alx_the_new_guy

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 the end), could be better if I actually knew the area and picked a better parking spot

>1/3 cheaper (total dropped from 30$ to 20$. I'm not from the US, and make roughly 6$/hr, so the sum is more significant than it seems)

>food was probably generally more fresh, but I don't eat sushi much, so can't tell the difference

>also, food was probably less banged up, because I'm not on the clock and don't drive like a madman

some counterpoints:

> we were already driving home from somewhere, the place was the opposite way though

> we live in a dense city, but not too dense, so owning a car and driving it around is possible even on a not so large income, but everything is pretty close

Generally, my family never stopped doing things "the old way", we barely use any delivery services, taxi, and everything the gig economy is involved in. Likely saves us good amount of money in subtle ways. Also, specifically not giving money to those platfoms is a minor benifit in my book.

I get there are people who are disabled, busy (parents with small children, ...), and so on, but it seems to me that for most people the barrier is psychological, and is about task/mode switching more than actual time and effort.

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 they're auto-rejected. That's a decently clear indicator.

Also, if you link your linkedin/stackoverflow/github or something, there could be a more or less automatic way of evaluating you as a candidate in general and your fit for this/similar position, which could be fed back into the post-interview questionnare processing. Obviously, not that good a way to evaluate candidate fitness, but a way nonetheless.

Rings privacy alarm bells, but oh well. Someone could build a decentralized version of it which would work via a browser extension. And, actually, 3rd party hiring companies have a way better relationship with the companies hiring than with the candidates, so I very clearly can see this mechanism weilded against us.

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 you to move from time to time.

Komoot is great for planning of "trips" and "stealing" other people's routes. I've done couple of them and you kind of never know what you're gonna see there (hopefully not agressive dogs), all of them were pretty enjoyable. It has a bit of a social aspect, but barely anyone uses it where I live, so IDK how it is.

One thing I miss from Strava are segments (or whatever they're called) - short parts of your route with it's own leader-board. Has "speedrun, but IRL" vibes, which is pretty cool IMO.

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

>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" type of thing, but in a bad way - it's a positive feedback loop, probably with combination of feeling guilt, inferior, being ashamed, not wanting to admit you messed up, and so on.

What I'm saying is - could be you, or me, or anyone else really. If the psyop is good enough and there isn't an external support structure to provide a "reality check", it's actually fairly easy to fall into this rabbit hole.

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, the really good stuff has been getting easier to find through IRL-ish means, like asking a colleague for the invite link.

I haven't really seen behind the invite veil much, since I'm about as far as it gets from someone cool you'd want in your group chat, but from what I've seen, "good" things are happening and thoughts are thought. It's just happening in private.

There were comments or an article somewhere about someone being sad about "very deep technical discussions being held on discord servers and that knowledge being ultimately lost". I don't think it's that bad of a thing though since that knowledge was never intended for the public and being ultimately lost and forgotten is what the people writing said messages are expecting of it. Certainly, as a person, I care more about myself having less of a digital papertrail than someone in the indefinite future not being able to solve their nieche non-essential problem.

I could elaborate more on the "onlyfans has replaced sex" and the such, which are, IMO, while somewhat true, are conclusions to which the author arrived to from a wrong place, thus continuing to think in that direcion would get them further from the truth, not closer to it.

In the end, just as human brain is a sort of general purpose multimodal input-output machine, the internet can be used for all sorts of purposes. The good ones will stay, the bad ones will fall out of fashion, without getting a solid cultutal foothold. The test of time works as well as ever.

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 idea this week, is a debug/log library that spawns child multiple processes with consoles attached (since you can allocate just one console to a process in windows) and allows for debug info stream separation and rich-ish text features like color

- i've started writing a custom "set of commands" (90% IO, tied to a specific hardware modules, no algebraic functions or anything, so not exactly a programming/scripting language) language specifically for, sort of, programming-illiterate people so that they could easily implement test algorithms without asking software devs to do it. It got nowhere bc I didn't have time to implement it

But my a high level hardware emulator I'm using to debug GUI in production-ish environment uses whatever is left of it.

- environment management software that assigns PATH and other variables. Those commonly ship with software, but I havent really seen people writing their own for general env management

- my friend couldn't get Sony Vegas to produce good chromakey results, so he cobbled together some javascript to do it

- I've built a python notebook to analyze my bike rides combining Garmin Watch (gps + HR) and OSM data (estimating speed vs power vs road conditions).

- since (last I've checked was like a year ago) cmake devs value json adherence over readability in CMakePresets, I've written some scripts that convert jsonc to json. Also, those can convert string arrays to strings and add other QoL and readability improvements

- also, since CI/CD pipeline at work uses pretty old cmake that doesn't support presets and is a ton of work to upgrade due to it being airgapped (I will not elaborate), I've written a script that converts a preset into a shell script. Not completely, just the options I use.

- i guess a lot of custom diagnostic software I've written at work, though that doesnt really count since this is what I'm actually supposed to be doing, instead of most of the above and jeneral software shenanigans

>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-backwards designed software components, bad UX (apis, functions, other stuff) will inevitably propagate through the product and will rear their ugly head somewhere. Not to speak about "friction" and development velocity and so on.

Why yes, implementing this feature will cost you something like 2 hours. Not implementing it will either cost someone 4 hours to do it themselves or two hours over and over again to code around the lack of it. Please don't waste other people's time.

>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 developer suggested people provide not a "real-world vulnerability" but an example of one - a small project that exposes said vulnerability and steps one has to take to abuse it. And what he got irritated about was lack of such examples.

More so since he had been effectively email-DDoSed and had to chase some entity to mark the vulnerability as resolved, which probably took orders of magnitude more time, energy and soul from him, than actually fixing the bug.

But the _actual_ problem is the thanklessness (preferably material) of the work put into such open source projects, developer burnout and what not. Guy probably made like 1000$ total off of those millions of downloads per week. Understandably, he doesn't want his time being seemingly wasted discussing and fixing such seemingly unimportant issues.

Making open source materially rewarding and a more or less legitimate occupation is the real issue.

>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 like warehouses is getting increasingly automated, planes basically can fly and land themselves without human in the loop, autonomous cars are not here, but are coming in the next decade probably.

Personally, I haven't bought a cup of coffe a human made in at least a decade. That's some poor barista's salary not getting paid.

Not that I would know the difference between a 5/10 coffe from a machine and a theoretically 10/10 coffe a professional would make. And a machine makes one for a whole lot cheaper.

> 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 to get it's funding.

Everything is VESA mountable if you try hard enough and can get 3d printed parts. Source: my Mateviews are

>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 they put on Instagram.

I've watched a guy on YouTube discuss his experience buying a plot of land and building a house on it, and I think he straight up pointed out exactly where he lives, what car he drives and what not. No need to put effort into doxxing him, he did everything himself.

This might sound insane to you or me, but most people don't even think about it.

So if you seed couple articles and TV documentaries on how end-to-end encryption is bad because terrorists and pedophiles use it, and you as a law abiding citizen have nothing to fear, while not so carefully avoiding the other side of the coin, I think think the general population would vote for it.

This is all part of the freedom/privacy vs security balance discussion, which we don't have a good solution for.