OldManRyan

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by OldManRyan 3y ago
This response reads like the responses third-party reddit client developers gave when the API changes were announced. "What's going to happen? We don't know but we have a great working relationship with reddit and they said i
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Linus from Linus Tech Tips was recently talking about how people have telling him he should kill the forum which is just a cost sink and just fully embrace the subreddit for years and he has adamantly refused for exactly this reason. Your e
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
How often are you stepping in dog shit that this is a concern?
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I have a Braveheart edition Pinephone for experiments. I know that Pine64 devices are very bluntly a work in progress. I'm more specifically talking about Librem in this case.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
You don't need to understand it according to Librem. They are marketing a "user-friendly"(their words) replacement for iPhone and Android. If this was a product sold for the most hardcore Linux users who dream about bash scri
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
They shouldn't need to understand it. I don't understand the first thing about how my phone works or mobile development in general. It just works and does what I need it to do.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Me: Hey AI how do I do this using X? AI: Why would you ever want to do that using X? You should do Y. Me: Well I need to do it using X because of these reasons. AI: ...That's dumb. You should just do Y.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
You aren't going to make any meaningful change with that mindset because as far as many in the industry as concerned open offices are good enough. The lift from going from open office to 100% private offices is likely too much to move
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
What is the problem with this image?
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
This isn't The Sims. You can't always purchase the exact amount of square footage you need where you need it. Opening a second office or moving offices is not a casual endeavor.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I made no mention of cost. There is not enough square footage in my office to make a private office that doesn't feel like a sardine can for everyone.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
What is a good alternative to open offices that make efficient use of space? Creating private offices for everyone seems like it would use quite a bit more square footage.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
You can't compare this to COVID loan fraud. Those are apples and oranges. COVID relief loans had requirements but the watchdog that was meant to oversee it was rendered toothless. In this situation the only chance of you fraud is someo
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I was talking about this book with a friend and they worked for the state qualifying people for government benefits. Think food stamps, welfare, etc etc. They said their job was a bullshit job. Why? Their reasoning was if you eliminated all
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Yes, as I said, that is not what is happening in this instance.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
IANAL but having dealt with GDPR lawyers in a past career, GDPR allows you to anonymize user data as in, if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here but it
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
A bad critique of the term. Systemic harm isn't binary.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
You might be misunderstanding what Cal Newport is saying here because he agrees with you. He is saying is the people who stay on top of their inboxes and multitask are perceived as being the most productive, not that they are in fact the mo
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Part of reddit's API changes were going to prevent NSFW content from being viewed through the API but they reversed course on that.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Feedback is a requirement for deliberate practice and I have a damn hard time finding a place to get good coding feedback.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Is it lucky or was that situation an anomaly? Some people are unhinged but they are also keyboard warriors. I doubt even the unhinged redditors are going to go out and start assaulting people over this.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I also added reddit to my ublock filters. Amazing how I never realized how often I go on autopilot and type reddit.com/r/whateversubreddit. If anyone else wants to do it, just add ||reddit.com^$all to your filters in ublock origi
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I think you are reading "beating" as higher user count. I read it as better features and user experience. But even in terms of user count, enough people are using third-party clients like Apollo that reddit deemed it worthy to kil
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
This is something you should absolutely be prepared for and guard against if you are opening a public demo account.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
One of the subreddits I subbed to has gone dark and I cannot access it so I can confirm this is not true.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
I do agree this is an issue that needs to be addressed but you are also posting this on a website that is heavily moderated and runs as smoothly as it does because of the efforts of dang and the other moderators so I can't agree that r
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
The developer of RES said they do not know if the changes will hit them and it is up in the air. > Reddit's public statements have been limited on this method, however we have been told we should see minimal impact via this route. H
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
> The vast majority of people who are visiting subreddits are doing so because they're actively seeking out the material being presented to them. These people are subscribers to the subreddits. Subreddits that "go dark" ar
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
Both. A few are in the 500k+ sub range and some are way under that and more niche.
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by OldManRyan 3y ago
reddit is not a community. The subreddits are the community. I don't care about reddit as a whole but there are individual subreddits that if they change or go away then I no longer have a reason to use reddit.

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