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I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

What is RTX in this context?

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Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.

Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.

Detroit has some great suburbs (check out areas like Ferndale and Plymouth/Canton), but don’t write off Detroit based on what you’ve read in the media. A lot of people in Michigan are in the same boat as you and are missing out on what Detroit has to offer because of what they think Detroit is.

It’s really flat here compared to California, you can’t just drive a couple hours to get what you call hills and we call mountains. The Great Lakes are great but they’re not an ocean.

Flights from DTW are more expensive than from big cities. It’s funny that Detroit is 2,000 miles closer to Europe than SFO, but flights to Europe from SFO are cheaper.

We started getting wildfire smoke from Canada this year, but I imagine we’re still doing better than SoCal.

California is still more progressive than Michigan, but we also don’t have as much craziness around ballot initiatives.

I adore Detroit, but it’s no LA or SF. Chicago is about 4 hours away.

A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

$500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.

Copyright law? One Thousand and One Nights is in the public domain.

You can join any instance and block threads.net once they turn on federation

To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.

Plasma. Everybody forgets plasma.

Out of the loop: what’s going on with female disc golfers?

You can tell the moment you get onto Michigan highways. We are building more lanes when we can afford to maintain the ones we have.

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Also, the nice thing about libraries, frameworks, and CMSs is that they already have documentation. If it seems like a pain to learn one of those, imagine how much worse it would be for someone to learn custom code that doesn’t have any resources on Google.

As of 2020, the Monroe plant is the 6th dirtiest power plant in the country. I’m glad that they’re planning to get off coal. I wish DTE would stop crippling residential solar with their rate structures though.

It would make all states politically irrelevant, which means that a vote in California would be worth the same as a vote in Wyoming. Under the electoral college, a Wyoming vote is worth 3x a California vote.

It also only goes into effect only if it removes other swing states’ influence. It’s not like Michigan is going to give up its status while Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida continue to be swing states.

It’s also weird that since 1992, only one Republican presidential candidate has won the national popular vote, and yet 3 have won election (counting W twice). That doesn’t sound like a healthy democracy.

It’s already happening: US Internal Refugee Crisis: 130-260k Trans People Have Already Fled

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