• MouseWithBeer
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    111 year ago

    Bollards, roads signs and other road signalisation. It is honestly a problem.

    • Void_Reader
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      61 year ago

      what’s your favourite type of bollard and why?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          What’s the reason to not just have the pole permanently attached on top, instead of retracting?

          • MouseWithBeer
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            11 year ago

            Honestly I can’t give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don’t speak German so I didn’t bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn’t find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can’t be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:

            • Aesthetics
            • Visibility
            • Giving the road workers something to do
            • It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven’t replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.

            There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.

  • Bilbo Baggins
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    101 year ago

    Lord of the Rings. Not as much as the insanely awesome folks who memorized the Silmarillion, but I know a lot about The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

  • @AngryHippy
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    101 year ago

    The history of food culture in Asturias in northern Spain.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I surfed the north coast of Spain many years ago, and the food was epic. I never forget that trip. Where can I learn more of the Asturian food history?

    • @VediusPollio
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      21 year ago

      I work in a museum space. Any recommendations for implementing various forms of holography to create interesting exhibits?

        • @VediusPollio
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          11 year ago

          Sounds pretty involved, but I might have to experiment with this. Thanks for the info! I’m going to start researching a bit more, and see if I can squeeze some R&D funds from work.

            • @VediusPollio
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              21 year ago

              These are the types of hobbies I can get behind! Update me/us in the future whenever you create anything cool. That’s the type of content Lemmy needs!

  • @AnanasMarko
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    91 year ago

    GIS (Short for Geographic Information Systems)

    • @dingus
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      21 year ago

      My brother had expressed interest in this, but I don’t entirely understand what it means. Would you give me a brief eli5 overview maybe?

      • @AnanasMarko
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        21 year ago

        Sure, I’d love to. It’s more ELI10 that ELI5 tho…

        It’s very likely that you or your brother played an adventure game or an RPG on your computer. When you get lost in such games, or simply want to know where your character that your playing needs to go, you open up a digital map. On that map you usually get all the information you might need - what is your current location, where your active quests are, maybe even different parts of the world, if it’s divided into ‘zones’.

        Such interactive maps are a great example of what GIS does. The town or city you live in, usually uses a similar interactive map. Instead of active quest, their system might show things like parks, points of interest like turist spots or parking spaces. It might also show how many people live in what part of the city, their average age and income.

        Beside your local municipalty, other companies or organization also use GIS. Their systems might show other (spatial) data that interest them.

        Fire department might have a system that shows historic data - where they’ve had most fires, what the current situation is and where their units are dispatched at the moment.

        Your Internet provider might have a map of their network and any issues along it. Maybe even overlay of property lines, so that they know who to contact when they’d like to expand their network and put new optical cables in the ground.

        The system that collects and shows similar data as mentioned above is usually referred to as a Geographic information system. In it’s most basic definition it is a system for collecting, storing and displaying spatial data.

        • @dingus
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          21 year ago

          Thanks, this was helpful! It seems then that it’s a bit of a broad field with a lot of different applications. Do you work in the field? What does a typical workday typically entail!

          • @AnanasMarko
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            Yes, you are right. It’s a lot like working in IT, with special data types and some processing.

            In typical setting we basically separate the system in three layers: (1) data - file servers and databases, (2) services - Servers that read this data and offer API endpoints that programs can call, that return visualised data in form of images or individual features (see: WMS, WMTS, WFS…) and (3) User/presentation layer - the (web) applications that endusers access (think Google maps / Google Earth and similar type of apps)

            On my typical work day I work on one or more of above “layers”. Be it data aquisition, server administration, debugging services, programming end user application, or simply helping our users understand how to use the data… being in IT though means that there also are a lot of nonse meetings involved :)

  • @xc2215x
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    91 year ago

    Current Canadian politics.

  • @0ddysseus
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    81 year ago

    Medieval European building techniques, specifically heavy timber framing and lime plaster

  • VitaMan
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    81 year ago

    Depends on your definition of “a lot,” but I know a fair amount about Star Trek

  • @dingus
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    61 year ago

    The appearance and behavior of quite a few types of cancers

  • @j4k3
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    61 year ago

    Car painting and repairs, high end wholesale bicycle market from 2009-2017