Thanks for the bug report yuppiepuppie! Will roll out a fix for that one asap. By the way the app is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux, so all feedback across platforms is very welcome!
About the developer name, we tried to get Apple to use our "doing business as" name, but no dice. But thanks, it's very important to know what the first impressions are, to remove friction as much possible.
This is a great comment, as it hits far too close to my heart. Im currently trying to get my team to rethink how they are building the APIs for certain services in our product, and focus really on design and craftmanship. To the point where Im ready to start breaking it apart myself and coding up the solution on my off hours.
But then I look at my son, and say "screw it, they couldnt pay me enough to care out of hours and give up play time"
What is the definition of distribution? If I posted a code snippet of malware on github or my personal site for educational purposes, does that count as distribution?
That depends heavily on the law in question. Germany e.g. almost completely bans white hat activities because hacking is evil, and no amount of common sense has been able to get through lawmakers' thick skulls.
You can downvote him all you want, but it's true at the core. §202c of the BGB heavily limits what can be done, even by legit researchers, and it's often being critized for that reason.
Really? The malware went from your computer to someone else's and your defense is that it was not "distributed" but just magically moved from A to B?
If you argued that it was clearly labeled as malware for educational purposes, that seems fine. It was distributed, but then distribution is allowed. But this is very clearly not the case here.
* All the text is at a readable size, and had sufficient contrast with the background.
* The clickable and interactive elements are easy to identify.
* Text is selectable and can be copied.
* There are no useless animations(there only to give a dynamic feel without having any function).
I’d be interested to know how they gathered all that data. Given the very detailed ponds and streams that may seem invisible to our daily lives, did they really send someone out there to survey all of it? Or is this via satellite imagery or something similar?
I'm not sure it's their best product for elevation anymore, but USGS also publishes 3dep, which is a unified layer of the best available elevation data for the US.
From high resolution Digital Elevation Models. They first compute the flow direction from every pixel; from flow direction, the compute flow accumulation at every pixel. They then filter based on some threshold for catchment area, and vectorize the flow paths.
The USGS NHD+ Users Guide includes a very detailed description of the technical process:
Weird, just spot checking a few places I know relatively well I see a few issues that seem like they would show up from that method. I wonder if there are issue in build up environments? Unfortunately that link is down for me.
A collection of streams go uphill in this map where in reality I believe they flow into an underground pipe or something that drains into the lake in a different place. I wouldn't expect the underground section to be perfect, but the hill the streams ascend is ~50 feet.
In another place two ponds are not shown, maybe due to dense tree cover? I believe both have water year round, but one was fenced off after a kid drowned and the owners may have filled part of it in.
Hydrological modeling gets tricky when water flows underground, either naturally or unnaturally. A pixel surrounded entirely by higher elevation pixels is a "sink", and if you want to model the overland flow of water a preprocessing step is often to fill sinks and apply a slight gradient to them.
I believe that the NHD+ dataset uses an alternate strategy; it burns an artificial channel into a sink, connecting it to a lower-elevation outlet. The dataset includes attributes that identify these "underground flow" segments. I didn't examine ESRI's Living Atlas site closely enough to see if they've used a different symbology to represent these segments, but your comment makes it sound like they did not.
A pond often has no inlet and no outlet (as opposed to a lake), so it makes sense that some ponds may not show up in this dataset.
Thanks, that's interesting and makes sense that there are alternate strategies with different tradeoffs.
I checked the Lost River and some of the other areas on the Snake river plain. I can see how it would be hard to deal with water flowing underground. I noticed that the lava flows have effectively no streams, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise but it was.
While these particular maps may be from scans, the government really does send people into every little field for this type of thing. Between geological surveys and defense planning, I don't there is an acre of land anywhere in the US that hasn't welcomed a government surveyor at some point.
Yeah, unless not stated in this article, this is not doom scrolling. This seems more like an addiction issue, which is great that it’s being addressed. But it wouldn’t fit the definition of doom scrolling, which is an obsessive compulsion for searching of negative news.
Personally, this seems like an out of touch definition akin to Gen Z’s version of “dirty laundry”. When I first began to see doomscrolling appear in the digital vernacular it was almost exclusively in reference to scrolling with no end in sight, mindless scrolling, wasting inordinate amounts of time scrolling, etc. with no reference to the tone or themes of content consumed other than that it was short-form and ultimately unfulfilling.
But that is exactly how I expect a dictionary definition of a relatively new and tonally ambiguous term to present itself.
The definition listed online in dictionaries reads as though it was defined by someone who did not really know what “doom scrolling” was - they understood what “doom” and “scrolling” were independently, so they made the claim that the “doom” in doom scrolling had to do with the themes and tone of the content, where in my experience online the “doom” in doom scrolling actually represents then endless and mindless consumption of vapid content. Existing in a state of mindless repetitive dopamine scrolls equivalent with being “doomed”, the stagnation of other pursuits for the nothingness of scrolling, I could go on. This is all my opinion of course.
I think the proper definition for doom scrolling has been mentioned multiple times by others in this thread and it would be something like:
Rapid consumption of mobile short form content for extended periods of time, often with no end goal in mind.
Others have done better than me, but that’s my two cents.
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and
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errors.
Also, just a bit of feedback, your developer name on the app store is a bit sketchy <random digits> Canada Inc.