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dobladov commented on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)   osmand.net/blog/fast-rout... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
charlie-83 · 16 days ago
I really want to stop using Google maps but the issue I have with every other option is that I can never just search for the place I want to go to. 99% of the time, the place I am going to is a business, searching "<shop name> <city name>" on anything other than Google maps either gives me nothing (OsmAnd in this category) or might give me some the shops of that chain but in a random order and intermixed with towns a hundred miles away which have the same name. More generic queries like "petrol station" are even worse. The best solution I have come up with is to use Google maps to find the actual address and then copy that into the other app but at that point I might as well just use Google maps.

Anyone have any solutions to this?

dobladov · 16 days ago
Same issue, OsmAnd is great, but unless geocoding services like Nominatim get as good as Google Maps's search, I cannot use it unless I know the precise location of where I'm going.
dobladov commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words   forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane
znkynz · a month ago
Connections is better anyway.
dobladov · a month ago
My favorite right now is https://tiledwords.com/, not affiliated to it in any way, I just enjoy it.
dobladov commented on Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/maelito
plesiv · 2 months ago
You can add this as a bookmark in your browser, and just click it to toggle between x.com and xcancel.com

javascript:(function(){const p=['https://x.com','https://xcancel.com'],u=location.href,i=p.findIndex(x=>u.startsWith(x));if(i!==-1)location.href=p[(i+1)%p.length]+u.slice(p[i].length)})();

dobladov · 2 months ago
I do something similar since I don't want to trust yet another extension, I made a small Tampermonkey script.

https://gist.github.com/dobladov/62c4be59d774347cb480b115969...

dobladov commented on Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100    · Posted by u/ggm
dobladov · 3 months ago
The whole "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is available for free on YouTube, I highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HsXBPWH3Y&list=PLtbMv4lXX2...

dobladov commented on React and Remix choose different futures   laconicwit.com/react-and-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
davedx · 3 months ago
> Breaking backward compatibility isn't collateral damage, it's the point.

LOL, if you say so.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone decides to build something on top of the software the react router team puts out. I went through approximately 2 major version upgrades of react router then decided I was done with it unless I had no other choice.

Why do people think being left with huge upgrade tech debt time and time again is worthwhile? There are just so many other choices out there these days. Why you'd choose this "different future" now is beyond me.

dobladov · 3 months ago
This is my feel as well, I have to maintain a somewhat complex custom SSR, and each update of react-router has been a pain, basically when they moved from using regex URLs to simpler paths, it was a reasonable decision, but the docs of the new supported patters were lacking, newer docs versions are barely searchable, or directly you won't find mentions to some existing APIs anywhere.

I tried their "get started" project with the newly typed routes, and it feels too complex, and unintuitive, the purpose of a framework is to make your life easier, and it's sad to see people with this much talent missing the goal, I won't be using react-router for future projects.

dobladov commented on Man spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever   supercarblondie.com/solar... · Posted by u/rmason
dobladov · 4 months ago
He literately mentions in the video (1:55) that the solar panels can not power the electric engine but support it.

Clickbait article, that's not worth anyone's time.

dobladov commented on HTTP3 Explained   http3-explained.haxx.se... · Posted by u/weinzierl
INTPenis · 5 months ago
Agreed but where is the actual git repo? I see a text saying this "contents get updated automatically on every commit to this git repository" but where is "this git repository"?

I can't find a link to the source anywhere.

dobladov commented on Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov   defense.gov... · Posted by u/o999
dobladov · 6 months ago
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
dobladov commented on I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language   ghuntley.com/cursed/... · Posted by u/imasl42
dobladov · 6 months ago
This is the software equivalent of purchasing a 3d printing without goals and printing all those useless toys that will be used once and forgotten
dobladov commented on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)   dewesoft.com/blog/every-s... · Posted by u/jonbaer
voigt · 7 months ago
Is there something like https://www.flightradar24.com for satellites?

Would be kind of interesting to build a “live” visualization of objects in earths orbit. But this would require accurate live data of those objects. Probably nothing that companies would publish.

On the other hand side: once the object and its orbit is identified, positions could be calculated…

Does anyone know more?

dobladov · 7 months ago
Another interesting site already featured on Hacker News.

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

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