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by mjr00 3y ago
> You can just ignore things you don't like! I do think this is one of the big hidden problems with upvote/like systems. Seeing a post you don't like or disagree with on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit with a lot of like
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by mjr00 3y ago
> While you have learned a lot about LLMs and generative AI for instance, it is extremely unlikely you have learned from the most well informed sources. 4chan is certainly not the best source compared to, say, scientific papers or techni
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by mjr00 3y ago
Part of spez's job is to be the lightning rod for controversial decisions. The board I'm sure is pushing for the same things (increases in pricing, driving users to the official app) in order to boost metrics before the IPO. Aside
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by mjr00 3y ago
> The human will be acting at least as a curator, because not everything created by AI is going to be pleasing, so some selection and catering to human taste will be required. Yes, and keep in mind humans are already doing this! It&#x2
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by mjr00 3y ago
> the simple answer is that your motivations for being an artist need to change to be exclusively personal fulfillment. because that was true for the pre-AI world, as you essentially described, and its true-er for this current-AI world.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> It's not that there isn't enough electronic music being made, it's that every new track that lands on soundcloud is a drop in the ocean of mediocrity. There is _too_ much to listen to, and 99.9% is just boring to listen
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by mjr00 3y ago
Calling them "lowlifes" is too far, but you're absolutely right that there are hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of users who would jump at the chance to moderate any given subreddit with 10k+ subscribers. For
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by mjr00 3y ago
Twitter exists because of celebrities, politicians, journalists, musicians, etc. And those users have largely not migrated to Mastodon. Maybe you could argue they're promoting more on Tiktok now, but that's a bit of a different pl
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by mjr00 3y ago
> But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down inde
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by mjr00 3y ago
> That decision sparked worker outrage. More than 2,000 comments have been posted on Farmers employees’ internal social-media platform, most of which were negative or crying and angry emojis, according to postings viewed by The Wall Stre
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by mjr00 3y ago
As one example I know someone who moderates the "official" subreddit for a game, which isn't even that popular, and they get all of the DLC/microtransaction cosmetics for that game for free in return.
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Some of the communities have announced they will remain dark until Reddit reverses their decision, so it will vary by community. If the sub is popular enough Reddit will take it over and appoint new mods. Has happened before and will h
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by mjr00 3y ago
Except for the most part, Reddit mods aren't employees; they're not even volunteers. They're users and customers of the site. They just happen to be users with access to more features than most.
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by mjr00 3y ago
The methodology is "(likes + shares + comments)/followers", and the two platforms that allegedly provide the highest engagement are the ones with an order of magnitude fewer followers. A more likely explanation is that fewer
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by mjr00 3y ago
I've never heard of Dragonfly before this, and I see it's a Redis competitor, but the examples here really stretch the definition of what it means to be "not boring." > how your junior team member ran "flushdb&
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by mjr00 3y ago
> It will really go into freefall when they go public later this year, after which I'm certain you'll start seeing more intrusive monetization. Yep, and with more intrusive monetization comes stricter content controls. Once Re
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by mjr00 3y ago
As much as hospital administrators love to blame COVID for underpaying and overworking healthcare professionals, a person dying because they got a late cancer diagnosis because they couldn't see a family doctor for 6 months because of
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by mjr00 3y ago
There is no conclusion that all of those deaths were due to COVID, and the article is irresponsible for implying as much even after repeatedly saying that attributing all the excess deaths to COVID is jumping to conclusions. Some other thin
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Training a model on a bunch of images by {artist}, and then telling it "Generate me 20 images in the style of {artist}" seems pretty close to this ruling. No, it's not close at all. Did you look at the images in question
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by mjr00 3y ago
This ruling has next to nothing to do with generative AI. If anything, the fact that there was enough ambiguity that it took 35+ years for a court to decide that someone tracing a photograph was, in fact, not fair use is a good indication
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by mjr00 3y ago
You're the first person in this thread to mention micro services. The discussion has been around broader service-oriented architecture. Sometimes those services can be quite large, in which case the boilerplate overhead is not nearly
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by mjr00 3y ago
This helps, but doesn't fully solve the problem. You still end up using the same runtime so it's not like the teams are fully independent. Classic problem is you have a /Team1 and /Team2 folder (or library that gets impo
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by mjr00 3y ago
If you require all services to constantly be updated with the latest versions of libraries, you've built a distributed monolith, which is generally acknowledged as being far worse than both independent services and an actual monolith.
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by mjr00 3y ago
I think it is both an awful idea and very common. In the early stages your database looks very similar (if not identical) to what you want your API to look like, so it's very tempting to reduce boilerplate by having your API and databa
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by mjr00 3y ago
Business logic belongs in services, not libraries. If you're copying nontrivial business logic into different services, that's a big red flag; you need to pick a service to be the single source of truth for that business logic and
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by mjr00 3y ago
Agreed with all of this. I consider the API structure (which might be defined by protobuf/Avro/Thrift/etc) to be separate from anything that is used by either the server or client services. The API structure is the only thi
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by mjr00 3y ago
In the first paragraph, that doc echoes exactly what I explain. > You need to carefully assess the application architecture before adopting this pattern, and make sure that you avoid hot tables (single tables that are shared among multip
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by mjr00 3y ago
I do worry the pendulum will swing too far the other way. Having a separate Lambda function for every web request "because microservices" sucks, but having a single codebase worked on by 200+ engineers also comes with a lot of p
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by mjr00 3y ago
I hate to be the guy who says "you aren't doing services right," but... you aren't doing services right. > Each service has to be maintained and deployed and increases the boilerplate needed for shared data structures
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by mjr00 3y ago
I do think specifying JVM/PG/k8s in that comment was a mistake. Boring tech will be different for different people and companies. Boring tech doesn't just mean it's time-tested and battle-hardened, it means you have deep

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