Radium @ Radium @sh.itjust.works

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It was real, but totally unrelated to this.

I’m a web developer, that is absolutely not how any of this works.

Their claim that the scripts are failing causing comments to be restored is not possible. When you make a request to a website the site returns a success or fail status. The scripts are getting success statuses, the users are manually checking and seeing that their posts are deleted and then they reappear later. This means there is a mechanism between step 2 and 3 being run by Reddit affecting an already completed action.

Don’t comment on stuff like this unless you have any idea what you’re talking about.

Paywalled 🤷‍♂️

That shunt from Perez hurt to watch

Anyone smart enough to explain how the gearbox change will affect racing?

If you set it up correctly it defaults to a specific flag state if it can’t connect. I.e. always show the user the old treatment instead of the new if you can request the actual state of their enrollment.

They get blocked constantly and my old company just routed the requests through our domain so they’d stop getting blocked

Definitely! I’ve used them for years and they are super convenient. Especially in small space living. I have a small server setup in a closet that is a direct attached raid array with an m1 Mac and an Intel nuc on top.

In general I prefer the max because it can do a lot with very minimal heat generation but using a Mac mini as a server has a few downsides that you won’t run into with a nuc. Things like arm vs x86, no way to run the OS headless, cost, etc…

Yeah, I’m also a web developer and this person is completely up their own ass. We’ve all struggled with browsers that lag behind standards (internet explorer) or implement them in weird ways (safari). But Mozilla has never even come close to being a problem like the others.

Also I doubt they are using the newest of new web standards that would actually need to be poly filled and even then with modern JS build tooling poly filling isn’t difficult or abnormal. Oh, the bundle for your crappy SPA might be a few kb bigger but that isn’t gonna make a difference.

Listening to podcasts on closed source, corporate media platforms like Spotify and YouTube are the worst things you can do for podcasting. Podcasting has always been an open ecosystem built on old school technologies and Spotify, iHeartMedia, and YouTube are trying to insert themselves in order to create an additional Chokepoint in the media ecosystem. Even worse, because podcasts are usually freely available it is a great way to get people who subscribe to streaming services to spend their time streaming something the service doesn’t have to pay per stream for, unlike music

AI does not equal pattern matching and machine learning

Might be alone here but louder cars don’t make for better racing. I’d rather make all the cars quieter and do less damage to everyone’s hearing, make it more enjoyable to see in person, easier to hold races in heavily populated areas, etc…

They are protected from losses by their existing profitable market share ( in the billions) so it is unethical to use a tool created to help negate risk for those without the safety of an existing profitable market. There is an immense privilege in being the current dominant party in a market, and we live in a world that has put laws in place to protect companies who become the dominant party in a market instead of laws that equalize the market.

If we were all playing this game as kids, what phillips is doing would be seen as totally unfair, so why is it okay now that we are adults?

Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.

The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.

More likely just moved to cold storage to save money. It’s expensive to keep data in an easily accessible database. If you don’t need to access it you can move it to object storage for pennies on the dollar and still keep it accessible for whatever nefarious data brokers you want to sell it to in the future

Put them all in the Porsche super cup cars, they’re there anyway as a support race

I found a few orders to read the books in on Reddit and chose to go with the chronological order. I’m currently on foundation and so far its worked pretty well. There were a few other orders that had their own benefits so might be worth a duck duck go. But here is the chronological order:

1. I, Robot [ROBOTS]
2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]
3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]
4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]
5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]
6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]
7. The Stars, Like Dust-- [EMPIRE]
8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]
9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]
10. Foundation [FOUNDATION]
11. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION
12. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]
13. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]
14. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]
15. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]
16. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]

Yeah, the I robot movie has nothing to do with the I robot book. Similar ideas but different stories, etc… I was super surprised when I read I, Robot.

The Robot series by Asimov are a scifi detective novels centered around a humanoid robot named r. Daneel who works with a earthling detective.

Not sure I can get behind this one. This is a quote from the write up you linked and while I agree these comments are dumb, a “don’t use this because our font won’t support it or a no it’s the editors that are wrong and should change” approach feel ridiculous.

Sometimes programmers rely on the monospaced grid to create a second column of values or comments on the right side of the page. It’s true, these secondary columns won’t align in a proportionally spaced font. But why are we making these columns in the first place? Even in a monospaced font they can be finnicky and hard to maintain. In virtually every other form of typography, the responsibility of alignment is given to the typesetting application, not the font. If source code editors can highlight syntax, they could also interpret tabs and syntax to create true, adjustable columns of text.

No

You sound like a super happy person, I’m sure people love spending time with you