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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can someone clarify how you identify autism from smartwatch data? It seems like, if that were possible, the diagnostic process would be much simpler.

I think they're just throwing it in there because they can learn a lot of other information about people (not just location/activity, but possibly more sensitive things like pregnancy status). Once they have it, it's not like we're getting it back.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Each of these I write makes me quite nervous. I’m never sure people will like what I write, or more importantly how I write it

I always look forward to seeing your posts, and (based on the comments) I'm not alone. Keep up the amazing work!

The only minor thing I will say is that these info dumps take a long time to parse, and I'm usually looking for shorter content. I often scroll through your posts fairly quickly looking for things that tickle my fancy, but I always go back a second time to see if I missed anything. Also, commenting on a specific section almost requires quoting it to give context. In a perfect world, each section could be separated out into its own post.

But hey, I recognize that would be even more work for you, so it's not fair to expect it. Just offering an unsolicited opinion. 😜

I really appreciate all of the effort you put into these posts, and I can't wait to read the next one!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hokay, so... Here's the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I was thinking "20 Republicans? I don't think you'll find 20 vertebrae in the whole party."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I never played the game, so I'm not sure what SnapMap is (Fandom says it's a map editor), but there is a note in the "Details" that says SnapMap cosmetics are unlocked by default. Is that something else?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ha! I wish. I'll keep trying squirrels that look viable, but the people finishing goat routes (the next level up) might as well be literal goats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I wish I could say the same for pull ups.

Back when I was working on them, I made crazy progress on pull ups by doing negatives. Let's say my goal was 10 pull ups, and I was only able to do 5, I finished the set with 5 negatives. I was amazed at how quickly I got to 10 regular pull ups.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At my bouldering gym, I managed another "squirrel" route. It's my fourth ever!

The gym uses animals to rate the routes. Squirrel is approximately a V5/6 or a 5.12.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The writeup mentions GoG, but I don't see any mention of the fact that Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, and Sim City 4 are all currently on sale. You can get all three for less than $10 out the door.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

So was it Kowalski, Rico, Skipper, or Private?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Probably better than "emacs googling" your code.

...probably.

 
 

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on how to create a playlist of songs from my library that have been released as "singles" or "Top 40s" across a time period?

Let's say I wanted to throw a 90s party, and I wanted to create a playlist from my library using only songs that people are likely to know. I recognize that's totally subjective, so maybe that's why I'm struggling to find what I want. I can create a playlist based on album release date, which gets me a bit of the way there, but the playlist is going to include a lot of "deep cut" tracks and whole albums that few people know. I'd rather not spend too long curating the list. I was hoping for a way to just find popular tracks, and it seems like basing it on "chart toppers" would be a good place to start. Ideally, it would be genre-independent, but limited to songs that got decent radio play, so Backstreet Boys to Korn to Shania Twain are fine. Yo Yo Ma maybe not so much.

It doesn't seem like Plex has information available in the filters to achieve that. It does have "Popularity" as an additional column header if I list my music by "Tracks", so I guess I could sort by that and limit the results to some value. It feels a little clunky, though, and I'm not sure where it's getting that information.

I know that Library Radio is a thing, but I can't seem to make it do what I want. I only have 4 stations on the web interface: "Library Radio", "Deep Cuts Radio", "Time Travel Radio", and "Random Album Radio". Clicking on them just starts playing music from a wide selection that I have no control over. I know that "Decade Radio" exists, but it doesn't seem to be giving me what I want, either. It frequently pulls instrumental tracks from movie soundtracks. I have "Smart Shuffle" enabled on my server. I'm not sure if that's helping or hurting my experience (I've seen some very mixed reviews on that feature). I also can't find "Decade Radio" on the web interface; it seems like Decade Radio is only available on Plexamp.

I'd rather just create a playlist. That way it would be available everywhere, and I could tailor it a little bit, if needed.

So, yeah... any tips? It seems like the "filter by decade, sort by popularity, and limit by count" might be my best option right now.

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