lovegoblin

Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

Yes, but I think this is what they meant by

Making watch logic for that sometimes is too complicated or changes the outcome (race conditions especially).

we're going to need much more difficult driving tests.

Sounds good to me. Let's require regular re-testing while we're at it.

The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light

The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.

In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment.

Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?

> How often do people really plan trips? ... probably once or twice a year if you're lucky.

Many many people use travel planning software as escapism

Heh yeah I caught that too. My wife plans many, many trips per year - but we certainly don't go on all of them, hah. The planning is a hobby in itself.

the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.

Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything that isn't COVID.

That was the whole point of the early-pandemic "flatten the curve" campaigns.

Oh, huh. Yeah, you're right. Really showed my whole still-on-2.7 ass here haha

An old joke: any sufficiently advanced Sinatra app is indistinguishable from Rails.

Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby

This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.

I'm genuinely curious to know why you feel the need to point it out.

I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/anti-vax circles.

Exactly. Getting vaccinated is not just about you, but everyone you come in contact with - especially those who may be at higher risk than you are. Maybe even people you care about?

I'm in my 30s and in good health. I've not been particularly concerned about dying myself from covid[0]. But I do have a mom and grandparents. I do have immunocompromised friends and family. How could I live with myself if I got one of them sick and hadn't taken even that simple step of a shot in the arm?

[0] though long-covid is another story, or even short-term "being sick for days/weeks" doesn't sound like a particularly good time.

I wouldn’t be surprised if linguists find a new “internet dialect” of English in the future as well.

You might be interested in "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch. McCulloch is a linguist, but it's a light/layperson's book. I really enjoyed it.

https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/

Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much

Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic sugar gets pulled into Ruby core.

or example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false)

Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a truthiness check.

The only falsey values in Ruby are `false` and `nil`, but in the context of a Rails app you might want to treat things like "" and [] as "not present" (e.g., a user leaves a text field blank).

Yeah, and marc also skipped over the part where the creator actually gets paid.

But the payment processors are the unspoken guardians of internet commerce, and without VC level backing good luck getting them to touch something like adult content.

You're completely correct here. The only other real option in this space is CCBill - and they:

a) only do payments - not hosting and everything that OF does

b) still take a ~18-20% cut, in addition to annual flat fees

c) are really fucking unbelievably terrible

When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content?

That's...what OnlyFans is?

It's not expensive

It absolutely is, because you still need to get paid, and unfortunately 18-20% fees are completely normal for adult-content payment processing. And OF clearly does a lot more than just payment processing.

Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"?

Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeback or default.

People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content

They want a solution for distributing adult content and getting paid for it.

By far, the single biggest hurdle here is payment processing - as evidenced by this whole OnlyFans fiasco. It's Visa and Mastercard who are pressuring OF - they've been doing this to sex workers for decades, but finally picked a fight big enough that it's getting real media backlash.

Watching other people do it is not.

Are you equally as dismissive of reading books other people wrote?

The heart of TikTok is video creation and remix. That's why memes spread so quickly there.

That "No no no" song that is on every other video

Oh, every generation of internet users has made repetitive memes like this; we just have more bandwidth now.

Maybe the medium is the message still holds?

Was there ever any question? Your whole comment here is a perfect demonstration.

it's obviously popular stuff on the platform and it just doesn't seem like very positive content for me.

This is true of everything. If I look at the front page of YouTube in a private browser window, it's all bullshit too, obviously. But there's plenty of quality stuff on YouTube that I do like, ya know?

The point is that the well is deep and broad enough that there is probably a whole community of people making content you'd like, and TikTok is extraordinarily good at finding that stuff for you sooner rather than later. I watch tons of diorama-building tutorials and recipe videos, for example. And I'm better both at painting and cooking as a result.

Look: I'm not a shill, here. I'm not trying to convince you to get into TikTok (I mean? who cares, honestly) but I find a lot of talk about it tends to boil down to "kids these days" dismissiveness.

And yeah I don't post anything there - nobody wants to see my grizzled old-ass face.

So...don't post? Every platform has (read: is primarily) lurkers.

they have guests on that have some sort of contrarian viewpoint ... but it can quickly devolve into having a bunch of crackpots on the show.

Joe Rogan has entered the chat.

I think the idea here is that people who are designers first are much less likely to make these beginner mistakes - but someone who's primarily a dev and putting together a simple web page or whatever might not realize they're make mistakes with the basics.

it's gotten to the point where choosing one over the other is barely even a statement about your identity anymore

Why on earth would I want it to be?

Exactly. Hence

It would be more honest