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  1. Comment on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users in ~tech

    Michael
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    I've tried Kagi, but google is still leaps and bounds ahead Even Google's AI mode now trounces perplexity

    I've tried Kagi, but google is still leaps and bounds ahead

    Even Google's AI mode now trounces perplexity

  2. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    I'm in a book club, but occasionally we stray from books and watch media (movies/TV shows). I'm someone who has watched all the Studio Ghibli movies, but hasn't watched many anime TV shows. But we...

    I'm in a book club, but occasionally we stray from books and watch media (movies/TV shows).

    I'm someone who has watched all the Studio Ghibli movies, but hasn't watched many anime TV shows. But we watched Death Parade last week (the first 3 episodes) and I really liked it! Will probably end up watching the rest

    1 vote

  3. Comment on What have you been putting off/procrastinating about doing? in ~life

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    I totally understand the struggle. At a certain point you have to make it a them problem. I'm not trans but if I overheard some coworkers making fun of someone for being trans I'd look down on...

    I totally understand the struggle. At a certain point you have to make it a them problem. I'm not trans but if I overheard some coworkers making fun of someone for being trans I'd look down on them. It makes them lesser, not you.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Have your COVID relationships survived, five years out? in ~talk

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    Definitely agree that the circumstances of COVID changed or even strengthened some friendships. We were all acutely attuned to how we could socialize safely, and had to be very intentional about...

    Definitely agree that the circumstances of COVID changed or even strengthened some friendships. We were all acutely attuned to how we could socialize safely, and had to be very intentional about it. And then once the restrictions lifted, it breathed new life into what we could do and felt amazing to get back to normalcy

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Have your COVID relationships survived, five years out? in ~talk

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    I had a friend group I was doing something with multiple times per week at our peak. A lot of going out and going to concerts etc. During the pandemic we all did this local hike every week,...

    I had a friend group I was doing something with multiple times per week at our peak. A lot of going out and going to concerts etc. During the pandemic we all did this local hike every week, started off as just me and another guy and eventually we had the whole group. For well over a year we didn't miss any weeks even in the winter when it was dark and freezing.

    Pretty similar story, a bunch of them moved away in the past 2 years, two of them that remained spent most of last year hiking the PCT so I didn't see them. Now they're back and looking for jobs and the remaining two that have been here the whole time I was never the closest to. We all had a mini reunion where we all took a trip to Miami in Feb but I haven't really seen them since. I imagine I will a couple times in the coming months with the nice weather, and we will still probably do our fantasy football league but we're a far cry from our heyday lol. I don't mind too much as my priorities have kinda changed and I no longer really have the desire to go out regularly and I'm much more of a homebody.

    Also had a few instances over the years of guys breaking up with their girlfriend and then a whole group of people we hung out with regularly (the girlfriend's friends) -- some of them pretty good friends -- gone just like that.

    Overall I agree it's a little sad. I do look back and wonder how I had the energy to do so much stuff. Nowadays I regularly do discord calls with old highschool friends, keep in touch with college friends, and regularly game with my brother and cousins. And hang out with some coworkers I'm friends with. It's not too bad

    6 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

    Michael
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    I started out by tinkering around in Visual Basic. I didn't know what variables were, so I used a hidden textbox to store a string... Fully agree we all started out by making garbage lol

    I started out by tinkering around in Visual Basic. I didn't know what variables were, so I used a hidden textbox to store a string...

    Fully agree we all started out by making garbage lol

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

    Michael
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    I think most of us love seeing new people pursue coding as a hobby! It makes us nostalgic for when we started out

    I think most of us love seeing new people pursue coding as a hobby! It makes us nostalgic for when we started out

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Are there any good online CS degrees? Is it advisable to enroll into an online CS degree? in ~comp

    Michael
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    I have a Math degree so I can't speak from experience, but I have coworkers currently enrolled in the Georgia Tech program (and one who has completed it) and they all speak highly of it

    I have a Math degree so I can't speak from experience, but I have coworkers currently enrolled in the Georgia Tech program (and one who has completed it) and they all speak highly of it

    13 votes

  9. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I've had "I Want to Live" by Cristobal Tapia de Veer stuck in my head ever since the White Lotus season ended. Such a hauntingly beautiful song Other than that, I've been listening to some of the...

    I've had "I Want to Live" by Cristobal Tapia de Veer stuck in my head ever since the White Lotus season ended. Such a hauntingly beautiful song

    Other than that, I've been listening to some of the Commodores stuff. Night Shift and of course Easy are standouts.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What's something that makes you feel like we're living in the future? in ~talk

    Michael
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    How was your experience? It's actually pretty interesting and I think (at least in my bubble) that it's underreported that Waymo is the only company currently doing this.

    How was your experience? It's actually pretty interesting and I think (at least in my bubble) that it's underreported that Waymo is the only company currently doing this.

  11. Comment on What's something that makes you feel like we're living in the future? in ~talk

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    Creesch! Sorry to come out of nowhere, but your name just sent me down memory lane. My formative reddit days involved using and modifying your CSS theme while I was in study hall at school. It's...

    Creesch! Sorry to come out of nowhere, but your name just sent me down memory lane.
    My formative reddit days involved using and modifying your CSS theme while I was in study hall at school.

    It's the reason I'm a CSS wiz now and my coworkers come to me for CSS problems

    Just came back to tildes, but happy to see a familiar face

    11 votes

  12. Comment on What's something that makes you feel like we're living in the future? in ~talk

    Michael
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    Are there companies other than Waymo doing this currently? There was another company (I think it was called Cruise) that had some incidents, and obviously Tesla hasn't been able to do anything in...

    Are there companies other than Waymo doing this currently? There was another company (I think it was called Cruise) that had some incidents, and obviously Tesla hasn't been able to do anything in this space

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Been putting in extra hours at work due to deadlines, and it's really eaten into any motivation to work on my side projects even when I have free time. To give you an idea, a lot of video...

    Been putting in extra hours at work due to deadlines, and it's really eaten into any motivation to work on my side projects even when I have free time. To give you an idea, a lot of video transcoding for a live feature.

    Those side projects aren't that interesting, but I've been thinking about getting a flipper zero and tinkering around with it. Anyone have one / have any opinions? I'd be interested to hear what people are doing with them

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Source code in ~tildes

    Michael
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    If you need or would like more help with the invite threads I'd be happy to help so that you can focus more on the site!

    If you need or would like more help with the invite threads I'd be happy to help so that you can focus more on the site!

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Mod cultures - What do we want? in ~tildes

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    There's always going to be a tension between moderators and users in a community. The important thing that reddit lacks is a good way to remove moderators who genuinely don't have the best...

    There's always going to be a tension between moderators and users in a community. The important thing that reddit lacks is a good way to remove moderators who genuinely don't have the best interest of the community in mind. That's largely because it's hard to decide (oftentimes) when that's the case. If it were a democratic process where community members could vote mods out, then the mod team would be different each week.

    In moderating my fair share of communities on reddit, it's amazing how short-lived moderator controversies often are. Users will be up in arms at the mod team for a couple days, and then a week later it's as if it never happened at all. What's also unfortunate, is that the more active a mod team is, the more likely someone's going to slip up and cause a controversy. The less active mod teams I'm on have had very few if any controversies with the moderation but are generally lower quality.

    As others have stated, each community is different and it's hard to enforce a standard for that reason. Let's not forget that moderation is strictly volunteer and at the end of the day the site can't stray to close to treating mods as employees.

    There will need to be some improvements, but I think reddit is a good place to start in terms of looking at moderation practices. It definitely needs to be improved, but generally speaking large communities are moderated to a sufficient standard.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What’s your desert island beer? in ~food

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    This is pretty basic, but I'd go with Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy. Lemonad-ey and refreshing

    This is pretty basic, but I'd go with Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.

    Lemonad-ey and refreshing

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - what missing/broken things are the most "shocking"? in ~tildes.official

    Michael
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    I like the idea of separating the action into "mark read" and "clear" The current mark read button would be changed to 'clear" and replying or voting marks the comment as read, and could reduce...

    I like the idea of separating the action into "mark read" and "clear"

    The current mark read button would be changed to 'clear" and replying or voting marks the comment as read, and could reduce the opacity as a visual indicator

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - should we allow groups to have customized appearances? in ~tildes.official

    Michael
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    The solution to this isn't to throw out css altogether. Those "hacks" are a result of Reddit not building in native functionality for common features communities want. If those are added natively...

    The solution to this isn't to throw out css altogether. Those "hacks" are a result of Reddit not building in native functionality for common features communities want. If those are added natively then CSS can be purely aesthetic (as it should be) and easily diabled

    5 votes

  19. Comment on What's the best-written software (open-source or otherwise) you've used or otherwise interacted with? in ~comp

    Michael
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    I love illustrator. I used to be a Fireworks guy, but I've come to love illustrator even more. It's more soarse as far as raster image editing, but there's Photoshop for the

    I love illustrator. I used to be a Fireworks guy, but I've come to love illustrator even more. It's more soarse as far as raster image editing, but there's Photoshop for the

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Crazy Idea: Tildes will likely change as more users join, but what if there was some magical way to use the site as it was back in some point in time? in ~tildes

    Michael
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    Also, how many 10-year-old Reddit accounts are still active? Probably not many

    Also, how many 10-year-old Reddit accounts are still active? Probably not many