Yes, because you’ll be too busy being infuriated by badly designed user interfaces that you realize could have so easily been better.

I had an assembly class in college. I didn’t love of at all. Got my first job after graduating and it was writing space shuttle engine control software, which was in assembly. I was kind of surprised at how fast it became natural after dealing with it full time. Still, it felt luxurious when we upgraded the controller and could do the software in C.

What are you taking about, he didn’t bait anyone. You aren’t obligated to honor a quote from someone who isn’t in your company. If I said my son is a mechanic and he can put a new engine in your car for $50, you absolutely should not expect a $50 engine.

Yep, you get it. And it’s really hard to get people to understand the value in learning to do that stuff without the tools.

We do a lot of real-time control software, and just yesterday we were taking about how the newer folks are really good at using available tools and libraries, but they have less understanding of what’s happening underneath and they have problems when those tools don’t/can’t do what we need.

Apparently he wants everything written in COBOL

One of the things I look for in employees is the ability to distill complex topics into the important elements and explain it to someone unfamiliar. Some people are just naturally good at it, and it’s a really important skill for moving up a leadership chain.

Oh, nice way to spend the points.

The Relay developer seems pretty smart. He got enough donations to keep running and letting people use the app after the transitions and has been making a huge number of API call optimizations. He thinks he’s gotten it down to where he can keep going with a reasonable/small subscription price. I don’t think he can hit people with an after-the-fact bill, but at some point it will stop working without paying the subscription. I’m not paying for my very minor activity on a tiny, private sub, and I’m not contributing to paying Reddit any money, so that will be the end for me.

I’m also a Relay user. I had been using the free version for several years. When it looked like Relay was going to go under like the rest, I felt bad and paid for Pro as a thank you. So now I still have use of it, but sure how long that will last.

I stopped going to Reddit in mid June except for one very small private sub. I figure being private means Reddit doesn’t get much from my visits there. If I lose access to Relay, I’ll probably stop totally though - not sure I could switch to the web interface and I’m not going to install their app.

On the one hand, on the surface, my wife and I seem to anecdotally validate the data since we met online. On the other hand, it was 1994, and it was just a discussion BBS, not a dating site. We talked online for a few months before we met, and even then it was just a site meet-and-greet at a pizza place. We didn’t start dating until months after that.

White light has all the different colors in it - that’s why a prism or water drops can make a rainbow by making the different colors come out at slightly different angles. When you have, say, red paint, it’s reflecting the red light and absorbing all the rest. Same for any other color. So when you mix paint, you’re mixing stuff that absorbs different parts of the light, the more different ones you’re mixing in the more you’re absorbing. Mix all the colors and you get a dark grey going on black because it’s absorbing most of the light.

But with computers, you’re not mixing things that absorb light, you’re mixing the light itself. If you mix all the colors of light together, you get white (like doing the reverse of making a rainbow). So the formulas for making colors are kind of inverted from mixing paint.

Heh, I had the same thought - a number of people commented on the correct topic even though the link was wrong. In fairness, I did that a lot on Reddit, but it was mostly because I had already read news coverage on the topic, and came to the Reddit thread for the comments.

Thanks, I sure did (I posted the images in mildly interesting earlier). Link and title corrected.

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world, if you required a physical form in order to better interact with humans in a remote or mobile environment, what would that form look like in order to maximize both locomotion and emotional impact on humans?

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world what do you think is the biggest problem in the United States today?

It’s really not, at least for the text part. Text posts and comments take almost nothing and storage continues to get cheaper.

Mainstream platforms are selling out because they’ve always had others and shareholders who ultimately want to make money.

I disagree. One big hunk of value of a place like this is being able to look back at old threads. How many times did people say they always put “Reddit” in front of their Google searches to get the information they were looking for? This could be the same.

Funny, I thought it was much more interesting to have a discussion about it and see what other people thought. But you feel free to downvote this and move on.

I wasn’t on Reddit then; did they do the same kind of mass thread copying, even with discussion threads?

I’m not making an ethical criticism, I’m saying coping over a bunch of discussion threads from another site isn’t the kind of content most people here are going to engage with. We see post after post copied from a bot - why would we go into the thread and make a comment?