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  1. Comment on Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it's not because of new union in ~tech

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    Does small local business mean independent contractor?

    Does small local business mean independent contractor?

    2 votes
  2. Comment on After almost a century, the bike valve is finally getting an update in ~engineering

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    Unrelated to the article, but I think this is the first time I've seen an explicit citation for ChatGPT. The History of Valves bit has this below it.

    Unrelated to the article, but I think this is the first time I've seen an explicit citation for ChatGPT. The History of Valves bit has this below it.

    Source: ChatGPT-4-Version

    11 votes
  3. Comment on MeroChat is a open source website that helps you to find people to chat with in ~comp

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    This kinda highlights an issue I have with Tildes*. I think that for each link submitted, the OP should always provide a comment giving their thoughts, ie, about why it's worth sharing. *and...

    This kinda highlights an issue I have with Tildes*. I think that for each link submitted, the OP should always provide a comment giving their thoughts, ie, about why it's worth sharing.

    *and reddit, though more likely to have other comments as a gauge.

    Edit: forgot to continue the asterisk.

    6 votes
  4. Comment on Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? in ~life.men

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    Girls are icky and have cooties.

    They just don’t want to. And why don’t they want to?

    Girls are icky and have cooties.

    6 votes
  5. Comment on Quixotic is a program that will feed fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring LLM scrapers. in ~comp

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    I wouldn't expect a robots.txt ignoring scraper to provide their bot-identity in the request headers. But I guess they do enough to make this plausible.

    I wouldn't expect a robots.txt ignoring scraper to provide their bot-identity in the request headers. But I guess they do enough to make this plausible.

    14 votes
  6. Comment on Step 1: Slow down in ~enviro

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    Trains?

    But I sometimes wonder whether driverless trucks would be easier to implement if they drove slower. People might not like trucks driving in the slow lane at 45 mph, but it would likely be safer.

    Trains?

    15 votes
  7. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Perhaps more similar to a time tracker and whatever charts and analysis that can come from that?

    Perhaps more similar to a time tracker and whatever charts and analysis that can come from that?

    2 votes
  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Playing around with making a replication of Emprie Attack, a browser game that existed until 2017. And game of life was a warm up. It's structured weird because I was intending to make this as a...

    Playing around with making a replication of Emprie Attack, a browser game that existed until 2017. And game of life was a warm up.

    It's structured weird because I was intending to make this as a hacky entry into t0.vc/g.

    https://proto.qot.nz

    4 votes
  9. Comment on Coffee prices surge to highest since 1997 on supply fears in ~food

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    Commodity coffee price would set a price floor for any specialty/premium coffee price. I would expect to see some price increases in specialty coffee if and after commodity prices stabilise higher...

    Commodity coffee price would set a price floor for any specialty/premium coffee price.

    I would expect to see some price increases in specialty coffee if and after commodity prices stabilise higher than usual.

    27 votes
  10. Comment on Valve is possibly making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard in ~games

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    What does that even mean.

    It's a patent for a joystick which includes magnetorheological fluid for haptic feedback

    What does that even mean.

  11. Comment on How well do you cook? in ~life.men

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    It might be a subset for your second part, but I find it more important to have the organisation skills to ensure that the first part is achievable. That is: given ingredients that match a recipe...

    There's two parts of cooking, yeah? There's the mechanical process of taking ingredients and making them into food, and then there's the process of taking care of yourself, your family, and your friends on this deep and fundamental level.

    It might be a subset for your second part, but I find it more important to have the organisation skills to ensure that the first part is achievable.

    That is: given ingredients that match a recipe (written or learned), I can and am fairly good at the mechanics of cooking. I can make some modifications to the meal as I go.

    Given a fridge and pantry to stare at 5pm and asked what to make for dinner: nope, impossible. It'll end up being generic staples, eggs on toast, beans, spaghetti bol. A trip to fetch ingredients or takeaways, dinner over about 2-3 hours later.

    I am envious of those that can improvise a meal from arbitrary ingredients and have that actually work out ok.

    3 votes
  12. Comment on Taylor Swift fans are leaving X for Bluesky after Donald Trump’s US election in ~society

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    iirc @Deimos or someone has a dedicated server hosting it somewhere. Not any of that fancy cloud computing microservices mumbojumbo that burns money by the second. This info might be wrong or...

    iirc @Deimos or someone has a dedicated server hosting it somewhere.

    Not any of that fancy cloud computing microservices mumbojumbo that burns money by the second.

    This info might be wrong or obsolete.

    1 vote
  13. Comment on What is the best or recommended way to integrate my Windows 10 and Linux computers through the local network? in ~tech

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    Nah, better than ssh/ftp is to have SMB set up on the plex server device and use that as the NAS/network share for those transfers. Of course, the ease of use and reliability of an actual NAS...

    Nah, better than ssh/ftp is to have SMB set up on the plex server device and use that as the NAS/network share for those transfers.

    Of course, the ease of use and reliability of an actual NAS appliance should be considered if the other NAS features are wanted (backups to somewhere etc)

    4 votes
  14. Comment on What to snack on (other than slices of parmesan) in ~food

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    This is my current go-to evening snack.

    This is my current go-to evening snack.

    2 votes
  15. Comment on Fossil fuels aren’t the biggest source of surging methane emissions in ~enviro

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    In a way, cows burping are in fact a natural gas leak.

    In a way, cows burping are in fact a natural gas leak.

    2 votes
  16. Comment on Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service in ~tech

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    The sensationalist headline of focusing on total project cost to achieve minor line item of the project is such a classic misinformation tactic, intentional or otherwise. It sets the narrative...

    The sensationalist headline of focusing on total project cost to achieve minor line item of the project is such a classic misinformation tactic, intentional or otherwise.

    It sets the narrative that the project is a misuse of public funds.

    12 votes
  17. Comment on Copyright Office exemption makes McDonald’s ice cream machines repairable in ~food

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    Probably because it's one more thing that keeps the franchisees under control of the franchisor?

    Probably because it's one more thing that keeps the franchisees under control of the franchisor?

    5 votes
  18. Comment on Looking for a Switch game thats fun but requires little commitment in ~games

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    Snipperclips is fun puzzles and very casual.

    Snipperclips is fun puzzles and very casual.

    3 votes
  19. Comment on Lefties of Tildes: what are some items where the left handed version is most necessary? in ~life

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    Maybe, but also keyboards > mouse, in general.

    Maybe, but also keyboards > mouse, in general.

  20. Comment on Lefties of Tildes: what are some items where the left handed version is most necessary? in ~life

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    click, mouse move, shift+click.

    click, mouse move, shift+click.