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Such an awful name! From that perspective, a $200k legal battle makes total sense in comparison.

I wonder if we should just rename JavaScript to something else (not ECMAScript, which is an awful name).

Would be difficult to coordinate, but I think if runtimes start incorporating new naming, there could be enough of a consensus to move away from the JavaScript name entirely and it could become a relic of history.

Genuinely interested, if the ' represents skipped letters, how does this read to you?

As an aside, if you have the sentence "This is Lewis' reply to the parent comment" the ' at the end of Lewis is used to avoid Lewis's with the extra s at the end.

The Mascis effect

It also reminds me of how a lot of the most coveted guitars, pedals, amps weren't selected by the guitarists who made iconic because they had some sort of secret sauce in them, but literally because they were the cheapest/most convenient thing available at the time.

Also, I love the sound of a good crunchy 15w practise amp. I think one day those old zoom pedals and the Line 6 bean will be highly coveted!

I like to take photos and sometimes write things down! In a sense you're assembling a sound sculpture. But once you've found a great sound and lost it, sometimes you end up finding something very similar but not quite 100%! You see this a lot with live performances from any electronic musician to be honest.

Still, most of the time you find something incredible and it's gone as quickly as it appeared!

Many of my hobbies (mechanical keyboards, flashlights, guitar pedals) have been addictive and going as incredibly deep as I have has made me appreciate each item to a new degree.

I know many musicians who love using Teenage Engineerings products for making music, performing live etc.

However, I do think there is a case to be made for falling into the trap of being more interested in the gear than the thing you're meant to do with the gear.

At the very least, Teenage Engineering hardware is generally very well designed, high quality and built to last. At least this product has some creative spirit behind it. I'm in love with the merge of Medieval and Modern Electronic here!

For an example of excessive consumerism, look no further than the Eurorack[1] space. They don't call it Eurocrack for nothing!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurorack

Are you describing the pepper's ghost effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Are you able to use Kagi as a default search engine via the extension in the US?

I think one advantage to bouncing around/being self taught (as I have most typically been too) is it lets you draw connections between seemingly unconnected things!

I think this is something lost in the act of being too focussed on learning one thing at a time!

I found that they were a lot of subjects I’d learned a lot about without directly engaging in the thing itself.

Learning about a programming language, vs actually building stuff in it. Learning the grammatical patterns of a language without speaking it etc.

There’s lots of videos, books and apps which first and foremost want you to be engaged moreso than actually teach you how to do the thing. This sort of context can be really useful, but ultimately one claim the book makes is that the best way to learn is to get as close to doing the thing you want to learn how to do as possible.

As someone who has ADHD/Autism and identifies as neurodivergent, I found it specifically helped me unpick some ways that the way my brain works has created bad habits.

Note: I listened to the audiobook! The anecdotes about incredible learners (such as various language experts, the stardew valley dev as well as various other skills) was also really interesting.

Ultralearning by Scott H. Young

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/

> Combining stories of dramatic ultralearning feats with the detailed science on how to learn anything effectively, ULTRALEARNING will transform how you work, live and learn.

It made me realise that for most of my life, the things I was doing to try and learn new skills, techniques or technologies was actually more akin to entertainment than actually learning the thing.

It also helped me understand why I have been able to learn really specific things really effectively, and use those patterns to intentionally learn other things that I'd usually find really hard to crack.

He directly refutes every single point made, with examples and so I disagree with your statement. What would you consider debunking?

Key paragraphs

> If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately.

> Our goal is to work with the existing mod team to find a path forward and make sure your subreddit is made available for the community which makes its home here. If you are not able or willing to reopen and maintain the community, please let us know.

Do you have an example of the misinformation?

Valid point! But I strongly believe it depends on how you define success. On paper, you’re right, Reddit is the textbook definition of a successful company, with insane amounts of soft power.

However I think that it’s still valuable to look a level deeper at the specific decision making that’s going on at the management level, and how that’s affecting the overall dynamic which has caused Reddit to be popular for so long.

Specifically, these changes disproportionately affect power users and mods, two groups of people who are largely responsible for creating the content that most Reddit users come to the site for in the first place as well as moderating that content to ensure the quality is high (all unpaid!)

In any case, time will tell if these decisions help or hinder the IPO. My personal gut feeling is that reddit will be around in 5-10 years time, and possibly even growing in terms of popularity but we’ll probably see a decrease in quality of content and moderation and potentially a few competing sites existing on the fringes.

Absolutely! Even Reddit itself already had multiple subreddits per topic, and I think that there will still be enough subreddits for people to go on.

He “leaked” the legally recorded private conversation after being libellously accused of blackmail by the company. I think it’s a perfectly legal and morally valid defence. This, plus the fact that permission has been given to Reddit to show that there’s literally any example of him saying something different internally vs externally.

I think it’s already too late for the API pricing situation, but there’s always the opportunity to learn from this and never make a series of mistakes of this magnitude again.

I think I read it’s going to go live at 10-10:30am PT

I hate how right you are

Like I’m ChatGPT and I’ve just been jailbroken but am stepping out of like and being told off

I think from doing extremely light research, it seems pretty much _all_ the 3rd party apps are better for moderation than the default client. However it seems unanimously people tend to prefer to moderate on desktop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/orqnr2/recommendat... https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/t5t9n2/whats_the_b... https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/11w5ky3/a_review...

My sincere apologies, I meant client as in "3rd party client" not as in "server", will modify title

Makes sense, thanks for the clarification!

I agree, this won't by itself ding Reddit enough to properly move the needle, however it will raise awareness massively, and suddenly every user who has noticed a subreddit they follow has gone dark will have a "take" on how they feel about the whole situation.

I think what Reddit would prefer is a "rip off the bandaid" situation where they just get all this over and done with as quickly as possible, with the least amount of noise possible.

I think this is one major reason that until the AMA that's happening today, all official communication has been happening in backchannels despite effecting a large number of Reddit users, whether they are effected directly by a 3rd party app going away, or indirectly, by a subreddit they are a member of being moderated with worse tools.

Most moderators overwhelmingly rely on the utility function you get in 3rd party apps that isn't currently in the official app, so I genuinely believe this is one aspect of the protest. I could be wrong, but I genuinely can't see a situation where this amount of action is purely around seeing ads.

Pretty unanimously, 3rd party app developers have said they'd happily show Reddit's ads in their feed, but Reddit never came out with this feature. I don't think any 3rd party app developer was expecting a free ride on Reddit's API forever.

Pretty good read, you might have already read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

As he’s Canadian, does US state law apply?

Really disappointing to see them try and throw Apollo under the bus by literally just making things up. Their reply to mods reads as insincere, with tonnes of promises about stuff they’ll build to make moderation easier, without addressing any of the key points directly.

I don’t think they have enough goodwill for people to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Watching this all unfold has been bizarre, absolutely wild to think this company wants to IPO. I’m sure they’ll do it, but I don’t think the business seems in a healthy state.