KellyThomas

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[–] KellyThomas@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Many hands make light work"

As a young child I interpreted this as acknowledging all of the people involved in:

  • Mining and transporting coal
  • Running the powerplant
  • Installing and maintaining the powerlines
  • Wiring the house
  • Manufacturing the lightswitch, light socket, light bulb, etc

All so I can flick a switch and turn on a light in my house. It really shows that all the small things we take for granted rely on a well functioning society.

Then when I was around 10 or so someone used it in a context where it's usual interpretation was the only one that made sense.

[–] KellyThomas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used OSM tiles when creating webmaps sometimes and they can be great.

That said it's coverage is inconsistent. This area around a highschool has really high detail footprints for the houses so I think it might have been part of their IT class at some point.

https://imgur.com/a/8PA8xBS

[–] KellyThomas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meh.

It's doubling each step.

If course it's at 1/(2^n) of the final volume at n steps before the final step.

  • At half of its final volume one step before the end
  • a quarter of its final volume two steps before the end
  • an eighth of its final volume three steps before the end
  • a sixteenth of it's final volume four steps before the end