Pfft those suckers didn't have Parsec or Car Wars or Ms. Pac Man plus the hours spent typing TI-BASIC from a magazine was less frustrating than trying to get the jumps right on Super Mario Bros level 8-2. And I'm sure Demolition Division and Meteor Multiplication are why I ended up with a math degree.
For real though I spent so much time pining for Mario 3 before my parents finally did give in. But I feel like there was something good about the diversity, like when I could play Lode Runner on my buddy's C64 (actually a 128... GO 64)
Nice! I’ve been working on https://treeseek.ca which is a different use case from most of the other open data tree sites I’ve seen — I want to be instantly geolocated and shown the nearest trees to me. I do a lot of walking and am often mesmerized by a particular tree, and I wanted something to help me identify them as quickly as possible, with more confidence and speed than e.g. iNaturalist (which i do also use).
This is an app that’s been bouncing around in my head for over a decade but finally got it working well enough for my own purposes about a year and a half ago.
Oh that's great! I was finding fun tree collections and wanted to go see them - unfortunately not in SF so not likely - but your app has some nice data around me that I can check out! Are you primarily using OSM data?
I was thinking of a google maps kind of "here you are, here's your walking path of interesting trees" potentially, or something else that could tie the overview to the street experience - on the backlog!
So the tree data itself mainly comes from municipal open data, just like yours does. Street Trees datasets are pretty common across cities. I just added SF yesterday after replying here :)
Otherwise the map tiles are coming from OpenFreeMap [1] which are indeed based on OSM.
Next steps I'm interested in are including economic + ecological benefits of the trees, highlighting potential pests / invasive species, maybe some other basic info about the species sourced from Wikipedia.
I like how you've got different icons for different types of trees; I've been thinking about how to encode DBH data as well but haven't settled on anything yet.
Yeah I have a 'species' info table that's built by curating wikipedia and a few other sources and passing them through a structured LLM pipeline; ecological benefit; blooming season; native regions, etc. This is very much a 'rough cut' at the moment; I want to put more quality gates and evals in it. If you're interested in collaborating all the raw parquet datasets I have are in a public GCS bucket - happy to have them pulled in anywhere else!
DBH I'm doing for the "size" right now, though I'd love to figure out how to get canopy shape/size as well, and height where possible. (and then maybe proxy height a species level from DBH, since that's more common).
But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes about the word efficacy a few years ago, before the ascent of GenAI (but after the pandemic — again, maybe just me).
Totally. I remember a thing where there were four horses that each had an a capella part and you could click each horse to bring that part in or silence it. They all harmonized together and the silly little animations for each was a nice touch. I want to say circa 2005.
I also clicked through to that and was similarly confused. Not a Kotlin dev but this doesn’t really seem like fixing your tools? More like understanding them properly. I wouldn’t call a configuration change like this “debugging the debugger” as another comment mentioned.
I’d also like to know the answer to your question about what is going on. I know Java and maven but not kotlin or gradle, but wouldn’t a debugger be interfacing more at the JVM level?
Bah. I love putting a layer of frozen blueberries at the bottom of the bowl then layering on piping hot steel cut oats to thaw and warm them up. You’re probably right that I shouldn’t add dried cranberries and a tiny drizzle of maple syrup on top (occasionally with thinly sliced bananas) but I’m happy enough to be wrong about it. I also skip the milk.
You're missing out on up to two or three extra months of life by enjoying yourself now! I hope you think about that when you're too old to think about things!
An ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently.
Hopefully that’s not the case for GP
Used to work as a manager at a pizza place and we had a guy apply to deliver who had the same name as... their son.
Allegedly Jr. had a lengthy record including some drug offenses and something like a DUI / DWI. Naturally Sr. And Jr's records got crossed since they have the same First, Last, and Address, which caused Sr. many headaches including that we required a driving record check that would fail on a DUI / DWI.
For real though I spent so much time pining for Mario 3 before my parents finally did give in. But I feel like there was something good about the diversity, like when I could play Lode Runner on my buddy's C64 (actually a 128... GO 64)