• 0 Posts
  • 168 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: September 14th, 2023

help-circle
  • I mean, many (several?) sites tried optional subscriptions where you pay to get rid of ads, but that doesn’t seem to have worked. Judging by the fact that most sites that have subscriptions instead of ads use pay walls.

    People have come to expect free access, so if you can easily use an ad blocker, why would you choose to pay to remove the ads that a blocker removes for free.



  • IndefiniteBentoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldparcel safe place
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    I’m sure it does nothing, but every time DPD/other fucks up a delivery by failing to even ring the bell and says “we missed you”, I call up their customer service and waste their time complaining about the small amount of time allowed per package delivery.

    I ask for drivers to be allowed more time. It’s not entirely their fault (but some seemingly have no situational awareness).




  • IndefiniteBentoMemes@lemmy.mlWinning the lottery
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    5 months ago

    In this context (IIRC) smart means “if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file”.

    Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.




  • Your take on climate change makes me more worried. Sure, I will probably be fine, but how many innocent people around the world will die until we’ve done enough to see the climate improving?

    How horrible is the world going to be to inhabit if the Gulf Stream collapses? Or other major climate disruptions occur?

    I don’t doubt the human race will survive, but why do we have to experience the pain before committing to fixing the problem?


  • Is it 100% optional? Are there no dietary conditions that require eating meat? Even if it is optional, I only said that expecting everyone to change is unrealistic, not that it’s impossible.

    How much do you expect people to sacrifice? If you give up eating meat can you fly to go on vacation? Or are people expected to give up everything in the name of the climate while billionaires jet around and corporations expell endless emissions?

    Also, your comparison to mercenaries is bad. If military operations are required for survival (like eating) then why would the nation feel guilty? If the mercenaries say “yes we will only defend that military base and we will not kill everyone in the nearby school” and then they go and kill everyone in the school, why wouldn’t they be blamed for not following their orders?








  • I just came here because I was trying to copy the link from a comment to modify the link in my reply (to make it an old Reddit link), but it was a very frustrating experience.

    Even opening the web view of the comment does so in the internal browser, which just shows the URL and title (hidden under your finger) when you long press on that.

    If I am holding a link it should give options; you already handle tapping on a link in a comment differently from tapping on the text of the comment, so why is the same not true for holding on links?

    Thanks for all your work!




  • I think this is one of those things that seems like it should be easy to automate, but actually has lots of hidden complexity.

    They probably don’t use this to scan commonly available books, because for those you can just cut the spine off the book and scan the pages in a regular scanner.

    This is likely used for books that need to be preserved and can’t be damaged during the scanning process.

    How do you make a machine that will always turn exactly one page and never tear a page, while adapting for different page sizes and thicknesses, and avoiding the static charge that can make pages stick together? All for less money than it costs to pay people to operate this machine.