When your city implements confusing cycling infrastructure
there is no bike lane on that side of the road though
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honestly, the whole concept of self-driving cars is fundamentally stupid in the way they're trying to build them here. if there are specific cities where they can go on specific roads, the simple answer would be to install a positional tracking system on those roads (just like lane markings, but for computers), along with some pedestrian safety features and the right interfaces to respond to emergency vehicles and such. that could have been built by a couple of undergrads from stanford like five years ago. but no, we have to use far more overengineered solutions, for... why exactly? to be able to sell the tech later to individuals who can't just upgrade their whole city?
fun fact: you can embed links on lemmy with the standard markdown format: 
it will show up like this:
this seems to be the spot (with the same car, lol)
edit: i think i found the problem too. look at it from this angle, the bike lane just disappears. like wtf?
WHO DESIGNED THIS?
that's a valid question though. wtf microsoft, why did you have to take away all that cool customization?
yeah, makes sense. when i'm not doing a test-driven workflow, i usually only allow copilot to generate simple things. with unit tests it's a lot easier because the tests are easy to read and verify, and they expose the errors in other parts of the code
something went extremely right
they're near impossible to detect
shameless self-plug but i host an instance for the life is strange fandom (pricefield.org)
i've also seen a game preservation instance at preserve.games
which one goes by them/they pronouns? is it like they/them but swapped for fun?
also, trick question, both are bi, and the right one (our right) needs to charge they phone, which is why them are not taking the pic
yeah, in my experience it tends to be websites that care about ad blockers. youtube is the latest mainstream example but i've ran into some adblock detectors on random backwater sites (although nowadays the firefox + ublock origin combo seems to cut through them with ease). i don't think advertisers really give a crap, for the exact reason you mentioned, but websites do insist on wasting the advertisers' money on people who block ads, because that means they get paid. the real theft is happening between those two parties.
i'm not trying to absolve the advertisers of blame either though. i think the most mad i've ever gotten at them was when i heard how they oppose pay-to-not-get-ads schemes like youtube premium, because it means the most "valuable" users won't see their ads. their endgame is cable, where you pay out your ass for a service and still get ads shoved into your face (where they take up 25% of the time). on top of that, advertisers are a massive force behind the corporate morality sanitization of the internet in the name of "advertiser-friendliness", sometimes in blatantly manipulative ways. for example, don't you dare have a sex-positive attitude because 1) they want to advertise lots of PG-13 shit and don't want it showing up next to higher rated content, and 2) when they advertise more mature stuff they don't want the tits in your content to detract from the tits in their ads.
but yeah, to get back on topic, the anti-adblock technologies are pushed by people who get paid for ads, not by people who pay for ads.
that's also doable on the modern web without an app. service workers go brrr
in fact, the same companies do this all the time on their desktop sites, because no one's gonna install kfc.exe to order some chicken
i find their asking price fair tbh. yeah, it's not competitive spec-wise, but it's what they have to do to keep up their model. they're not big enough to make their own components like screens or have someone make a screen just for them, so they need to find components that will be available for seven years. fair trade materials are also more expensive because all that slave labor and shit does give the not so fair alternatives an edge in the market. the r&d cost for a small phone manufacturer is also spread across fewer units, components also cost more when you're ordering them in smaller amounts, supporting the phone for seven years has its associated costs (on top of not having your customers buy phones 2-3x more frequently), and the sustainable business model does also have overhead compared to riding the razor on the stock market or being VC-funded.
the fairphone is not cheap, but if you care about what they do, care about actually owning your phone (both in terms of rooting and os access, and in terms of hardware access and repairability), and would like to be able to use it for a long time, this is just what it takes. if apple or samsung or google made a fairphone, it would cost less due to their scale, but it would still cost more than the phone you have with the 888. but if you can feel a single-gen upgrade there, you'd likely want to upgrade at a higher frequency anyway.
from what i've seen, some people do use phones the way you do, but a lot of people only swap phones when needed. for them, a fairphone that they can keep for 5-7 years and keep alive even if something happens to it could still be cheaper than the 2-3 other phones they'd need over the same period of time.
which language do you work with? also, what kind of code do you write?
i do web apps in typescript, fullstack, and so many things are just layers upon layers on the same thing. you make a model, then you make a migration for that model, then a controller for a dead simple crud with just enough custom validation and shit that it's hard to autogenerate, then swagger docs, then factories and unit tests. most of the time, i just write the model, paste it to the top of the file in a comment, then start writing the thing and the ai immediately wants to take it and do it by itself, so i just let it. there are usually a few mistakes, exactly in those hard to autogenerate places, so i fix a few and then the ai can help fix the rest with little intervention. (i do need to delete the mistake and palce the cursor, but it tends to know how to fix it). it's been a huge time-saver for me.
but i noticed that it's also damn good at just generic typescript/javascript. i have it enabled pretty much all the time now and i have yet to find a task where it doesn't speed me up, even with the weird shit i do for fun.
however, i heard similar complaints quite a few times working with other languages. the amount of open source code that's out there for your specific language seems to have a large effect on copilot's effectiveness
which is why ios on safari is the worst mainstream browser on the market since internet explorer died
you can do that with a browser too. with service workers, it can also run without an internet connection and/or indefinitely cache the ui part so that it's also just a json api. most websites already work in a very similar way, and even if it's not intentionally set up this way, your browser will do its best to make it like this to keep your user experience snappy.
your browser just also protects you from certain level of system access that shouldn't be granted to any random website you visit, and that's what these apps want.
^ this. your browser is a user agent, it's working for you, to protect you from any schmuck who you have the misfortune of visiting. it has strict built-in privacy and security guarantees, which, while in no way interfere with the app's primary functionality, do interfere in their marketing bullshit and other kinds of spying.
with apps, you have none of that protective layer, instead there is a certain degree of implied trust which these parties love to abuse.
ceremonies? what kind of cult do you work at?
but yeah, i have like two standups a week, we're not that organized
me. i slack off 6-7 hours a day and use copilot to do the tasks in the remaining 1-2 hours. (at least i think that's the ai and not my untreated adhd...)
in a few years, some genius will do a four day workweek experiment, people like me will forget to only work 4-8 hours instead of 5-10 per week because the amount of tasks is the same, they will conclude that there's no reduction in productivity, a benefit of four day workweek will work as an incentive instead of a raise to keep people around a bit longer, and it will start becoming a standard. and voila, we got the working hours reduction officially.
i've already heard buzz that negotiating a four-day work week doesn't tend to involve a 20% salary cut (probably because people are already slacking off a lot). i'll have to research that more though, because at some point i'd do it even if it did result in a 20% cut, and time is so much more valuable tbh.
you forgot the exclamation mark from the front of your image embed. the syntax is kinda confusing,
[this is a link](image_url),also, i'm no expert in bike lanes, but it seems to me that the original idea here was that the bikes would go onto the wide sidewalk over here, but that doesn't seem to be very well-communicated. where i live (budapest) we have some sidewalk-bike lane combos, but they're marked, and when they're not, pedestrians have a priority and sidewalks can be frustrating for cyclists.