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  • jeffhykin@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldWhat are your complaints about Lemmy?
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    10 months ago

    The “front page” of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).

    Part is lemmy’s hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting with in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.








  • As someone who uses open street maps for statistics/analysis to advocate better bike infrastructure; please contribute to open street maps not google.

    You can easily do exactly what you were saying; open up an existing road, add an attribute to it saying bike_friendly: true. Just login (on desktop), go to the part of the map you want to edit, click edit at the top and do the walkthrough. It should look like this

    Side rant: The google maps API for analyzing data is so bad it might as well not exist. Even ignoring the painful signup process AUTH tokens, cost of usage, and crappy docs; it doesn’t provide access to basically any useful information about roads. Meanwhile open street maps is so easy you don’t even need an account; just run a browser command and scrape any data you want, including downloading the entire database.


  • This is a bit like asking “how do you cook meat for a lot of people?” Not only does number-of-people and kind-of-meat matter a great deal, but even with that info, there’s a million different valid answers and an entire sub-field-ish of science on how to do it.

    Based on what little info there is, I’m going to guess that A B testing with groups of experimental features enabled would be best for your case.








  • I work in the field of AI.

    “humans are excellent at ignoring” is something I like to tell students, because its computationally impossible for any intelligence (human or AI) to remember and process 24k-resolution-esk information every millisecond. Data must be thrown away, and humans are actually exceptional at it.

    If AI could ignore the correct things, we would already have AGI.

    Also search “invisible gorilla” on youtube if you haven’t already heard of the phrase.




  • You’ll basically have timezones either way, there’s just two ways of doing it.

    If we all used UTC, then businesses would need to change what time they opened depending on their location. Ex: Best Buy opening at 12 noon on the US west coast, and 3pm on the east coast. Locations inbetween would have different opening times. So we would get the noon zone, 1pm zone, 2pm zone, and 3pm zone. All nation wide businesses with standard open/close times would effectively follow the same pattern, and it would be best if they all coordinated on where those zones occured. So then we would get new timezones, they’d just be slightly different in how they functioned.