Thank you. I was just not making any sense of this. Now it seams obvious.

Isn’t that just closed Apps in general?

I’d argue there is a network effect lockin going on with Google, and it needs fixing by governments. Google, and others, should have to share basic road speed data.

OS Maps are great. You know MapMen? They love OS Maps.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=os+maps+mapmen

To be honest, even a static DB of recorded road speed using time of day, day of week, time of year, averages, would be a lot better than nothing. It would mean it knows you can’t really go 60 down a bendy, narrow, stone wall lined, single lane, country road. Not and live anyway. So it would stop trying to use them all the time.

But hey, if there is internet, why not query it for the latest?

I only skimmed.

I’m not joking about the Ordnance Survey bit. When I’m on walks, I often am in area with bugger all phone reception (common in the UK) and the quality of the maps means it really is as good.

It’s why the lack of traffic upsets me so, because I’d love to use it in the car as my main maps for Android Auto, but without traffic, that’s just doesn’t work well enouhg.

It’s great in many ways, and maps are great. You can get Ordnance Survey style maps.

BUT it desperately needs traffic information in its route finding. It frequently makes terrible decisions in the absence of this data.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4242868/

Cost of doing business. Legal for a fee. Etc etc.

By there not being enough consequences for these boys, not only are you making more boys like this, but not doing those boys any favours either. No one mentally healthy is going to want to be with that kind of boy.

Weak parents. Weak schools. Weak government. Failing everyone.

Well that is retrograde of it.

Another cool thing from Plan9:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst

Got to love UNIX’s everything is a file.

ProcFS is from Plan9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/proc

Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)

Was really just talking about whole remote vs local gaming thing. Latency does depend on the type of game. Some it matters less than others.

There is always a latency issue.

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-stadias-input-lag-compares-to-native-pc-gaming/

If it is (can’t look at the source can we), it is only is as long as they choose it to be. It’s removal is always just one update away.

If they really wanted to be a team player, they wouldn’t be clearly avoiding the GPL. Valve are being better. When a company is going out their way to not have to contribute it is because there is stuff they don’t want to. Same with Apple and Sun before them, and endless others. If the BSD ideal worked, the BSDs would be the biggest Unix like distros community. The whole reason copyleft exists is because of the “tragedy of the commons” BSD keeps suffering from. Even if a few companies contribute some of it back, some times.

Does happen though. Better to have the option and not often use it, than not have the option at all.

You can look it and go “yeah, it is shit, but I see what it is doing, it is better done like this” and push that upstream. Saves time reverse engineering.

Even if they did (I think they did) it has to be compatible with when they did. So it undeniable BSD helped TCP/IP rule them all.

Well there was a few before GNU came along. Including versions of UNIX itself. It’s just GNU was free, and then, because of contributions, became better. LLVM was originally something the emulation world was into. It meant your JIT could be cross platform. That how I encountered it. It became something for the permissive/coportates to fight GCC later. Having actual competition has made GCC better and it hasn’t lost to Clang/LLVM. The closed stuff didn’t really compete as much just lock people in so didn’t have to.

The TCP/IP stack is a good example where permissive is helpful. Getting a protocol stack adopted. In a world of a mix of open and closed, permissive can paper over cracks.