sjw987

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by sjw987 8mo ago
For those who don't want to use Twitter, I would also suggest replacing it with nothing.
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Good point. My grandad used to call it the history as well!
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Depends on the publication. I read The Economist, which doesn't cover sports at all. It's mostly 1-2 page long articles for each story, blocked into categories (UK, Europe, US, The Americas, Asia, China, Business, Finance, Tech, C
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I think it's important to keep reading the news occasionally. Personally, I, as a programmer, read the news in the same way as my grandad who was a farmer. I read a printed weekly publication (in my case The Economist) on Sunday mornin
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by sjw987 8mo ago
And if they simply want something tailored for themselves? Something designed without content suggestions, ads, influence and constant un-necessary redesigns, for privacy and to retain their own data. Good for you economically. Some people
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by sjw987 8mo ago
This seems like an incredibly defensive take for vibe coding personal apps. Replacing some subscription app like Any.do, Google Calendar, fitness/diet tracking or basically any other CRUD-centric app, needn't be insecure, and a se
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by sjw987 8mo ago
That's understandable. I have quite minimal music taste so my setup worked for me. I only listen to music at home when I'm not doing anything else and it's mostly classical so there doesn't tend to be too much to add at
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Making your own software is a good way to escape enshittification and influence. I switched from Spotify to buying MP3s and using my own audio client, because I'm fed up of a company telling me which music I should listen to every sing
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I have never understood social media. For me, talking face-to-face is the only real means of socialising. I can barely even see the appeal of having a proper conversation on a chat application (they're much more more ideal for arrangin
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by sjw987 8mo ago
People want different interfaces for the home screen of their device, obviously. I want a black background, with a simple A-Z list of the apps I have on my phone, with some hidden. No icons, no transparency effects and animations.
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I've never done Android app development. How simple or advanced are we talking to build something like this? This sounds like my exact setup with Octopi. Just I have 4 scrollable home screens with the 4 most used apps as large white ic
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Sad news. I've been using Nova for years now, across multiple devices. Thankfully my build is super minimalistic and another launcher was able to replicate it pretty quickly. Black wallpaper, white icon pack, list app drawer with a few
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Wrist based sleep tracking is worse than finger. Oura for measuring sleep. Garmin for tracking physical exercise. Oura always reflected the timings and my feeling much closer than Garmin (Enduro), which basically always told me I had bad sl
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Not sure why Garmin or any of the exercise tracking watches are being used for sleep tracking. They're infamously bad at it from my experience. The rings (notably Oura) are much better. I used to wear both and they gave completely diff
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by sjw987 8mo ago
> you are going to get well under a 50% success rate here. Accept that most people flake This is true, but as long as the success rate is >= 1 other person, it's okay. I started a running club for my apartment block (about 200 fl
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I'm already there. I never use social media and I limit news consumption to once per week for catching up. I'm seeing these messages in the real world. Adverts on the side of buses are telling me to enlist in greater frequency, an
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1? I don't know which country / group of countries it'll be against, but I get the impression that a lot of our fates are bei
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by sjw987 8mo ago
That's quite hardcore. Well done. I've noticed the same flatness you're describing with a similar product. The other week I had two items spaced across different meals. I'm still permitting bread as long as it's rea
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by sjw987 8mo ago
That's a nice way to give the postie a pleasant walk on a lovely summer day.
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Interesting. What hardware do you use to measure this? I have a Netatmo home device that measures PPM and have been observing the trend lines throughout the day. At some points my flat gets up to about 1400, which the device says is bad, an
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I've been exploring kefir. I'm looking at finding some live grains to boost the store bought variety here (10-20 varieties) up to 50-60 varieties or so, like the kefir in Eastern Europe / Russia. The store bought stuff in my
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by sjw987 8mo ago
"I have built more in the past 10 months than I ever have." Correction. The genAI has built it. I haven't got any skin on either side here, but doesn't the fact the genAI can build it imply that what you are doing is hea
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by sjw987 8mo ago
I don't think this is based around GLP drugs. I've noticed the gym, swimming pools, running and cycling routes I usually frequent have been lower every year for the past 5 years or so (the spike in January is smaller every year).
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by sjw987 8mo ago
“users who stop taking it gain the weight back” is not a baseless claim. Most of the people on GLP will come off the drugs and regain the weight back to their original weight, if not heavier, just like people who temporarily restrict eating
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by sjw987 8mo ago
This is the most sensible attitude I've seen people express that has led to meaningful weight loss, maintenance and as far as we can see across large timespans, lifestyle change. It's incredibly hard to gain weight by eating whole
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by sjw987 8mo ago
It's entirely discipline and motivation. Just because only a select few people carry it through and maintain it doesn't change that. Just very few people in this world are truly disciplined and self-motivated. You can see it all a
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by sjw987 8mo ago
You're in the faux enlightenment that everybody gets during weight loss. Everybody I've ever known losing weight starts discovering the wonders of healthy eating and nutrition as they lose weight, vowing never again to go back to
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by sjw987 8mo ago
Good luck with fixing that future mess. This is such an incredibly short sighted approach to running a company and software dev that I think your cofounder is likely going to torpedo your company.
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by sjw987 8mo ago
It's amazing that this isn't common sense to most people. I foresee the overwhelming majority of people on these drugs regaining everything (and maybe even going beyond their original weight), because, just like traditional dietin
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by sjw987 8mo ago
In the UK, it's incredibly common for dog owners to do this. When confronted about leaving the bagged dog shit somewhere they always say they're going to pick it up on the way back, yet the next day it's still there. Modern B

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