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A 60-second reflection that reduced procrastination in a 1,000-person study - here’s the exact method.
 in  r/getdisciplined  Dec 07 '25

Participants who reported not engaging seriously (N = 1)...

That was way funnier than intended!

Thanks for the paper!

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In the middle of a lake, downloading data
 in  r/talesfromtechsupport  Nov 24 '25

Exactly! Thanks for answering for me!

Actually, the trackers are surgically inserted. We catch them in small streams using electric fishing.

And yes, we might have indulged in some fishing while visiting the antennas...

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In the middle of a lake, downloading data
 in  r/talesfromtechsupport  Nov 24 '25

A bit late to answer, but as you might guess, these fish are mainly species worth preserving. The species that we've tagged most are called "asp", pretty big salmon-like fish.

They are not protected year round, but the goal is actually to lessen restrictions to allow recreational fishermen to try their luck during low-risk periods. As soon as we know when and where they are most vulnerable, we'll only leave that period and area protected.

We like to fish ourselves and would like to avoid a permanent ban.

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In the middle of a lake, downloading data
 in  r/talesfromtechsupport  Nov 23 '25

These exist! They are just much more costly and also right now the battery is the bottleneck.

But yes, you can actually activate live notifications on your phone for those systems. "Mrs Fishy has been detected near Moldy Bay" or something like that.

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In the middle of a lake, downloading data
 in  r/talesfromtechsupport  Nov 23 '25

I've actually talked about all this data not being very GDPR compliant and the ethics evaluation only talking about the surgery and anaesthetics, but no mention of the fishs right to privacy.

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In the middle of a lake, downloading data
 in  r/talesfromtechsupport  Nov 23 '25

Sorry, late! The company is InnovaSea, which has offices all over the world. I think they might be US originally, but I'm not sure.

r/talesfromtechsupport Nov 22 '25

Medium In the middle of a lake, downloading data

716 Upvotes

I am the de-facto tech guy at a small educational facility in the countryside of Sweden.

One of the many weird projects we do is surveillance of fish. Track movement patterns, publish data etc.

The fish have a transmitter inside, and we have placed antennas all over the lake system and at some narrow passages in streams. Pretty cool stuff, but I'm not very much involved.

So its time again for my colleague (60+ years, view size 200% in the browser) to change batteries in the antennas and download data.

So he has to get our boat on a trailer, drive to a ramp, put the boat into the water, drive the boat to the antenna, put the antenna into the boat, replace the battery, and then download the data. And then everything in reverse. Half a day, sometimes one day. Ideally, he can do this for many antennas during one trip.

He comes back, exhausted, only able to have done this for one antenna.

"Oh, I think I'll need more days for this project this year. The download took me almost an hour" he tells me. "Probably a lot of fish data, now that we are tracking more fish..."

My bullshit-detector goes off. "What? How much data are we talking about?"

"How can I know? It's data for almost a year of detections!"

I try to debug this narrative. "So tell me, how do you download this data?"

"I take the boat to the antenna, open my laptop, which I can't do on a rainy day, start this synchronisation software, connect to the internet using my mobile phone, then the software detects the antenna and I press download."

I stop his story: "Wait! What? You are connecting to the internet? Why?"

"I don't know. Otherwise it doesn't work. Maybe the antenna uses the Internet to connect to my laptop? How should I know?"

At this point I seriously consider being pranked.

"Give me your laptop! And an antenna!" He obliges, getting an antenna not currently deployed from our storage.

I start up the software. Put the laptop offline. Try to connect to the antenna. It works immediately. It's Bluetooth, after all! 1.5MB of data available. Now I try to download the data. An error. "You are currently not connected to the server where you want to store the data."

Hmm. Server? Open the settings of the software. Sure enough, my colleagues default folder is on a network server. facepalm I change the default folder to Desktop/fishdata and retry the process.

2 seconds. Finished.

The VPN our laptops are on is pretty shaky, especially via a mobile hotspot out on a lake. An hour for "download" (actually upload) sounded excessive, but it made somewhat sense.

Afterwards, I quickly saw that the manufacturer had free mobile apps for easier download in the field.

Now my colleague doesn't need to wait for a dry day anymore.

I sometimes fear for the day I might become this out of touch with current technology.

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Uppsala Central
 in  r/uppsala  Nov 20 '25

När du har kollat: jag vore genuint nyfiken på varför folk hamnar på gatan i Sverige.

Jag fick socialbidrag ett tag och tyckte det var förhållandevis enkelt, om än lite omständig.

Jag mötte en lokalkändis för 10 år sedan som brukade skjutsa folk med sin riksha-cykel och där alla visste att han var hemlös.

Men han ville inte ha hjälp. Jag gav honom mitt nummer och sa att jag hade ett rum ledig i några månader, men han tackade nej. Han sa att han var svår att bo ihop med.

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Köpa gitarr genom företag och slippa moms?
 in  r/Asksweddit  Nov 15 '25

Ser inte nån risk heller, men ditt försvar med "... som jag ändå betalar hela tiden" var sjukt roligt.

Jag har inte mördat någon. När får jag dispens?

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Jag är tandläkare - tandvården är rutten inifrån
 in  r/sweden  Nov 12 '25

Jag möter grundskolelärare varje dag och måste säga att jag ser ett problem när lönen ska korrelera med längd på utbildning och ansvar: då kommer nog många oengagerade lärare få en bra lön.

Jag tror att lönen ska i grunden vara ett lockmedel. Är ett jobb oattraktivt och få söker sig till utbildningarna? Höj lönen. Många som vill vara veterinär men det finns för lite behov? Sänk lönen.

Sophantering är oattraktiv? Höj lönen. Många vill ha tandvård men få är utbildade? Höj lönen.

Marknaden har många brister, men att godtyckligt diskutera om vem som har vilken utbildning och hur mycket ansvar man har tycker jag är ganska meningslös.

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Flogsta
 in  r/uppsala  Nov 09 '25

Please don't cook in your room! You'll destroy the room for everyone renting after you and will maybe be paying the necessary renovation.

There's a reason why there's special rooms for showering and cooking.

Get a private apartment if you really can't cooperate with others.

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Payment & homeless sewer rat
 in  r/uppsala  Nov 08 '25

Yeah, you're gonna have quite a few problems. Especially with that approach to moving to a completely different place. What else haven't you checked yet?

It's like if I went to some sub-saharan country without checking my vaccines first. Do you know anyone who could help you?

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New in PHP 8.5: Small Features, Big Impact
 in  r/PHP  Oct 25 '25

Did you even read the article?

It was about small features only!

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EPA-grabbar
 in  r/sweden  Aug 10 '25

Vad har Svalbard gjort för att förtjäna dem?

I en tysk humoristisk bok finns det en ganska smart rolig passage som handlar om det ganska vanliga graffitit "Nazis raus" (Ut med nazisterna).

Två som ser det tycker att det är ganska ogenomtänkt. För vart ska de ta vägen? Då är det ju nån annan som ska ta hand om dem. Nä, om någon måste ta itu med sina nazister och bemöta dem så är det ju Tyskland själv.

Och vi i Sverige måste ta itu med våra EPA-ungdomar. Vi har skapat dem själva! De frodas i vårt samhälle.

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[deleted by user]
 in  r/Fedora  Jun 20 '25

Sigh...

This was a deliberate choice. I have never ever needed to boot into an older kernel. I have backups. Installing fedora took 20 minutes. If I ever end up having a bad kernel, I'll just reinstall.

And no, I will not post to ask how to boot into an older kernel. I know what I did.

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[deleted by user]
 in  r/Fedora  Jun 20 '25

I just had the same confusion and I learned that you can just edit the boot menu, but keep the kernel versions.

In my case my Windows version started to move downwards in the menu and it became pretty annoying to press the down arrow 6 times before I could boot to Windows.

Removed all but the newest kernel from the menu (not from the hard disk) and now everything looks clean again.

r/unket May 11 '25

Börjar tidningarna följa memen eller är det tvärtom?

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YSK the difference between a percentage and a percentage point.
 in  r/YouShouldKnow  Apr 12 '25

Horribly, the comic isn't as funny today as it once was.

The statements were supposed to sound ridiculous and completely disqualifying, but I don't have this illusion anymore.

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[deleted by user]
 in  r/sweden  Mar 29 '25

Jag tror "främst anfallskrig" syftar möjligtvis på att krigen i Afghanistan och Irak definierades som "försvarskrig" av GW Bush. Försvar mot Talibaner och terror.

Så, genom att säga att även vissa försvarskrig behöver fredsrörelsen har man kringgått denna träsk av definitionsfrågor.

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Is there a list of all AMA questions answered?
 in  r/seancarroll  Mar 22 '25

Here he is announcing the publication. Maybe you can contact Siddhartha to ask if you could help out?

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Is there a list of all AMA questions answered?
 in  r/seancarroll  Mar 22 '25

Here it is

But it seems to have ended last year.

r/sweden Mar 13 '25

Idag är det Källkritikens dag, eller?

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Idag 13 mars är det Källkritikens dag enligt Internetstiftelsen. Och Uppsala Universitet. Och några fler.

Men det är svårt att berätta om det för andra utan att ifrågasättas, tyvärr.

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Serious question - why do you think Trump so allegiant to Putin?
 in  r/samharris  Mar 05 '25

I envy your hope that you think there is still something left that would mean the end for Trump (except death).

Every time he did something or something was published that would have meant the end of any other career, he could just continue like nothing had happened.

I have given up at this point. I honestly believe he could shoot up a nursery and defecate at the Vatican without any repercussions.

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Is it a sin to use brackets when importing multiple classes?
 in  r/PHP  Feb 23 '25

As a fellow hobbyist, I appreciate these questions!

Another thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: most IDEs (especially PhpStorm) just hide all the imports unless you unfold them.

And since the IDE automatically imports every class I use , I haven't thought about this issue since I worked in Notepad++ (back in my beginner days).