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by ink_13 3y ago
"Soon" on an evolutionary scale could still mean hundreds if not thousands of years. For example, wood is a great food resource for fungi, but it took millions of years for wood-eating fungi to evolve after wood.
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by ink_13 3y ago
A more rigorous curriculum? Maybe no. But better teachers? Absolutely yes. There is more to teaching than lecturing in front of a blackboard.
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by ink_13 3y ago
A lot of really good educators leave the field because the money is garbage. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Given the central role of education in our society, teachers should absolutely be paid more.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Probably not, if only for reasons of inertia. Git plus third-party review tools (like GitHub) is more than "good enough" for most purposes. I used to work at FB, and while sapling is quite nice to use in practice, without the int
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by ink_13 3y ago
Small email providers are doomed, though. If they don't have an address from their ISP, just about everybody just gets a GMail account, or ProtonMail if they're more privacy focused. I'd like to host my own mail but it'
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by ink_13 3y ago
If Reddit isn't going to value its communities, it's just going to turn into a clone of the bloated corpse of "I Can Has Cheeseburger", an endless stream of cat pictures and short videos, posted and reposted. High in tr
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by ink_13 3y ago
Minorly profitable, though, not "giant IPO" profitable. Reddit has investors who clearly want their money back with a nice return on top.
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by ink_13 3y ago
> Did I get that wrong? Yes. You can't just insert your own API key into the app of your choice.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Sounds like the real problem is that those questions were drowning out all other content. Personally I don't object to moderators setting rules that reduce noise. Or, to put it another way, moderating.
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by ink_13 3y ago
It's a first step. I agree that in the longer term it will be necessary for continuing action, but you start with a warning shot, not scorched earth.
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by ink_13 3y ago
The choices are not just "third party apps get a free lunch" or "third-party apps pay $millions". Even Selig admits there's a middle ground where API pricing is reasonable. Or maybe just restricted to Reddit Gold
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by ink_13 3y ago
The value of reddit is not in the backend.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Some subs held polls, and in every one that I saw, the strike was quite broadly popular. I think characterizing this as a few power mods throwing their toys out of the pram is unfair.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Nonsense. People can absolutely choose to disengage.
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by ink_13 3y ago
The most obvious answer is that killing third-party apps is intentional. It would have been a reasonable compromise to cut off API access to users who don't have Reddit Gold, but that's off the table, because it doesn't juice
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by ink_13 3y ago
He seems to be attempting to use a technique known as DARVO ("deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender") to smear the Apollo dev. This happens sometimes when people who know they've done something wrong are held account
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by ink_13 3y ago
I don't see it that way. That was just a proposed business transaction: reddit pays a fee, and in exchange, the Apollo dev doesn't comment publicly on the API changes. What's the threat, real or implied? The alternative i
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by ink_13 3y ago
The goal here is to negotiate. You don't open a negotiation by going scorched earth.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Enh, sort of. You can write an Automod rule to always remove content from one or more specific users.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Pre-pandemic, you never heard of tech companies doing across-the-board layoffs unless things were going quite poorly. There might have been staff reductions, but they would be targeted: a company axes an entire division, e.g. Now it seems
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by ink_13 3y ago
I had Reddit Gold for over a decade for exactly this reason. I've cancelled my subscription.
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by ink_13 3y ago
This is a romantic view but completely false. Reddit admins over the years have always completely backed the view that subs belong to their moderators.
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by ink_13 3y ago
People have been using third-party clients to access Reddit for more than 13 years. When you have that kind of history, a change like this is difficult to seem like anything but a rug-pull.
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by ink_13 3y ago
You'd have an easier time grabbing pieces with Lilypond engraving files available and converting those to MIDI: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/creati...
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by ink_13 3y ago
You are misinformed. Consider the engineering challenges alone.
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by ink_13 3y ago
But he's still a billionaire! There is no tangible difference between being worth $1B and $100B beyond social cachet. It is impossible to spend meaningful money at that level.
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by ink_13 3y ago
Lutke and Zuckerberg are billionaires. It is literally impossible for them to run out of money. Their grandchildren's grandchildren will be born incomprehensibly wealthy. They have won at capitalism. But they also captain their firs
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by ink_13 3y ago
Lutke's not a hero, he's a mini-Zuckerberg: he still runs the company he founded as CEO, but he has already made more than enough money to comfortably retire. Also like Zuckerberg, his company might be better off without him at t
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by ink_13 3y ago
Agreed, this take is totally backwards. It is the news companies that benefit from having their material on Facebook/Google/etc. The news could disappear from those platforms and they'd be fine. The real problem seems to be
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by ink_13 3y ago
Maybe I'm just a dummy who should stick to scripting, but I had exactly the opposite reaction: based on everything I've seen, this is wholly uninteresting. I can't imagine a single practical application that isn't more

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