Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we’re living in?
Physicists in America have confirmed a strange measurement that was first discovered by scientists probing the internal structure of protons two decades ago. …
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On October 21, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kohlhaas v state. The opinion is unanimous and is 57 pages. It explains why it had ruled on January 19, 2022, that the top-four initiative is constitutional. The oral argument had been on January 18, and the next day the court had said the initiative is constitutional and that it would explain later. Now it has issued its explanation.
The most interesting part of the decision is the Court’s criticism of the Maine Supreme Court’s 2017 decision that had held that ranked choice voting violates the Maine Constitution, as applied to state office. Maine still lacks ranked choice voting for state office, in general elections (but…
The U-Boot list carries
the sad news that Wolfgang Denk, the founder of the U-Boot project, has
passed away.Wolfgang was a pioneer and strong supporter of Open Source, in the time when Linux for Embedded System started its first steps. In many occasions he had strong discussions with customers to explain the advantages of Open Source, and he rejected business contracts if customer was going against his principles. We will miss him.
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In 1938 a farmer grew pumpkins with realistic human faces. The pumpkins of John M. Czeski beat any Jack-O-Lantern I’ve seen. He created these fabulous pumpkin heads by placing an aluminum mold around a growing pumpkin. The pumpkin would take the shape of the mold until it grew into a human-like face. — Read the rest
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On October 23, the New York Daily News carried an editorial, criticizing the Second Circuit for refusing to give any ballot access relief to the Libertarian and Green Parties, and for not even explaining its reasoning. As the editorial notes, the opinion is one sentence long, saying there is nothing wrong with the U.S. District Court opinion earlier that upheld the 2020 ballot access rules.
There is much wrong with the U.S. District Court decision. It said that New York is justified in keeping minor parties off the ballot because otherwise the state would need to waste money on public funding for minor party candidates. This was fallacious because the Second Circuit had already ruled in a…
One of my favorite layers to route with pgRouting is the water layer. I am interested
in where water comes from, where it goes, where runoff happens,
and how urban development interacts with this powerful force
of nature. The OpenStreetMap water layer, however,
presents a challenge when routing with PostGIS and pgRouting: Polygons.
Why are polygons a challenge? A routing network using pgRouting is built
from lines (edges).
Now, to state the obvious: polygons are not lines.
Real world waterway networks are made up of both lines and polygons.
Rivers, streams, and drainage routes are predominately (but not exclusively!)
mapped using lines. These lines feed into and out of ponds, lakes, and reservoirs. The following animation shows how much impact the water polygons
can have on a…
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