Talking about battery replacement for EV is like talking about engine replacement for ICE.

“Sure, ICE car are nice but the high cost of engine replacement after a few 100k km is a concern”

Batteries in today’s EV can last way longer than people expect, changing the battery is really not something that will be fine regularly, not more than changing the engine in current ice car.

My dog complains when we have a new bag of dog biscuit but still give her stale biscuit from the open bag.

Recording camera in public sources are subject to the EU law. You can’t install then without authorization and their use is reglemented.

I don’t know if it’s there case in all the EU but for example in France people need to be informed by a sign of a camera is recording the area, they can’t record the entrance of private houses …

We have that already: NASA’s Space Launch System.

It’s … debatable whether it gives better results than commercial contracts.

There is a french graphic novel from 1974 where the story is exactly that: people spend so much of their live in the car that the government device to just transform the whole country into a giant highway with oriole living in self driving car constantly moving.

There is a reddit post with the whole album there : https://www.reddit.com/r/Giscardpunk/comments/11e2kme/les_mangebitume_jacques_lob_et_josé_bielsa_1974/

In this case I doubt they are trying to sell the piano. They are trying to make it look as expensive as possible so everything else in the store seems really cheap in comparison.

I’m in France.

Rural area can be walkable as well.

I’m living in a village (~1500 people), we have one car for 3 adults and the car is used maybe once a week on average.

Everything else is done walking or biking. Walking the kids to school taking a path along a steam of water, there is several bar and restaurants in the village center, a bakery, a small grocery shop, a local producers shop, a market, barber … I’m working remotely and I have a coworking space in the village as well.

The streets are always busy and everyone say hi to each other.

We just need to have less car centric spaces.

It happened to me, I got contacted for an offer (I was working in a niche industry area).

They had above 50 candidates with the required qualifications. After two online interview they invited me for a onsite interview. It’s in another country so they are paying for the flights tickets and hotel.

I’m onsite for the day, I have interviews, visit of the place, the museum, I’m invited for lunch there, more interviews in the afternoon.

In the 3 candidates that were there, one was a guy who already candidated for the exact same opening 5 years ago, did not got selected for this job at the time but they did not want him to go so they hired him on another position until the main position opens again.

So without any surprises, he got selected.

Yes, you need to create an account to edit the map.

Like, a lot of information could simply be pulled from government databases. Yet OSM doesn’t seem to do that, often leaving out information that should be publicly available.

It is already the case, data is imported from public database with compatible licenses.

It does requires a lot of manual verifications and from my experience the data available is not always better than the data already available in OSM.

Then there’s the very weird thing that they don’t have any satellite view

There is satellite view for editing, depending on the area you usually have at least 3 different satellite imagery supplier that you can use for editing

what exactly is the aim of the project?

The main of the project isn’t to provide a final product usable by everyone, it’s to provide the data that can be use by any other app.

Maps have power, they’ve been used through the centuries by those in power as tools of propaganda and control. Today it is important not to let the big tech company have the monopoly on these tools.

Things might have changed since the last time you get to contribute to osm, you should try again. Open openstreetmap.org , click on “edit” and you will have immediately a tool that you can use for editing with satellite imagery. Or go to Tasks.hotosm.org to contribute to humanitarian projects using OSM

They’d beat a pregnant women to death for trying to get an abortion

If you are interested in creating a commercial product based on the Materials, please get in touch with Valve.

It’s the second line of the license file. So the license does not automatically grant commercial right but they are addressing straight away that they are open to the idea.

I don’t know in practice how easy it would be to get the right from Valve to commercialize a product derivated from these files.

I’ve noticed first hand the impact of environmental factors.

I moved from a place where I needed the car for EVERYTHING. This include taking off the garbage. Even going for a walk wasn’t possible without taking the car first.

Most of the food I was eating was imported (mainly from the US). I was able to find few local fruits and vegetable but choices are quite limited and the supply erratic.

Then I moved back to France, I now live in a small village where everything is available at a walking or biking distance. School, work, small grocery shop, bakery, doctor, pharmacy, coworking space, kids activity. I’m might be using the car once a week now.

There is plenty of farmers in the area with local produces and even supermarkets have a wide selection of decent fruits and vegetables but I prefer the local producers as I can.

I stopped working out, I have not purposely changed my eating habits but without any surprise I am in a much, much better physical shape now.

Steam released the CAD files of the Steam controller, on gitlab, under a creative Commons license !

I was on the edge about wanting to buy a steam controller but now definitely want one. I’ll keep an eye open for when they are back in stock.

Is that hard rock or piles of dust? 🤨

Yes

In a crisis, every bike is a dirtbike.

In time of crisis bikes are THE best transportation mode.

English isn’t my first language so it’s hard to find the word to describe it.

It’s definitely a unique drink, very herbal. The green is not on the herbal side, the yellow a bit more on the spices like vanilla, liquorice.

The best way to drink it is to slowly sip it in a wide glass. Like a perfume, the flavor profile change with time. So the first sip will not taste the same as the second sip.

I sometime “forgot” a glass for an hour and two and when I came back it was a completely different drink, sill as delicious as the beginning.

On the expensive side, one recently seen this display in a monastery’s meeting room in France. 3m high, 5m wide filled with bottles of chartreuse, some more than a century old, some very rare editions where less than ten bottles were produced.

Any of these bottles could be sold for several thousands.