The Awful Truth about Online Shopping
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#YoutubeVids #capitalism #waste #environment #Amazon #shipping #clothes #FreeReturns #FreeShipping
The Awful Truth about Online Shopping
So-called "free returns” aren’t free at all. In this video, I share the surprising truth about the lies corporations tell you to make you buy more, and what ...YouTube
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@AntennaPod surprised me with this cool feature today!
I think Spotify had a similar feature for the songs you listen to, but I haven't been on Spotify for a long time so I don't know what it's called now. But it's cool to see this on a FOSS podcast app like #AntennaPod, and the amazing thing is that they generate it locally on your device so it's privacy friendly 🙂
#FOSS #Podcast #AntennaPodEcho
A Round Disk Through a Smaller Square Hole (Bending Spacetime)
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TIL after watching this video that spacetime curvature doesn't actually mean it's bending into the 4th dimension, all this time I thought otherwise 😅
#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Physics #Spacetime #Gravity
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@bignose I can't summon up much enthusiasm for AoC this year. I don't need to:
* Learn a new language
* Learn to program
* Write yet more string parsing code
* Wrestle with algorithms that are vanishingly rare in the real world
* Prove anything, to myself or others
* Invest time/energy I could usefully spend elsewhere
But I'm delighted others enjoy it at least as much as I've enjoyed it in the past. Plus it's a great spectator sport.
This was actually my first year trying out AoC, as a beginner to programming it was kind of a fun learning experience, but being a beginner also means I'll have to stop sometime as the puzzles get harder. Last day's puzzle was a bit too hard for me, maybe today's is better I might give it a try but I certainly won't put any pressure on myself 😄
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haha, i also though like this at the beginning, though i thankfully didn't go down that road, but i also spaced out on a silly mistake returning 0 instead of the last value in a utility function…
At least part 2 was trivial from my part 1 solution.
I thought my code is never going to terminate, but after around an hour or so it did, LMAO 🤣
Because I had to refactor the code many times for this one my current iteration doesn't make much sense, so I'll publish it later maybe after doing some cleanup, IDK...... It's all spaghetti code anyway 
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Update: I've made the code a lot more faster by following a tip by @sotolf. Basically now the program is doing a reverse brute-force by starting at the end point and working its way upwards. So now the code finishes running in about 2 minutes, but if you use the --opt:speed compiler flag in #Nim then it can finish in 20 seconds! For comparison, my previous code took 12 minutes to finish even with the compiler flag on!
Here's the Nim code - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC/src/b…
How should regulators think about "AI"?
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I was watching this video by @emilymbender and she made a lot of great points there, highly recommend watching it if you're curious about #AI and the hype around it. I was a bit surprised when she brought up magic 8 ball because I've been jokingly calling chatGPT magic ball in my friend circles, but it's such a great analogy tho 😄
Also check out her podcast with @alex where they break down the AI hype - buzzsprout.com/2126417
How should regulators think about "AI"?
On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstand...YouTube
I just made a git repo for my #AdventOfCode solutions, so if any of you wanna see my spaghetti code you can find it here on #Codeberg - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC
I'm using the #Nim programming language since I started learning it a while ago, still very much a beginner tho 🙃
P.S. Also check out @amin's private leaderboard for #AOC - alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/s…
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@amin yeah, that's exactly how I'm thinking how can I represent the data, and then how can I get closer to what I want, or functions I need to do what I need. My way is just one way to do it, but it's the one I find the easiest to work with :)
Types are a bit daunting in the beginning but when you do they really help you think, and let's the compiler help you not do a quite big group of errors :)
This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries
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This is genius, not gonna lie.
#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Engineering
This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries
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Sidedoor - Cellphones Rock
Listen here: play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_69_…
One fascinating fact I heard on this #podcast episode:
> If everyone in the country use their phone one year longer on average, it'd be the same as taking 636,000 gasoline powered cars off the road.
The episode mainly talks about the precious minerals in our phones and how they're extracted from rocks formed millions of years ago, not only do we have a limited supply of these minerals but it also can't be recycled properly.
Sidedoor | Cellphones Rock
Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips. With the touch of a finger, you can instantly connect with your doctor, have food delivered to your office or simply obliterate your niece at Words with Friends.play.prx.org
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Unsung Science: The Man Who Invented QR Codes
In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn?
And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows up on restaurant menus, billboards, magazine ads — even tattoos and gravestones. But even that, says Hara-san, is only the beginning.
Listen here: chrt.fm/track/22GG1/dts.podtra…
Podcast webpage: art19.com/shows/unsung-science
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De Fiets is Niets
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Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands to learn how to create good bike infrastructure.
But none of that was inevitable. It wasn't something that magically emerged from Dutch culture.
In fact, in the 1960s and 70s, it looked like the Netherlands would follow the same path as the United States. The Dutch had fallen in love with cars and they were rebuilding their cities to make room for them. It was only because of a multi-decade pro-cycling movement that cars didn't take over the country entirely.
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Unexplainable: How to decode a thought
Can researchers decipher what people are thinking about just by looking at brain scans? With AI, they're getting closer. How far can they go, and what does it mean for privacy?
Listen here: podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/p…
Podcast webpage: vox.com/unexplainable
Unexplainable
Unexplainable is a science podcast from Vox and Vox Media Podcast Network about everything we don’t know.www.vox.com
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I Volunteered for 25 Projects. Here's What I've Learned
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Another wonderful video by @sober_pirate explaining the things he learned while volunteering for different environmental and humanitarian projects.
I Volunteered for 25 Projects. Here's What I've Learned
In this video I am showing 9 things which I've realized by volunteering for 25 projects. Most of them were about nature and wildlife protection and restoration.Support me on Patreon : patreon.com/BeBraveToAct
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Facebook : facebook.com/bebravetoact
Twiter : twitter.com/BeBraveToActFriendica : social.trom.tf/profile/sober_p…
00:00 Intro
00:23 Skills
01:27 Funding
02:27 Compassion
03:16 Other People
04:23 Enthusiasm
06:03 Time Waste
07:14 You Will Lose Money
08:08 Experience
08:54 Never The Same
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The Library of Alexandra
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The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.
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Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again - The Scholarly Kitchen
They’re phishing, hacking, and password-cracking to steal personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions. Andrew Pitts takes a hard look at Sci-Hub as, “Corrupt cybercriminals, not Robin Hood.”Scholarly Kitchen (The Scholarly Kitchen)
PDF files can contain malware in them which is why you should never open them if you get a spam email or something with an attached PDF. However I'd be very surprised if SciHub contains any malware like this person says because it's generally considered as a trusted source of information, without providing a valid source for that claim I can only take it as rumor or propaganda at best.
BTW, you can also use tools like @dangerzone to safely open potentially harmful PDFs - it's made for people like journalists who may need to open many PDFs as part of their work.
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Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?
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Man I would absolutely love it if I could turn my blood into poison for mosquitoes 😈🦟
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Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?
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I really enjoyed this podcast episode because I've actually pondered about this question myself before, just like the 11 year old who called in and asked them. Considering the wide range of activities we humans can do just with the energy we get from our daily meals, it really makes you wonder how efficient we are as a species, compared to machines, other animals, etc.
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Making a Real-life Nether Portal
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That was pretty cool!
#YoutubeVids #Educational #Science #Plasma #TheActionLab
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I Had To Break My Radiometer For Science
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Okay that was pretty cool, NGL.
#YoutubeVids #Science #Educational #TheActionLab
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So.... um, yeah I had to code on my mobile 'cause my laptop broke, lol 😅 Not really the cleanest code ever but I'll improve it 🙃 Also just take a look at #Tromjaro and see how much it has grown over the years! I like how @tio pays attention to every little detail of how an average nontechnical person uses Linux, where they get confused, etc and try to improve/fix everything he can - what you end up with is not a perfect distro but one with a much better UX than most.
TROMjaro 12.08.2023 (big update, many changes)
This is a big and important update for TROMjaro, and we made so many little changes that I can only highlight the most noticeable ones. In essence, I want TROMjaro to be very user friendly from the get go.TROMjaro Forum
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in reply to Rokosun • • •Okay I feel called out now 🙈
But hey if you subscribe to a dozen or so podcats then this is pretty normal I guess
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in reply to Rokosun • • •I feel like the statistics is a bit skewed here because I've put some podcasts under a custom tag named "Bookmarks" and excluded them from my inbox, I certainly can't listen to 48 podcasts at once, lol 😂
If the #AntennaPod team is reading this, having a default built-in bookmarking feature in the app would be useful because sometimes you wanna keep an eye on some podcasts without actually subscribing to them and having all their episodes show up on your inbox. Just a suggestion 🙂
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in reply to Rokosun • • •Finally here's my favorite podcasts of the year according to #AntennaPodEcho
I will explain more about each #podcast in the thread below.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •3. Radiolab is also one of those educational/storytelling type podcasts, you'll learn about something new in every episode and it's fun to listen to.
4. CrowdScience is a podcast which, like the name suggests, is mostly about science. On each episode they try to find the answer to a listener question, people from all around the world have called in to ask different questions and they reach out to the experts from various fields to answer those questions.
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in reply to Tio • • •That's how you trick web developers, haha 🤣
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Yeah, and here's my podcasts if you're interested - fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/11…
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