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> most Americans regularly drive across areas where you may not see anyone for miles around

83% of Americans live in urban areas. Why would they "regularly drive across areas where [they] may not see anyone for miles around"...?

Are you sure you're not just extrapolating from your own experience?

This started way before Youtube or smartphones in Denmark.

You do see it, but it's really not that common. As an example, here's a walk through one of the Copenhagen harbour baths in 2022: https://youtu.be/S8t6sYECNUI

... at work?

And if you use caddy you never need to know what any of that means, since caddy completely automates it. Maybe it's not a pain to you since you're used to it, but it's a major obstacle to most people looking to set up a website, particularly for the first time.

Even though I've set up nginx and certbot before, I'm happy I don't need to think about that stuff with caddy. Total waste of mental resources. I just want to get stuff on the Web.

FYI but you can already natively compile Clojure code using GraalVM Native Image, provided it doesn't rely too much on reflection AFAIK.

This is also common in Denmark. You get the new estimated hour-by-hour rates around noon the day before.

I actually made a little calendar subscription service[1] to help our household plan when to run the dishwasher, drier etc. and we've saved about 50% this quarter despite the rising electricity costs. You can usually tell when it's cheap/almost free too just by sticking your head out the window, since it's mostly always the cheapest on especially windy days.

[1] https://el.simongray.dk/

Canada too, I think.

It's not that it doesn't work, it's that most Clojure programmers do not see the benefit since the selection of data-oriented libraries we have is much superior in our minds.

Some people (a small minority) are trying to "solve" this, but it garners little interest since most people don't see any problem.

> the continental US is almost double the size of Europe

Europe (the continent) is slightly bigger than the entirety of the USA...

I guess you are talking about continental Western Europe where much of the high speed rail is?

The place where everyone communicates like they're sending a job application and most of your inbox is just recruiter spam...? That place is like Facebook in '08?

I removed half of my friends and almost all of my information in a digital konmari exercise last year and Facebook is still like 1/3 ads, 1/3 videos I don't care about (and never asked for), and 1/3 actual posts or comments made by my "friends". It's an adridden wasteland.

Why do you consider TikTok to be social media? Isn't it just videos shot in a smartphone aspect ratio + comments and a clever discovery algorithm? Is YouTube also social media?

I just "bought" 21 trees as a gift to someone (to be planted in Denmark, not Iceland). This amount supposedly offsets what the average Danish person emits in a month according to the organisation I bought it from. Not sure where you're from, but the average American emits something like 2.5 times what the average Dane does, so that would work out to ~60 trees that need to planted monthly (if you're American). Obviously, your mileage may vary.

In any case, it really puts into perspective how messed up our continued use of fossil fuels is.

Native advertisement disguised as a blog post.

I use an iPhone. If you google it, you will notice that lots of people have this issue and have had for a long time.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/pm49t9/tailscale...

- https://forum.tailscale.com/t/high-battery-usage-in-ios/1152

- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363

I recently set up Tailscale, but unfortunately the phone app leaves a lot to be desired battery-wise (it takes up 30% of my total battery usage) so I think I'll be looking elsewhere.

Initially, I had tried setting up Nebula, but I am unable to get a static IP address for the beacon (a requirement for any of these mesh VPNs), hence why I went with Tailscale which acts as a beacon for you. I think I'll try ZeroTier next.

Thank you. I just enabled it and now I can see what the parent post was talking about.

Where do you see this?

I think this will always be the case with these adtech platforms. There is a conflict of interest at play. In the end, the ad revenue always wins.

The only way to really filter this stuff is through self-hosted blogs. These can also be connected, but in a decentralised way e.g. https://indieweb.org is a good intro to some of the protocols in use.

Thank you for that tip.

I'm not disputing the fact that Sami are indigenous to the place they live (most humans are), I'm disputing this weird definition of indigenous which seems to align more to the noble savage concept than the actual meaning of indigenous.

Secondly, if you want to segment the world into mutually exclusive "indigenous" areas (I find this kind of offensive to be honest), you should make sure you're actually right. Germanic peoples were present in all of Scandinavia before the Sami migrated there, not just the south. But like I said, I have no problem saying the Sami are indigenous to Northern Scandinavia because being indigenous to an area is not an exclusionary label.

I think it's a pointless exercise. European ethnicities are indigenous to various parts of Europe, Scandinavians are indigenous to Scandinavia, Sami indigenous to Northern Scandinavia, and so on. They are all indigenous in the proper context, it's not some exclusionary label.

> indigenous | ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs |

> adjective

> originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native: the indigenous peoples of Siberia | coriander is indigenous to southern Europe.

> Last indigenous people of Europe

Only if you essentially consider the definition of "indigenous" to be "noble savage".

Most Europeans are indigenous to Europe.

I don't agree that Clojure suffers heavily from the Lisp curse. The prevailing paradigm in Clojure code is the almost exclusive use of the built-in data literals as function input/output (as opposed to using custom datatypes). For this reason, we don't really use frameworks as Clojure libraries are usually quite simple to glue together.

The main reasons why it is still fairly niche I would say are

- having to learn a new editor paradigm, e.g. paredit and/or parinfer

- functional programming

- people who think Java/JVM tech is icky

- an overall lack of promotion by Cognitect

Furthermore, you will need to both like the properties of Lisp as well as the the restrictions of functional programming on top of coexisting with Java on the JVM. This is a fantastic proposition to my ears, but it sounds horrible to some other people.

Hah, I actually kinda like that so-called brutalist aesthetic! Not for every type of website, obviously.

If you click on some of the many outgoing links to other "revival" websites on that page you will see that they're all in that style. Perhaps this is just the case of the 90s aesthetic being the fashion of the day—particularly for zoomers who mostly didn't experience the 90s—but I still find it quite unoriginal.

I bought a Samsung TV, was pretty satisfied with it. One day it updated itself and now it has forced some kind of Samsung TV service onto itself that is very visibly promoted whenever I go to switch to a different hooked-up appliance. It annoys me to no end.