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Watching YouTubers come up with weird euphemisms to avoid saying "COVID" (to avoid the risk of automatic demonetisation) drove home how much self censorship there must be around content creation in general. I've also seen a few joke about whether they're allowed to swear or not yet since apparently the algorithm cares if they swear in the first 15 seconds, lest an easily damaged listener finds them by mistake.

I had this conversation with someone online. "X makes great cars! I bought one 15 years ago and it's been rock solid!" Yeah, well 15 years is a long time. The car you buy that was made this year could be a piece of crap. Who even knows? No one will know for at least the next 5 years. You just have to roll the dice and hope they care about the reputation - and check if the badge has been sold.

I also consider a few products disposable like that, but it's generally cheaper things. Non-stick pans are one of those, they work until they don't and I'm not going to baby them.

Not only that, the $8 might not be much, but what you get isn't either.

If everyone felt entitled to charge $8 for not much in return that can add up and mean real money even to US-centric people, once they're paying it to 50 different services every month that deliver (and ask) for "nothing".

I think it would greatly complicate things if cold-storage backups count as holding data.

Some poor kid would have to go and load all the tapes and redact it.

I don't use OneNote for long standing documentation (maybe one tab is a cheat sheet). I just make a tab for each ongoing work project/client/etc, and paste stuff in there. Text from emails as a todo list which I think write comments to, notes from a zoom call, screenshots of things I need to fix, that sort of thing. I go through and edit or add comments on what needs to be done then just delete it when it's finalised and I can stop thinking about it.

It's basically a cross between a messy desk and todo list. It works well enough for me. I've tried using stuff like Trello and that is a little too much friction for me, the way you can paste text and images together in OneNote and rearrange them visually just works for me. Sometimes it just feels right to have this item "off to the side" or that sort of thing.

> Notably most video cameras don't include audio.

This is somewhat off topic but does any of this apply to sign language? Is there a lesser expectation of privacy since "anyone" can see it, so it's treated like a video recording? Is there any conflict with disability laws?

Do they make more money if I click on a few SEO spam sites full of Adsense, and page through a few pages of Google results, before finding the answer or possibly giving up - or if I find and click on the top result?

It's not just pain, it’s thoughts too (which can also be related of course). I’m someone who will overthink which leads to worries that don’t need to exist and bring no benefit. This is why it helps me socialise, I’m far more likely to talk myself out of it because of the perceived “risk”. Rate limiting my thoughts lets me just act.

There is a saying “first cab off the rank” or “first off the mark” (as in running races) so it may be a shorter version of something like that.

They do that in AU / VIC for the EV road use tax, you have to upload a photo. I don't see the problem, just make it illegal to lie and fine the ones you catch.

A while back I watched a video on YouTube, and I forget the name and creator, but the basic idea was there are too many "good" games. Good just isn't good enough anymore, there are also too many great games to have time to play them all anyway so why waste your time with merely good games? I tend to agree with that when I look back and think of what games I spent my time on in past decades. Cave Story made a huge splash when it helped kick-start the indie revolution, but would anyone notice it now?

As a player, Unity games seem to have some issues with stuttering especially on resource load (e.g. first time a new enemy type appears). It happens to a degree that is surprisingly bad, given the relatively low fidelity of a lot of titles compared to games of that past that ran better on worse hardware.

I recall Ori and the Will of the Wisps being particularly bad for this. It was unplayable when it was installed on a HDD, and when I moved it to SSD it still had major stutters during racing segments where the goal is to traverse the map quickly (and presumably, load a lot of assets on the way).

Work out what you must have based on the rules, list them out, then subtract from 200.

For me, V and VII from the roman numerals = 152 so I needed 48. Did He and Pd. Then of course a later rule came along.

My understanding is that section 230 is more about free speech i.e. your defamatory statements do not allow me to be sued if you post them on my site as a comment. The protections do not cover illegal speech, such as copyright infringement.

There are a few articles around discussing it like https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/publishing-statements-and-c...

I think its main use case is safe harbour. Without the DMCA, if I posted something infringing copyright, Hacker News would be liable as the service provider. DMCA shifts the blame to me, but the publisher has to comply with takedown requests.

I think overall this is a good thing for an internet that hosts user-created content, which includes comments, but they could definitely tidy up the implementation. As it stands you are allowed to reject the claim if you think you are in the right, and the company should restore the disputed content if you do so - but some like YouTube operate above and beyond the DMCA and seemingly intentionally blur the lines a lot so people blame the DMCA and not their custom process.

At this point I think the only thing that will stop SEO-spam articles is an AI good enough to read with a human-like critical mind that can detect bullshit (or, at least skim the 100 similar articles to get the one useful fact they all repeat).

It makes me wonder about the future of the content producers though since that AI is not looking at ads.

For those unaware, here is an example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2017/05/30/...

She let her son live with her, he sold less than $200 of marijuana, and her home (lived in since the 1970s) and car were seized as facilitating a drug transaction. She eventually won, after more than seven years.

I think it’s a reflection of the cult of youth. It’s common in many industries. Young people will put in long hours to get experience and give up comparatively little because they have less going on outside of work. It’s not necessarily healthy but it’s also something some of those people actually relish. So such an office design tends to appeal to a younger crowd by default.

One example can be resources and efficiency. One time I was trying to browse Google Fonts to find something in a certain visual style (ie not something you can really search for via keywords). It made Chrome completely unresponsive after a little while. This was a few years back so maybe it’s better now, but I’ve seen similar slowdown on other sites.

A more human reason is that personally, I like to portion out and chunk off parts as no longer requiring my attention. I read a page and move on, clear the mental cache and start again. Infinite scrolls can mess with my focus.

Yeah - it's like getting rid of old photos I know I'll never look at. Just can't.

And the more helpful comments might help someone one day.

I can't remember the last time I deleted an account. I only do it for legal reasons. I would probably just visit Reddit less and less, until one day it's for the last time, and I never go back - not even to delete it, because it's just not occupying my thoughts anymore.

Maybe if I wanted to send a message by deleting? But I think most people would just trail off and move on.

The first few plumbing jobs I did myself were a net loss from time, tools, materials. But I've made it up since then. Also, I think it's not always direct - tinkering with the car has made me more confident in plumbing and vice versa. A few years of that and I was happy to install my own dishwasher.

So for me, I'll always spend time on this sort of stuff if it's within my reach to do a decent job.

As far as disposal goes... yeah, most stuff I sell on Marketplace or Gumtree would be a net loss after wasting time dealing with people (and scammers, who belong in their own category). But I hate to have things I used and enjoyed just die alone in landfill.

For a lot of people, they are just paying $20 to have the book. It makes them feel nice through the act of purchase or building a collection. Or maybe it provides a safety blanket if you might need it one day, but no need to read it right now. That's a good deal for them.

This is my general opinion. My iPhone is not a productive device, even sending an email is a hassle. I'm either at home, or will wait, unless it's urgent. It's basically for social media, maps, music, and keeping in touch via messages. Occasionally phone calls. A walled garden is generally OK for that (my only gripe as in my other comment here is that they make it too hard to access media files directly).

"It just works" is great until it just doesn't. Both our iPhones refuse to connect to iTunes via lightning cable. Nothing wrong with the file system, can view everything on the phone fine. I assume this is a software bug but the only option given is to factory reset the phones, which seems a little extreme.

But we can't use a third party app on the PC (you can find plenty to install, but they all use the same underlying iTunes software), or on the phone (some WiFi media transfer apps exist but don't work well for years of bulk data), or even just browse the file system like Android. So our only option is apparently paying for iCloud to get our media off the phone now, resetting, and hopefully putting it back on - which I don't have high hopes for since we had an issue in the past where iTunes bricked a phone when restoring from backup [IIRC iTunes didn't do the right system call to stop the Windows PC from sleeping, so it slept mid-restore, and next time we plugged it in, it automatically backed up the broken partial restore wiping the good backup].

And on slightly older people on Tinder too, or so I've heard (Australia). But maybe for some it's a positive that those people filter them out.

Yeah the Vortex was quite well rated and I got one recently for half price. I'm not sure if it's enabled anything my oven can't do yet, but it is much quicker and more efficient especially for something like reheating. So I'm using it more than I thought I would.

A lot of voters, too...

Can you script a mass-delete after privating (via API, while you still can)?

I've seen this argument in other places and it makes an error in assuming all users are equal in what they bring. It's common in MMO communities - why do the devs spend so much time working on high end raids enjoyed by only 1% of the player base? For Reddit, I would assume mobile users are more motivated - motivated enough to install an app at least - and probably contribute more UGC to the site. Not to mention unpaid moderators.