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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • /etc? Never heard of her.

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  • Its a pretty common Windows server practice to just throw random shit on the root directory of the server. I'm guilty of this at times when there isn't a better option available to me, but I at least use a dedicated directory at the root for dumping random crap and organize the files within that directory (and delete unneeded files when done) so that it doesn't create more work later.

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    How you spend your time

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  • I think the difference is historically hobbies involved making things (woodworking, model building, sewing, playing music, drawing, writing, scrapbooking, etc.) or were purely physical (hiking, playing sports, shooting things, etc.) partly out of necessity due to home media being practically nonexistent outside of books and magazines which require literacy (a high bar up to about the 20th century)

    Within about one generation we went from books and magazines being the only mass market home media to suddenly having access to more home media than we could ever consume. My grandmother has told me about her family getting their first TV and how she imagined it would be like a radio with a little screen you could walk up to and see a static image depicting what's being described when you wanted to but would otherwise listen to like radio

    People are now by default consumers, where even just 50 years ago it was still the default for people to make stuff, fix stuff, etc. at home. Boredom drove skill building, now boredom just drives consumption. To make matters worse, mass digitization ultimately came in the form of smartphones with apps powered by addictive algorithms, so people (myself included) are addicted to the cheap dopamine that these screens of colorful lights provide us. This is the crux of the matter, and there's a growing trend (partly driven by enshitification) of de-digitizing as people realize how bad these screens are for our mental health

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • Could simply be that only 2 have been fully banned by Reddit but most have tons of subreddit bans and/or shadowbans. On the other hand, Reddit is such a cesspit these days I wouldn't be too shocked if they just exist on Reddit shitposting slop

  • Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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  • How much do you want to bet they also rolled out bonsuses based on this bogus data? The one saving grace is they started using the new LLM tooling mid-Q4 so any quarterlies would at least be partially based on real data

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I've heard advice to initially release a demo on Itch, encourage those who enjoy the demo to join your org's discord, then blast discord to go buy the game on steam on launch day to help boost your day 1 numbers on Steam.

    I'd also check various gaming communities on as many social media platforms as possible to see if they allow indie devs to announce releases

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Have you tried reaching out to YouTubers who review/play through similar games to yours? Can you buy an ad read from some youtubers as a less intrusive style of ad? Do you have a demo at all that you can point people to right now?

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Almost drove off with the gas cap and door open on my car

    I made it a habit to always glance in my side mirrors to confirm there's nothing unexpected around me (including open doors or connected gas nozzles) before shifting out of park every time. Granted best practice is to walk around the car once as an inspection before even starting it every time, but that's more than I often can be bothered to do

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • The thing with adding lanes is induced demand. By nature of there being more space for cars on that road more drivers will choose take that road over other roads. Cars don't magically come into existence, people drive them, and people drive them for a reason, most commonly to go to/from somewhere

    Trains (and bikes and buses) take cars off the road. Every person riding on a transit solution that isn't a car is a individual vehicle trip saved. When every vehicle contains an average of 1.2 people in it, you've got very close to 1:1 vehicle reduction for every trip that's not taken by car

    So to your point, are some number of non-drivers choosing not to drive because of traffic? Probably a small number of them. But a complete transit system that has the real world effect of fewer cars on the road will mean few people owning cars. Why would a family own 2 cars when one is parked most of the time? Why spend $20k on a new (to you) car if you're barely using the one you have/had? Fewer cars means less cars on the road which means less traffic. This is the dream.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Goddamn we need so much high speed rail, and yesterday

    And so much more standard speed rail too! There's tons of railroad lines all over the country, and even many old stations still standing. Let's start building RDCs again (or better, a modern equivalent) and start running passenger services on all of those lines

    The challenges are several fold. For one, there's basically no manufacturers of passenger railcars left in the country. Occasionally a network upgrade will lead to one being spun up for a few years then it'll shut down once the order is fulfilled because there's no consistent market for passenger railcars in North America.

    I'd propose using a mix of historic British Rail procurement practices and current military contract practices where you put up a pot of money for up for say 3 companies to develop a prototype railcar meeting a specific spec. Make the spec for a fairly basic car and be ready to update station platforms for ADA compliance rather than forcing the cars to be compatible with 20 different platform heights and designs. Then test those 3 prototypes and the winner receives a bonus as the design is purchased by the federal government, and next you license that design out for all manufacturers in the country to produce, followed by an ongoing order of say 48 railcars per year from 5 different manufacturers and you have 248 railcars per year (enough to replace Amtrak's entire current fleet within 10 years) from 5 different companies (reducing risk of one company mucking it all up) all manufactured with local labor and you have a standard design that is already in active production for other operators to order as well. Repeat this process for more equipment and designs as needed, and suddenly you have a bunch of known standard designs that your network can be built to and you have health competition between manufacturers which will be big enough (because each will have around 50-100 million dollars a year in revenue from that one ongoing federal contract alone) to start performing their own independent R&D to make their own unique stock to try to attract more orders from rail operators

    This is what the federal government exists for, making ambitious infrastructure projects like this possible. Policians just aren't interested in thinking big enough

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • It's funny how you can tell when a concept is extremely modern because in languages other than English they tend to just use the English term or a localized variation of the English term

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Usually they "save you money" by giving you a shittier policy and relying on the buyer not understanding what coverage they need and why

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Seriously going through an insurance broker is awesome. Best dang way to deal with insurance because I can just call up the broker and have them do it all for me, plus they get paid on commission by the insurance companies (which are mostly smaller B2B companies that don't spend millions on advertising) so it's not even like you pay more for your insurnace

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Which of HaGeZi's blocklists are you using specifically?

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I remember pushing my mom to install one that had a black and white cat wander around the desktop and on top of windows one time when she had to take me to work.

    I found a video of a newer version (with bonus Bonzi Buddy), but it doesn't appear to do the walking along the tops of your windows that I remember.

    Appropriately for the topic of this thread, it was all an advertisement for Purina Pet Food

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • It's becoming best practice in IT to install uBlock Origin on browsers to help prevent scareware

  • Me while waiting for a passable alternative

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  • Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you'd pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.

    Edit to add: in some rural areas they'd even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • 500 mL of wine (if verified) is 2/3 of a bottle, not drunk alcoholic rage quantity see 1. If he blew like 0.4, it seems to me it would be reported as part of the article.

    Different people have different tolerances. Personally, I can be completely knocked out by that much wine if I don't pace myself

    Reasonable doubt. While I’m as big an antifer as the next guy on Lemmy, nothing good comes from jumping to conclusions and misrepresenting the facts of the situation by sensationalizing the title or not putting all the information in the summary. Again, see 1.

    Let's read the article

    He told the court that later that day, about half an hour before they were due to leave to go to the airport, Lucy had been in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom. Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds later and then Kris Harrison screamed for his wife, Heather.

    Literally right before they leave he physically leads her to the bedroom and shoots her. Reeks of honor killing

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • I’d normally recommend reading the article but in this case I can guarantee that doing so will only decrease your quality of life.

    Holy fucking shit you're not kidding this was a clear cut honor killing and he fucking got away with it

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • He told the court that later that day, about half an hour before they were due to leave to go to the airport, Lucy had been in the kitchen when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground-floor bedroom. Littler said he heard a loud bang about 15 seconds later and then Kris Harrison screamed for his wife, Heather.

    Jesus fucking Christ he fucking executed her