@lienrag@futurebird@zjp I think reading them in order would be a bad idea actually. I like them all, but Consider Phlebas (the first book by publication and ?maybe? the first chronologically in-universe) is not very representative of the series.
“What is your plan to reduce the number of cars on our streets?” is the question we should all ask every candidate and elected official any chance we can.
If they don’t have an answer, they are not serious about climate change.
@forteller@jomo@pnorman Interesting point. I’ve dived into maps some for a project and the way the current OSM works is basically square images saved at every discrete magnification level. I have to imagine vector is an improvement on that, since you can have a single data source used by all magnification levels (and just change the rendering rules)
@forteller@jomo@pnorman I also wonder if this opens up custom styles while hitting the OSM server. Currently you need to generate and host your own raster tiles if you want to change the style of OSM. I don’t know how vector maps are served, but if it’s geographic data with client side rendering, maybe this would facilitate easy style changes
So, the #Decktet is a neat little thing. For those who are unfamiliar, its conceit is that it’s a deck of playing cards from a fantasy universe. It differs from our playing cards by having six suits, fewer ranks, and most importantly, two suits on every number card. I’ve had a deck for years, but have recently been checking out some games I’ve never tried before.
Something that’s always bugged me about the Decktet, however, is the designer chose to have some suit pairings show up more frequently and some not at all. It doesn’t often matter in play, because the suits are balanced across the deck and ranks as a whole, but it still makes my eye twitch.
Spent an hour of my night last night coming up with a scheme for an alternative deck that has every combination exactly twice (by the addition of six cards and some shuffling around).
@aral Trying to understand the p2p chat example… So each user would need to run their own server to communicate? Can you give a concrete example of where this would be more practical than more typical many clients one host scenario? Is it tied to the planned Domain project?
@ntnsndr@heif My understanding of traditional funding is that investors expect a return on investment (on average) due to hyper growth building out something that can be highly valued by acquiring companies. The acquiring entities then expect to get a return on *their* investment by wringing every last cent of perceived value out of their acquisition. Such a model seems fundamentally at odds with co-ops… How would investing work with co-ops?
I successfully made it all the way through @notjustbikes’s latest podcast without moving back to the Netherlands mid listen. But it was hard.
We’re lucky where we live in Canada — our town is at the end of the road, so no stroad Main Street. Kids actually roam the streets still without parents. We are in the forest within 2 minutes’ walking. But it was hard to find this place and it comes with several big trade offs.
I toot for me.Mostly bikes. I'm into compact towns and cities where you don't need to own a car, and heavy economic board games. Machine learning stuff is my day job.The world is on fire and we should try to save some of it before there's nothing but ashes.lowercase toots are usually jokes 🚲 🚶 🚉 🤖 🧗🏻 🎲, 𝋑𝋌