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I think daily (or nearly) is much easier than you think, mainly because it's so much harder to form a habit like that when you have to make a conscious daily choice between "easy" …

I was living less than 5 miles away from work for years, it made it very easy to commute by bike (although winter really sucked at times). This year, that got bumped up to about 12…

Mechanical sorting (like shoe sorters) is very effective for discrete objects. Really cool to see stuff flying down a belt at 20mph+, get scanned/imaged from all sides, then thrown…

Isn't that societal obligation codified as taxes? > I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100 Would you also consider this somethi…

Pennies on which dollar, exactly?

Something that may not be obvious is how victims (companies, at least) frequently want to bury the story just as much as the person who conned them. "We lost 8 digits of internet m…

Humans are the problem, not some mythical AI powering the bots. It costs a fraction of a cent to get a CAPTCHA solved. The only real counter being used is making it take longer to …

I'd say being "careless" means dropping that 60-80lb package to the floor instead of gingerly doing a squat with it, even 10 of those a day and your back will thank you unless you …

Working at a large brown shipping company, I've never seen anyone go out of their way to mistreat packages marked as fragile (or anyone talk about doing it). That said, it's policy…

All of those were a pain in the ass for one reason or another, Discord caught on like wildfire because it was a huge step up from what existed. Pretty much a combination of the bes…

> who doesn't follow my delivery preferences and takes my stuff to random UPS stores that I have to pick it up from Corporate policy, Access Point after 1 attempt is cheaper than 3…

150-200 packages is a really light route, 150-200 stops and 300-400 packages is more accurate. This time of year, 250+ stops for a residential route isn't particularly unusual. Big…

> more of a Yelp-like entity Yelp would also work, if the business concerned cared a ridiculous amount about resolving complaints there. That's the only value - that these particul…

I got 2/6 right, the 4 wrong were 320kbps. Using the cheap-but-decent shp9500s and no dac, but quite good hearing. I'd chalk it up to having been listening to almost exclusively st…

I live on less than 30/day (including rent) working a poorly paid manual labor part time job in a state with income tax. No, I don't own a car. Yes, I split housing costs with othe…

I'm using win10 on spinning rust, never seen updates take that long. These days I just let it do it's stealth updates at auto-picked times while I'm at work/sleeping, works out wel…

My version of this - OS (Linux) crashes due to overclock stability testing filled EFI NVRAM, and I had to manually delete the crash dumps after running into puzzling issues later o…

Actually, their overall market share wasn't particularly considered. They were fined for abusing their dominance in the market for app stores that are available on Android, and the…

Musk didn't say he wanted to take the company private, he said he wanted to AND that he had secured funding to do so at a specific price. This is a clear statement of facts, someth…

Reading Nietzsche translations recently, German does seem to have a considerable capacity for allusion and double meanings that are very hard to translate. Perhaps not in modern or…

Because (as someone entirely uninvolved) it looks like an absurd bit of overreach, something akin to mandating that locally-sourced toilet paper be used at all businesses in the ci…

Reddit still doesn't require an email, the signup form is just a well executed dark pattern - you can hit next and skip providing an email.

Same here, but it's because I find it very easy to recognize the Chinese "brands", signs that a product is just Prime arbitrage, fake reviews, etc. If you want a selection of these…

You're just considering "involuntary" lack of sleep, when there seems to be a serious epidemic of voluntary sleeplessness as indicated by frequent boasting about how little sleep o…