As noted in the OP, “use by” and “best before” (etc.) dates are vastly different from each other. “Best before” is very often ad hoc like “a year from the date of manufacture”, but if you’re past a “use by” date on your perishable food, you should approach it skeptically.

Climate Town has a good video on it and why this system exists as it does.

It was still alive, and slithered and squirmed on the surgical table.

Great.

Unrelated to the question, but I think the other commentor got it right, so I’ll say this instead. If you’re doing GasBuddy, it would be amazing if you also added data to OpenStreetMap where applicable. We don’t keep track of the current price, because it’s supposed to be semi-static infrastructure, but we do keep track of payment methods accepted and types of fuel offered.

We keep track of other amenities too like compressed air and vac stations, but just adding the payment, fuel, etc. data to the existing station object would already be above and beyond and so appreciated.

That said, if not, it’s still cool knowing that you’re also out there helping to crowdsource knowledge.

This just reads like a press release from Sun-Ways laundered through Euronews. The title reads “Italy could be the next country” but never mentions Italy a single time in the body of the article. The entire idea seems comically inefficient compared to easier, higher-yield places to put solar panels.

“Oh, we have to specially design these so they resist cracking and setting on fire, we can’t nearly angle them properly for optimal efficiency, they sit on top of critical infrastructure, and they’re as low to the ground as humanly possible? Perfect!”

Edit: Whoops. My brain straight-up skipped a paragraph.

Excuse you? Anyone criticizing crypto like this clearly has no idea what they’re talking about, for it is both rug pulls and gambling.

Is it? I’ve never seen my VPN serving me any ads, and it’s pretty cheap.

If you actually look at the evidence presented, they cite this 2019 meta-analysis in the Journal of Management: “Making CEO Narcissism Research Great [ew]: A Review and Meta-Analysis of CEO Narcissism”. On signature size, for which it found only two studies by nearly the exact same team, it remarked:

Ham[, Seybert, and Wang] (2018) and Ham, Lang, Seybert, and Wang (2017) employed an alternative unobtrusive measure of CEO narcissism by measuring the size and contents of a CEO’s signature in SEC filings (2 of 42 articles). Their rationale posits that a larger signature represents the grandiose nature of a narcissist. To validate the measure, Ham et al. used student samples in a laboratory setting. While the main advantage of the measure is that it captures a behavior under the direct control of the CEO (i.e., his or her signature), the measure may not fully capture narcissism’s multifaceted nature. Ham et al. also provided external validation by correlating the measure with employee ratings of CEO narcissism, as obtained by O’Reilly et al. (2014). As this is a newer measure, it has seen limited use to date.

I still see this as some absolute TikTok narcissist-whisperer shit and emblematic of the worst of the reproducibility crisis and conclusion-chasing in the social sciences – sincere respect for the social sciences though I may have.

Edit: I will add that not Charles Ham, not Mark Lang, not Nicholas Seybert, and not Sean Wang are psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, or frankly fucking anything; they’re in business studies.

Could I then use this handwriting phrenology to claim that Jimmy Carter was a bigger narcissist than Barack Obama was a slightly bigger narcissist than Adolf Hitler?

I understand they’re considering other factors, but this is so obviously fucking stupid.

unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dude, come the fuck on. I take psychology as a serious science, so this methodology legitimately offends me: signature size as a metric for narcissism? Get the actual fuck out of here. This reeks of a paper in search of a conclusion.

Here’s the Pew article instead of the journalistic swill Futurism publishes.

not a massive amount

Nah, I think that’s pretty major. I’m so thankful to people like you who round out the map; to me, StreetComplete users are just as needed as JOSM power users.

I will say in their defense that some people delete their comments/posts not because they care about “karma” but because they now feel they were wrong and are genuinely embarrassed or think that its continued presence is just an annoyance to other people.

That said, imo, unless you realize you’ve broken a rule in posting it or literally just posted by accident, it’s healthier for yourself and the community to simply e.g. edit in a correction and a “mea culpa”, even if you continue to get dogpiled for it.

Sanitation posts absolutely whatever here and never takes it down regardless of pushback. Like a week ago or so, they posted a Times of India article (absolute shit outlet that takes bribes for positive coverage) published this month about a story that happened c. March 2024 as if it’d just happened. This was called out in the comments. Their response when I DM’d them pointing out irrefutable evidence in the comments and politely asking them to take it down (they replied to me just today) was basically “Do I have to? Just let them downvote it lol”.

Just knowingly flooding Lemmy with garbage. They shouldn’t be allowed to post in news comms with such shameless disregard for quality.

“Stop using meta people!” sounds like a protest chant for the second-class citizens of a B-grade cyberpunk dystopia.

How did you come to the conclusion that section D does not apply?

I didn’t. I came to the conclusion that the criteria in Section D have already been cleared, because Section D discusses the cases in which the warranty will not apply; both parties clearly agree the warranty applies because Samsung offered Louis compensation. I don’t understand what warranty you were reading or why this is so difficult for you.

Specifically what part of Section D concerns you?

I can’t imagine how he’s going to get them to pay him more than what he paid.

I have no idea why you’re citing “Section D”. Section D is about the limitations of the warranty/liability, and that clearly doesn’t apply (they offered Louis compensation for the warranty; both parties agree this is within the bounds of the warranty). Sections B, C, and D have been met because both parties agree they have been.

The warranty (Section A) reads:

Samsung will, at its option, either: (1) repair or replace the Product with new or refurbished Product of equal or greater capacity and functionality; or (2) refund the then current market value of the Product at the time the warranty claim is made to Samsung if Samsung is unable to repair or replace the Product.

Samsung therefore has two options: 1) repair/replace the unit or 2) pay Louis the current market value. That’s not even slightly ambiguous. Even if you agree that “at its option” means that “unable to repair or replace the Product” is 100% up to Samsung regardless of its actual ability (which it appears to be), that still means they owe him current market value, which is in the ~$900 range – not what he paid for it. You’re way off-base with your assessment.

(edit: “does not apply” was, I hope, clearly intended to mean “in reference to this conversation because the criteria have obviously been met”.)

I’d say the play here is to buy a new one and return the old one but do a label swap.

Louis addressed this in his video. He pointed out that he’s suing in large part because Samsung is penalizing the honest way of doing things. He wants to promote the honest way by setting an example, and good for him.

«Works for me» is seldom a good advice.

That wasn’t the advice; the advice was “try offline tiles and see if that helps.” In their case, it didn’t, but it’s just covering arguably the most likely potential cause. The fact it wasn’t their problem doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth asking.

“Takes seconds” seems like a strange experience. I remember OsmAnd years ago performed like that for me – clearly, painfully loading in the individual tiles. But nowdays, it smoothly transitions between LoD and has no problem smoothly scrubbing over e.g. a major city.

I’m using offline vector maps, for context.

Edit: Trying online tiles again, I’m assuming your problem can be resolved by switching to offline. You can have the offline data update automatically such that you don’t have to worry about it. CoMaps and Organic only use offline maps, which is why they’re similarly snappy to offline OsmAnd.

This is under Configure Map > Map Source, and you only need to download for the region (usually e.g. a province) that you’re using.

Something I’d suggest if OsmAnd feels too cluttered for you is to change the settings; OsmAnd lets you change a lot, but one of the ones I do is to change “Map Style” to Osm-Carto.

Carto, for context, is the vector map that you’d find by going to the OSM website. Much cleaner color scheme, imo.