Accidentally hitting reply-to-all on a company wide email and more or less stating that I wanted to be transferred to another team.

There was a new team forming elsewhere, and in fairness, it was a great opportunity in a lot of ways. But… I didn’t get the transfer until another batch of jobs opened a few months later.

That… was a long few months.

I’d get in the car and start driving. I’d go and have the conversation I’ve been afraid to have for years

… or I’d be paralyzed with fear like I’ve been for the rest of my life.

… or if I’m being honest, I’d most likely grab a bottle of tequila, fall off the wagon, and find out what I actually want to do that way.

About 15 years on, I’m still so happy I got good coursework marks for the route-finding equivalent of a bogosort. Picked a bunch of random routes and pick the fastest. Sure, that guy who set up a neural net to figure it out did well, but mine didn’t take days of training, and still did about as well in the same sort of execution time.

Aah, DevOps as a separate role… Now that’s a dream I can get behind…

Is this a surprise? User retention is hard, and I’d expect this to hit even harder as time goes by. It’ll keep going up until the point where user growth matches attrition and I’d guess in the early days of a social platform, it’s going to take a while for background growth to increase that much and attrition will be pretty high given the lack of attachment.

Glad someone made this point. My next printer will definitely be a tank printer. It’s basically flipping the business proposal back to “pay for the printer up front” instead of “pay for the printer whenever you buy ink”. My current printer was cheap enough that I basically spend enough on ink to buy a new printer every few years, given degradation of cartridges when they’re left after opening.

That’s 102 stars more than my best… Nicely done :)

An excellent choice of picture - many thanks.

I’m too lazy to find a picture of a spider for this joke - this exercise is left for the reader.

In the 13 years I’ve had a Reddit account, I made 40 comments, and 4 posts.

In the 15 days I’ve had a Lemmy account, I’ve made 28 comments and 1 post.

Now I wouldn’t want to be one for extrapolating from data of different timescales, but…

I, a real normal human person, would consume the turtle with my regular bone teeth, in the usual fashion.

… but every page becomes blank just before you touch it.

Once you throw a brick through your window, it becomes an ex-window system, and then we’re all good.

As a JS developer, I prefer to use semicolons for indentation.

I really want the Vim/VS Code one - as someone who professionally devs in an MS stack, but would choose Vim as a primary text editor otherwise… it speaks to me deeply.

Thanks for the heads up! Notification set, interested to see what’s shown…

Haha, yeah, I totally have proper backups…

The language in the article does seem to forget that plenty of early smartphones had replaceable batteries… Yeah, it might add some bulk, but it’s not exactly going to be a major hardship.

… but it seems like a good reverse step to me. Any consumer replaceable part is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

Those are reasonable options - though I’m pessimistic enough to believe that trolls will get better than every automated system, so we’d probably want some manual options. I wouldn’t say it’s not possible - just would require quite a bit of work, and would likely be an ongoing battle to improve your auto-moderator.

It feels like I’m moving the goalposts, so apologies, but your response got me thinking further. The other big advantages I can think of for central censorship is that it can actually prevent hosting of content - which has two benefits:

• legal concerns - make countries will require the removal of some amount of content - extreme stuff of all the usual sorts. Some jurisdictions will also require minors being prevented from accessing certain content, at least to a reasonable degree - refusing to host that kind of content is an easy solution.
• community unity and protection - is a lot more abstract, age debatable - but I’d contest that central moderation can give a certain “this content isn’t wanted in our community” that individual censorship won’t. Really difficult to define, though.

Two main points personally:

• with self-moderation, you can’t really say “I don’t want to see this sort of content”, you can only say “I don’t want to see this content again”. A well stated set of rules for a community let’s you know what to expect, so you get to make that choice if advance. This is a massive difference in preventing distress and general unpleasant feelings. It’s not absolutely necessary, but it’s a lot nicer.
• it avoids massive duplication of effort. If you have a moderator-to-reader ratio of 1000:1, you’ll be saving the vast majority of self moderation with those people would be doing. Yes, reporting exists, but it’s a tiny fraction of the time one would spend “moderating” for yourself