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The most insane strategy (which got everyone I know pirating content) is:

1. Create incredibly addictive tv shows

2. Release episodes once a week, with a huge cliffhanger

3. Release in Europe/UK one week behind the US

A growth hacker couldn't create a better incentive for piracy if they tried. Anyone know why this is a thing?

PostHog is the gold standard here. The feature-set goes far beyond GA and essentially replaces a lot of the other tools you may end up needing (FullStory, Amplitude, etc.)

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Does anyone know if the latency of this is good enough for realtime processing? I've been looking for something to transform guitar audio into MIDI for a synth for years, and all the commercial solutions are pretty poor. Best I've found is buying a guitar hero guitar which has MIDI out.

I agree with you in the context of ads, but I do wonder if they could monetise these communities in a more high-value way which plays into their primary purpose.

For instance, I am a member of /r/synthesizers, but all trading/buying happens on eBay or reverb.com. Can reddit provide the way for this community to transact in a more high-value/trusted way? Maybe I'm missing something and that is a terrible business.

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I've got a 99 and, outside of the dated fx and sequencing abilities, I think the only real difference is that you can load your own waves for the RCM modulation? I think you can hack the 77s to do that too.

Oh, and it's even more unbelievably massive and heavy. I will never part with it - they are the most criminally underrated synths, and it's crazy they are still often priced lower than the DX series.

It would be great if someone would built a better live editor for them though.

One that I've been massively enjoying as an alternative to the Amplitude/Mixpanel/Fullstory stack recently is PostHog. You can write your own plugins in JS, which is great for automating things other platforms, and it offers a bunch of cool features which the others charge for as premium addons (backup to warehouse, CRM integration etc.)

Looks really cool! This was my biggest pain before buying a M1 MBA. In the "running Slack/Figma/SaaS web apps" space, are they competing directly against low-energy, more-powerful chips like the M1? Whereas I can imagine lots of use-cases where it's impractical to buy a machine like that.

An annoying example which has gotten worse recently is recipes. I generally trawl through 5k words of someone's life story and product promotions to get to the piece of information I need, and they often rewrite the recipe 5 different times in different levels of detail -- is this because to make the first page rank on Google you need to pad out the SEO? I too always find myself doing site:reddit.com.

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Out of interest, why not use uBlock on brave? That's my setup.

This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com -

It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.

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I see where you're coming from, but I think the practical chances of a given chess player who hasn't played in a decade becoming GM-level are realistically similar to beating Alpha Zero. Ben Finegold tweeted about this once: https://twitter.com/ben_finegold/status/1316936206844821505?...

I think there's a specifically British thing about accepting being cold and not complaining about it - I've lived in Scotland or London for most of my life, and no one will turn on their heating before November and most houses are 150-400 years old and are not insulated. I can literally feel the breeze inside as I type this.

His last name was also pronounced totally differently.. Esterhaus.. I never understand why!

imo the 1979 TTSS and Smiley's People productions with Alec Guinness are some of the best pieces of television ever created

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I came to make the exact same comment - what on earth is this?

How interesting - is he calling from a new number each time?

I have been told that it's also due to the fact that in Europe, people generally travel through a unified medical and social system from birth; if they exhibit problems they are directed to the necessary interventions (mental health services, addiction, etc.) Providing these services earlier on with a full picture has a higher ROI than intervening later without all information about that person's journey.

Additionally, I believe that for people who are seriously mentally ill, it's more difficult to section them in the US. In the UK, it takes a GP and social worker to section someone; I believe in the US it's not that simple.

How much of this do you think is due to the redesign itself versus bad FE engineering decisions? Redesign aside, I find the new reddit often really broken from a FE architecture POV.

Facebook, for instance, has some similar design patterns, but generally the interface seems really well built. New reddit just breaks in all kinds of odd ways which kills the UX.

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Not sure how they got that quite so wrong from an engineering POV. We try and use Slack video calling probably every day and have to revert to Meet/Zoom/Discord/WhatsApp, due to terrible latency, random crashes (like not being able to hang up!), UI freezes, etc.

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It's different to something like Observable in that you import it into your existing Python environment (Colab, Jupyter, Airflow, etc.), build the reports from your assets, and push them up -- as opposed to having to do the analysis itself in our interface.

I also found with lichess that blitz players are a lot stronger than rapid - I'm 200 points higher on rapid than blitz and it seems that's pretty common, which has always confused me (and not hugely different time controls - 5+3 vs. 10+0)

One of my favourite things about the old blackberrys was that the alarm went off... even when the phone had 'run out' of battery! seriously awesome feature.

I actually have this pretty much constantly, as well as after images on lights and what not.

Am presuming this is distinct from the problems with the main website (i.e. they aren't trying to push people off of that too), but maybe related in the sense that it seems the strategy is to turn the website into an app instead of keeping it as a website. IMHO, this isn't a good fit for what I use reddit for, which is a collection of linked documents - where 'normal' server-rendered documents worked really well. It doesn't really need to be an app, and building it as an app bloats it for my use-case.

I'm not sure if it's due to odd FE architecture choices or if this specifically helps increase bottom-line KPIs, but there are some bizarre things like the fact that clicking on the background of a post takes you back to the subreddit via replacing history (?), which kind of breaks the idea of how you expect a website to work.

What confuses me from an architecture POV is there are glaring high-value things they could fix - like subreddit search, image hosting etc. - that get left.