kakes @ kakes @sh.itjust.works

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Oh hey, I think I'm the guy from that post! Lol

Glad you're enjoying it! I've been having a lot of fun with it too - even if my wife sometimes thinks I'm crazy when I "just quickly run over here" to check the hours for this place, haha.

My "Global Rank" is a bit over 5000, but I'm not sure if that's the same number as you're looking at, given the range. 400th in Canada, though!

Honestly I wish there were less communities. I've said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we're lucky) active members.

This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.

I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a "video games" community instead of 500 specific game communities.

As a side note as well, I don't think we shouldn't be "allowed" to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that's their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.

If it helps, and if you haven't already, I recommend looking into "executive disfunction".

Might not fit your personal experience, but it can be nice to know when there's a name for a problem you're facing.

I've wasted so much time just sitting, doing nothing, feeling overwhelmed. Having a name for that feeling was the first step for me to (at least somewhat) overcome it.

Can't wait for the sequel where Zelda puts on Majora's Mask.

The only way to play, imo.

Man imagine this game with a proper modern physics engine.

I mean, I guess it inspired a lot of what we see in modern physics games, so I don't really need to imagine, but still, I would play it.

Seems like it's leaning hard on the "puzzle" aspect of LoZ. Honestly, I'm personally stoked.

1: Does IBM even have an LLM that would be considered "good" these days? Maybe they do, but I haven't heard about it.

2: If this was in 2019, no wonder it flopped. Only very recently have we gotten to a point where this should've even been considered (and then, in my opinion given the current state of LLMs, dismissed).

3: More than 100 stores were testing this?? Did they not think to start with like, one store and see if that worked at all?

4: While a short-lived victory, this is still a win for people that rely on these jobs. Good for them.

I've done this a few times through my life, especially lately as I've finally been getting my own life stabilized. Here's some more "notable" examples.

A family member, where I've been trying to mentor them and help them in every way I possibly can - sometimes at great personal cost - but as the saying goes, I've led them to water but I can't make them drink. Still won't give up, though.

Another family member I've done the same for has actually been trying to take me up on it. Still early stages, but they've started on applying for college in a field they're interested in. I'm helping them study since it happens to be adjacent to my own field, and I'll help cover the bulk of the cost if they don't qualify for gov't funding. I'm really hoping things work out for them.

The only time I've really actually seen obvious results is in my students where I volunteer teaching English. One student in particular really struggled to read even a single word, but in less than a year, they can now read most sentences on their own - which is honestly just insane to me.
Obviously it's like 99.999% their effort rather than mine, but I like to think I'm helping lol.

...writing this all out makes me feel like I'm bragging or something. Really I've just been in a rough spot for most of my life, and now that I'm getting my life together I'm just trying to give back a bit where I can. I just want everyone to be happy, lol.

I mean, there isn't really one singular instance for Canada lol.

(?<!MagnyusG)

Oh absolutely, I just meant to say that technically I am on a "local instance".

Yeah, that's the stuff that makes this difficult. I can talk all day about what "makes sense", but you throw one corporate executive into the mix and everything falls apart.

sh.itjust.works is Canadian last I checked, though it isn't readily apparent.

Not sure if I'm able to change my username (and too lazy to check right now), but that's honestly not a bad plan.

On the other hand, with more money going to the US alternatives, there's more potential for a US company to step into that niche once it's open.

Not that it'll necessarily happen obviously, but it does make it a bit easier at least.

Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer of "I'm not American." I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

Some folks on Lemmy recently recommended StreetComplete, and I've been really enjoying it so far.

It's a "Pokémon Go" style thing, but you go around answering simple questions about your surroundings which are then used to update/improve the data on OpenStreetMap.

One concern I considered after using the app was that because your contributions are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, in theory I imagine someone could use that data to track where you are / where you've been / where you tend to be. So just be aware of that.

I'm at the age now where I'm thinking about getting into it.

I would hope it moves just like any other knight - going in one direction for a while before suddenly veering off to the side and coming to an abrupt stop.

The world looks like a horrible place, barely hanging on by a thread, until you step outside and see that society and the people in it are generally pretty chill.

Of course, that said, I don't live in the states. Everything could be literally on fire there for all I know.