invertedspear

joined 2 years ago
[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I Would fucking love an affordable EV kit for Jeep wrangler TJs. While we’re dreaming, Honda Goldwings/Valkyries also, though that couldn’t start from a Tesla. I really want an electric motorcycle with a more classic road bike look instead of a sport bike.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

AZ has a Dem Governor and both senators are Dems. In 2020 Biden won the state. To call AZ red is a bit disingenuous, especially Tucson which is one of the three major metro areas. Tucson area, Phoenix area, and Flagstaff area are pretty politically opposed to rural AZ. It’s not a solid blue state, but it’s not a red state anymore either. It’s a swing state but with few electoral votes it typically gets ignored.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Welcome to graphQL. The REST abstraction few need, but everyone wants for some reason.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think it’s that. I think he truly thinks he’s had a good career and fought the good fight. He’s so out of touch, but he wants to help because he heard there’s a problem. Probably don’t even understand how his help might not be a good thing.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. It’s not going to summarize results or anything. I’ll give chatGPT that one. But this is also where chatGPT can easily pull wrong information into the summary. If the “here’s something I found on the web” isn’t accurate, the topic is likely to have the AI summary screw it up too. In which case you’re better off manually searching and filtering results yourself.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’ve never used Apple intelligence and Siri alone has done a fine job for unit conversions, info lookups, and most any other things. No need to fire up chat GPT for those basic uses

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I don’t think it ever did. It does qualify you for legal residency status, resident alien or “green card” as most people refer to it. I’m pretty sure that status can be voided if you did anything illegal along the way. For citizen status you still have to go through the process.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I believe this is one of those things where intent matters, and may vary by location. Willing to bet hitting F5 a few times is safe, even a few hundred times as long as it’s in the realm of just checking if it’s up yet. The moment you have something scripted, you’re at least in the realm of having to explain it to a judge who probably knows fuck all about tech.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We’re talking gold medalists at mental gymnastics though. My right wing relatives are now retiring their own narratives. They used to say “drill baby drill, EVs are for libs.” now they are saying that Tesla is the only brand for a patriot because the company and factories are in America.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have this weird habit of buying the less popular but arguably better thing. I went with windows phone, a nook instead of a kindle, an zune mp3 player, and a Mustang MachE instead of a Model Y. That last choice might have been the only one that ultimately paid off.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

A big plus one to ambiguous switches. Two things I didn’t see already mentioned:

First: if you have content that requires horizontal scrolling, like a big table or report, that horizontal scroll bar needs to be on the screen, not at the bottom of the report. I shouldn’t have to scroll hundreds of rows vertically in order to be able to scroll horizontally. While we’re at it, column headers need to stay on screen when you scroll vertically past them.

Second: if there are two choices, identifying which is active needs to be more than just changing the color. Outline that shit or add a halo, throb, or something. Sometimes a user depends on tabbing and not using a pointing device or touch screen, especially when using assistive technology. This is especially heinous when the content is consumed on a tv using a remote control, such as a streaming service or DVD menu.

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