It seems like you were starting with an existing HTML file you asked it to redesign. Generating from scratch with strict guidelines could be more representative.

[1]: https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/

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Maybe round-trip at a peak time. But if you're talking about one-way flights, you can fly across the entire country (NYC to SFO) for <$150 without hunting for a deal. DC to Miami is $50 (£37) each way, all of next month.

I really love hiking, camping, and backpacking, and I try to get out into the middle of nowhere as much as I possibly can. I could never leave on a trip without a good topo map downloaded.

Over the last couple years, though, I've gotten pretty fed up with the existing options when it comes to offline maps. Gaia is expensive and buggy; CalTopo is ugly, dated, and battery-sucking (the map is an embedded webview); AllTrails isn't fully-featured enough for serious backcountry trips; OsmAnd is ugly and lacks some basic features for the backcountry. Several major players have been purchased by private equity and are just getting worse.

I hate to be this critical of tools that have obviously had a lot of love and care put into them, but they haven't kept up with the times, and I really think the outdoor recreation community deserves better.

So Treeline is my attempt to build that. It has all the major features of Gaia et al. It has a fully custom basemap (with style inspiration from NPS and USFS maps - I think it's quite pretty!), offline downloads, POIs (campsites, water, etc.), detailed point info, search, navigation, route recording, saved features, 20+ useful layers, and a lot more.

You can download maps for offline use and access all the overlays for $18/year flat. That price is lower than any comparable app, and it will stay fixed through at least 2027.

I intend to implement pretty much every feature that people rely on in other outdoor mapping apps - although Treeline works well now, and I've used it on trips myself, this is just a start. I want it to be the mapping app of my dreams, and ideally of yours, too.

Two major caveats:

- Private land ownership data is expensive, so that will not be coming immediately. (The Public Lands layer lets you see inholdings, though.)

- Map data is US-only for now. Because the basemap is fully custom, changes require a long rebuild, and it turns out that the Earth is massive. I'm expanding to the rest of North America this week, with the rest of the world to follow.

I'm planning a web client for route building, and Android will follow if there's interest.

Please check it out and let me know what you think! Out now on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/treeline-maps-topo-trails/id67...

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Every browser has an inspector that can show you which element is causing overflow. You walk through the tree, find the offender, and add min-width or overflow. Zero tokens, just like in the old days!

Now, granted, because the garbage LLM code he’s working with has CSS inside HTML inside JavaScript inside Python (I wish I were kidding), finding the styles in his codebase might’ve taken a minute. But even then!

It can be annoying to have to deal with irrational humans who make mistakes, but that really is just part of life! I'll take some cumbersome conversations over conducting my entire life via corporate app interfaces.

In any case, though, Apple agrees with you, and they explicitly built support for non-macOS OSes into the bootloader. This is a bug in the first developer beta of a new release.

That doesn't seem like that much, really. The Seattle metro area isn't huge; that consumption is only 0.7% of New York's, and Amazon runs the largest network of data centers in the world.

Linguists elide over the whole thing by using the term “language variety.”

It most certainly does not!

I think you could more or less accurately make that claim about Standard Arabic, which has preserved a distinct sound for each letter and only rarely does things that you wouldn’t expect (tanween…).

Modern Hebrew, by contrast, has merged many consonant sounds without merging their letters (sin and samekh, tav and tet), dropped the ayin sound and left the letter as a pseudo-vowel, and decoupled long vowel sounds from their long vowel carrier letters to the point that they’re essentially arbitrary (for each letter, you can find an example of it representing every single vowel sound).

To your main point, though, the main commonality between Semitic scripts and western Latin/Greek-derived scripts is the rough order of the letters and some of the shapes. Latin alphabet isn’t an abjad, it has lots of letters that have no equivalent in Semitic… and it actually represents many languages very faithfully! English is an outlier. So I am not convinced by your argument.

Let’s Encrypt evidently didn’t mean to block all of Iran, only the Iranian government, which I assume is capable of getting its own certificates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465754