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  1. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    at least for me, the main benefit of the kagi extension is that it persists your session in private windows

    at least for me, the main benefit of the kagi extension is that it persists your session in private windows

  2. Comment on The populist revolt against cognitive elites in ~society

  3. Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk

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    I do have the raw data, unfortunately they seemed pretty concerned about posting it publicly as it does include open-ended responses. I think I’d be comfortable with releasing just the...

    I do have the raw data, unfortunately they seemed pretty concerned about posting it publicly as it does include open-ended responses. I think I’d be comfortable with releasing just the radio/checkbox answers (maybe each as a separate dataset) to avoid personally identifying anyone.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options. in ~tech

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    Does anyone here actually live near an unsecured wifi network? None of my apartments have had unsecured wifi nearby, and I have lived in mixed use developments where there are businesses on street...

    Does anyone here actually live near an unsecured wifi network? None of my apartments have had unsecured wifi nearby, and I have lived in mixed use developments where there are businesses on street level.

    No TV to my knowledge has a cellular modem yet either, which I assume would be discovered reasonably quickly by a third party and reported on extensively.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk

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    oh hi, that’s my bad. life got real busy and I had loftier ambitions than I probably should have with that project (was trying to create custom visualizations from scratch in d3 that didn’t really...

    oh hi, that’s my bad. life got real busy and I had loftier ambitions than I probably should have with that project (was trying to create custom visualizations from scratch in d3 that didn’t really seem to have an analogue anywhere).

    got a few things on the docket at the moment- I’ll add this one back (with more reasonable goals), just no promises on a delivery date 😅

    cc @anthonyb if you aren’t following the tree :)

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Uber and Lyft prices vary for the same rides in ~transport

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    It depends on the city for me. Seattle has almost always had cheaper Lyft rides so I haven't really bothered checking Uber lately. When I'm somewhere unfamiliar, I'll check both. I think the fact...

    It depends on the city for me. Seattle has almost always had cheaper Lyft rides so I haven't really bothered checking Uber lately. When I'm somewhere unfamiliar, I'll check both.

    I think the fact that they tested in SF also skewed the results somewhat. My assumption has always been that the price will be lower on the platform with more drivers (supply and demand), and SF likely has one of the highest densities of both in the country.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on US President Donald Trump calls Democrat video to troops 'seditious behaviour, punishable by death' in ~society

  8. Comment on AI makes an appearance at my union meeting in ~tech

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    It's being pushed very aggressively at my job (software). There's metrics on adoption and usage rates under each manager, which don't seem to be plugged into the IC performance review process but...

    It's being pushed very aggressively at my job (software). There's metrics on adoption and usage rates under each manager, which don't seem to be plugged into the IC performance review process but may be a part of the manager performance review.

    I'm just now starting to find it useful, but it's nowhere near the panacea that the AI companies are trying to sell it as. I find the inline code completion stuff worse-than-useless (plain old LSP completion is far more useful) but command-line chats where it can edit files and run commands on my behalf are useful in limited circumstances.

    My team's codebase is large and sprawling (over 300 repositories of varying size and importance) so there's a lot of cases where AI just can't understand what things are doing. When I'm doing something that has a lot of prior art (major dependency upgrades, for example), it's been relatively useful, but still requires a lot of guidance from me.

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Body time and daylight savings apologetics in ~life

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    Split the difference! I have a pretty strong preference for sunlight in the afternoon/evening but I'm willing to compromise :)

    Split the difference!

    I have a pretty strong preference for sunlight in the afternoon/evening but I'm willing to compromise :)

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Is there a postman alternative without the bloat? in ~tech

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    HTTPie has worked well for me in the past, but I haven't used it recently. I just booted it up and updated and there were no nags/account prompts that came up.

    HTTPie has worked well for me in the past, but I haven't used it recently. I just booted it up and updated and there were no nags/account prompts that came up.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time in ~comp

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    re home, you can get the same effect by just running cd!

    re home, you can get the same effect by just running cd!

    12 votes

  12. Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp

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    If you want to be even more overwhelmed you can try neovim ;) It can be pretty finnicky at times on my setup (lots of weird stuff I have to do to make it work at my job) but I like it a lot. It...

    If you want to be even more overwhelmed you can try neovim ;)

    It can be pretty finnicky at times on my setup (lots of weird stuff I have to do to make it work at my job) but I like it a lot. It runs on my personal server at work within a tmux session, so I can always start a build without worrying about my laptop going off the network or pausing the build while it sleeps.

    Occasionally I'll open up IntelliJ when nvim isn't playing nice and I just need to get some work done, but I can feel myself working slower and generally fighting the environment a lot more. Plus its integrated terminal is absolutely awful. I've always returned to nvim as quickly as I could in those cases.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Why do so many people think US President Donald Trump is good? in ~society

  14. Comment on AI is a mass-delusion event in ~tech

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    Should be fine in the topic, thanks!

    Should be fine in the topic, thanks!

    1 vote

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  17. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games

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    I'll take you up on it. Favorite game is Balatro!

    I'll take you up on it. Favorite game is Balatro!

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Transit passes are better but free fares are good too in ~transport

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    Where I live they made it free for everyone 18 and under. They prefer if children get a fare card for this (still free, just requires registration, this is mostly for metrics and probably to build...

    Where I live they made it free for everyone 18 and under. They prefer if children get a fare card for this (still free, just requires registration, this is mostly for metrics and probably to build the habit of tapping for transit when they’re old enough to pay) but it’s also ok for them to ride without tapping since we don’t do turnstiles.

    Big fan of the lack of registration requirements, keeps it as simple as possible.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on Transit passes are better but free fares are good too in ~transport

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    I’d be curious to see a more thorough study of the peak demand effects of free transit fares. My commute is roughly equivalent in terms of travel time whether I take the bus, train, or walk, but I...

    I’d be curious to see a more thorough study of the peak demand effects of free transit fares. My commute is roughly equivalent in terms of travel time whether I take the bus, train, or walk, but I choose to walk because I prefer a moderate (around 1.5mi) walk to the “hurry up and wait” of the bus (and also crowding). My transit fares are paid fully by my employer, so it’s effectively free.

    Of course I’m young and personally enjoy walking, so I imagine this doesn’t apply smoothly across the entire population.

    9 votes

  20. Comment on Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away in ~enviro

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    I recently moved into an apartment that doesn't do traditional billing for waste services - instead of a flat monthly fee, I order trash/recycling bags from the city (roughly $5/bag for trash and...

    I recently moved into an apartment that doesn't do traditional billing for waste services - instead of a flat monthly fee, I order trash/recycling bags from the city (roughly $5/bag for trash and $2.50/bag for recycling) and that serves as my waste services payment. Compost and corrugated cardboard recycling are free.

    I've definitely been more keen to properly recycle and compost when I otherwise wouldn't be due to a lack of time or willingness to clean out a plastic container.

    As for the grocery store, I was very pleasantly surprised to see stores up here start to offer paper bags for produce rather than the normal plastic film bags. I've also seen compostable bags but those are such a pain to work with (and paper is compostable anyways).

    3 votes