admaiora (u/admaiora)

admaiora commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp

miltonlost · a month ago

All AI companies know they're breaking the law. They all have prompts effectively saying "Don't show that we broke the law!". That we continue to have tech companies consistently breaking the law and nothing happens is an indictment of our current economy.

admaiora · a month ago

And it's a question of do we accept breaking law for the possibility to have the greatest technological advancement of the 21st century. In my opinion, legal system has become a blocker for a lot of innovation, not only in AI but elsewhere as well.

admaiora commented on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results torrentfreak.com/google-r... · Posted by u/gslin

chneu · 2 months ago

I've been playing around with a variety of search engines such as Kagi, Startpage, Ecosia, DDG.

All of them are better than google in finding relevant results. Lol

Google is way too "personalized".

admaiora · 2 months ago

I believe Kagi uses the Yandex index as their base as well.

admaiora commented on Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser geoutil.com... · Posted by u/FreeGuessr

notachatbot123 · 2 months ago

Is it AI coded (aka derivative of illegally slurped-up third-party code)?

admaiora · 2 months ago

Has a very strong AI code smell. Still it seems to be a decent turf.js wrapper for GIS professionals who don't have too much JS experience. Most should be able to use CLI tools at least for all of this.

admaiora commented on AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake reuters.com/business/amd-... · Posted by u/chillax

krige · 3 months ago

Cloud gaming sucks due to latency, not price.

admaiora · 3 months ago

Not even an issue anymore. I have no issue playing FPS games like call of duty multiplayer via GeForce Now and can be decently competitive. I do live close to the servers though.

admaiora commented on QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system github.com/qgis/QGIS... · Posted by u/rcarmo

ageitgey · 3 months ago

QGIS is great. It's a slightly janky version of ArcMap, but ArcMap has always been janky anyway, so it doesn't matter for most things. And QGIS is super extensible.

There have been so many random times that QGIS has helped me out over the years. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to it!

admaiora · 3 months ago

QGIS is janky? It's quite possibly the smoothest and best running GIS software available today. Most built-in tools run way faster than AG Pro, and once the move to QT6 with 4.0 is complete this october, we'll finally get native builds on M-series Mac as well.

I couldn't even know where to start listing the upsides compared to ESRI offering, fron PostGIS integration all the way to the simplicity of plugins.

admaiora commented on FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streaming [video] 2025.europe.foss4g.org/li... · Posted by u/altilunium

admaiora · 5 months ago

Been to foss4g (NL/Europe/Global) a few times. If you work in a field that even touches a bit on geospatial, you'll find interesting talks. Even if you are a web dev and you think "no", getting to know a few things about leaflet or other geo tools for web never hurts.

admaiora commented on Visualizing World War II nathangoldwag.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/gaws

SimplyUnknown · a year ago

Not quite what you are looking but if you're interested in Operation Market Garden: for the Dutch maps there is https://www.topotijdreis.nl, which gives you historical maps with a year slider. This can at least help one visualize how cities, villages, and topography at through the years.

admaiora · a year ago

There's also tools that wrap a part of toporijdreis and add other georeferenced historical maps! I recently saw one of those at https://geodienst.xyz/pastforward. Wish more people georeferenced historical maps, but it is tough.

admaiora commented on Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy appliednetsci.springerope... · Posted by u/taubek

ororroro · 2 years ago

The definition of the extents of a city is completely arbitrary. For example Manhattan is only part of a city, yet the authors don't even blink at treating it alongside cities that are located all around a hilly harbor with extensive sprawl (Sydney) or that constitute an entire country (Singapore).

admaiora · 2 years ago

This paper is more than anything a showcase for the method they created. I think the point of their visualisations is to make them as appealing as possible, and people want to see how Manhattan looks, but they might now want to see how a certain neighbourhood in Singapore looks. And that choice definitely did help create virality for their research a few years back.

admaiora commented on jQuery v4.0 Beta blog.jquery.com/2024/02/0... · Posted by u/joshmanders

p-e-w · 2 years ago

One website that almost always gets mentioned when people talk about jQuery today is "You might not need jQuery" (https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/).

That site is the best ad for jQuery I've ever seen. For almost every task it describes, the jQuery code is shorter, cleaner, and more intuitive than the vanilla "modern" JS one.

And that's after almost 20 years, and I don't know how many billions of dollars invested into advancing JavaScript.

admaiora · 2 years ago

Yesterday I was checking HN from 10years±2weeks ago and guess what the top posts were... "Why you need jQuery" and "You might not need jQuery". I'm too young to know about those days but I guess not much has changed in relation to people's attitude towards jQuery.

admaiora commented on 10 Second Teleportation upollo.ai/blog/10-second-... · Posted by u/caydenm

admaiora · 2 years ago

A lot of larger orgs (Universities etc) use Palo Alto Networks Global Protect VPN as their VPN for accessing the orgs intranets.

Maybe related somehow to that?

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