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> There was a time not long ago when buying anything from internet was considered taboo because, you said it, fear of losing your credit card information to scammers.

That's a distinctly American problem. As is the (over)use of credit cards in general.

Here in Europe, the main worry was simply paying in advance and not getting the item. Early on, the popular choice was just paying to the postman on delivery - it moved some of the risk on to the seller, but it was balanced out by the seller making this option ~50% more expensive. It took some time for people to get used to dispute processes in marketplaces, and then for the laws to be updated with additional safeguards (e.g. 14 days no-questions-asked return policy for online purchases, which I think is an EU directive), and at some point, transferring money in advance of delivery became a normal practice. That was even before payment gateways, or even smartphones, became ubiquitous.
As a manager, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.

As an employee, I think weekly 1:1s are a waste of time.
We (the British) exterminated 750,000 in preparation for WWII. Voluntarily.

"People were worried about the threat of bombing and food shortages and felt it inappropriate to have the 'luxury' of a pet during wartime"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pet_massacre
Yes, but they were still the biggest player. Reddit took what they gave up and grew from there.

I wonder who will take reddits lunch and how far they will go with it.
There was no reason for the average user to switch from Facebook. Arguably, it was worse than Facebook due to poor UI: I could never make my wife understand the value of circles, it was simply not the way she thinks about her contacts.
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This argument, regardless of its factual correctness regarding the impact on Reddit, is an argument of helplessness - it argues there is no point in acting, because nothing will be achieved.

Sometimes you have to act, even if it will have no effect, because it is the right thing to do, where our sense of moral indignation is so great we are motivated to act regardless of the overall outcome or what we may or may not reasonable expect to achieve.
Yup, they are all variations of the same idea. What makes the Pratt parser so much nicer is how naturally it fits with the rest of a recursive descent parser. The original paper is somewhat annoying to read due to very strange naming of things, but you can write a pratt parser in like 4 lines of code (not counting the mapping from operator to the next parser call), it's crazy simple.
I actually did quit Twitter and nothing will be able to make me go back there. Principles and all that. But I suspect that the fraction of people that followed through on their statement that they would leave Twitter is super small. I also haven't gone anywhere else and I feel much the better for it.
I've used runc, which worked out well for me, but it's not a "drop-in replacement" for everything Docker does; it's essentially just an OCI runtime (originally extracted from Docker I believe), but 9 times out of 10 that's what I want.

There are other tools too, such as containerd (and more I don't recall the name of first-hand), but I don't have first-hand experience with them.
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Most moderators overwhelmingly rely on the utility function you get in 3rd party apps that isn't currently in the official app, so I genuinely believe this is one aspect of the protest. I could be wrong, but I genuinely can't see a situation where this amount of action is purely around seeing ads.

Pretty unanimously, 3rd party app developers have said they'd happily show Reddit's ads in their feed, but Reddit never came out with this feature. I don't think any 3rd party app developer was expecting a free ride on Reddit's API forever.

Pretty good read, you might have already read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
Still works in gpt-3.5 although the chat name has .modelo in it whatever that is
>How many times do you get a Discord server in your Google results when searching for something?

What does this have to do with what I wrote?

>the discoverability and interoperability between unrelated niches.

Why are those niches on Reddit if Reddit isn't giving away faux forums?

>If little dictators don't get their kick from rulling lawlessly on a community anymore, I say good ridance.

Odd because I get the impression you prefer the communities those little dictators create to be on a google crawlable site over discord.
Is it?

Given how fast reactors are getting built in the US, I'd say the batteries look like they're already doing much better than the reactors.

Of course, both can change as the number are, while interesting, small.
It's not a bad decision for scripting provided the VM is lightweight enough. Things like "FORTH interpreter" or the old "BASIC stamp" microcontrollers. And it provides a degree of robustness vs running arbitrary binaries.
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> and they can have more power over employees who are physically in office.

that's superficial power
I think you may be on to a useful distinction there, but I'm not sure I agree with your implicit values.

Folks who consider themselves "high-velocity" seem to look down on process and prioritize their own productivity over the productivity of the team and the organization. They seem to believe that they'll be evaluated on number of features shipped, or tickets closed, or lines written. They seem to consider coordination with others to be overhead that distracts from "real work".

That mindset may work for small shops or independent features but in my experience successful large products are built by people who are willing to invest as much effort in coordination as they do in heads-down coding.
Exactly how are you emphasizing privacy?

Does Manjaro publish privacy practices of every software package in their repository? I would like to see more projects take the Debian approach to transparency. And for Debian to keep pushing this forward.

https://www.debian.org/social_contract

https://www.debian.org/legal/privacy

A while back, they used to publish what packages phone home.
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I have memory of the definition of a stray dog being one unaccompanied by its owner, at least in the UK, in the legislation that introduced dog licenses.

That requirement for a licence but not the actual legislation was withdrawn meaning that definition of a stray I just gave will be the law if I recall correctly.

After the passing of a amendment to remove the mandatory dog licence then began this present era of human killing violent and uncontrollable breeds that kills innocents in the UK on a daily basis.

I want to see this definition enforced to control professional untrained and incapable in any case dog walkers who parade with entirely patently pack behaviour animated hounds around our streets and parks.

Besides fouling our byways and recreation grounds on a industrial scale concomitant with the damage to human health that entails, this is unlawful menacing of the public and private unlicensed enterprise founded on the breach of the law and hence must be eradicated.

To my horror I'm recently seeing pirate dog walkers inside the old City of London aka the square mile our beautiful and peaceful financial district where you will stay for weeks without ever seeing a law enforcement officer because we don't need them to intervene in anything because civilian life carries on peacefully regardless just as I well remember it always did almost everywhere just a few decades ago.
I wonder how all the various subreddits will work without their moderators. If moderators stop doing their jobs I have a feeling many subreddits will devolve into chaos - spam, off topic posts, crazy people posting the most vile and repulsive shit, … etc.
> discover that one of my kids had done some in-app purchases coming from my credit card which I never authorized.

if the kid stole the credit card information and used it, then it's not ridiculous - it's the same as stealing cash.

It is the responsibility of the parents to punish the kid for stealing. They should know its not allowed - whether google did not confirm it or not is besides the point tbh.
That's true, and puts reddit in an even more powerful position.

If those mods were anywhere near serious about this they should just roll their own reddit and attempt to migrate their communities. I'm pretty sure that would elicit an immediate response from reddit but that would be a much harder fire to put out than this one.
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would've at least had more fun with drugs and women imho.
Shutting it down produces an emulator error: "unreachable executed". Shutting down your Mac is truly the poster child of undefined behavior! Thank Zeus this never happened yet when shutting down my hardware Mac, but who knows...
you mean the union of people who show up in the office? Surely they will care a lot about remote workers
The github project indicates "DeviceScript brings a professional TypeScript developer experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices."

If you tell me is a toy, and somebody's pet project: fine. Is all about having fun.

But then don't mention "professional" in the project description.
Take decisions :). Customization as a way to make an app better for my personal needs versus me (as a designer) not knowing how the app should be used and shifting the responsibility to the end user.
> Palmer says he’s surprised at the frankness of the report. “You’d be giving the engineers that wrote this stuff a good bollocking. You don’t normally write this down.”

Seems to me if Tesla internal quality reports are this harsh and engineers did feel comfortable writing these things down, that's a positive for company culture. You want engineers to point out problems.
I suppose to understand the premise of a newer technical idea we could look into how it is perceived in the sci-fi works.

I can not say I am any way en expert or geek for everything sci-fi so please keep in mind the below points are how I see this from my limited point of view and knowledge.

Consider mobile phones, tablets, It was mainstream on sci-fi even before it was even remotely possible on reality. Everyone, unless considered a recluse had a handheld communication device. It was not perceived as a niche product that only a limited set of people uses. It's used all of the time, not something that is reserved for particular times or places.

And considering everyone reading/watching/listening the works would want to have a piece of it, I can really say it was always meant to be mainstream if it was built. And it did.

Let's have a look on VR and AR. Is it considered mainstream in sci-fi? Like everyone without any distinction uses them? Is it something considered a timeless/place-less device that everyone has and uses? I don't say it's not considered useless. I say it's most of the time considered a niche product or device, a limited set of people has access to. Either rich/privileged or with a particular job that requires the use case. It's not considered to be used all the time. It has it's times to be used and then left to itself. And If someone is in fact uses it for extended periods or never gets out of, they are the recluse.

If I am not mistaken on how I view it, I don't think these AR/VR devices are meant to be mainstream. Perhaps a holodeck would be a wiser option to invest into?
Not the year of the Linux desktop (2013)
To be fair there are diminishing returns to additional hires, typically hiring one additional developer produces maximum 20% additional throughput, often lower after onboarding/hiring too green. You might have to double or triple team size to get 20-30% increase.

So I see the temptation to "get more done with less" although the reality is you actually drop throughput in the long term.
> By remote is meant only a few feet.

How does it enforce that? Is it just based on signal strength?

> The intended user can switch off or unplug the load in person then operate the meter.

This is just the wrong way to think about it. The "intended user" is all nice, but what can an attacker do? That is how these problems need to be analysed.
>Stability: no (who knows when the next layoffs will be)

That has more to do with at will employment than big tech.
I love my Quest and will definitely get Quest 3 but the only reason I don't use it more because it's a thing on my head and that will never be fun long-term use until it doesn't feel like a thing on my head.

Apple's take is still a thing on your head.
I agree, this won't by itself ding Reddit enough to properly move the needle, however it will raise awareness massively, and suddenly every user who has noticed a subreddit they follow has gone dark will have a "take" on how they feel about the whole situation.

I think what Reddit would prefer is a "rip off the bandaid" situation where they just get all this over and done with as quickly as possible, with the least amount of noise possible.

I think this is one major reason that until the AMA that's happening today, all official communication has been happening in backchannels despite effecting a large number of Reddit users, whether they are effected directly by a 3rd party app going away, or indirectly, by a subreddit they are a member of being moderated with worse tools.
I'm not so sure, yes the mods are pretty anonymous on the bigger subs, but they do a tonne of work and have a tonne of experience on how to actually moderate the subs. There's a whole host of rules that have grown up around each of these communities that have been learned through bitter experience. So sure, you might not notice tomorrow if /r/pics moderators all got replaced, but I guarantee you over the next 6 months the sub-reddit would change in character significantly.

You can employ paid moderators, I don't think it's a terrible idea from a quality of user experience perspective. It's an awful idea from a "We're desperately trying to get this fucking company to IPO".
Let me help you out ... I wrote this 10 years ago - https://antipaucity.com/2013/06/04/this-is-not-the-year-of-t...

And it's as true today as it was then
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Some people drink "coffee" made from roasted chicory root. I've never tried it, but it is caffeine free.
It simply points out what the ground rules are, if you want to make a point then you can do that but it won't amount to much if it doesn't lead to results.

There are actions that would be much more likely to result in a response, the mods are clearly engaging in a balancing act rather than a principled stance and I predict that if they stay this course they will simply be supplanted by more pliable individuals. A credible threat requires some actual work and preparation, not just the clicking of a link that another party controls anyway.
Why does that affect their ability to open it up?

I assume they changed facetime to not infringe the patent (which was later found invalid anyway) in response so couldn't they just have opened up the changed version?

If that lawsuit affected their ability to go forward with facetime, facetime surely wouldn't exist at all so I don't understand why it explains facetime continuing to exist but not being open.
> allow such ridiculous amounts of money to be asked for in mobile phone app.

that is just shifting the blame to some external entity for "allowing" this to be possible - a slippery slope to the idea of a nanny state.

The parent's responsibility is to raise the child to behave properly. This includes examining their actions, and consider the consequences. Free use of a mobile phone is not good parenting.
Have you thought about adding speech synthesis to it? For languages like such as English and French, with very opaque spelling, this sounds critical.
This sounds like there could be an open source version of Reddit, if the company itself doesn't add a lot of value via software features. Similar too Wikipedia. Of course the network effect favors the platform that is already big.
I would not be surprised if they announce an end to support for Old Reddit soon. They are gearing up for an IPO and want to get rid of all the non-moneymaking cruft.

Essentially what they are doing is trying to reach equilibrium in terms of users and income sources so it all looks tight on the books. They won’t IPO until they can figure out final changes in user numbers, etc.
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Until someone starts one … heck you are looking at one right now; specialised but it works in more or less the same way (with more restrictions on downvoting).
How often are entire teams at the same building ? Like the other person mentioned - you're going to meet in conference rooms with video - this was norm pre COVID.

I would say biggest benefits of in office is spontanious meet/discussion, assisting less senior coworkers etc. If I have a heavy day of work to plow through alone I avoid the office. If I need to sync or work on something with others in-person beats all the tools.
not really imho.

It should not fall to the state to regulate it, but to the parents to teach and raise the child. How did the grandparents do it when electronics hadn't existed back then?
> he doesn’t have the time to rewrite his code to be more efficient.

Reddit demands so much to make it impossible
Yea it’s not about short or long term, it’s just about shareholders and risk management.

And honestly the system actually works pretty well. Incumbents do the thing that got them the incumbent spot, and new challengers try risky stuff to see what could beat them out. Market churn and competition fuel innovation. The cost is that incumbents occasionally get dethroned but that seems like a healthy thing overall.
What questions are you asking?
> What if certain subreddits go dark for extended amounts of times, multiple weeks, maybe even a month. And then new copycat subreddits pop up, what do you think will happen?

For the most part, nothing. The new subreddits will likely be ghost towns.
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They have some quite extensive developer documentation and video dealing with how to design apps around eye tracking and maximize the precision of it:

* https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10073
>If we do get there I pity anyone with photosensitivity issues or epilepsy. They're gonna have a rough time.

I would expect the headset to have the same accessibility features for epileptics that phones have.
I run a small sub.

I have posted, asking the readers how they feel about going private.

I run my own forum, and can move the content there.
The Levoit mentioned (I have one) is tiny and only good for a small room. The comparison box fan filter can clean a lot more air over the same time period.
Thanks to LLMs traffic can be artificially boosted to the point where ghost towns feel like they have momentum. That problem just won't be getting any better.
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I don't know, it doesn't seem like that to me, I'd even say the opposite. There are plenty of groundbreaking and great inventions, so many that I think grandparents comment of calling the iPhone the greatest product ever is just biased due to it being a very recent product and very popular right now, and Apple being the most valued public company in the world at the moment. And also it's not that I don't think it's a great product and very innovative, I would definitely put it somewhere in the top 100, I just don't think it's the number 1 is all, so decided to argue that in the comments.
Great article. Just like the ones before it.

I’m waiting for the articles where people are convicted of crimes…

I won’t hold my breath, for justice anyway, just for protection from my government experimenting on me without consent while policing themselves and accountable to nobody.
Redditors have many alternatives, which is the real problem: the communities will fracture as they find new homes.
purely as a thought experiment, I wonder if given enough time, the NYC stray cat population would observe a genetic drift towards larger body size and start preying on the abundant local rat population? I never lived in NYC, and don't know how big the rats are there, but the rats I've seen (mostly at uni. biology labs) they grow to about 25cm in length (about the length from tip of index finger to tip of thumb with hand stretched out to the fullest for someone with large hands, not counting the tail), which I think is entirely within what a normal-sized adult cat can tackle.

urban rodents is a rich food source begging as an ecological niche to be filled.
“The commons are working fine for ME, how dare you protest?”
How do you plan to solve the diamond dependency problem?
> How many military avionics technicians or dental assistants or petroleum supply specialists end up committing war crimes or suffering from PTSD? Come on

In some countries, working for a criminal organization, will land you in jail.
Have you actually tried it though?

I would be willing to buy this argument if anyone who actually used the device were reporting these issues.
Those third party apps aren't commercial use of Reddit. I am the user, not the app. That's like saying you can't use Chrome to view some website that prohibits commercial usage. That argument makes no sense.
Sounds genuine totally inexperienced and at least tried.

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In this price range my recommendation would be Grand Seiko. There are microscope photos of GS and Rolex online if you search for it. You will never look at Rolex the same way ;)
This comment could be improved by addressing parents rather than mothers.
Pretty much every clothing brand out there, and usually more often than once a year.

Also at this point they don't give a damn about quality controls. E.g. there was a time when you could order shoes online rather reliably. Today? What you get in the mail is barely correlated with the size you specified on the order.

From the last 10 days: we order two pairs for our kids, size X and Y - which we selected by actually following measurement instructions of the shoe company. When the order comes, it it turns out size X is too big for the younger kid, size Y is too small for the older. We return those, and order again, this time sizes (X-1) and (Y+1). What we got is... the (X-1) shoes were identical to X shoes (therefore still too large); the (Y+1) shoes were like Y+3 - way overshooting the target.

This was same models, same company, with no logistical confusion according to labels. Just one of multiple similar events we had (and many more I heard about from others) where the size of shoes received was pretty much random. So this is one category of goods that we're going back to buying in person.

And yes, that means dragging a 1.5 y.o. and a 4 y.o. into a shoe store in a large mall - the very one I mentioned above. Yes, our kids will likely get overwhelmed by lights and wares and ads, and start making all kinds of scenes. I don't care. If the store doesn't want a scene, they should not be routinely fucking up their order sizes.
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