newport
11mo ago
If the API crackdown is really about LLM training data (which it probably is), old.reddit is almost guaranteed to be either eliminated completely or cut down to nu-reddit levels of functionality (only showing 3 comments at a time) because it is so easily scrapeable in current form.
I expect this to happen as soon as the hype around the API lockdown dissipates.
The trees in my parents' neighborhood have finally matured enough for barred (not barn) owls to move in, and now I hear them every time I visit. One night about a year ago I woke up to find one sitting on a branch outside the window, maybe 8 feet away from me. Its size was awe-inspiring.
newport
11mo ago
Maybe it's diluted by a bunch of users who only use it for a few minutes per day.
I strongly suspect this is it. API requests are measured in exact numbers, so a reddit addict that spends 10 hours a day scrolling on Apollo will rack up roughly an OOM more request cost than a causal user that spends an hour or less scrolling on RIF. I'd hazard a guess that heavier users may prefer a different interface than casual users.
newport
1yr ago
I played viola for 7 years in grade school, up until I graduated high school. I was naturally good enough at it to land ~second chair +/- 1 up until it got fairly competitive in later high school, and if I'd actually applied myself at all I probably could've played in the competitive auditioned extracurricular orchestras. Alas I am chronically lazy.
I miss it sometimes, mostly for the type of people it surrounded me with.
newport
1yr ago
Of the twentysomethings I know that use nicotine (myself included, see username), almost all of them follow the same pattern that I do: vaping regularly throughout the day, and infrequently indulging in smoked tobacco only in social/ritual settings. I get through a pack of actual cigarettes every month and a half or so. This results in drastically less physical smoking than we'd engage in if cigarettes etc were our only option, holding nicotine dependence constant.
newport
1yr ago
A more comprehensive cataloguing of these shootings by category (lone wolf terrorism vs gang related vs romance related vs accidental discharge etc), as well as by national news coverage, would contribute a lot to this discussion but I don't have time to trawl through 50+ incidents. From a cursory look at the 2020s list by no. of deaths I hadn't heard of any of the top ten besides Uvalde and Nashville, which I find odd.
newport
1yr ago
The feature you're talking about is called "truescore" in the codebase this site was built off of; it appears to be disabled on profiles but does already exist in the code.
Not sure whether it would need to be retooled; by default it counts both upvotes AND downvotes as +1 truescore unless this has already been patched over.
Whether it should actually be enabled? I dunno, I could see arguments from either direction.
newport
1yr ago
This is a very minor issue but on iOS mobile devices with a screen notch, the notch area is shaded hot pink regardless of login status and theme settings. On rdrama, the notch area shading is tied to the theme color setting which appears to have been hidden/disabled on themotte.org's profile settings page.
Otherwise fantastic job on the site and thank you for all the time you put into this.
Ryan Gosling (via characters he has portrayed) is a sigma male zoomer meme, and so is Cillian Murphy in the same sense. This context is at least partly responsible for the unlikely combo popularity.
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