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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn’t that power assigned to Congress?

You can feel how cathartic this must have been for someone in c/funny@sh.itjust.works

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My kid calls it a plane station and frankly it’s growing on me

Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You’re saying that trying to motivate people positively to move on from meat is “push the blame away” behavior. But I think tut-tutting individuals who eat meat is pushing the blame away.

While there are some people who believe that eating meat is an absolute moral wrong no matter where or when it takes place in human history, a lot of people who feel eating meat is immoral feel this way because of what the meat industry does, both to the animals and to the planet. Five thousand years ago, people weren’t supporting the meat industry and all its wrongs by eating meat.

So considering it to be pathetic to try to effect real reduction in people’s meat consumption because the methods shift blame away from the individual meat eater seems really ironic to me, as well as completely counterproductive, if your goal is less meat consumption in the world.

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How does my navigation system determine the specific wording it uses about each turn when giving directions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, if it says “bear left” versus “turn left”, what process is it using to make that nuanced judgment?

I see two possible ways:

a) It analyzes the map visually and has an algorithm to decide, based on the angle/curve/etc, which way to describe the turn.

b) Every place where two roads meet has metadata keyed in, indicating what type of turn it is in each direction.

I think option (a) is too expensive to be done in real-time by the end-user’s GPS, so most likely if option (a) is used, it’s done periodically on the server side to generate metadata as in option (b). And then perhaps this metadata is hand-checked by a person, and things the analysis gets wrong are overridden by a person, but all of this is just speculation on my part.

This question came up when some turn-by-turn directions incorrectly said to “bear left” at a standard, right angle intersection. I wondered if someone keyed something in wrong or if there is some little blip in the way the map was drawn at the intersection that we wouldn’t visually detect, but threw off the turn-by-turn.

I expected to easily find an article spelling it out, but I haven’t been able to and it’s driving me crazy not knowing for certain!