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I used both, LibreOffice calc for heavier data analysis than Google Sheets can handle. Google can also read LibreOffice's file formats easily.

LibreOffice Draw is the best free PDF editor, akin to the flexibility of Illustrator but actually easier to use for documents with multiple pages.

there are 20,000 permitted multifamily units around Boston that have gotten through zoning but aren't being built because they don't pencil out. [1] I used to think zoning was the only thing in the way, but I think there are other problems, too.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/business/housing-cons...


Organic Maps is great


we also use Google Suite. Google Doc's [] task button is very helpful. We use a single to-do list for the team, which helps keep everyone on the same page


Right. Also use the @user comments to notify people as needed.


Architecture event: provide a site in the host city and make it a design competition, and then build the winner. The hall of submitted 3D models would be a great attraction.


As noted in the article, Architecture was indeed previously an Olympic category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in...


It was subsumed into official Olympic art festivals that morphed into the Cultural Olympiad which is held concurrently with each Summer Olympics.


That's essentially what a World Expo is, isn't it?


That would be nice, though modern official architecture (and art) always ends up quite ugly and appalling, so it'd only be nice with proper judges (quite rare apparently).

Architecture and art done on ArtStation alone is superior to anything that is funded by your local government usually.


>so it'd only be nice with proper judges (quite rare apparently).

Taste is just nostalgia with extra steps. Whatever the prestige class was building when the present adults were kids (or during a noteworthy economic boom time) is "good architecture", and everything else sucks.


Have the event judged by a panel of locals selected from the general population by lottery.


Why not have all judging panels selected like this? I'd love to see 6 people chosen at random judging the dressage based entirely on whatever they happen think dressage should be judged on. And at the same times the riders are trying to alter their routine based on what they think someone who knows nothing about dressage would want to see in a dressage competition.


Yes, why wouldn't those that trained some disciplines for years want to have their fate decided by complete randoms with no judging experience in their sport!?


If it's good enough for artists...


In the analogy, what are the Olympic games for art?


I would like to be able to open and edit .md files in Google Docs on desktop and mobile like how Google Docs supports opening .docx files


I like that they incl the prompt in the paper


check out How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Odell, Jenny) ... the punchline is that it is always there, you just have to find a reason to not want it.

Also, going through the feature checklist on https://www.dumbphones.org/ made me realize how many of these things are so helpful. I checked all the ones I would want, and there were no dumbphones that supported them. GPS Navigation, Group Text, Hotspot, WiFi Calling, Rideshare, Camera, Calendar Sync. And, if it can do all those things, its not that dumb.


That's why I liked my blackberry so much. It was a tool first and foremost, whereas consumers now want a multimedia delivery experience. I didn't care that BB fell short at that, but the market did.


libgen uses it


In practice libgen uses torrents. The available seed nodes for IPFS are... few. This is largely due to the software/protocol being pretty bad compared to battle tested torrents.


Perhaps if you're downloading full dumps, but distribution of individual books is often done via IPFS.


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