samlinnfer (u/samlinnfer)

samlinnfer commented on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants laurenleek.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/justincormack

locofocos · 3 days ago

I have horrible news for you. Google had it, then they killed it

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/1737ft9/google_...

samlinnfer · 3 days ago

From the comments it seemed that it didn't work well for everyone?

samlinnfer commented on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks blockclubchicago.org/2025... · Posted by u/mikhael

itsdesmond · 6 days ago

I live in a Chicago neighborhood where these are in use. They have very bright lights, actually blinding you as you approach one at night. They move much faster than is appropriate on a sidewalk. They position themselves in the middle of the sidewalk as opposed to the right hand side, impacting traffic in both directions. They round corners at intersections at below-eye-level, I’ve walked into more than one when they appeared in front of me at a corner. They park in the walkway while waiting for customers to retrieve their food. The hey are implemented in a way that demands everyone else gets out of their way. They have not attempted to integrate into the community, they have inserted themselves and we are to figure it out.

I am receptive to the argument that deliveries made in cars are wasteful. I ride a bike exclusively, I am not a fan of delivery drivers jumping out of double parked cars all over town, let alone the environmental impact. But much like rental e-scooters being abandoned on sidewalks, these claim to solve some problem by creating new problems and making the common environment worse principally to create profit for the owners.

And before anyone starts yapping bout NIMBYs: the sidewalk is in the front yard, stupid.

Edit: y’all, no bullshit I wrote this message and then left the house and ran into a Coco branded RC delivery bot at Grand and Ogden, stuck in the snow in the only walkable portion of the sidewalk, unable to get itself out and forcing me to walk around it in the snow. So there’s a little live reporting on the situation in the streets.

I offered no aid.

samlinnfer · 5 days ago

This honestly would be solved quite quickly when the cost of vandalism starts eating into their margins. Once they piss enough people off it becomes self-correcting.

samlinnfer commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

samlinnfer · 6 days ago

The cost of writing software had dropped by 90% since outsourcing was invented and all the software jobs have moved to India was I was told 15 years ago.

samlinnfer commented on Wayland Nvidia kextcache.com/wayland-nvi... · Posted by u/breve

jwcooper · 6 days ago

Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch.

For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go.

There is generally no tweaking or command line changes necessary for Nvidia to work on Wayland, including multi-monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates.

samlinnfer · 6 days ago

In Arch, the current NVIDIA driver automatically sets KMS and the kernel command line and hyperland changes are no longer needed. Basically it just works now.

samlinnfer commented on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication lemonde.fr/en/environment... · Posted by u/isolli

samlinnfer · 9 days ago

So what's the current speculation on how it causes cancer?

Glyphosate acts on the Shikimate pathway that doesn't exist in humans.

Is it killing gut bacteria?

samlinnfer commented on There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/voxadam

samlinnfer · 18 days ago

>have unhealthy habits that causes weight gain

>stop taking weight loss drug

>regain weight

>there is no safe off-ramp for GLP-1

I guess taking weight loss drugs don't really teach healthy eating habits.

samlinnfer commented on How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/... · Posted by u/uneven9434

walletdrainer · a month ago

Cloudflare is a big player and can get the geoip providers to do basically whatever they want.

samlinnfer · a month ago

So they did the same trick and got a geoip block just like the OP did?

samlinnfer commented on How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/... · Posted by u/uneven9434

samlinnfer · a month ago

The real question is where does Cloudflare get North Korean IPv4 blocks to feed into Warp, or Antarctic blocks for that matter.

samlinnfer commented on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams sherwood.news/tech/meta-p... · Posted by u/donohoe

samlinnfer · a month ago

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere travelling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.