adamc

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by adamc 3y ago
They don't have a mechanism to easily find competent, committed mods. Incompetent mods will create evaporation of users.
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by adamc 3y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Users can certainly create new subreddits, but new, compelling subreddits usually require... committed mods. Where are they going to come from, and why wouldn't they also care about these cha
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by adamc 3y ago
I don't think the users mostly care about the mods directly. They will care about the effects of not having motivated, committed mods, because it makes the subreddits less pleasant or compelling to use. That is, there wouldn't be
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by adamc 3y ago
Well, I may be boycotting reddit forever, I guess. Had enough.
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by adamc 3y ago
No, you resign, if you are a decent human being.
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by adamc 3y ago
They should be hunted down.
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by adamc 3y ago
Blue checkmarks are now widely mocked.
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by adamc 3y ago
10 to 1 they burn.
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by adamc 3y ago
No. Then again, I never use the reddit front page, and don't care (personally). If subreddits move, reddit's front page won't avail them much.
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by adamc 3y ago
Yeah, that narrative works for lots of products. But humans aren't cows and can walk away, and it has happened before. Arguably, it's happening now on Facebook and Twitter. Reddit will just be another dying product idea.
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by adamc 3y ago
Untrue. Discord is the obvious alternative. Increasing numbers of communities are already there.
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by adamc 3y ago
I find this fascinating (in part because I see that tension -- features that, at least initially, help the company but make the product less usable to the actual users -- in other products). The long-term fate of apps filled with features t
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by adamc 4y ago
There is so much to dislike about your answer, but let's start with this: You haven't established that it was "character assassination", rather than a rather honest assessment of character, in any of these cases... and I
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by adamc 4y ago
We need a different process, and no, I don't know what. But the current system is electing people based on sound-bites and posturing. The results, which are terrible, speak for themselves.
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by adamc 4y ago
The suggestion needs evidence to be anything more than ideology.
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by adamc 4y ago
It's a step. The right to repair should apply to many items beyond farm equipment, but hey, it's still a win.
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by adamc 4y ago
You might be right, but I tend to think more people have ideas than can afford to follow them up.
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by adamc 4y ago
The court is corrupt. They may not realize it, but that's what this is.
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by adamc 4y ago
Love this series; have been watching for a few years now. I wish we put more resources into educational materials of this level (and with this kind of universal access) as a country.
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by adamc 4y ago
I used to do this in interviews -- give people problems not because I cared whether they got "the" answer, but because it gives you a chance to see their brain work. The problem with this is that many, many interviewers do this ba
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by adamc 4y ago
Yes. NYTimes link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/media/tucker-car...
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by adamc 4y ago
Good, maybe games will start doing a better job with font-scaling. Steam's awful UI would be one place to start. (Yes, it scales on the web, but not in their steam app unless you go to a lot of trouble.) It was a more reasonable limita
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by adamc 4y ago
I haven't looked very hard, but `pip install codegraph` didn't result in a codegraph command anywhere. (This was macos, using a Python 3.8 venv.) Digging around a bit found a 'cg' command, which seems to be codegraph (ba
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by adamc 4y ago
It does. And the editor design, where almost everything of significance is just a function you can call/advise etc. from user code, makes it the most supple editor on earth. That's why I'm still there. But... Pretty huge lear
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by adamc 4y ago
I've used emacs daily for maybe 15 years (and not as daily before that). I think I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's certainly the most customizable editor I can think of, but over time, that can be a burden. And i
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by adamc 4y ago
JSON is great, but I surely wish it supported comments. That's the nature of its failings: too minimal.
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by adamc 4y ago
The database is often arranged and optimized differently than one used to support operations, and a lot of things are often done to make what would otherwise be long-running, slow queries faster -- e.g., aggregating or otherwise summarizing
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by adamc 4y ago
It was in physics. Maybe that played a part.
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by adamc 4y ago
I think he started college at 12 or maybe 13.
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by adamc 4y ago
"Every" is too strong, but it's common, I agree. I infer it is very challenging to get things to work across web platforms (browsers and OS versions).

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