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  • I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

    Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

    I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

  • Detroit has some great suburbs (check out areas like Ferndale and Plymouth/Canton), but don’t write off Detroit based on what you’ve read in the media. A lot of people in Michigan are in the same boat as you and are missing out on what Detroit has to offer because of what they think Detroit is.

  • It’s really flat here compared to California, you can’t just drive a couple hours to get what you call hills and we call mountains. The Great Lakes are great but they’re not an ocean.

    Flights from DTW are more expensive than from big cities. It’s funny that Detroit is 2,000 miles closer to Europe than SFO, but flights to Europe from SFO are cheaper.

    We started getting wildfire smoke from Canada this year, but I imagine we’re still doing better than SoCal.

    California is still more progressive than Michigan, but we also don’t have as much craziness around ballot initiatives.

    I adore Detroit, but it’s no LA or SF. Chicago is about 4 hours away.

  • A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

    We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

    What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

    $500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
    george @midwest.social

    Solarpunk and the case for soft technologies

  • Document document document.

    Also, the nice thing about libraries, frameworks, and CMSs is that they already have documentation. If it seems like a pain to learn one of those, imagine how much worse it would be for someone to learn custom code that doesn’t have any resources on Google.

  • It would make all states politically irrelevant, which means that a vote in California would be worth the same as a vote in Wyoming. Under the electoral college, a Wyoming vote is worth 3x a California vote.

    It also only goes into effect only if it removes other swing states’ influence. It’s not like Michigan is going to give up its status while Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida continue to be swing states.

    It’s also weird that since 1992, only one Republican presidential candidate has won the national popular vote, and yet 3 have won election (counting W twice). That doesn’t sound like a healthy democracy.

  • Apple @lemmy.world
    george @midwest.social

    Elegy for the Native Mac App

    Keaton Brandt: Remembering the boom and bust of the Mac platform — and what it means for visionOS.

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    george @midwest.social

    van_dam - A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files

    3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    george @midwest.social

    van_dam - A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files

    Technology @beehaw.org
    george @midwest.social