I encounter it so much it's hard to really believe it.
I can relate to some degree, though in my case it was my parents. The good news is that it doesn't take much practice until you start noticing the difference.
There's not a lot of advice I can give you, because above all you need to figure out yourself what you want (and how you want to get there). Just keep reminding yourself every now and then that the most important person in your life is you, and anybody trying to tell you otherwise is unlikely to have your best interests in mind.
Decided to build something rather complex as a first project and it's proving challenging at ever step of the way, but I'm really proud of how it's turning out....
Unfashionably late to the party (which seems to be my only secret superpower), but if there's any way to support you, by any means, do let me know. I always enjoy reading what you write and I would love to give something back.
Take your time, mate. You're the most important person in your life!
And no need to thank me - I do think you are a gifted writer (however much or little that may be worth coming from an anonymous person who speaks English as their third language) and just wanted you to know that your sharing your stories is much appreciated even though I don't have much to add to them. But I totally wanna cuddle with a raver girl now.
Seriously, health departments around the world should have offered a fourth Covid certificate during the pandemy - tested, vaccinated, recovered and "will irrevocably forego any right to treatment in a hospital in case of infection". That way all the tinfoil hats couldn't have spread their 'dictatorship' bullshit nearly as easily, because hey, all you have to do in order to be able to go to the pub is to absolve society of the risk of you catching an absolutely harmless and possibly even imaginary cold.
Let a few thousand of those fuckers die and at the same time keep the hospital beds free for those who need them through no fault of their own. Watch the survivors crap their pants and mumble something about science maybe not being so bad after all.
The problem is that some people consider stupidity to be a virtue. That's their right (sadly), but they shouldn't be able to make society suffer the consequences.
Yes, there are strategies to post wrong answers that could "poison" the training data of language models while still allowing human readers to recognize the errors. Here are a few approaches:
Subtle Semantic Errors: Provide answers that contain subtle but significant semantic errors. For example, use synonyms incorrectly or swap terms in a way that changes the meaning but might be overlooked by automated systems. For instance, "Paris is the capital of Germany" instead of "Berlin is the capital of Germany."
Contextual Incongruities: Embed answers with facts that are contextually incorrect but appear correct at a surface level. For example, "The sun rises in the west and sets in the east."
Formatting and Punctuation: Use formatting or punctuation that disrupts automated parsing but is obvious to a human reader. For example, "The capital of France is Par_is." or "Water freezes at 0 degrees F@harenheit."
Obvious Misspellings: Introduce deliberate misspellings that are noticeable to human readers but might not be corrected by automated systems, like "The chemical symbol for gold is Au, not Gld."
Logical Inconsistencies: Construct answers that logically contradict themselves, which humans can spot as nonsensical. For example, "The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Kilimanjaro, which is located underwater in the Pacific Ocean."
Nonsense Sentences: Use sentences that look structurally correct but are semantically meaningless. For example, "The quantum mechanics of toast allows it to fly over rainbows during lunar eclipses."
Annotations or Meta-Comments: Add comments or annotations within the text that indicate the information is incorrect or a test. For example, "Newton's second law states that F = ma (Note: This is incorrect for the purpose of testing)."
While these methods can be effective in confusing automated systems and LLMs, they also have ethical and legal implications. Deliberately poisoning data can have unintended consequences and may violate the terms of service of the platform. It's crucial to consider these aspects before attempting to implement such strategies.
Thanks to a few centuries of upper nobility, we already know that marrying your cousin for several generations is not always a good idea. It'll be interesting to see what happens after a few iterations of AIs being trained on data mostly produced by other AIs (or variations of themselves). I suppose it largely depends on how well the training data can be curated.
Congrats on your new setup! A UPS is never a bad idea.
As for the auto power-on, check the BIOS settings. Most have an option that says somehing along the lines of "computer power state after plugging it in" and you can usually set it to on, off or whatever it was before power loss.
Hmm, the way you describe it makes sense.
You'll probably want to send the UPS a command to kill the power after shutdown is complete. I'm not sure what software you use on the server (if any) to manage the UPS, and not too familiar with them anyway, but a common concept would be: UPS reports power failure with <$minimum runtime remaining, server shuts down gracefully and sends a "kill power" command to the UPS at the end of its shutdown sequence, UPS kills power, power eventually returns, UPS turns back on, server gets power again and reboots.
I know APC PowerChute and whatever software comes with HPE UPSes can do that.
It also means your UPS has some runtime left in case of emergency or if the power returns and quickly fails again.
Best Google Maps replacement on desktop? ( kbin.run )
I was planning a trip recently, so what I did was save all the places I wanted to go to into a list, and Maps would put a little pin there, and then I could use that to see what was close to one another (I'll add a screenshot later)...
Rio-bound Boeing 777 returns to Amsterdam over tech issue – DW – 06/23/2024 ( www.dw.com )
An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity ( apnews.com )
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
Concurrency models of Rust and Golang ( kerkour.com )
what’s your favorite way to beat the heat?
today’s the summer solstice (for the northern hemisphere), so tell me your favorite way to cool down while we’re watching the world burn. 🔥
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
What do you think should be the demonym for Beehaw users?
Reddit users are called Redditors, Tumblr has Tumblrinas, Lemmy has Lemmings, Twitter has Twits......
how's your week going, Beehaw
busy as always
Doing masonry for a root cellar vaulted ceiling ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Decided to build something rather complex as a first project and it's proving challenging at ever step of the way, but I'm really proud of how it's turning out....
Any other burners here? I'm just home from my first, and thinking I'll leave the empathetic expletives for the body.
A number of wheels starting turning a year ago. Haltingly ... maybe more like relay switches....
Harassment of scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help ( www.nature.com )
As researchers increasingly face many kinds of attack over their work, there is debate about how to support and protect them....
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” ( www.theverge.com )
Winamp is going open source ( feddit.uk )
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
how's your week going, Beehaw
busy as usual, currently reading Alt-America (David Neiwert)