jqubed
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- Comment on You wouldn't steal a font 7 hours ago:
Fun fact: the shapes of the letters in a font can’t be copyrighted, but the file that defines a font can. The name could be trademarked, though, so even if you redrew a font you might have to give it a different name. If it’s not trademarked, though, that’s how you end up with several companies having their own version of the same font.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 day ago:
Office work is largely paperwork, even if very little is on actual paper nowadays. Much of the work involves creating records or communicating with others to get things done. A salesperson will try to find clients for the product or service. They’ll typically create a record of customers or prospects with their contact information and notes about the negotiation. They’ll create a formal quotation or estimate for the customer and if the customer wants to move forward they’ll create an order confirmation. That document will trigger some other department to fulfill the order, either by providing a service or product to the customer. A work order might be provided to a service technician specifying what work is to be done and where. If a product needs to be delivered a picking slip might be created to tell someone in a warehouse where to get the product and how many to get. Once it’s been picked the product will go to the shipping department to be packed and shipped. An item fulfillment will be created saying what items were packed, how many, and what the tracking number is. Once the order is fulfilled an invoice will be created. If the customer paid in advance the payment will get applied to the invoice automatically or by someone in the accounting department. If the customer is on credit terms they’ll be sent the invoice with instructions on how to pay and when payment is due.
There are so many steps like this. The records help the business plan. They know how many parts and supplies to order. They can track if they’re selling more or less than forecast, if they need to place a rush order for more parts, ask people to work overtime or hire more employees. If something starts costing more they can look to see if they need to raise prices or redesign the product to use a different component, or find an alternate source. At the end of the day, it all comes down to accounting, making sure the company is generating enough income to pay the bills, suppliers, and employees, and hopefully make a profit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
And getting a completely new phone and number while you’re at it
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 2 days ago:
Can’t watch the video right now; does this one get the frequencies right? Unlike the one in California that Tom Scott featured in a video?
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 days ago:
I’m glad to see them doing what they should’ve done all along, but doing what they should’ve been doing also doesn’t merit praise.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 days ago:
Where I feel like they have a suitable place is for vacation rentals. Like when I was a kid our family would rent a house at the beach for a week as our summer vacation. The beach we’d go to had several real estate companies that would manage the rentals and published little booklets every year with the listings. The houses were privately owned, though, so as Airbnb and especially VRBO came along this gave the homeowners another option that was perhaps less expensive than the agencies. These are houses in a vacation area, though, generally not taking away housing from locals. This also was traditionally a family that owned one extra house for family getaways and trying to rent it out when they weren’t using it, not investors creating “hotel” chains. Setting up what is effectively a hotel in a residential area and cutting off housing from people who need it should be an obvious problem yet many people don’t recognize it.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
Ford has 3, the F-150 Lightning and the unfortunately named Mustang Mach-E, and the E-Transit van I think is primarily for commercial customers.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
On the more affordable end around here I see a lot of electric cars from Ford, Chevrolet, Kia, and Hyundai around here, and to a lesser extent Volkswagen. On the high end it’s mostly Mercedes-Benz and BMW, sometimes Porsche. Once in a while I’ll see Rivian but they don’t have a dealership in our state. Even more rarely I’ll see Polestar, which does have a dealership in a city at the other end of the state, and at least one person here has a Lucid Air.
- Comment on There's no such thing as a wrong number any more 6 days ago:
Literally today my wife tried calling me while I was at the store, just by clicking the phone button in the text message thread, but the call went to someone completely different, a woman in a noisy environment. The call showed in her log as the correct number so I assume it’s a glitch from the phone company.
- Comment on Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive 1 week ago:
I’m going to need to save this link. I saved a Power Mac G5 from an old job that was being disposed, but it’s just been gathering dust in a corner. The reporters said it wasn’t working anymore, or at least wouldn’t run long enough to edit their stories, so it might need some work.
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 1 week ago:
I remember my dad installed a switch with a little light in it decades ago. If the switch was off the little light would be on so you could find the switch. I wouldn’t want it everywhere, but certainly helpful in some locations.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it would be easier to just fake being a delivery driver and drop off tainted food and act like somebody else ordered it. The odds of a driver being able to target someone specific with a legit order are very low.
That said, don’t eat random food you didn’t order!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Basically everywhere. Not always when pulling in my driveway if no one else is around, but I’ve certainly seen driveways where you might even use it pulling out. I don’t use it pulling out of my driveway. It’s rare that I not use it otherwise, though. Very occasionally I’ll think I’ve put it on but discover while turning that I didn’t have it on. Might be my ADHD causing that.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 1 week ago:
It’s a sketch about a real incident.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 2 weeks ago:
Actually I’ve done very well with girls who think I’m a dork, in an endearing way
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 2 weeks ago:
Just to clarify, “you” in this case refers to companies and marketers, not consumers. Looks like this news website is for marketers/SEO industry people.
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 2 weeks ago:
It looks fun, but that price is going to be something to make me pause
- Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if we’ll get a lot more anonymous inside details now about the WPengine debacle?
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return
- Comment on Everybody thinks of Do-Re-Mi, but it's Lonely Goatherd that really slaps. 3 weeks ago:
It was only a few weeks ago that I learned “do, re, mi,” etc., are the actual names of the notes in other languages, or at least French. My wife found it confusing that English uses letters, and even more that do is the same note as C in English, so they don’t even start with the same note.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 3 weeks ago:
I liked this read when considering legal ramifications for hosting content. It is U.S. focused so it might not be applicable to someone in another country.
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they really need to run an instance to conduct surveillance on the Fediverse. Maybe it makes things easier, but a lot of this is public anyway. Just because Google isn’t putting a lot of this in search results yet doesn’t mean it can’t be scraped by people who are interested in scraping it.
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 3 weeks ago:
Costco has started scanning barcodes and the picture associated with the account appears on a screen employees watch as you walk in now
- Comment on Space Pirates Are No Longer Confined To Works Of Science Fiction 3 weeks ago:
In a sense what they’re describing here sort of already happened almost 40 years ago from Captain Midnight knocking HBO off-air.
- Comment on What do you think might be some fun, positive ways for instances to distinguish themselves? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, like I just learned about gearhead.town which is focused on vehicles (cars, motorcycles, etc.), which is an idea I’d had myself but I’m nowhere near skilled enough to operate an instance right now.
- Comment on What kind of car is this? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a Jeep Wrangler or Gladiator, and based on the hood and red interior probably one of the higher trims like Rubicon. That’s the larger, 8.4-inch infotainment touchscreen. It’s also the pre-facelift interior, so it’s either a 2018-2023 Wrangler/Wrangler Unlimited (JL/JLU) or 2020-2024 Gladiator (JT). I can’t quite see enough detail but one of the icons on the screen looks more like a pickup truck, so I’m inclined to say it’s a Gladiator. Someone else might chime in with more details.
- Comment on c/keitrucks: A Hub for All Kei Car Enthusiasts! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never even heard of this instance, but looks like a lot of relevant communities for me!
- Comment on PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post 4 weeks ago:
How does it handle posting comments, deciding where to put them?
- Comment on PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post 4 weeks ago:
That seems pretty logical