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Most of the meetups I'm in have been going on for several years, at least.

My backpacking group is on meetup. I joined in 2016. Not sure when it was started, but it was a few years before that. Admittedly, the group existed in some form before Meetup did, but it has grown to over 2000 members on Meetup. There's a core group of about 50 or so who are very regularly active.

There's also a local hiking group, a python user group, a biking club, and a climbing club. Quite a few of these existed before meetup and will probably exist after meetup.

My friends and I have had a server since ~2016 that we use and I've been able to find whatever I've needed even back that far. It might be harder in a higher volume server (we have about 20 actives and another 20 semi-active chatters).

But the search will let you specify time periods, channels, who sent the message, etc. It also gives a line of context around the result, which takes up some space, but I find is quite useful for, well, getting the context of the statement and figuring out what it meant.

I think the most important facet for (very) old content searching, though, is that you can almost immediately go back in the chat history to any result. Whereas other chat apps make that slow or difficult.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000468588

This article did not live up to the promise of its headline. I stopped reading part way through the meandering generalizations (with no references or citations) before I got to the main thesis.

How? The only method I'm aware of is using the browser's developer tools to spoof being a mobile device.

GP mis-wrote it a bit- "We aren't going to pay you [anymore]". Meaning that they stopped paying her.

but that's effectively the same argument as the hassle involved with switching off Gmail.

huh? There's a massive difference between those two things. YouTube provides discoverability for your content. Gmail does not. Besides the loss of existing viewers in a platform switch, creators would also lose a huge audience of potential viewers of their content both from recommendations and from search results. Sure, there are content creators who build up followings, but lots of people will get a handful of videos that become popular results for certain searches. Those come entirely from searches and "related" listings.

Further, changing emails doesn't require people emailing you to use a completely different client to do so.

SMS short codes don't work on VOIP phones

My experience is mostly with Google Voice, but I've not found that to be true. Years ago that was the case, but these days, I've encountered by few that don't work.

And fix the moderator system so "first to register controls the sub" is no longer the case

Why do you consider that a problem? As a heavy user of reddit, I don't consider that a problem at all. I would be interested to hear what problems you think exist with that system and what other solutions exist.

I'd be pretty pissed if I created a subreddit, put effort into growing it, and someone could just come along and steal it.

Worth noting that this page is satire and poking fun at many of the issues that you note here.

My experience with stuff with C-extensions (although not specifically ML packages) is that there is almost always a wheel published for them these days, so pip works just fine and I almost never have to think about if something is pure python or not.

I wish I could say I never had to think about it, though.

All I know is that in the midwest, before Uber, there was maybe 1 taxi company near-ish (usually from a newarby town). You couldn't just call a ride- You'd have to look up the taxi company's number, schedule days in advance, and pay somewhere between $2-4/minute.

After Uber, you can get a ride even in less populated areas (almost) on demand. The price is definitely lower, but not significantly. But we went from only using a taxi to get to the airport (if you could find absolutely no one to drop you off) to being able to take one home from the bar or concert.

I don't know anyone who, when talking about heating, says "gas" and means "propane". "gas" is usually shorthand for "natural gas", usually from the grid. If they were talking about propane, they'd say that.

But yeah- in my neck of the woods, anywhere outside the city has a propane tank on the property somewhere.

At least in talking to friends in the US, we generally say "gas", "electric coil", "Electric flat top", and "Induction" if it was important to draw a distinction. I haven't encountered anyone who said "Electric" and meant "induction". Granted, induction hasn't really caught on here yet. Lots of older people I talk to don't even know what I'm talking about. My friends who are in a position to buy a stove are generally buying induction, though.

Unfortunately, any citizen's initiative that is placed on the ballot in Ohio is an amendment to the constitution. This has an upside in that the legislature can't really override the direct will of the citizenry, but it also means that things that might not be a great fit for the constitution are there.

Lots of these don't allow the use of VOIP-like numbers.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how are these alternatives to Gridsome? These all appear to be headless CMSes, where Gridsome would be the front end accessing the CMS.

I'd use "vehicle" to be more general than "car". If I just bought one, I'd know whether I bought car, truck, SUV(ehicle), etc. Although, in some cases, you might say "car" generically if the distinction doesn't matter. Also, "vehicle" sounds a bit more formal, so if I were giving, say, a deposition, I might say that. I can't say that I think people around here overuse the term.

(Midwest USA)

You should look at some of their dev blogs. Their engineering team has done some pretty remarkable things, like re-writing the game server to be deterministic so they could better deal with problems that occur in pro play[1]. They've also talked a bit about the past and future of the game engine specifically [2]. They also have blogs talking about operations- taking the game from something written by 2 dudes in a dorm room to being one of the most played games in the world- how their stack has changed, how they're set up to do patches and rollbacks, how they do their internal testing and playtesting, etc.

[1] https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-leg... [2]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/future-leagues-engine

IME using teams about a year ago- I hated threads. The "reply" section took up a massive amount of space on the screen for each message and replying to a message took it out of the chronology of the channel/team. It's possible that if everyone were disciplined enough to make sure that every chat message was a "topic" and kept everything as replies, maybe that would work. But in practice, that's not how conversations work and some of that is subjective. I'd much rather have everything in chronological order so that I can decide what is relevant context. Also, there was no way to turn it off as an admin at the time (there may be now), so even if we said "never use replies", people still sometimes did.

Discord's reply function is basically exactly what I want- It takes up no extra space, the message being replied to is not removed from its original context, and the reply shows a preview and lets you easily jump back to the original context.

Mine still makes a satisfying click if you're using the mechanical shutter. The electronic shutter just sounds weird, though.

It can be very important. For example, Fujifilm released a firmware update for the X-T3 (2018) that provided some huge gains in autofocus performance, bringing the autofocus in line with the newly released X-T4.

There have also been some updates that e.g. allow better use of the camera as a webcam.

You'll find radiators in many older buildings (before about 1930 or so, at least in my area). Some are steam and some are hot water. The problem with them is that they tend to have higher maintenance costs plus if you wanted AC, you'd need to have a separate system, including ductwork. AC is relatively cheap to add to a house with forced air heating and quite expensive to add to a house with radiators. Mini Split AC systems are changing that somewhat, but they haven't caught on too well here.

You can also find baseboard heating, but that tends to be electric and have quite expensive operating costs. It's mostly only used in additions and places where you would only heat the space if you were currently in the room.

This is the detachable showerhead thing all over again.

Uhhh... Everywhere I've lived in the US has had a detachable showerhead, from places built in the 1890s to places built in the 2000s. It's a normal thing for apartment dwellers to buy a nicer showerhead to replace the likely cheap and crappy one that landlord installed and then put the crappy one back before moving out.

A single agent handles everything, hired by the seller, and charges about 1.5% of sale fee + VAT (once haggled down).

That seems like there's a huge conflict of interest there. A buyer's agent isn't legally required in the US (and I've heard of people negotiating lower fees if there's no buyer's agent to share with), but I don't think I'd want to be in a situation where I, a layperson, am negotiating with a professional. The buyer's agent provides knowledge of the area (building materials, typical maintenance items and costs, how to make a competitive offer) and a non-emotional set of eyes to look at things.

Yes, they are incentivized to make a sale happen, but they make far more money in the long run with a happy client (who will refer others and ideally use them as a Seller's agent in the future).

American Shopping malls were modeled on European town centers. They just got a little lost as the concept was copied.

But mixed use development is becoming more common in the US. I know of 2 or 3 mixed use developments that have opened up around my city.

What was new about it was that it was an entirely enclosed system of shops with no exterior windows and a climate-controlled interior. This was a particularly good fit for Minnesota with its cold winters. Until then, shops in malls and arcades were connected by outside walkways. This new design was on two levels, had a department store at each end, and escalators to bring shoppers up to the second level and down again when they’d completed walking the mall. And it had a central court with skylights, fountains, plants and seating.

Gruen was inspired by centrally planned urban re-development in his hometown of Vienna, Austria, that took place there after the democratic uprisings in 1848.

https://msourceideas.com/the-origin-story-of-the-enclosed-sh...

I seem to remember that some providers had some sort of SMS/MMS<->Email setup such that you could email a [phone number]@[provider.com] address and the recipient would get an SMS and be able to reply. Maybe something like that?

IME, rentals are usually for a 1 year period(and often the lease auto-renews for another year if neither part gives notice).

Another common model is an initial 1 year term that then converts to month-to-month.

Generally speaking, turnover higher than 1/year is incredibly costly for the landlord, so 1 year leases are the norm. Longer periods are too onerous on renters.

In commercial real-estate, though, longer periods are more common (5 and 10 years are not unheard of).

This is definitely a nice built-in tool. I still find ShareX to be a bit more flexible and fit my workflow better, but this is great for getting screenshots from other people.

I've moved twice with all of my furniture and it's still going strong. The only thing that worries me for my next move would be the board on the back of my bookshelf, since it's only held in with very tiny nails.

Other than getting transactions automatically imported, which at least for me is the difference between using it and not using it.

While Signal is pretty awful on desktop

Weird. I find the desktop app pretty good.

I see people complaining about it being slow, but that's not been my experience.

My main complaint with the desktop app is that I really want it to sync message history with the phone app. If you, for example, don't use your laptop for a while, you'll have to re-authorize it and it won't have any messages from when it was off. I realize all of that is a trade-off for their security design, but having access to all my messages and being able to search them is important to me.