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@ Preflight_Tomato @lemm.ee

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  • US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them

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  • I bet it’s this exactly. Cars get more efficient metrics on highway vs city start and stop. If the vehicle ONLY starts and stops it must be terrible, even if these have regen brakes.

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    Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed Proton Mail

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  • Fair. I just learned about and like PeerTube so far (activitypub federated video hosting), but it's has even more infantile adoption than Lemmy does. I don't know that anyone I follow on youtube posts there, and if they do I don't know how to find them.

  • Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

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  • I think the panic around analog clocks comes from the scenario where you have to explain what clockwise and counterclockwise is. I have personally seen someone eventually removed from a workgroup because they couldn't understand it.

    Not that analog clocks matter, but that was an easy way to teach direction in cylindrical coordinates. What can we use now for that?

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  • Blue spray paint…

  • What realistic tech do you think we'll have 10 years from now in 2034?

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  • Ooo like higher powered rfid tags! The info could even then be relayed to the driver via the on screen display since theyre now all required.

  • What realistic tech do you think we'll have 10 years from now in 2034?

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  • Many kinds yes, idk enough to say all. Docs take a sample of the cancer DNA, turn that into an mRNA vaccine, inject it into you, and your immune system precisely destroys the cancer.

    It seems interesting for many cancers, and lifesaving for already metastasized cancers.

    Only downside will be lifelong wage garnishment to The Company.

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  • +1 for syncthing.

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  • Always get the version of the gadget with replaceable batteries unless you want a brick in 3-10 years. Additionally, prefer 18650, AA, AAA batteries, and keep some rechargeable ones around.

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  • It's not the biggest, but it still is a concern, and is exceedingly easily mitigated.

  • Use a password manager

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  • It at least used to be adaptive because at one point it went to 500$ for me, then changed back down a couple months later.

  • Use a password manager

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  • For privacy.com:

    • great for anyone in the USA
    • don’t worry about difficult subscription cancellations again, just turn that one’s dedicated card off
    • I have personally blown past the daily spend limit of 250$ without issue, idk if that limit is real. The 1000$/mo may be though I've never hit that.
    • I’ve used privacy.com for everything from Amazon to car insurance to gym memberships.

    On credit freezes:

    • a freeze means that your consumer report will not be shared, which means applications for credit in your name will be denied
    • all USA consumer reporting agencies (data brokers) are legally required to freeze sharing of your reports for free upon your request
    • you can temporarily unfreeze when you get a new credit card, apply for rental property, etc.
    • don’t let them upsell it or try to direct you to another page with similar language, it is free
    • credit monitoring products need to request your report to see if any new accounts have opened. Don’t monitor it, prevent it by freezing the reports
    • freezes are required for any data broker, not just credit. This includes LexisNexis (job history), and presumably the ones that do rental and vehicle ownership history though i don’t know their names.

  • Use a password manager

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  • My favorite was the password set screen allowing up to 64 characters, but login fails if the password is over 32 chars.

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

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  • The choice paralysis is real. I chose lemm.ee because it was easy to type into the address bar, and I've stuck around because the admin seems pretty level-headed.

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

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  • Idk if you can transfer likes comments and posts, but you can go to your old account from a new one and star everything with the new account pretty easily. So that at least can transfer.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • Beside the point, but this data visualization is misleadingly bad.

    Eyes first draw to the heading, which primes us to think temperature. Then we see the graph, where the unlabeled Y axis is assumed to be average night temperature. Finally, we read the subheading and it says that the Y axis is not temperature, but counts of days over a certain temperature.

    I think that this metric is more useful than “avg. overnight temp.”, but please label axes.

    Also, it would help to rephrase the subheading to use “80” since that’s obviously the cutoff. I spent a moment wondering what was special about 79F.

    And now I see that this was made by the NYT. I guess they’re pumping out charts (maybe automatically) and thinking more about making them pretty than legible.

  • How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?

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  • Yes! It’s not so much the work itself, but the mental effort tied to it. After a couple weeks of repetition something becomes habit, that mental effort is diminished.

  • How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?

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  • For most people, big breaks in habits fall apart fast, while more gradual changes stick.

    For example, many make resolutions to get fit, and start a bunch of related things. But since none of it is habitual, it requires mental effort to do consistently. Soon, something else important requires that mental attention, and the plan falls apart.

    The successful ones aren't special, but they created one, little, achievable metric to hit:

    1. “Subscribe to 2 science-based fitness influencers and watch their content regularly”.

    Because it was easy, it became habit. Then, they chose another simple thing to build on:

    1. “Change evening commute to pass by gym”
    2. “On Tuesdays, go into gym”
    3. “Learn proper form for one excercise”
    4. “Bring a protein shake”
    5. etc.

    Each of these is so small they don’t really feel significant at all. And they're not. The important thing to understand is we’re all lazy. The real challenge isn’t getting yourself onto a diet or into the gym, it’s designing your habits so that the diet isn’t “a diet”, it’s just what you eat. It’s designing your life so that going to the gym requires less mental effort than not going.

    I could write a lot more about this but it's already getting long. Atomic Habits is a good book on how to design your habits and habit chains, if you have the time.

  • How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day?

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  • There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, one thing to note is that too much change too fast is a recipe for failure. Whatever you do, make sure it’s manageable. For each change, ask yourself whether it can become a permanent habit for you. This is the only way to sustain it enough to achieve your goals. It could help to write down good ideas, and try them one week or month at a time.

  • I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces

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  • What was the book?