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You tried openstreetmap.org. That isn’t a consumer mapping site, it’s the community site for the OSM project. The idea is that the data is published as open source for other apps/sites to build on.

If it were called Primoz I’d be wary of how often it might crash

Works perfectly in Spain!

> It mostly appears in French borrowings like naïveté

That's a very American English example. In Britain, you can’t drive[1] far without seeing a Citroën.

[1] generic verb for "proceed along a road"; personally I do it on a bike


> Just let me write

TextEdit all the way.

I used to edit a market-leading print magazine with TextEdit. I don’t need layout features, the designers do that in InDesign. I don’t need a grammar checker or AI because I can write.


I am old school. I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features. Not everyone is a "digital writer."


Allow me to introduce you to WordStar, in the "modern" context of Joe's Own Editor.

https://gizmodo.com/sci-fi-writer-releases-free-archive-of-l...

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor

Edit: I once used WordStar 4 with a daisywheel printer.


> I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features.

The latter really doesn't follow from the former. All? Sounds like you need basic printing..


TextEdit is my editor of choice for 90% of all RTF word processing that I do, when on a Mac.


Do you have a copyeditor and/or proofreader? I'm a production editor. Part of my job is to fix stuff written by people who can write.


You can still proof it. Op is just saying they don't need spellcheck (perhaps because they do have an editor).


Actually the OP specifically said “grammar” checker, which since they can write is likely an intentional distinction. Alternate phrasings reveal the absurd elitism of the statement.

“I don’t need a spellchecker because I can spell.”

“I don’t need a calculator because I can do math.”


As a longtime copy editor and proofreader, I would have to agree that spellcheckers and grammar checkers are not worth shit.


Your comma after features should be a semicolon, but I’m sure you knew that!


No, it needn't be.



OP link should be edited to the ArcadeBlogger.com one, the submitted link is blatant AI-generated blogspam.

These days I feel like HN should also have a note on the submission page that if you're submitting a link you should look for the original source. It seems like there's been an exponential increase in blogspam lately.


Vastly better article. More pictures and details.


> Edit: I mean on purpose, obviously. Drunk driving hardly counts.

What?!


An edit amounting to "not like that" in the first 40 minutes after asking for examples. Grand.


Absolutely blows my mind that, in 2025, anyone can treat getting in a car drunk and causing death as anything less than premeditated. Motonormativity strikes again, I guess.


IIRC (as a fellow spacebar aficionado) position:fixed breaks spacebar scrolling but position:sticky generally doesn’t.


I pay for both now (Kagi, Runbox). It’s just so much better.


I’m a Kagi customer too, and I’ve got the family on it. I don’t miss Google at all. Block lists, Wiki hit at the top. It’s great.


As a cyclist I’d rather take my chances with streetcar rails than with cars. Rails don’t appear from nowhere and hit me.


Street car rails probably won't appear from nowhere, but if your tire falls into the gap for the rail, you're very likely to crash.

Seattle has a tiny amount of street car rail, but regularly pays out large damages to people injured by the rails.


I've seen people wreck super hard trying to cross the streetcar rails at too shallow an angle in pdx multiple times. But that's an optional behavior. Just the other day I saw a moose crossing the road over in Twin Mountain, and I chose to slow down and not hit it. If I'd made another choice that resulted in a collision, and I'd survived, I wouldn't expect to get some settlement from the town of Twin Mountain, NH. Similarly if you ride your bike into a train track that one's pretty much on you lol.. being aware of one's surroundings is one of those basic life skills.


Installing a huge hazard in the road is optional too, though. If [insert city here] had saved money and used a bus instead of a street car, all of the problems that come from having a rail in the road would have been avoided.

For heavy rail, they don't often run in the road, parallel with the road, in the lane of travel. And when they do, it's usually in an industrial area that people aren't walking and cycling through.


Protobuf depending on Abseil (which has ongoing macOS build issues) is clinically insane. I tend to use protozero now which trades half a day’s boilerplate for two days’ build heartache.

https://github.com/mapbox/protozero


Wouldn't it be even more insane if protobuf had its own distinct string splitting/merging routines, its own flags and logging libraries, etc?


No. Not at all. String splitting is a couple of lines' code. I don't want have to think about a logging framework just to read a protobuf - it can send stuff to stderr like everything else. If Google wants protobuf to be a widely accepted standard then it shouldn't require you to opt into their ecosystem to use it.


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