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> Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

That's exactly how it works.

Click the man, roads with street view data are highlighted, click a road.


For years now I have dragged the man to the place, because there was no indication to me that just clicking the man and then the place would work. But it does! Thanks for sharing that.


People on Twitch are paying young women to sit in hot tubs for hours, write usernames on their exposed skin.


Caffeine, nicotine, thc and alcohol.


Reason?


Yep!

Thats the one - imagine if you had an UX/UI to mynoise.net with a REASON frontend?

We should escalate this as a "bug which is missing as a feature" that they dont have a UX like this :-)

Stephane @ mynoise.net


Exactly what I was thinking. Copy = context to clipboard, paste = clipboard to context.

Undo copy should only remove the copied thing from the clipboard.


I've used Alfred some time ago on an old android phone to catch who was throwing cigarette butts in my backyard. The app worked flawlessly, the relations with my neighbors not so much.


What is it with smokers being the most rampant littering offenders? The average person would never consider throwing a chips packet on the ground even if no one was looking, but smokers will happily chuck their butts in the gutter no matter how many people are watching.


I don’t smoke usually but, the difference between a bag of chips and a cigarette butt is that the cigarette butt is on fire and smells bad.

You can easily put an empty bag of chips in your pocket or backpack and carry it with you until you find somewhere to dispose of it responsibly.

With a cigarette butt, it’s difficult. And also it’s very small anyways so it may not seem like a big deal.

The solution is to give up smoking. If you stop smoking then you won’t have any more cigarette butts that you need to get rid of.

One neat thing I’ve seen in some places is a “poll” where they ask a question with two alternatives, and they have people put cigarette butts in the compartment corresponding to their choice. Here, the photos on this website explains it better than words: https://ballotbin.co.uk/


A smoker friend of mine used to carry around one of those little camera film canisters to put his cig butts in. Obviously being careful to extinguish them fully first beforehand so the plastic didn’t get melted.


An Altoids or other metal mint tin would be a small, readily available and, non-flammable alternative.


Nope, needs to be something intended to be airtight. An altoids tin would still make you stink. Film canister would work, but I would personally worry about the chemicals if I intended to finish the cigarette. Personally, I use the little tubes cannabis pre-rolled joints come in.


They make pocket ashtrays for the very specific purpose of keeping cigarette butts in until they can be disposed of properly.

They were a pretty common site in Tokyo until they made outdoor smoking illegal in public areas except in designated areas around the city.


In Japan they introduced pocket ashtrays as fashion. 1000s of different kinds, different brands, etc. I don't know if it had any impact but it was an interesting idea.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%...


> The solution is to give up smoking. If you stop smoking then you won’t have any more cigarette butts that you need to get rid of.

What a ridiculous solution. That's like saying the solution to reducing road deaths is to stop driving.


Also the more naive smoker may think cigarettes are biodegradable. They are not.


Other than the fact that it's hard to just put in a pocket and carry around until you see a bin, is it that smoking and littering are somewhat impulsive behaviours against better judgement? Someone doing one is inclined to do the other?


I'm a semi-occasional smoker, and I never litter the butts, there's usually a bin nearby or I keep it in my pocket and look for one ASAP because they stink awful. Additive-free tobacco smells a lot less though.

You can see other smokers doing it right when there's a bin nearby too, I've questioned them and never get an answer.

I think many people just live so thoughtlessly and carelessly, the rest of the city is dirty so why should they bother? It's really not much of an effort though.


There was enough premeditation to buy cigarettes and have matches or a lighter, not also planning for what to do with the butts is a choice.


If one doesn't give a crap about their health they sure af don't care about your parking lot.

Now your yard? That's just rude.


It also depends how close the nearest bin is, some places/countries are less averse to bins than others (oh no someone might put a bomb in it!), some also cater better for it that others, by adding an almost zero cost metal plate etc to extinguish the cigarette rather than setting the bin on fire, or just providing actual smoking bins/trays as well


Sure, my team even failed to qualify to make things easier.

More seriously, I think I'll watch it nonetheless. FIFA and its subsidiaries are corrupted to the bone, but what can I do? I love football, and they'll run the game for a long time.


> although you should NOT! use a UUID, only the format or better something else

Why? Even the document you linked recommends using them...


Well, it depends. I just said it to not make it more complicated. Depends on the version of UUID and some versions according to specification have fixed bits at some points. This can be dangerous for a key to have. Their generation could also not be as random as required for a key. In practice many now do not recommend just using UUID anymore because that could mean one could deduce some parts of the key.

If so, you should use version 4 of an UUID, not 3, not 5, just 4. Because by specification that is the purely random one. Version 3 and 5 use MD5 or SH1 from an input to generate the ID as far as I know. In the vast majority of cases this also doesn't matter, but better to be sure. Perhaps I used too much caps for the NOT. If you use a solid random generator you should be safe. Just don't rely on a ready-to-use UUID-generator for cryptographic purposes.


Thank you for the thorough explanation. Makes sense.


> Unfortunately, the Twitter web app shuts me down when I scroll too far into a page.

The twitter mobile experience is awful, but I found that if you tap signin in the infamous undismissable modal and then you go back with the browser it will not nag you for a while.

Then there's Nitter if you are after an alternative frontend.


Svelte is used in production by several high profile companies. NYT in primis, since its creator Rich Harris worked there, but also Spotify, Ikea, Reuters, Brave...we can debate if it's not as mature as other frameworks, but definitely is not experimental.


By experimental, I don't mean unsuitable for production. As a development culture, I think that they are in a structure that constantly tries something within themselves. So if I start using it for an application today, the codes I use in a few months may be depreceted. this is my personal observation. I wanted to share.


I understand what you mean.

Something's changed, but the syntax and the svelte way of doing reactive components is the same (but I only used version 3, don't know how they did in the previous versions).

SvelteKit on the other hand is still very much a work in progress. I'm using it for personal projects and it's great, but I'm surely waiting until v1.0 to do anything serious with it.


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