Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
Before I had to wait on slow 1099s: as soon as the IRS and the software I used had the forms all set up.
Now: whenever the last slow-assed company sends me a 1099 which is sometime in March null
I want to do things ASAP and have them done, so that’s hard. As an overseas citizen, I do get an automatic 6-month extension, but I’ve never had to come anywhere close to the normal deadline, even.
No bedroom TV. As an ADHD person, that’s just a ‘never-going-to-sleep’ trap. I do have a list of youtube channels I put on my phone at lowest volume and screen off for background noise. It can’t be too interesting or I won’t sleep; it just needs to keep my mind from wandering in bad directions.
Left front: phone
Right front: wallet and hand towel
Back belt loop: keys on caribeener
Japan has required fingerprints and photo for at least a decade now. Korea required the same when I was recently there.
For that, I would need to believe in some concept of a soul; I do not. What makes us is the electrical systems interacting with our nurons. When that stops working, that person no longer exists.
If I could zip around the past learning about language, culture, ancient hominins and such until I got tired of it, I would do that. Living again? No thanks.
I would opt out. Once is enough.
The Coneheads movie has this gag. Father tries to get a job and has to make up an SSN on the spot.
“Well, shit.” If my wife were next to me, tell her I love her. Depending upon how far it is, run for cover. Try to fire off a couple of texts to family, but that’s unlikely to work. All the while, hope it’s not nuclear in origin (other things make mushroom clouds).
Do you want snakes with legs? Because this is how you get snakes with legs.
A few things:
Assuming you must keep and maintain that land then native plants to support pollinators and/or food for you (i.e. a garden).
In a more urban planning sense, central parks and gardens that give people plenty of space to run about, enjoy nature, and grow things as opposed to private yards is generally the way to go, IMO. Japan, for example, does this (though not enough in all places in Tokyo for example).
I’m on my 4th instance. Dropped my first be cause of old Lemmy’s autorefreshand other issues. 2 and 3 died as maintainers went away. I had to start over from zero again each time
I hate infinite scroll. That said, it’s just fancy pagination and if the host’ API supports pagination, whatever frontend should be able to implement that
My company uses copilot for code reviews. They encourage at least trying a number of other tools but do not require it. Some of our product does use LLMs for various things, though I don’t personally work on those.
I do worry about the environmental impacts and ethical concerns around training data (especially pirated data used with neither consent nor compensation) so I don’t use anything personally (aside from where some company has shoved it in somewhere).
I think that local models trained ethically can have a number of uses such as classification, data cleanup, and perhaps even checking code for security issues and exploits (I’m not sure if local models can do that yet or well).
Does everything else taste normal to you? Just asking on the outside chance covid or something has impacted your sense of smell and taste (happened recently to a parent).
No one in rural Japan (or at least my corner of it) is doing meshtastic. Japan is more strict on power as well. I am a licensed HAM and even that is pretty thin on the ground up here these days. I had family visit and one brought a node. Nothing at all anywhere we travelled even in one of northern Japan’s biggest cities
Nice. My wife and I are one different carriers purely for disaster purposes. I used to have a wifi router on a third as my travel/work-backup. This is a good step for major disasters.
The downside is that, in the event of large-scale power outages, it will only be so helpful. When I lived in the US, I rode out hurricane Ike in Houston and we had no cell service as the battery backups on the cell towers slowly expired. Some in 24 hours, the longest I think in 72.
Usually 8 +/- a bit. I have become a lighter sleeper in my 40s and do wake up at least once most nights (excluding earthquakes because that’s not something I can help). My neighbor starts work really early and has to drive a heavy vehicle so that starts around sun-up (5:30 now but will be 4:30am in mid summer) so I try to adapt my schedule. It’s not that bad since my second job is farming and it’s much better in the early morning before the oppressive heat and humidity here.