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  2. Comment on Is Dwayne Johnson's disabled role in Skyscraper 'offensive'? in ~talk

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    Leave this sort of low-effort, meme/joke comment back on Reddit, please.

    But mah progressive values!

    Leave this sort of low-effort, meme/joke comment back on Reddit, please.

    21 votes

  4. Comment on Have ‘all time’ be the default option when setting thread sorting in groups in ~tildes

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    I think this makes sense, especially when the site is still fairly small. Right now ~tv has only 2 posts displayed in "last 3 days" mode, which can certainly give the "tumbleweed rolling through"...

    I think this makes sense, especially when the site is still fairly small. Right now ~tv has only 2 posts displayed in "last 3 days" mode, which can certainly give the "tumbleweed rolling through" feeling.

    Longer-term, having the default time period adapt automatically to topic volume might be useful...busy groups like ~news would probably wind up with last 24 hours, while more niche groups might display the last week, month, or more.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on The rise of digital dictatorships - Prof. Yuval Noah Harari in ~tech

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    For anyone unfamiliar with Yuval Noah Harari, his book Sapiens is fantastic, and the follow-on Homo Deus is high on my to-be-read list.

    For anyone unfamiliar with Yuval Noah Harari, his book Sapiens is fantastic, and the follow-on Homo Deus is high on my to-be-read list.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter (Houston, TX, 1973) in ~music

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    Not normally a country fan but I absolutely love this recording. If you listen to Van Zandt's studio albums, they often feel overproduced (example) but this live album is just him and an acoustic...

    Not normally a country fan but I absolutely love this recording. If you listen to Van Zandt's studio albums, they often feel overproduced (example) but this live album is just him and an acoustic guitar, at a bar in Houston.

  10. Comment on The Tildes code is now open-sourced in ~tildes.official

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    Reminds me of an intern I worked with, many years ago, and a function they wrote with a comment like "// this is pretty much a masterpiece of recursion".

    Reminds me of an intern I worked with, many years ago, and a function they wrote with a comment like "// this is pretty much a masterpiece of recursion".

    1 vote

  11. Comment on The Tildes code is now open-sourced in ~tildes.official

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    I think it'd be helpful to start simpler than that - explain all the moving parts of the system as-is, before I make any changes to it. When I worked at Amazon, one of the things they had new...

    Something I'd like to do is write up kind of a "walkthrough" of implementing a whole feature, explaining everything that needs to be changed as part of it.

    I think it'd be helpful to start simpler than that - explain all the moving parts of the system as-is, before I make any changes to it.

    When I worked at Amazon, one of the things they had new hires for AWS do is make some requests to S3 - create a bucket, upload a file to it, then download that file, etc - then use the request IDs and logs to trace the path each request took through the various backend services.

    I think a similar high-level walkthrough would be helpful here. When I click "submit" on a new post, what happens? When someone comments on my post, what happens? What triggers the orangered notification for me, how do the "X new comments since your last visit" counters get maintained, etc.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on The Tildes code is now open-sourced in ~tildes.official

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    If you've never done any web development, a great place to start would be the Pyramid tutorial. That's the web framework underneath everything, and the tutorial takes you through Jinja2 templates...

    If you've never done any web development, a great place to start would be the Pyramid tutorial. That's the web framework underneath everything, and the tutorial takes you through Jinja2 templates and SQLAlchemy database queries, both of which Tildes uses.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Amazon is in a battle with the far left for the soul of Seattle in ~news

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    For anyone unfamiliar with local WA / Seattle politics - WA is one of the largest states without a state income tax (only Florida and Texas are larger, in terms of state GDP, among states without...

    For anyone unfamiliar with local WA / Seattle politics - WA is one of the largest states without a state income tax (only Florida and Texas are larger, in terms of state GDP, among states without an income tax). It's certainly the most liberal state without one.

    This leads to a heavy reliance on sales taxes, property taxes, sin taxes, etc. WA consistently ranks as the #1 most regressive tax structure in the US.

    This "head tax" is the latest example of an attempt by Seattle to raise revenue on its own, separate from the state government. Along the same lines there's the city income tax passed last year, currently winding its way through court challenges. The supporters of the city income tax are hoping to strike down a 1933 state Supreme Court precedent that ruled any progressive income tax as unconstitutional.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on MGM sues more than 1,000 victims of Las Vegas shooting, denying liability for the massacre in ~news

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    I don't think we have enough evidence to say whether there was negligence on MGM's part or not. Establishing that would the point of the lawsuits that have been filed or threatened to be filed....

    I don't think we have enough evidence to say whether there was negligence on MGM's part or not. Establishing that would the point of the lawsuits that have been filed or threatened to be filed.

    MGM's motion is for declaratory judgement - they're asking for a ruling that all the lawsuits that have been filed against them, and any that might be filed in the future, should be quashed. The law referenced in the article and my comment above apparently shields them from liability, even if MGM and/or the security company were in fact negligent.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on The Tildes code is now open-sourced in ~tildes.official

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    I love Docker, and use it extensively both at home and at $dayjob, but it might be more trouble than it's worth in this case. From a brief look at the Vagrant + Salt setup, you'd have to duplicate...

    I love Docker, and use it extensively both at home and at $dayjob, but it might be more trouble than it's worth in this case.

    From a brief look at the Vagrant + Salt setup, you'd have to duplicate nearly all of the configuration defined by Salt (things like teaching Postgres that it should use RabbitMQ as a message broker for NOTIFY commands). If the plan was to use Docker in production, I think it'd be worthwhile, but if the production stack continues to use Salt for config management, a Docker setup will probably be a perpetual second-class citizen and source of unnecessary duplication.

    8 votes

  19. Comment on Trump openly admits he believes Putin instead of US Intelligence over 2016 election interference in ~news

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    If Tildes had existed during the Watergate era, I think it would have been possible to have an intelligent, calm conversation about Nixon's crimes and the need to impeach him. I think the same...

    If Tildes had existed during the Watergate era, I think it would have been possible to have an intelligent, calm conversation about Nixon's crimes and the need to impeach him. I think the same applies here.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Mars is in its closest approach to Earth since 2003. Here’s how to see it. in ~space

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    Here's a neat video with a visualization of their orbits. At their maximum distance apart, Mars is on the other side of the sun, and isn't even visible because you'd have to look through the sun...

    Here's a neat video with a visualization of their orbits.

    At their maximum distance apart, Mars is on the other side of the sun, and isn't even visible because you'd have to look through the sun to see it. Around that time, it would appear near the sun in our sky, so it won't be visible due to daylight.

    Right now, we're close to the sun, Earth, and Mars forming a line, so the entire day side of Mars is facing the entire night side of Earth. That causes a big increase in apparent brightness, as well as the close approach meaning it appears larger from our perspective.

    1 vote