Heh, was just about to post that this design ended up having issues with chafing between the sdcard read and the sdcard and that the new design (for the reader part at least) addressed this. I love the new version and have been contemplating making one myself. Very nice videos and description, so thank you for sharing your projects
I’m not sure Ilya was anticipating this to more or less break OpenAI as a company. Ilya is all about the work they do, and might not have anticipated that this would turn the entire company against him and the rest of the board. And so, he is in support of Sam coming back, if that means that they can get back to the work at hand.
Android is now better than iOS, says owner of a newly released product that is so bad for privacy towards the consumer, that it’s not allowed in the EU. Android, the platform that has some of the most lax privacy rules, agree that you should totally trust all of them with your data…
I smell something, and it ain’t roses
It’s fun to consider this from his perspective. He has essentially pushed all-in on this and now he has no way of backing out. If this is all about getting ready for IPO, then he can’t back out, because that would show potential future investors that he is not in control of policy changes, and that means that when shareholders want to crank up the money making machine, they can’t. At the same time, he needs to show that the site can continue and take a minimal hit to revenue when such protests happen. He will never back down, as this is essentially a battle test to show the strength of the platform for investors after the IPO. It’s an all or nothing play. If revenue takes a hit after all this and doesn’t recover, then Reddit is now worth half. If it does recover, Reddit is much more stable than first anticipated and is now worth double. Right now, he is pretty confident that the outcome will be the latter.
As a user, all he's done is prove to me that he will cave instantly to shareholder pressure. There aren't even any public shareholders asking for more money now and he's already cranking the money-making lever. How am I to expect the site to become better in the future when infinite growth is expected? Why would I put my time in this site over another?
And that’s the bet on his side. He has reached a point where he believes the users’ options are non-competitive, so the way he sees it, users doesn’t have any choice. It’s his way or no way. The average user doesn’t care, they just want to have fun. Which might also be why he is okay with changing all the mods, because those are the people like you and I that care and will take up the fight.
If the customers can shut down the company arbitrarily, then what's the point of investing in it? Of course they should make it a rule that mods are not allowed to shut down their main channels.
Otherwise, Reddit should IPO and then demand that all users buy a share. Users who don't are deleted. Then let the shareholders-users figure out how to make good on their investment
All companies depend on their customers, that's not a reddit only thing. If Coca-Cola pisses of their customers, they'll go to Pepsi in the blink of an eye.
Or they could hire the mods, like some other sides do? The mods here are regular users, which also means (by Reddits own terms and rules) that they can do whatever they want with their subs. That also means shutting or locking them down. If they were on the payroll, that would not be an option.
It’s funny - he is part of the founding team and had been working on Reddit for 18 years. Maybe his just tired of it all and wants to do something else, so the IPO can not come soon enough He must have cared about the user and the platform at some point, or else we wouldn’t have gotten this far Or who knows - maybe there’s been a power shift at Reddit that made what we’re seeing possible…
Does such a thing exist? I would love something like that, but is it even feasible? Isn’t there a lot more you need to be aware of, to make a translation of say TS’s objects into C?
> (although some might argue their quality has gone down)
Isn’t that the entire thing the article argues? That journalism (real journalism, that is meant to keep those in power on the straight and narrow), suffers because not enough money goes to the actual journalists? Stock is the public’s perception of something’s value, but the actual value to society can not be measured in stocks.
Many contracts (at least where I live, ymmv) contains a trial period, usually the first three months. Those are not just for your employers benefit. Some things, like team fit and culture, will only become apparent after a few weeks.
That being said, 6 months is a perfectly reasonable time for an employment that you’ve found unreasonable. If I’d see something like that on a resume when I was hiring, I might ask a question about the short stay during the interview process, but an answer about mis-matched culture fit would be perfectly legit for me.
There are many other good JDKs out there, and with Oracle changing their license back and forth like a pendulum, I can not stress enough that going with the Oracle JDK should be considered a bad idea. See http://whichjdk.com/ for further detail (was posted here a couple of months ago)
This page was heavily criticized as it provides next to no reason on the recommendations.
Also, it’s really easy, just use OpenJDK (not adopt) packaged by your distro and stick to the latest version, which will continue to get security updates forever, will be much more performant, etc.
In the rare case you need to sit on an older version that is no longer getting security updates, OracleJDK may be preferred as they employ the actual people working on the JDK, and not just backporting commits from the most recent version. So eg. a deprecated feature may not get a security update in time with some other vendors, because it will not have commits from upstream.
> Also, it’s really easy, just use OpenJDK (not adopt) packaged by your distro and stick to the latest version, which will continue to get security updates forever, will be much more performant, etc.
* Updates for the life of the distro version support policy.
I seriously doubt it'd be any more performant. They're all just doing a build of JDK from the same central repo.
Taken from the product site (not this blog post) that was linked by another user. So you get to choose it would seem.
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