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BorgDrone

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  • I never claimed it was evidence of how it currently works, only that it gives some insight into how Reddit was designed. I would be very surprised if they changed this aspect of the design. It makes sense to not delete comments or edits for reasons I mentioned before. Unfortunately we won’t know for sure unless Reddit confirms it.

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  • Reddit used to be open source. There is still a copy of that source available on github. It’s 7 years old so it’s probably significantly different from what they are running now. Still, it gives some insight into the design.

    For example, deleted comments aren’t deleted, it just sets a deleted flag. Example code that shows this.

    I haven’t dug around the code enough to figure out how editing works, it’s Python code so an unreadable mess. The database design also seems very strange. It’s like they built a database system on top of a database.

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  • The fact that they managed to restore overwritten posts after people started to delete their history.

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  • You are assuming edits overwrite existing content. Instead of overwriting, they could just store the edited post as a new entry in the database with a higher version number. Then, you only show the latest version of each post to the end users while keeping the older versions available die Reddit’s own use.

    In fact, it is extremely likely they do this. It is basically a necessity if you want to be able to properly moderate a site like Reddit. Otherwise you could simply post spam or unsavory content, and then overwrite it with something benign an hour or so later, before there were enough reports and a moderator would have gotten a chance to review it.

  • Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

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  • I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.

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  • $250 for glasses like that is very cheap. I also have bifocals, not the thinnest lenses either, IIRC they were one step up from the standard ones. A light frame but nothing special, the frame was like €100, the entire set of glasses was around €650. The lenses only have a cylinder in them; no prisms or anything like that. If you need more complicated or stronger/thin lenses they can easily go over €1000.

    Even if you have the optional insurance for it, that doesn’t really help you. The amount they cover is basically the same amount you pay for the additional coverage. You’re better off putting the money in a savings account earmarked for your next set of glasses.

    Also, if you need anything but the most basic single focus lenses without any cylinders or prisms, get them at a real optician. The online store can’t properly measure where to place the lenses in the frame (they need to be properly centered in front of your pupils).

  • I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.

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  • IIRC it’s because there isn’t really much of a point to add those to insurance. With health insurance some people will need very expensive treatments but lots of people don’t. It works because you spread the risk over many people. The people who don’t need expensive treatments pay more than they would without insurance, the ones that do need those treatments pay a lot less. Since you don’t know which one of those you will be insurance is a good idea.

    With dental and glasses this is not the case. There isn’t too much variation in how much a person will need to spend on those during their lifetime.

    If you get additional insurance for either you’ll see that the maximum payouts are pretty much the same as what you pay extra during the same period. You might as well just put the money in a savings account.

  • What's an immediate turn off in a person?

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  • Anti-vaxxer / conspiracy theorist.

  • I swear I check them often enough!

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  • I use Safari which has this feature built in.

  • I swear I check them often enough!

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  • Yeah, I usually hover around 300-400 open tabs. I clean them up once in a while but it just builds up again.

  • There's no rule that says you have to grow out of sleepovers

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  • Any good lounge should have you reclined and looking naturally towards the joint between the wall and ceiling.

    How could that even work? If you hang your TV that high then the ‘horizontal plane’ (from your eyes to the screen) would be diagonally across the room. You’d need a really weirdly shaped room. Where do you place your front height speakers? They would have to be above where the ceiling is and your rear speakers would effectively need to be below floor level.

  • Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president

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  • huh? Sure she is member of CDU but in the EU is she part of EVP/EEP/PPE?

    CDU is a German party. National political parties usually form coalitions at the EU level. In this case CDU is one or the members of the EPP.

  • I don't get the outrage, this is how consent works to the right wing

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  • Just a concerned citizen exercising his 2nd amendment right trying to prevent a tyrannical government. Isn’t that exactly what the 2nd amendment is for?

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  • No, the terminology sounds right to me. The term front-end and back-end are used in other contexts than building websites.

    For example, the term is used in compilers, where the front-end takes code in a programming language and translates it to an intermediate representation (IR), and the back-end takes the IR and translates that into machine code for a specific architecture. A compiler like LLVM has many front-ends and back-ends to support different languages and architectures.

    The term applies to many things where there is a multi-layered architecture.

  • How programmers comment their code

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  • Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

  • How programmers comment their code

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  • Good code is self-explanatory. You should only comment your code if it does something unexpectedly complicated.

    The code shows what is being done. The comments should explain the why.

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  • An RC aircraft is basically a guided missile with a meat grinder at the front. The electric ones are surprisingly more dangerous than the nitro ones. A nitro engine can stall if something gets in the prop. An electric motor just keeps going.

    Go talk to some old geezers at your local RC club, they’ll undoubtedly have some nice tall stories about what happens when props get in contact with body parts.

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    don't use ladybird browser lol

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  • What does coffee have to do with anything?

  • After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Biden draws sharp contrast with Trump on obeying rule of law

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  • if Biden does some wild shit, it would create a precedent and make it OK for Trump to do it too.

    How would Trump be able to do it if he’s dead?

    Biden is above the law now, so he should just have Trump and the SC executed.