Why bother coding indoors when you can be coding from the beach instead?

#Greece #Preveza

Yay, the updates I made on #OpenStreetMap a couple of weeks ago seem to be live!

Greece is a very rich country: people can afford to put more cars on the road than the government can manufacture license plates for.

Greece is a very poor country: the government can't even afford to manufacture enough plates for the cars that are getting added.

Greece is a very short-sighted country: they can't even put a plan together that prevents a license plate shortage.

Meanwhile, there's a possibility that I won't be allowed to drive my new car for lack of a plate for it.

I'm seeing some rumblings about 6G cell systems, and what those systems promise.

I was involved in the launch of 2G (the packet variety), 3G, 4G and 5G systems.

Here's the deal: every single one of those delivered what the previous one had promised.

So, no matter what 6G promises, it'll actually deliver what 5G promised.

I live in Greece, but I don't speak much Greek yet. I rely on Chrome's in-browser translation a lot.

Recently, I got a weird one: "Renault Twingo" got translated as "Renault Clio". Oops. I understand that Clio is the most popular Renault model, so it's a reasonable LLM auto-complete in a vacuum... but that's a catastrophic translation. The next day, it translated "Opel Ampera" into "Open Corsa".

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I'm not quite a believer in planned obsolescence. However, I'm a believer in predictable obsolescence, where components predictably go bad at different speeds.

Software in cars or TVs/monitors? Predictable obsolescence.

Closed-source operating systems for computers or smartphones? Predictable obsolescence.

Floppy disks to update software on trains or planes? Predictable obsolescence.

Ethernet throughout a house? Predictable obsolescence.

Non-replaceable batteries? Predictable obsolescence.

Their claim: "you have to use maps that are maintained by big companies, only they have the resources to keep the maps accurately updated"

Google Maps: *shows a road over a bridge, with photos, when the bridge was actually destroyed years ago* (and, amusingly, you can see the remnants of the old bridge on the photo taken from the neighboring new bridge)

OpenStreetMap (and therefore OpenTopoMap and OpenSnowMap): *are accurate, doh*