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It seems that it tests both free will and sense of humor.

It sucks that she had to be fired rather than moved to a different role, but getting rid of her role as a QA proxy led to a HUGE improvement of AMAs. During her tenure there, they were nothing but an incredibly low effort part of normal celeb PR campaigns for new movies and similar things. And she/reddit were not very transparent about the fact that the "celebrity" responses were her paraphrasing rather than them responding.

I've been WFH since around 2017 or so. After a while, it starts to feel like I ship code into the void. Like I'm a freelancer who happens to be working for a company rather than an employee. This gets even worse after a round or two of layoffs and/or reorgs and being on teams with people I've never met.

I had to visit our office (first time since Jan 2020) to do some emergency heads down work with my teammates and it's incredible how I had forgotten what it feels like to be part of a company.

With that combined with the fact that people are increasingly bad at hiding the fact that they're often just taking off mid-afternoon (always fun to need a set of eyes for a critical hotfix pull request and get radio silence on Teams!), the difficulty of focusing at home, and the expense of trying to live somewhere with an extra bedroom or area as a dedicated home office, and I really wish I could go back to the office. Unfortunately I don't live in the same state as the office anymore, so I am stuck like this for now.

Facepalm in the form of $100Ms in service credits.

Part of me wonders how much they're actually going to pay out, given that their own status page has only indicated five services with moderate ("Increased API Error Rates") disruptions in service.

It's definitely a face detection thing for some of them. My spouse had to deal with all of her black students being hectored nonstop by the software because it had a hard time reading dark skin faces and was constantly interrupting them to accuse them of not looking in the correct direction.

I see the same thing in CS:GO. Then people wonder why no women stick with it long enough to go pro.

At some point I feel uncomfortable using a free plan that is obviously unsustainable.

This describes how I've felt about Discord for years.

Their benefits outweigh these anecdotal downsides.

Yep. Check out r/redditminusmods

On average, 80-100% of the content of the frontpage is removed by mods every day.

Didn't Digg v4 happen in 2010?

The paradox of tolerance. Gets em every time. It's exceptionally hard to thread the needle like reddit mostly dude pre-2013/2014 or so. It's incredibly easy to be another Voat.

It's like pulling teeth to browse it anon on mobile even on the old design. They're all but putting a gun to your head and saying "USE THE FUCKIN APP"

I'm not even sure it's malice. New reddit drops my user session once every few days it seems like. It would also forget my "default to markdown" option as well, regularly. So I just switched back to old reddit.

Sadly, there are a number of replacement sites and almost without exception they're most of the way towards being Voat 2.0

imageboard culture's progression summed up in two links. good god.

The whole "env is figured out behind the scenes and work is done to autofetch the correct values to load into the CONSTANT_CASE variables you import all in one line" thing seems to be a pretty clear violation of "Explicit is better than implicit."

In my experience the productivity you gain from such abstractions is negligible compared to the complexity they add to your code.