It would be handy to give street mappers some sort of defense tool from dogs. Like air horn, sticks or maybe peper spray. India has a huge problem with packs of wild street dogs, that regularly attack and kill people. It is dangerous to roam on streets you do not know very well.
> All surveyors should carry pepper spray for emergencies, whether they involve human or non-human animals. India is not for beginners, as the meme goes.
You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This kind of applies to following existing OSM maps. I did a “walk every street in my city” thing a year ago, and some of the “streets” are very much private property and not public pathways.
USD (and Euro) is widely used in UA. You actually have to specify what currency you will pay with. Foreign currency may get you a better deal on gas station and other shops.
Voltage check on battery is part of regular PC maintenance. Like cleaning dust, checking all fans are spinning, capacitors are not getting bigger, checking for weird sounds in PSU, overnight memtest...
Funny enough, instead of doing that every year, my policy has been "replace the machine if it breaks" and in general, I've gotten a good five-year cycle out of all my PCs without having to do disassemble-maintenance with an air can and a static strip. This has been good enough because I do enough high-graphics-demand gaming that five years is about the cycle on which some new-shiny has come out that renders my machine too old to play modern games.
Companies have regularly scheduled (weekly in some cases I know) maintenance windows affecting thousands of people. A home environment with an "always-on" router can surely find a 10 min window (say, 3 AM on a Sunday morning) where nobody cares.
I used to believe conspiracy theories, now I am far beyond that.
Everyone who wants, should get their booster shot every six months. They should also get RNA vaccine for flu, common cold, herpes and every other illness they desire. I would encourage them to do so! It is their life, and my life will go on.
And arguing about virus origin? Who does that today? It is like arguing about Santa Claus! (it's village must be on the North magnetic pole in Greenland, so it does not sink into ocean...)
I think it is matter of contract between author and users. Some authors just do not provide services like "background compatibility".
"Shipping" requires a lot of work, and some people just refuse to do that. Some of my popular programs are just repos on Github. To use them you have to run build script and execute from source code.
It elimites people who would require a lot of support, and would not give a meaningful contribution. Less work for me...
And if you desperately need my software, I always provide consulting...
I fail to see what is won by not providing clear, simple, standardised installation instructions in a README.
I make a habit of providing these for myself and they are great, both when I enter a new domain and need to remind myself of best practice, and when I return to a domain after a long time.
The lack of such instructions is a strong indicator to me that a project hasn’t reached maturity.
