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In the #FirstWorldProblems department, when I use the Google Maps app on my phone, and choose the option for "set a departure or arrival time", shouldn't the default option be arrival time? I always forget that it defaults to *departure* time, and then I have to do it twice.

I understand that *sometimes* people want to know how long it'll take when they leave at time X, but isn't it WAY more common to have a desired *arrival* time?

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Mutuals, Mastodonians, Fedizens, lend me your boosts; I come to bury Zuck, not praise him.

@EricAlper Del Amitri. (At least in the States.) Only really known for 2-3 charting songs, but their greatest hits album proves they are crazy good pop songwriters, and their Fatal Mistakes album is a masterpiece.

Wow, what a weekend! Carleton CHOP made it to the semis at DIII Nationals, losing to the eventual champion. They also took home the team's first ever Spirit Award, which means they didn't sacrifice their integrity in order to be competitive. I'm super proud of my kid and his teammates. #UltimateFrisbee

A group of Ultimate Frisbee players stands in a circle, arms linked, on a grass playing field. A mountain stands in the background, beneath a partly cloudy sky.

The #RTO nonsense continues at work. Because I'm taking a week off when it goes into effect, I won't have to drive in until like June 8 or something. But I'm still pissed at the *waste* of it all.

Taking a long weekend to watch my oldest compete at DIII Nationals in Washington. Watching high level #Ultimate brings me great joy, and boy do I need the break.

Take care of yourselves, Fedi Friends!
https://play.usaultimate.org/events/2025-USA-Ultimate-D3-College-Championships/

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Waiting at the barber shop and listening to some poor schmuck drone on and on about maintaining *nuclear reactors*. Just super casual, like, "NBD, I did it in the Navy".

On the one hand, I'm like, omg wish this guy took it more seriously....on the other he sounds smart and calm so thank freaking gawd I guess?

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SoundCloud has updated their Terms of Use and state that you agree anything you upload can be used to train AI models.

Please spread the word on this.

Edit: From replies, it looks like this may not be active in Canada, but is in the US, Mexico, UK and several EU countries.

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https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

By uploading your Content to the Platform, you also grant a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to other users of the Platform, and to operators and users of any other websites, apps and/or platforms to which your Content has been shared or embedded using the Services ('Linked Services"), to use, copy, listen to offiine, repost, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, prepare derivative works of, compile, make available and otherwise communicate to the public, your Content utilizing the features of the Platform from time to time, and within the parameters set by you using the Services. In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services. For the avoidance of doubt, neither SoundCloud nor any third party is allowed to (i) use, copy or

@defuneste already unionized... and they poked a fookin TIGER

In other news, I crossed 1500 hours in sick time. The governor has NO IDEA how frequently I'm willing to use that to avoid his forced #RTO bulls***.

Signs you might be #disaffected at work: you start a new timesheet for the pay period, and the first thing you do is enter in your anticipated PTO. Then you triple check your PTO balance, and start daydreaming about taking a month off. Maybe more.

@jerasikehorn.bsky.social if they're decent...they don't require anything to enjoy.

If they're not...steak sauce.

@earthtoneone I bet that WOULD help...the question will be if I can get motivated enough to do that. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
Thanks for the suggestion though!

@defuneste lol, that makes me think I'm going to need to write some code en Español. 😉

I like my workhorse jQuery.

One of the biggest mental blocks I have in #webDevelopment is asynchronous JS, which of course I have to work with all the time. I understand the *concept* of asynchronous just fine, it's making the code work in an understandable way that I struggle with. Especially the idea of a "Promise". Each time I have to Google it and then bash my code until it works.

In my recent effort, jQuery "when" has helped, as well as a basic chaining. But it's still kind of a mystery how I got it working.

More and more I'm just thinking I saw a lot of hand-drawn state and county maps during a recent exercise. Like this one.

Map of US states with various shades of purple. The state outlines have visible gaps, likely from hand-drawing.

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1. Replace workers with AI.
2. Now instead of wages you pay a company for AI services.
3. Despite the likely decline in quality of the work, suppose you become dependent as a company on this service. Suppose you make it work.
4. AI is heavily subsidized by venture capital, its priced lower than the cost to provide the service to attract early adopters (and to lock companies like you in.)
5. Inevitably the AI bubble bursts, AI services jack up their prices.

How is paying rent better than wages?

@bscloutier @andrewducker exactly! Give us poor pedestrians some tip that an algo is in charge!

Doesn't matter how much mustard you put on that sandwich with the end piece of bread. It's still gonna be dry AF. #DeepThoughts #SaturdayLunch

@jcarlson don't think it's either of those...but those are pretty sweet.

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