tony

I'd say write it for yourself then worry about the cross platform later. You can always go back and rewrite.

That sounds like the kind of stuff we make at $dayjob (that's for the building trade, where they often have complex spreadsheets and going to an app that calculates everything down to the number of screws for them is a huge benefit).

You could probably still do it with a spreadsheet, just have parts list add/remove fan out into the cutting list and update automatically. I imagine it'd get quite ugly, but doable. If you want to do optimisation (buy 1 5 foot length and cut rather than 2 2 foot lengths, because it's cheaper, for example) it gets even uglier and at that point a bespoke app becomes more sensible.

Games I tend to look for people playing it on twitch. You can't get much better than actually seeing a game in action to know if it's for you.

That's convenient..

Stick to sites you know. If you're looking for a review and you get a hit on a site you don't know there's a better than 50% chance it's just an ad generated site (and frequently these days just the output from chatgpt).

Sucks for lesser known sites that are trying to get noticed, but unless google work out a way of removing the crap from feeds that's the way it is.

Same with youtube.. unless you trust the reviewer, assume it's paid unless there's good evidence otherwise.

Search for reddit/lemmy mentions specifically.. although those can be astroturfed too.. but the comments are generally helpful.

You're clearly a known customer for those products :p The algorithm is never wrong..

There's also some stuff about interoperability which is partly why threads were making noises about the fediverse.

The requirement for reporting and blocking tools presents a problem for X, which has just removed those. Although it wouldn't surprise me to see Musk just pull out of the non-US market altogether . He's trying to turn it into a payment platform and doing that in every country simultaneously would be impossible.

“We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,”

shows clear evidence that they do, in fact, share these things

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It seems like a new anti Tesla article hits lemmy every day. It's boring at this point.

Part of the children problem is distinguishing between 'small' and 'far away'. Humans seem reasonably good at it, but from what I've seen AIs aren't there yet.

One of the advantages of working from home is you can have the meeting on in the background and get on with some real work. When it comes your time to speak you've lost maybe 5 minutes instead of an hour.

They need to ditch Musk.. he's toxic to the brand now.