GraphHopper Maps got an update: under "settings" you have now some buttons. E.g. for car you can avoid tolls, motorways and ferries and also there is a new e-cargo bike option :)

https://graphhopper.com/maps/

The custom model gear button in the top left is still their but it is for more advanced customization needs.

#OpenStreetMap

Meine Kalorienapp lobt mich, dass die drei Sekt gestern "kalorienarm" waren 🫠

Irgendwie schlecht aufgewacht heute 😵‍💫

@janananena ✊

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

#3081 - PhD Timeline

[gesturing vaguely at the Wohnzimmer]
"wäre schön wenn Sie es einrichten könnten"

Liebe einfach die neuen "pay as you like" Kassen bei Rewe.

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Two Years of Rust

Link: https://borretti.me/article/two-years-of-rust
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691856

#rust

@gabrielberlin Dein Bücherregal sieht so nach Notarbüro aus 😉

@typst As long as one is familiar with scripting and possibly CSS, this is a great alternative to Latex, but because it renders so much faster, possibly also for WYSIWYG editors like Google Docs for example

@typst I wanted to increase the vertical padding between section titles. This is as easy as defining a *show* function, which can be scoped to element types. This function is applied to all headings, receives a heading, prints it and then adds 0.2 line-height of vertical space:

```
#show heading: heading => [
#block(heading)
#v(0.2em)
]
```

@typst Similarly, the layout functionality is quite easy to understand: Getting a bold, large, centered title works with the following block:
```
#align(center, text(17pt)[
DSim -- A distributed message-passing mobsim implementation
])
```
The system also supports features like tables and grids which are intuitive to use -- at least more intuitive compared to latex for example.

@typst The scripting support is really nice on first sight: For example, creating including the ORCID-Icons is as easy as defining your own function:

```
#let orcid(orcid) = {
let color = rgb("#AECD54")
return link("https://orcid.org/" + orcid, orcid-icon(color: color, height: 0.9em, baseline: 10%)) }
```

and then we can use this function like this:

```
Janek Laudan#orcid("0000-0003-2443-9475"), Simunto GmbH, #link("mailto:laudan@simunto.com")
```

@typst They have a pretty large plugin system already, which they call universe. Including a package into your document is as easy as importing it:
```
#import "@preview/glossy:0.8.0": *
#import "@preview/scienceicons:0.0.6": orcid-icon
```
I needed a glossary and I wanted to include ORCID-Icons which I can click on.