[–] 3 points 2 years ago

I built a Discord bot a while ago that I later added a Patreon for, which adds some extra features. I don't make a lot of money with it but it covers the hosting costs and leaves enough for an extra night out every month.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    looking at files inside the temp folder … otherwise known as … are you sitting down? You really should sit for this … temp files!

    The point OP is making is that those people would not put 2 and 2 together to understand that the files they were looking at are called temp files, just because that's the folder they found them in. They may not even remember the name of the folder, only that it contains a bunch of files with a prefix they're now googling.

    Not sure why I'm bothering explaining this to you, the way you responded makes you look absolutely insufferable, but maybe someone else who comes across this will find it useful.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Why couldn't they just serve the comments to each client with the ad-adjusted timestamps already? The only thing the client has to request then is the comment page it wants to load, and some unique ID for which the backend remembers which ad version it's associated with.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    I'm mostly just glad to be in a country where it is more socially acceptable to be direct. I would be a bit more formal than the original email, but the rewritten version seems really watered down and tip-toed in comparison.

    I think that is changing through ChatGPT and the likes though, even it's non-English output has a distinct American tone to it that I'm starting to see more in professional emails. I have seen too many literal translations of "I hope this message finds you well" already, it's kinda ridiculous

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I will say, for a mainstream US news outlet this article wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Maybe just because there's no way to spin this anymore, but then again some outlets will just parrot IDF statements as fact

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ok, I like this description a lot actually, it's a very quick and effective way to explain the effects of no backtracking. A lot of the answers here are either too reductive or too technical to actually make this behavior understandable to a layman. "It just predicts the next word" is easy to forget when the thing makes it so easy to be anthropomorphized subconsciously.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I usually like this creator, but he conflated multiple unrelated issues in the video and also made too much of a point out of his own experience of not knowing what to do. This isn't really a video on vision pro as it is on various aspects of the modern internet

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    Hey there, I wanted to join some communities in the programming.dev instance, but it doesn't seem to be connected to any other instance (I can't see it from my account's instance and its community list also only has its own communities). The signup form also freezes if I try to make an account on the instance directly. Am I misunderstanding something here?

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