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Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 186

To be fair, some serif fonts sometimes need 600 DPI to prevent lines from disappearing entirely because of poor font scaling software.

But the flip side is that assuming the serifs don't disappear because of scaling deficiencies, they are way more readable at small font sizes, particularly for people whose vision is not perfect. It is dramatically more legible to me than Calibri.

Submission + - 97% Of Buildings On Earth 3D Mapped (nature.com)

Gilmoure writes: Imagine a video game with the world's buildings already mapped in basic spatial dimensions!

"Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world . The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.

The data set, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on 1 December1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 metres by 3 metres.

The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany."

– nature.com

Comment Re:“Country” (Score 3, Insightful) 156

I lived in the US in the past, and I still come for vacation and to climb in Yosemite and Utah every once in a while, but you can bet your ass I won't show up if I have to give my passwords and prove I did not disparage 'Dear Leader'. Indeed, I'll even say it here for the record: Trump is a piece of shit, a pedo, a conman, a rapist, a felon; and his entire administration is corrupt to the bone. Here.

Comment Such a lack of commitment... (Score 2) 57

It's unsurprising; but I see that the law has several stages of dealing with foreign overcrowding if the 10 million line is breached; but nothing about how locally produced human resources will be stack ranged for headcount reduction should the population remain above the target. Surely anyone who really cares about crowding needs to have a contingency plan for endogenous losers as well?

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