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by bshipp 3y ago
Even if subreddits don't go dark, the impact will be rapidly observable in August as moderation becomes extremely difficult and subreddit support bots that eliminate spam and maintain post quality stop working.
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by bshipp 3y ago
I have only moderated relatively small subreddits with hundreds of users and even that was an exhausting slog that was only made feasible with third party subreddit tools. if you think it's difficult to maintain moderator consistency n
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by bshipp 3y ago
Once third-party tools are gone those huge subreddits will degrade quickly. Moderating a busy subreddit becomes very cumbersome using the native tools, so even if they don't go dark we will see a dramatic decrease in browsing quality a
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by bshipp 3y ago
I would think so. Bots are already rate-limited when accessing the API so it's hard to see how this has increased server load, unless there's something funky in the backend involving private/dark subreddits.
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by bshipp 3y ago
"Economic upsides" are directly related to the values assigned. If no value is assigned to death and trauma, it's quite possible that a net positive is recorded by knocking down a bunch of old building and highways and rebuil
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by bshipp 3y ago
My wife is a CPA accountant and I'll go out on a limb and say that 80% of her time is spent doing the equivalent of data cleaning and validation. The balance of her time is making judgement calls so she can appropriately reconcile noti
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by bshipp 4y ago
If the pipeline is no longer an economic tool, it becomes a political tool. NS2 had never carried a burp of gas, and NS1 had been empty for months before it blew. Both were pressurized with inert gas to keep from collapsing. So if Russia i
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by bshipp 4y ago
You are correct, I will change the wording. It's been a long day at work and my brain is fried.
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by bshipp 4y ago
The USA is not benefiting in any appreciable way from the loss of NS2. While LNG shipments are certainly higher, it's a drop in the bucket compared to overall production volumes. To verify this, just look at how far the US spot market
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by bshipp 4y ago
it'd be nice for them to make the final determination but there's little doubt it was Russia. The pipelines were already empty and economically useless, they were blown out in non-NATO waters, there was lots of Russian naval activ
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by bshipp 4y ago
I agree, although I really wish Django and sqlAlchemy would have evolved similar methods/APIs. My struggle is flipping between projects that use one or the other and tripping over the syntax. Edit: grammar
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by bshipp 4y ago
Absolutely correct. Reading my post, I realize my conclusion was unclear: each successive elimination of corruption within Ukraine, starting in the 2010's, was more and more threatening to Putin and his oligarch cronies until pressure
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by bshipp 4y ago
Please don't misunderstand me, Ukraine is a sovereign country with the right to choose their own destiny. The only blame to be assigned is on Russia. I was just outlining the timeline and showing that their desire to join EU/NATO
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by bshipp 4y ago
You mean beyond the 2014 Maidan Revolution and restoration of the 2004 constitutional modifications that began the process of moving toward the EU? Or the 2019 constitutional amendment that placed joining the EU and NATO as a strategic obj
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by bshipp 4y ago
Ukraine's inability to root out corruption so that it could join the EU/NATO wasn't some national failing as much as a very active Russian FSB/SVR presence inside Ukraine that prevented any significant reforms. The inva
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by bshipp 4y ago
No one was ever going to invade a country with ICBMs. The invasion occurred because of Ukraine's movement toward the EU which, eventually, would curtail the ability of Putin and the oligarchs to swindle Russias oil and gas wealth throu
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by bshipp 4y ago
Probably not, but as soon as I get back to my laptop I'll queue a server containing rclone to haul individual files into an archive, squish them, and upload the zip file.
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by bshipp 4y ago
If the OS is Windows, I'd suggest anyone struggling with lag make absolutely certain that the project and scratch folders are excluded from Defender real-time scanning. It makes a huge difference.
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by bshipp 4y ago
As a former truck driver, I just can't see the government or insurance companies allowing self-driving 80,000lb trucks on a highway that also contains passenger-carrying automobiles. The liability is tremendous and it will take a decad
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by bshipp 4y ago
I don't read it that way at all. You would no more be able to steal someone's image and pretend it was them than you could use a famous bands music in your soundtrack without paying for it. As I see it, a budding filmmaker could u
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by bshipp 4y ago
I'm telling my kids to get their tractor-trailer license. It'll be 30 years before trucks will be allowed to travel completely autonomously along the road, and in the meantime they'll have autopilot that removes most of the m
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by bshipp 4y ago
I have no dog in this fight, but perhaps I can offer a contrarian position. I hope people are able to look past how this technology will disrupt the status quo into the future of how such technology will enable much better cinematic story-t
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by bshipp 4y ago
My issue is that I have 40 dockerized containers set up behind a reverse proxy and, although I want to play with k8s to learn, I've already dumped so much time and effort into docker-compose that I'm cautious about migrating to a
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by bshipp 4y ago
While I can't argue spreadsheets are a programming language, I would put forward that they are definitely a programming gateway drug for analysts. At least, from my experience, having to easily handle more rows than could be represente
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by bshipp 4y ago
I'm no expert, but I'm amazed how much server you can get for little money from a discount provider like Hetzner vs AWS. There's a large gulf between fully on-prem and using Azure/AWS that doesn't have the same per
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by bshipp 4y ago
This existed from 1933 until 1999 in the original Glass-Steagall Act until greedy bank investors couldn't handle the fact that they were sitting on a huge pile of capital that they couldn't gamble with on Wall Street. Depositors w
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by bshipp 4y ago
I use miniconda on Linux but it's never attempted to install graphics drivers on Windows.
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by bshipp 4y ago
Shredding/sledgehammer is likely the best option for secure disposal of mechanical drives, but SSDs are a different animal and are likely reusable given some of the suggestions in this thread.
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by bshipp 4y ago
The download size is large but conda doesn't ruin any existing configuration unless you explicitly tell it to be your native python environment. Conda is set up as a self-contained set of independent environments. Why would your system
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by bshipp 4y ago
So many courses demand you start in a text editor and I understand the rationale but I write almost everything in PyCharm and strongly encourage everyone to find a comfortable IDE. If the intention of coding in Python is to get stuff done q

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