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by zahlman 3mo ago
No; editing a post to meet the site's style expectations is not moderation, and I was not a moderator, just like 99.9% of everyone described anonymously and incorrectly as "a mod" in discussions of Stack Overflow on the Inter
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> That's ridiculous and you're wrong. I grant them a CC license to my content to fold, spindle and mutilate it for their own purposes, but not to leave my name attached to the folded, spindled, mutilated version. The choice of
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> but it's so utterly unlike how any other website works that unless you take a huge amount of effort to explain this to people, gently, then it's not at all surprising that people just bounce off of it. It is, and that's
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by zahlman 3mo ago
If thousands of Americans travelled to a tiny country where cars drive on the left, and all tried to drive on the right as they do at home, would that make the country in the wrong? Would it be a "serious endemic problem" with the
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by zahlman 3mo ago
The site was always going to die. That is completely okay. Things are allowed to exist without chasing a profit motive. Communities are allowed to form on for-profit platforms, and they should not be required to have the platform's com
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> It's just not that important to me for a dead site. I get it, that means "just trust me bro" is in play. See, this is the part where I'm actually getting insulted by the invocation of the "bro" language. N
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PEP 829 – Package Startup Configuration Files(peps.python.org)
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tl;dr: a new feature is coming in Python 3.15 whereby the `import` lines (which allow arbitrary code execution by design) in .pth files will be skipped whenever a corresponding .start file is found in the same folder; this file specifies on
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> overt deletionism. It wasn't enough to just close the questions, they actually felt the need to delete the content people put effort into writing as well. The site has more than three times as many publicly-visible questions as
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> Yeah, I had several questions popped for being an "opinion" question whatever that means. lol. Meanwhile, I saw so many people come to the meta site apparently completely unable to understand that a question leading off w
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> Sometimes a new question was in fact a duplicate and should be closed as such. But in the quest to close duplicates I pretty frequently had to argue with the reviewer that "No, this isn't a duplicate just because these two qu
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> As someone who came into the industry in college, the problem with SO was simply that it was too hard to ask a question. That's because you were intended to use the site like GP describes, and not by asking simply because you
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> I do edit Wikipedia from time to time, and while you can always find drama everywhere, newbies are welcomed not thrown rule books. I've lost count of the times that other editors insisted that I log into my account and stop postin
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Your site score came to mean something -- I once had a hiring CTO say "Oh you have some popular answers on the techs we use" This was a bad idea, and worked terribly. I have over 1800 answers on the site, many of them detaile
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Would you be willing to show questions you attempted to ask? I'd be happy to help explain how policy works/worked there.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
You could not unilaterally edit anonymously; your edit would have been put in a review queue. It is good that leaving comments is hard. First off, because it was learned repeatedly, the hard way, that removing that barrier leads to ungodl
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> An edit that made a response worse should have knocked the mod down so that they were unable to mod any more. Literally everyone on the site is permitted to propose an edit, and everyone with at least 2000 reputation can make unilatera
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by zahlman 3mo ago
It is taken very seriously in Stack Overflow editing policy that edits are not supposed to go against the author's apparent intent. But it does involve removing a lot of things that you might want the answer to say, but don't me
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Their rules, (I believe unintentionally) give iron-fisted fiefdom rulers a toolbox of justifications to control and alienate under the guise of protecting the quality of the site data. That isn't what happens. I know many, many pe
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> StackExchange had ridiculously high barriers to participation Only in terms of asking new questions, because this was never intended to be the primary use of the site. The entire point of the model is that one person asking a good
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by zahlman 3mo ago
https://nitter.net/i/article/2078446083496108282
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by zahlman 3mo ago
…Do these devices just not work on Linux or something?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> simply because hardware vendors haven't standardized enough to build automatic deployment pipelines Wouldn't it require cooperation from the distros anyway? You say "HDMI and DP also have two-way communication channels&q
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by zahlman 3mo ago
That sounds like the opposite of what they expect from each other…
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Personally I'd be interested in trying it remotely, but I don't have a webcam and don't really want to transmit my voice or image over the Internet.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I can't imagine what word might have been autocorrected to "roof" that would make more sense here.
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> I do think you're simply reading their rule in a way that's not intended by them. I share a similar apprehension, although it's hard to put into words exactly. Across the entire document, really. Like, it's clearly
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By my read of the intended culture, it shouldn't really change anything within the RC experience itself. The "social rules" are such that enthusiasts and skeptics should be able to work side by side, and show each other thing
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> but I use it to correct typos I made when recording the macro. Oh you mean like, now that you have the keystrokes inserted into the current document temporarily, edit and move back to a register?
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I think takes like GP's are perfectly reasonable to express and it aggravates me that HN seems not to like that. The competition for the AI work here is explicitly not aiming at a niche audience. If that human work is nevertheless high

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