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  • We’re in this situation because people don’t vote.

    All other forms of political activism, aside from murder, exist to convince people to vote.

    Activism without voting is worthless.

    You want more progressive candidates? Vote for Democrats until Republicans are forced to move to the left, and then Democrats will be able to move to the left as well.

    That’s how the Overton window works.




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    Lmao no it isn’t. It’s completely insignificant and barely even qualifies as news.

    The US Dollar is strong because we have the largest economy in the world, not because of the good will of some oil exporter.

    At least google things before spreading insane misinformation.




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    They do, most of the time. For example if you upload an heic file from an iPhone to a file input on a website that doesn’t accept heic files, it’ll upload a jpeg.

    Apple can’t see or control all the different ways of transferring files, though, so in practice it still causes problems sometimes.

    The strange thing is that some Android phones also save photos as heic files and make no attempt to convert them, so I still had to add logic to my websites to convert them myself.













  • You think in Reddit’s 20 year history no one has thought of indexing comments for data science workloads?

    I’m sure they have, but an index doesn’t have anything to do with the python library you mentioned.

    Analytics workflows are never run on the production database, always on read replicas

    Sure, either that or aggregating live streams of data, but either way it doesn’t have anything to do with ElasticSearch.

    It’s still totally possible to sync things to ElasticSearch in a way that won’t affect performance on the production servers, but I’m just saying it’s not entirely trivial, especially at the scale reddit operates at, and there’s a cost for those extra servers and storage to consider as well.

    It’s hard for us to say if that math works out.

    It’s incredibly naive to think that they don’t have a vested interest in identifying organic engagement

    You would think, but you could say the same about Facebook and I know from experience that they don’t give a fuck about bots. If anything they actually like the bots because it looks like they have more users.