ericjmorey

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The worst consequence is that you get stuck with 4 days of food and water and no one comes through that can help for a week. Cell phones don't work everywhere, maybe a satcom subscription and equipment could help, but a rescue is going to be way more expensive than whatever fines they are issuing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn't surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Initially, yes. They probably relaxed it a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is my way too. But I default to new and switch to scaled and top-x from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think that's a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Didn't know about that one. Just subscribed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Those bots got blocked and banned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Scaled is intentionally promoting communities with fewer subscribers. It's intentionally demoting the most active posts bt demoting any posts from the communities with more subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn't lie to ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Rewarding healthy behavior with incentives (attention he wants) could have been effective over the past 78 years. Too bad no one has tried it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

What's the 5 year running total for Meta settlements of this sort?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Credit Reporting business started before the internet existed, so probably not.

 

@ciscoserrano

I actually do have some advice for people on this topic. If you want to learn programming here is a very important concept: Every piece of software you've ever used can be broken down into 4 simple ideas. What I call The Four Friends of Programming.

  1. Save data and use it later. (example: variables, memory allocation)
  2. Conditionally execute things. (example: if statement, switch, match, jump)
  3. Repeat yourself. (example: loops, recursion)
  4. Organize the first three things. (example: structs, functions, classes)

Thats it. Thats every program you've ever used. The next tip, is that every programming language is someone's opinion of HOW you use those four friends. programming languages are made by people who have opinions about how to program. What makes different languages interesting is that you get see/discover new ways of using those 4 simple rules to solve problems. The people that wrote Java believed that all data should be contained in a type. The people that made Lisp believed you only need lists and recursion to compute anything. But in the end its the same four rules wrapped in an opinion of computation.

So. If you want to learn programming, pick a language, any language. One that you think will make you money or one that you think will enable to build what you love easily. Then MASTER the four friends in that language. When you do that and move on to the next language you can peel away syntax and jargon (because those are a someones opinions of how code should look) and really peer into the big ideas of the person that designed it.

The video itself is pretty good too.

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