alx_the_new_guy

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by alx_the_new_guy 9mo ago
If you care about your food being warm enough to eat, why not just pick it up yourself? I got a glimpse of this "delivery economy" myself last week, so Self pick-up was: >2x faster (20min vs ~40min estimate, probably more in th
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Wqq Basically this Fiddle with the query, and you can extract pretty much whatever you want from the OSM database
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
The most obvious approach I can think of would be some sort of post-application questionnare and comparing that to the companie's job posting, sort of, stats. Say, the company has a lot of job postings, but the all the applicants say t
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
Garmin Connect is actually fairly decent. Tracks activities (also sleep, which I find pretty useful), fairly detailed stats, little to none social features and a little gamification with challenges and achievements. Also the watch reminds y
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
You can download one of the dozens of OSM-editing apps like: - streetcomplete - vespucci - everydoor and either add that information yourself or leave a note for other people
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
>exploiting lonely people >lack of self control Not quite "been there, done that", but anecdotally being lonely/alone accelerates and reinforces any "mental illness"-ish behavior. "Eating your own dogfood
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
Again, returning to the "it's not the internet itself, but the content on it" thing. Facebook and microblogs use the same infra and can be accessed via the same means (web browser, etc). At least from anecdotal experience, th
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
Kinda lame compared to what other people post here, but this is what probably 90% of the "I just use it myself" software is IRL: - the most "impressive" one right now, though barely realized since I've just had the
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
>In those cases, understanding the bussiness tends to be far more important than understanding the user experience. Never understood the take that internal systems need a good UX because they very much do. Having been a consumer of ass-b
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
>The library developers push back and say "Can you point to one real-world vulnerability where the library is actually used in the way that the CVE says constitutes a vulnerability?" From my understanding of the article, the de
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
>Robots haven't materialized yet, neither any political will to shrink the safety net. Human-like general-purpose robots - yes. Except, by definition, a robot, essentially a programmable mechanism, not something human-like. Stuff li
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
Basically, this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de... Linus tech tips made some decent videos on the topic. But basically, what this apparently boils down to, is Microsoft wants to c
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
> why is it the only space organization (including NASA) able to innovate and ship anymore Willingness and the ability to try and fail. They haven't really invented anything conceptually new, it's just NASA has to play politics
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
Everything is VESA mountable if you try hard enough and can get 3d printed parts. Source: my Mateviews are
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by alx_the_new_guy 2y ago
>until there's a popular vote If we're talking banning end-to-end encryption specifically, the general population is largely oblivious to it, or electronic privacy in general, or people wouldn't post like 90% of the stuff
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Not exact quote, but >science is about writing papers Academic output measured by publising volume People optimise for publishing volume, sacrificing quality No wonder why we have junk science, citation circle jerk and wheel reinvention.
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Been there, done that. Nothing beats industrial Minecraft (in it's prime, which it isn't in atm as far as I konw) IMO. Not even close, when considering the ability to add magic/farming/computer stuff. Though Minetest[0]
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
That can be sort of easily explained without selfishness/people being jaded. Anecdotally speaking, I've met all of my friends through school/university/work, and all the friend groups I know of (so mine and my friend&#x2
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Art as a concept is basically meaningless these days. What is art? Apparently, anything can be art, so what's the difference between art and not_art? From my personal experience, it is used more as a shitty excuse for substandard/
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
>I do not understand people who volunteer unpaid labor and then complain bitterly about it. Well, let's say you helped someone on Reddit. What you were intending to do is to share your life experience with someone, making their, and
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
It's pretty frustrating in OM too, especially since the download usually fails after some time (my guess is phone goes into some power saving mode and kills the app, which it shouldn't do, but still). I think closer to the end of
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Break pads also. But from my understanding: - AWD, especially of the fancy computer controlled type, in electric cars is much easier to produce, since you don't have to mechanically transfer power to all the wheels, and should decreas
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
>if the area is so "remote" it doesn't have GPS coverage Or if GPS signal is being jammed. >imagery quality is going to be garbage Presumably, this relies on fairly limited compute resources, so it maybe probably downsc
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
>Cars, even electric, don't last as long as our bodies. Because they're not built to, presumably because manufacturers are greedy and want to sell you a new one, and buying a new one is encouraged by consumerist culture. Let&#x
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Hot take time. Not having children, thus decreasing future population actually solves a decent amount of problems: Less pressure on the housing market, so maybe owning a home becomes actually feasible for regular people. Hopefully, prices c
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
From what I've heared sort of around the block: Shitty ads actually pay more per view. Scam artists have rather fat margins and are more desperate to get their ads shown. IMO the __actual__ solution to youtube ads is unironically to bu
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Personally, I call BS. The report itself is fine, but the article is misleading, sort of implying that it's those billionaire's lifestyles that are ruining the climate for everyone else. But only in the end, it outlines, _how_ the
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
Nothing personal (I mean, seriously, nothing personal) Little (probably hard) advice for if/when you're going to say something like that to a zoomer irl (based on personal experience from the receiving end): The "you aren&#x2
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by alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
https://youtu.be/I0UMG3iVYZI?si=JztMr1sIkBzppkmn The PS3 issue described in the video was more specific to it, but similar in it's nature. TLDR from my very imperfect memory: The whole board-solder-chip sandwich expand