I only had one encounter with Be My Eyes of someone trying to classify their comic book collection by the year printed on the cover which was too small for them to read. It was pretty neat and I was happy to help, but it took way longer than 5 minutes, haha. I think though that with computer vision, a lot of the requests aren’t routed to volunteers anymore though.

I think that’s just identical twins, but fraternal twins are two separate eggs being fertilized, which is how you can have twins of different sexes

Exactly why i don’t put the license plate on my car, can’t let anyone see that sensitive information

Manhattan was famously built with almost no alley ways to save space so the only place to put the garbage is on the street. You’ll literally have piles of garbage and yet people won’t want to give up a few parking spaces to put dumpsters in, so that garbage is all out on the sidewalk. It’s disgusting.

The level of corruption in the Adams administration was laughable. One of them is now indicted because she wanted a cameo on the Hulu series “Godfather of Harlem” in exchange for canceling plans to install bike lanes. Another tried to bribe a reporter in a chip bag filled with cash.

It was kinda annoying that you had to fight for it. I can’t imagine how many people who put down the game for a few years and checked up on it to find the Linux version is no longer supported and they’re beyond the point to request a refund.

According to TinEye, this image was from at least 2019, and I don’t think it was decriminalized back then? Wikipedia has some info from a few years earlier where they cite a survey saying a majority of all police recorded drug offences in the UK were for possession of cannabis.

her eyes are red from smoking the marijuana, and hiding it from the cops behind her.

Are the cameras at 59th street actually Flock cameras (or similar), accessible by NYPD or just for congestion pricing and toll collection? In deflock, they all look like they’re part of DOT but i’m not sure if NYPD has access. For most of northern Manhattan, it seems to be pretty standard for DOT to operate all the cameras, including all of Harlem.

Clearly the author pulled a Slowpoke card

I think it’s pretty common for less reputable storage manufactures to have a drive which reports to be a certain size, but trying to read data back from some sectors doesn’t work. There is this windows tool to check the drive: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm

All banks I’ve done business supported exporting CSV or OVX files of transactions so you don’t need a third party connection into your bank account, although that is an option. It depends on region, but banks are only required to retain data for certain periods of time, and keeping a history of each transaction can be useful for budgeting or investing.

Regarding Mint, If I’m remembering correctly, it seemed like they were doing a redesign of the site and then decided to shut it down. I’d have to imagine after they got purchased, all the original devs left and maintaining each connection with each bank was a huge hassle. They probably spent so much modernizing the site and still had to maintain connections, that the operational costs outweighed the income from advertising.

If you’re dealing all in cash this makes sense, but for those with multiple bank accounts, keeping track of everything without software is burdensome. I can’t imagine copy/pasting each transaction from my banks website into a spreadsheet. Computers are better at math than humans, they should be doing the calculations, not me.

Thirding Actual, I will admit I was using Mint for way longer than I should have for convenience, and moved to Actual after Mint shut down. If you only have a few accounts, it’s not that terrible to download transactions as QFX files and import them once a month when paying the bills. I haven’t tried SimpleFin or anything automated, but that would get you even closer to the experience of Mint.

https://lemmy.almostadatacenter.social/post/78511

I think this is what OPs message is. There’s no silver bullet that solves everything and change will be gradual. Making any incremental improvements to our fuel consumption which has a net positive effect to reduce climate change is a good thing.

Gen IV reactor designs are incapable of going into thermal runaway, but Chernobyl and Fukashima weren’t, which is how they became a cautionary tale and resulted in better designs. It’s like basing your fear of flying on airplane disasters from the 1950’s, and instead driving, which is even more dangerous. Just like unsafe airplanes from long ago, upgrading to safer designs is needed. In order to do so, new reactors need to be built to handle the load, but get blocked because of the fear of another Chernobyl, which just leaves older reactors around that are actually a concern.

Longhorn was Windows Vista. I remember downloading what I thought was Longhorn before Vista’s release but it was just a heavily skinned version of Windows XP.

I’d search your community list for “Fediverse” or “Lemmy” and check the description and subscriber count for what seems like a best fit. For example, I’d assume your questions would be welcome in !Fediverse@piefed.social and get many eyeballs

What about watching a directors cut unknowingly and loving it?