Been looking for an alternative to Google Maps. Organic Maps (OpenStreetMap) is great, but it doesn't know the bus routes in my city.
I remembered that the GRT (local transit) website had a trip planner that I used to use in the pre-Google days. Decided to give that a go again.
Turns out they're just using Google Maps now. Understandable, but disappointing.
If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
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I have acquired what I believe to be a high-quality hand-me-down sewing machine from my mother-in-law. Now, apart from thread and fabric I only need to have one more thing...
...any idea whatsoever how to use it.
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
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Also, do lists in #Python seriously not have a .map
function?
Edit: Ohhh... I expected it to be a method on the list object itself.
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Python map() function
The map() function is used to apply a given function to every item of an iterable, such as a list or tuple, and returns a map object (which is an iterator). Let's start with a simple example of using map() to convert a list of strings into a list ofGeeksforGeeks
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@flyingsquirrel Yup. And there's a multiprocessing version which can be useful if you're doing a very large csv but you probably want imap() for that one.
docs.python.org/3/library/mult…
multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism
Source code: Lib/multiprocessing/ Availability: not Android, not iOS, not WASI. This module is not supported on mobile platforms or WebAssembly platforms. Introduction: multiprocessing is a package...Python documentation
If you're looking for a function that applies another function to each element of a list and aggregates the results, it'd typically be done with a list comprehension:
[your_function(item) for item in your_list]
But you can also use list(map(your_function, your_list)) if you want. Basically, it's a built-in function rather than a method of the list class.
There's also a whole discussion to be had about lists vs generators and why you often wouldn't even need to make a list in the first place, but I won't get into that unless you want to know more.
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I use
git checkout -
all the time for switching back and forth between two branches. Mind blown now that I know you can also do:
git merge -
to merge your previous branch into the current branch.
#git
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New Study Finds 90% of Cat Owners Experience oofjfjjggigiiiiifohhhjjfjfjjjjj))))))))))))))
A new study published today suggests that up to 90% of cat owners experience oofjfjjggigiiiiifohhhjjfjfjjjjj)))))))))))))) the moment they leave their keyboard unattended. “During a new doubl…The Needling
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LB I do not understand at all how people are arguing this is GTS behaving badly and not scrapers like...
FediDB: how many users do you have
GTS: I'm not telling you don't crawl my page
FediDB: I'm going to do it anyway how many users do you have
GTS: Fifty billion
FediDB: okay thanks
FediDB: hey wait you lied to me!!!
Like idk sounds to me like you should have walked away at "don't crawl my page" and if you get the wrong numbers after that that's on you
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could you please give me a boost? I'm begging you.
🥺
could you help a black trans au/adhd plural gal out?
another month and more expenses. I still need to cover my bills, debts and trying to save something to save me from my imminently crumbling living situation if worst comes to be.
since I'll be mostly in vacation from college this month I'll be trying to put some projects in action so that I can try and get some money coming in.
my father did already start demaning another 200 USD for living expenses and I feel it in my bones that I'm just one step from him completely kicking me out of here for petty reasons so I do really need every penny I can get.
every donation helps immensely and so does every boost.
please help a gal out 🥺🥺
links:
- ko-fi - accepts paypal and stripe.
- stripe (USD) - (for those that prefer not using paypal)
hashtags
#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #blackMutualAid #boostPlease
@mutualaid
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[just back from Damascus]
“Yo! Saul! Long time no see”
- “I’m ‘Paul’ now”
“Say wha-“
- “Let me tell you about Jepup”
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Fun fact: VPNs stop working when you forget to pay the bill.
#ADHD is fun.
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#FountainPens
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TIL that tuning a glass pen with sandpaper (even the one included with the pen) should only be attempted by an experienced user.
Also, #today I gained a lot of experience in this area out of necessity after the fact. Still, I shan't be doing that again for a while.
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More dead tree spam from the Conservative party addressed to my father (who has never lived here). This one was labelled "compliance request" with a red military stencil looking font that said "URGENT: CODE RED". This speaks to the way they percieve the intelligence of their supporters. I weep for the state of politics in this country.
It got a big fat "return to sender".
Is there a way to tell #Emacs #org-mode to omit yhe TOC and headline numbers when exporting to a text or markdown file? I'm trying to implement a #JohnnyDecimal system, so I'm supplying my own numbers and the 00.00-index.org
file essentially is the table of contents.
Edit: Because not all replies federate, here's the solution I ended up with:
#+STARTUP: overview indent nonum
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
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Since the manual doesn't include examples, it can be confusing as to how to actually use those settings. For this case, add the following line:
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil
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I got a new phone because my old one was giving out on me. This one is a decided downgrade from the last one, but that's (mostly) fine.
Anyhow, the new phone doesn't support wireless charging. Because of this, I can no longer charge it on the night stand breside my bed. When I wake up in the morning, my impulse in my half-awake state is to just grab my phone and go, forgetting that it's now tethered to the wall. This was not going to end well for anyone, most especially not my charging cable/port.
I charge it in the living room now.
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Outbreak: #Influenza (not typed of subtyped)
Facility: St. Mary's General Hospital
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: [Not Specified]
Location: #Kitchener #Ontario
Date: 2025-01-17
Public Health Unit: Region of #Waterloo, Public Health
Facility Tracking Hash: #RWPH0037
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObRWPH
Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.
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We've trained an AI to replace your largest business cost, the CEO!
We've carefully measured the outcomes of using this AI, and it's far more successful than humans making the same decisions!
We've also trained AIs to replace your customers, your stockholders, and you.
Please report to the AI replacement center.
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I'm surprised that AWK is so bad at handling CSV out of the box.
Yes, I know about the --csv
flag in later versions of gawk, but that isn't an option in this case.
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I run a pretty tight budget. Twice a year, I get a fun surprise from my domain registrar (because I have two domains with them). They both come with a "free business card generator" that I have never used, but whatever.
Anyhow, every time a domain comes up for renewal, it's expected, budgeted, and paid for. All is good.
Then, about a month later I open my email and see an unexpected additional "receipt" from them. This sends me into a brief panic until I realize it's a $0 receipt for the business card bullshit.
My circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey circus
Not my circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey-rental service
My circus, not my monkeys: oh no, oh man
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Its been over a month since I was let go and I still haven't found a lot of prospects for a new job. If you know anyone who is looking for an #iOS Developer for remote work I really could use the contact. Please boost.
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Via the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (@asrg) ...
... here's a list of code designed to poison the well for AI web-scrapers
tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674…
(thanks to @peterfr for pointing this one out!)
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DOOM: The Gallery Experience lets you take part in an art gallery opening with a wine in your hand all while wandering through the Doom’s E1M1 map full of classic masterpieces.
gamedevjs.com/games/doom-the-g…
#DOOM #gamedev #gamedevjs #Itch #Construct3 #JavaScript #HTML5
DOOM: The Gallery Experience – paintings showcase simulator - Gamedev.js
Did you think every possible variation of the classic Doom game was explored already? Think again, because The Gallery Experience lets you take part in an art gallery opening with a wine in your hand all while wandering through the Doom's E1M1 map fu…End3r (Gamedev.js)
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in reply to Brian Sullivan • •@Brian Sullivan I'll have to have a look at that. I wonder of my city is big enough to make the cut.
Edit: They seem to think I live in Toronto (which is news to me) but they do seem to have the local transit routes.
Eric Gerlach
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •The Transit app is good, and while closed source is Canadian.
transitapp.com/
Transit - the best app for buses and trains
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