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Even if subreddits don't go dark, the impact will be rapidly observable in August as moderation becomes extremely difficult and subreddit support bots that eliminate spam and maintain post quality stop working.

I have only moderated relatively small subreddits with hundreds of users and even that was an exhausting slog that was only made feasible with third party subreddit tools. if you think it's difficult to maintain moderator consistency now, just wait until subreddits are forced to bring on hundreds of moderators to handle the workload.

Reddit admin and users have no idea how much free labour they are benefitting from and how much subreddit quality will decline with this move.

Even things like porn subreddits will instantly be hit. There are bots that evaluate every submission and compare them against illegal content to instantly remove those posts. Without those bots, subreddits will get closed as they lose control over submitted content and bring the ire of admin and public media.

Once third-party tools are gone those huge subreddits will degrade quickly. Moderating a busy subreddit becomes very cumbersome using the native tools, so even if they don't go dark we will see a dramatic decrease in browsing quality as spam fills up the queue.

I would think so. Bots are already rate-limited when accessing the API so it's hard to see how this has increased server load, unless there's something funky in the backend involving private/dark subreddits.

"Economic upsides" are directly related to the values assigned. If no value is assigned to death and trauma, it's quite possible that a net positive is recorded by knocking down a bunch of old building and highways and rebuilding them.

However, if we decide to jump-start economic development by knocking down infrastructure and rebuilding it, I'd suggest we make sure buildings and freeways are empty of human beings first.

My wife is a CPA accountant and I'll go out on a limb and say that 80% of her time is spent doing the equivalent of data cleaning and validation. The balance of her time is making judgement calls so she can appropriately reconcile notional rules against the messiness of real world business transactions.

If the pipeline is no longer an economic tool, it becomes a political tool. NS2 had never carried a burp of gas, and NS1 had been empty for months before it blew. Both were pressurized with inert gas to keep from collapsing.

So if Russia is paying maintenance and upkeep on two pipelines that aren't actually making them a penny, they're an economic drag. Blowing them up and blaming the UK and then the USA was a bald attempt to drive a wedge into the western alliance while simulateously cutting operational losses.

You are correct, I will change the wording. It's been a long day at work and my brain is fried.

The USA is not benefiting in any appreciable way from the loss of NS2. While LNG shipments are certainly higher, it's a drop in the bucket compared to overall production volumes. To verify this, just look at how far the US spot market price has fallen over the past year and how uncorrelated NG pricing movements are to Russian aggression. Exports have done nothing to hold up the price.

it'd be nice for them to make the final determination but there's little doubt it was Russia. The pipelines were already empty and economically useless, they were blown out in non-NATO waters, there was lots of Russian naval activity in the area prior to the explosions, and Putin hoped to drive a wedge in NATO by increasing gas prices with a supply capacity reduction.

No one else had anything to gain by attacking the pipelines as they were not carrying any gas and were not padding Russias coffers.

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I agree, although I really wish Django and sqlAlchemy would have evolved similar methods/APIs. My struggle is flipping between projects that use one or the other and tripping over the syntax.

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Absolutely correct. Reading my post, I realize my conclusion was unclear: each successive elimination of corruption within Ukraine, starting in the 2010's, was more and more threatening to Putin and his oligarch cronies until pressure on their theft of oil revenues become unbearable.

Please don't misunderstand me, Ukraine is a sovereign country with the right to choose their own destiny. The only blame to be assigned is on Russia.

I was just outlining the timeline and showing that their desire to join EU/NATO was not something dreamt up post-2022.

You mean beyond the 2014 Maidan Revolution and restoration of the 2004 constitutional modifications that began the process of moving toward the EU? Or the 2019 constitutional amendment that placed joining the EU and NATO as a strategic objective for Ukraine?

Ukraine's inability to root out corruption so that it could join the EU/NATO wasn't some national failing as much as a very active Russian FSB/SVR presence inside Ukraine that prevented any significant reforms. The invasion was an admittance that their underhanded techniques were failing and a more active method of intervention into Ukrainian politics was necessary.

No one was ever going to invade a country with ICBMs.

The invasion occurred because of Ukraine's movement toward the EU which, eventually, would curtail the ability of Putin and the oligarchs to swindle Russias oil and gas wealth through rampant price fixing and kick-backs. Everything else was rhetoric.

Probably not, but as soon as I get back to my laptop I'll queue a server containing rclone to haul individual files into an archive, squish them, and upload the zip file.

If the OS is Windows, I'd suggest anyone struggling with lag make absolutely certain that the project and scratch folders are excluded from Defender real-time scanning. It makes a huge difference.

As a former truck driver, I just can't see the government or insurance companies allowing self-driving 80,000lb trucks on a highway that also contains passenger-carrying automobiles. The liability is tremendous and it will take a decade or more of safe operation before those rules are relaxed. I'd anything, a trucker will end up leading a self-driving convoy of another unit on the interstate, but I'd imagine it's simply easier to add additional trailers like we've done in Ontario.

I envision truckers being legally responsible for their AI and it operating the vehicle similar to autopilot in an aircraft. Never autonomous, only a driving aid.

I don't read it that way at all. You would no more be able to steal someone's image and pretend it was them than you could use a famous bands music in your soundtrack without paying for it.

As I see it, a budding filmmaker could use two or three actors to fill 20 different roles in a film without needing expensive prop and makeup artists to place them in detailed fantasy/sci-fi scenes.

I'm telling my kids to get their tractor-trailer license. It'll be 30 years before trucks will be allowed to travel completely autonomously along the road, and in the meantime they'll have autopilot that removes most of the manual burden and allows them to get paid while they sit in the cab to write books, compose music or program applications.

I say it half in jest, but it'll be a long time before politicians allow 80,000lb trucks to wander our highways without a human responsible for it.

I have no dog in this fight, but perhaps I can offer a contrarian position. I hope people are able to look past how this technology will disrupt the status quo into the future of how such technology will enable much better cinematic story-telling by those without large studio budgets. Artists of the future will have opportunities to use lower-cost talent to enable their visions that will open up the floodgates of creativity, no different than what was seen when YouTube took off.

Both actors and producers can benefit when access to talent is not held behind the gates of a few powerful entities. We've seen the damage such gatekeepers can wield with the Weinstein case and numerous subsequent claims, where vulnerable actors have their careers held hostage to avoid upsetting predators who wield all the power. If an actor can pay the bills by doing many short-term mocap jobs for independent producers armed with sophisticated software, everyone can benefit.

In addition, motion capture opens up opportunities for very talented but otherwise less conventionally attractive actors who traditionally are relegated to type-cast bit roles.

My issue is that I have 40 dockerized containers set up behind a reverse proxy and, although I want to play with k8s to learn, I've already dumped so much time and effort into docker-compose that I'm cautious about migrating to a new system. Is the architecture substantially different?

While I can't argue spreadsheets are a programming language, I would put forward that they are definitely a programming gateway drug for analysts. At least, from my experience, having to easily handle more rows than could be represented in an Excel sheet was what pushed me to SQL and Python. With powerBI and various other data modeling tools, those constraints aren't nearly as vicious as they used to be, but even 10 years ago they were insurmountable in vanilla 32 bit Excel.

I'm no expert, but I'm amazed how much server you can get for little money from a discount provider like Hetzner vs AWS. There's a large gulf between fully on-prem and using Azure/AWS that doesn't have the same personnel requirements. If business apps can be self-hosted on a dedicated box that's maintained by someone else, it's potentially a huge savings. At least, that's been my experience.

This existed from 1933 until 1999 in the original Glass-Steagall Act until greedy bank investors couldn't handle the fact that they were sitting on a huge pile of capital that they couldn't gamble with on Wall Street.

Depositors will never be safe until that explicit separation of investment and savings deposits is restored.

I use miniconda on Linux but it's never attempted to install graphics drivers on Windows.

Shredding/sledgehammer is likely the best option for secure disposal of mechanical drives, but SSDs are a different animal and are likely reusable given some of the suggestions in this thread.

The download size is large but conda doesn't ruin any existing configuration unless you explicitly tell it to be your native python environment. Conda is set up as a self-contained set of independent environments. Why would your system care what's inside the Anaconda directory unless you explicitly add it to your PATH/bash?

So many courses demand you start in a text editor and I understand the rationale but I write almost everything in PyCharm and strongly encourage everyone to find a comfortable IDE.

If the intention of coding in Python is to get stuff done quickly, it seems a bit silly to handcuff yourself by avoiding one of the biggest time-savers.