tallpaul

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

But life was good, on the whole.

And still is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That would have been Slackware, which in those days came on a stack of 3.5" floppy disks. So early 90's (and hence I was in my mid-30s) but I was still mainly using Windows 3.1 and Trumpet Winsock to connect to the Internet.

I think the first time I really took it seriously was in the mid 90's with Debian, a copy of which was posted to me, on CD-ROM I think, by Ian Murdock himself (back in the days when he was still with Debra 😏).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BTW there's now an OSM community [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We update it a lot. We also have a product (for walkers in the British Isles) called WayMaps (used by a variety of walking web sites in the UK and also our own demo site https://waymaps.the-hug.net/) which uses the geodata from OSM and other Open Data to produce our own map tiles. We love OSM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're going to see a lot more of this down the line.

I'm vice-chair of the south planning applications committee on Highland Council and when they apply for a windfarm it's usually for a limited life, and there's planning conditions about restoring the land to its original state at the end but it's pretty obvious that the direction of travel is to keep upgrading them. That's why ScottishPower is pressing to streamline the planning process for existing windfarms.

But there are issues with upgrades, not least height. Over 150m they need a red light on the top of the tower, which makes them far more visually intrusive at night, so currently we're seeing a lot of applications for 149.5m turbines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was paying US$3.95 a month if I remember rightly but I think it's now US$5.95.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's what Reddit Premium was for, which I had. No adverts in return for a monthly fee.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Failure to understand the paradigm error at line 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seems fair...

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