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That happened to me multiple times at work. I genuinely thought I was going mad before I found out that that's just a thing onedrive does.

That's sad, the fiesta is a fun car to drive. Also very economical, my diesel one uses 4.5l/100km consistently without paying much attention to it.

That bring me to another point: Fuel economy ratings. My car is rated at 3.3l of average consumption. That's possible when hypermiling at night, but BS when considering traffic.

I reckon SUVs are even worse than my 50% increase over the rating because their weight makes engine braking less effective in traffic and aerodynamics tend to be less of a problem at the hypermiling speeds they do during the tests than at real world speeds.

Good old section 1201. The EFF has been fighting it for a while, but hasn't had much success unfortunately.

Lemmy is a perfectly good reddit replacement now that the boost app has migrated.

It's starting to reach that critical mass where people become toxic but still much better than reddit.

And since it's all federated, you can interact with mastodon users from the comfort of your lemmy app. It's certainly not a town square that most people use, but a corner of the internet that's less shitty than the rest.

Seeing those things and knowing the person bought an objectively worse version of a decent car causes me pain every single time.

But the only thing we can do about that is educate people.

Those aren't SUVs, they are crossovers. Mostly based on hatchbacks, but worse in every objective way.

SUV means "Sport utility vehicle". The Sport part is straight up BS, but the utility part differentiates them from crossovers. An SUV is built on a truck frame or at least needs a strengthened chassis to give it some utility like towing or offroading.

A lot of german news websites have cookie banners where the options are accept and subscribe to deny.

The argument is that denying doesn't prevent you from acessing the site.

I recall there's precedent for this being legal, but I can't seem to find it. Search engines have really gone down the drain lately.

The "algorithm" isn't some simple KNN. It has many people working on it, so by now it should at least grasp the difference between two topics that are similar and two topics that are the same.

A custom solution would only be worth it if companies looked that far ahead instead of maximizing short-term profits.

He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.

This is a big part of what made me start using linux. On windows, there's a new way to do basic stuff all the time and they screw around with menus that work perfectly well just to have something new.

That means that any tutorials will quickly get outdated and you can spend half your mental capacity just keeping up with this crap. The amount of times I googled how to do something in MS office, clicked an article from half a year ago and found that one of the options it mentions doesn't exist anymore is too damn high.

Things are nice on linux, especially the CLI world. You learn a little program once and use it for decades without thinking about it.

I used to use xposed edge to configure the crap out my gestures, it was great. Now that xposed isn't really a thing anymore, I followed the rest of the world and use my phone with two hands most of the time and use my index finger for the top of the screen with one hand.

Not terribly hard at my age, but why do I have to?

Windows itself won't, but have you ever tried copying code into a microsoft application and found that it didn't paste like it should and then fixed the escaping?

It will fuck the code up so bad that Ctrl+Z and starting over is your only option.

But unfortunately it says nothing that couldn't have been said 10 years ago.

This seems like a huge problem without an easy solution. Now that grocery stores are starting to deploy electronic price tags, I don't see why they wouldn't implement exactly that.

The only ideas I have are to limit how often prices can change or mandate prices, but both of those have some huge implications and downsides.

People can generate a few good samples of what they want a character to look like and then interrogate clip to get a more detailed prompt that makes it more consistent. It increases the prompt sizes a lot, but I don't think there's an easy way to solve this.

Maybe you could build a UI that semi-automates this process?

Yes, we are currently doing something with T5 for those exact reasons. It could probably benefit a lot from throwing a bigger model at it.

So are implementation problems of civil engineering the equivalent of prod problems in software engineering?

It is an example of who has the most power. If you don't have a different service that does the same for you, you'll have to suck it up or live without the service.

This becomes a big issue as soon as all services in a specific niche do 'the thing', be it refusing cash or stuff like removing headphone jacks.

At that point, what are you gonna do? Stop using products from that niche altogether?

Shortly after DALL-E 2 launched, social media was flooded with images from DALL-E mini that just showed weird combinations of things that shouldn't be combined. This is exactly what AI is good at, so it definitely doesn't need to be trained on child porn to produce it.

There's google, which is less infuriating to use than microsoft stuff from what I've heard. Microsoft, google and yahoo regularly block or delay mails from independents[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35380823

Then why isn't at least one of those jacks a TRS so you can use normal headphones?

Paper has two objective advantages over digital: It's reliable and it doesn't scale. That makes it the only option for elections as any compromise of a digital system would instantly decide the outcome. With paper, a bag of ballots might be lost or a few fake ones introduced, but none of these attacks scale very well so if we can prevent most of them, that's good enough.

I won't touch on preferring paper for visualizing thoughts because that's just preference, but seeing people prefer paper invoices over digital ones is just sad to see. On a conceptual level digital should always be preferrable, but we somehow managed to screw the inplementation up so bad that it's worse than no implementation.

Why do we need to overcomplicate everything?

I find text editing on mobile to be fine, I'd have to try this to see if it's any better.

The article did skip over one important QOL feature that every modern keyboard has: Swiping the spacebar to move the cursor. It solves a lot of the things the author complains about.

The thing that causes me physical pain when writing something on mobile is the web. Browsers/websites misinterpret inputs into text fields all the time. Trying to scroll the text field while it has an active selection? Great, now your keyboard is closed and the selection is gone.

I found out that it did the same to me when I installed arch. Windows on one drive, EFI partition on a completely different one that has no reason to ever have an EFI partition.

The web version of teams works much better than the "native" one. Pressing F5 when it stops working is much faster than restarting an entire browser.

But then microsoft just decides to kick its users in the balls again by adding a feature that allows outgoing calls only on chrome and edge while blocking firefox. Meetings work, so that's obviously bullshit.

I guess electron isn't what makes teams terrible, but rather microsoft.

This is what happens when there is no competition. If microsoft wasn't able to force their way into companies by bundling teams with all the other office crap that non-technical people want, I doubt anyone would seriously pick it over anything else. The amount of issues it has (and therefore the amount of work it causes) is insane. I have yet to see a streak of 5 calls without issues that require an interruption to fix.

So you can later charge extra for the web version.

I hate to agree with this. Web is the best way to cram loads of features into a limited amount of dev time.

But still, whenever I use Teams, something like this happens: I click a button, nothing happens. I wait 10 seconds, because teams sometimes just needs a little longer. Nothing happens. I click the button again, it finally starts doing something. 5 seconds later, the thing I wanted appears.

And every time it happens, I die a little inside.

But two weeks of dev time for every municipality adds up quickly.

The issue is that germany is deeply federated, different decisions are made at different levels. This could translate well into software by having the higher levels create interop standards and reference implementations that allow for plugins while the lower levels use the reference implementations (with plugin extensions for the myriad of special of special cases) or just implement their own according to the standard.

But unfortunately it doesn't translate because the german state either picks the cheapest contractor (which almost always leads to blown budgets and delays) or they pick by nepotism.

They are also dead set on waterfall projects and don't seem to realize that if they keep blowing budgets anyways, that might not be the best strategy.