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Ok, yeah, that's true.

lambdas are a kludge? Really? You prefer creating one-method anonymous classes instead?

It's unsustainable because that situation tends to end in violence.

To get around it, actually grab the scrollbar with your mouse until you see new content. Scrolling will work again work a while then.

Radio stations & TV stations use public airwaves and actually (used to, not sure now) had to prove they were acting in the public interest to keep their licenses. Doing public announcements were one way they handled that function.

Gruber thinks in terms of brands. Apple is a brand. Reddit is a brand. Twitter is a brand. It's easy to pick winners and losers with brands.

Mastodon isn't a brand so much as it's a grouping of a bunch of different brands (servers). In a way Mastodon can't win or lose because of this. If you have 10 people on a server and they're happy- you've won.

Gruber has a hard time wrapping his head around this, partially because it's just not his thing.

I react "backwards" to antihistamines... I took a hydroxyzine for a panic attack and was so wired I didn't think I'd ever sleep again. Of course if I take an Adderall, that makes me sleepy.

I bet the number of people working a side job like this is tiny. RTO advocates bring it up like everybody is doing it, but save for an anecdote here and there, I doubt it's happening that often.

I've seen people go and "work" for decades in an office and do nothing all day. There's nothing new under the sun.

The US Chamber of Commerce isn't a governmental agency.

Just disable JavaScript.

Quit with the gaslighting. It's not about an anime avatar, and you know it.

The problem is more that HN is perceived, with good reason, to be transphobic, and Asahi has several trans developers. This is also the reason why a couple of other people I won't mention don't want HN to link to their projects either, because for every link, several people will bitch in the comments about the validity of their gender and pronouns. (As if creating a web app somehow makes one an authority in biology.)

I mean, obviously, it's not like everybody who comments here takes part in the abuse, but when you spend every damn day of your life seeing it and depending on where you live, possibly being harassed by the government over it too, HN turns out to be one more place where you simply can't have any peace.

(And honestly, even if Lina is a anime alter ego, which you haven't proven, and only suspect, why the fuck do you care? Don't you have something better to spend your time on?)

It's not a "labor shortage." It's a "companies don't want to pay people what they're worth" problem.

Throw wads of cash on the table. There will be no "shortage."

IIRC, it had higher resolution than CGA, so it was much nicer to look at for longer stretches of time.

Seriously?

If you need someone to explain to you why you should care about other human beings, you might be the problem.

That would be a moof point.

I'm so sorry your wife (and you) are going through this. When the medical system fails, it fails hard. I don't know what to say except that I hope you all get to the bottom of this quickly and she gets the help she needs.

freedom of speech for republicans.

I bet it would be fairly easy to port a command line version of EmuTOS to this thing.

$35 a month for BASIC ? Seriously? Subscriptions have gotten completely out of hand.

Yes, but with some differences (opt-in, being one) that hopefully will prevent some of the abuses.

Moderation is also way better on Mastodon, so even with those features, the impact should be lessened.

idk, I get way less abuse on the Fediverse than I ever did on Twitter. There is definitely drama out there, and the mastodon.lol debacle was well, ridiculous. (As Douglas Adams said, "People are a problem." -- that's not going away no matter what nifty new protocol you come up with, unless it exclusively routes to /dev/null.)

My point was more that there's no real profit motive to Mastodon, so it can't fail in that sense, which is generally what we're talking about when we're talking about web services.

If 75% of the new people on Mastodon eventually go to BlueSky, the people who remain will probably be perfectly happy to remain on Mastodon, and I don't know how one can call that a failure.

Depends on who you allow to define "porn."

Mastodon can only “fail” at being what it’s not trying to be: a Twitter replacement.

It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for whom Twitter was too toxic.

Because until a gormless billionaire wrecked it, it worked well for this function.

You'd be shocked how much higher food prices are in poorer neighborhoods. I can hop in the car anytime and go to Giant Eagle, but someone without transportation in the inner city ends up going to "Dave's."

When Dave's is the only place to go, there's no pressure to keep the prices down.

B.S. this was happening way before the affordable care act was passed.

Definitely on Mastodon, was on Twitter before that.

That project has been a mess from day one. The '16' in X16 was because they were originally going to base it on the 65C816, but couldn't figure out how to deal with the address/data bus multiplexing so went with the 65C02 instead.

Try to think beyond yourself, just for a bit.

If approximately half of the population is at all afraid to exist in public, then maybe your feelings getting hurt about sweeping statements is a little less important in the grand scheme of things.

It's called empathy, look it up if you need to.