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octoluke | 2 years ago | on: Geohash

H3 hexagons by Uber solves a similar problem with better characteristics- when people talk locations, they typically also want to get distances between locations. Because h3 is hexagonal (pretty much) it has a nice property that all immediate neighbors are the same distance away, which makes traversal and distance easier. This is not the case with squares.

octoluke | 2 years ago | on: How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

Great book on this: The Last Days of Night

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: A killer fungus has spread in Africa, driving more amphibians to extinction

Archived link?

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

Anyone know which chemicals?

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment

What specific chemicals?

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: ‘The Battery’s Dead’: Burnout Looks Different in Autistic Adults

33% of normal adults score highly for suicide risk?

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes (2019)

The article is >3 years old, heads up.

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Time Off Planner

Interesting! That seems a bit more obvious. Do you think you'd find the site useful if vacation is constant?

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed

Anyone else not enjoy mastodons UI? Sidebar is a waste of space

octoluke | 3 years ago | on: Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom

This is actually almost exactly what Snapchat stories - now also on Instagram and Facebook - achieve. You can click through your friend’s updates, reply as you want, and when you’ve seen everyone you’re out of content until someone posts again. I kinda like using these apps in this way, because it’s still cool to see what people are up to, usually more genuine, and harder to get sucked down the scroll.