So, the ending of twitter is to switch to Threads with FB's content moderation guidelines? I don't think so. We have social media fatigue rn. Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right). This is the main reason gab, truth social, etc... won't be mainstream.
Fb hasn't been original from a long time. From trying to launch a substack competitor, stealing snapchat features, creating reels, etc. Now, developer wise, is a different game. React, Pytorch, Prophet, etc... hit after hit.
Twitter can be a "cesspool" but I don't trust fb at all.
> Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right).
Twitter was ok to get (and, equally important in my opinion, share) info really fast; now you need to have an account, be logged in, and be under your meager daily quota to even be allowed to see anything. And everyone you want to share info with needs to do the same. The recent changes have pretty severely undermined what made Twitter stand out among its larger competitors.
The quota is temporary. I agree with you that latest changes have been crazy,but it 's not the end of the world. I much rather prefer Twitter than give Zuckerberg more power.
Now, I see them winning if they go Twitter's route and nuke their content moderation guidelines but since that won't happen, I doubt you'll see mass migration from the freedom fighters, hehe.
Reality is they need each other. Conflict is what gets Twitter going. That and memes.
The only "extreme left" account I followed on Twitter (Chad Loder) was personally banned by Elon because his #1 priority post-Grimes breakup has been trying to become a made man so the internet fascists will let him into their gang.
There are certainly tankies on there, which is a kind of person that claims to be left but is actually a reactionary.
I think the vast majority of people don’t care much about what happens at the outer bounds of content moderation. Most people go to Twitter for pretty normal internet conversations, which are increasingly difficult to have there: the Blue buffoons being at the top of every thread with nothing worthwhile to say, the constant spotlight on Elon drama, rate limiting, huge jump in bugginess, etc.
FB allows a sufficiently diverse, extreme, and even toxic political environment on FB for most everyone. What kind of content would Threads forbid that is more crucial to Twitter users than a functional service?
Putting the content of people who have to pay for engagement above everyone else was one of the most heroically dumb product decisions I’ve ever heard. I was fine putting up with everything else but then the service just became legitimately not compelling because of that.
Pedantic but just for drive-by readers, there isn't really any nodejs dependency. You can use it to manage JS dependencies, or you can forgo it for "vendoring" with esbuild (or bun, etc).
Liveview itself has a small JS component that is mostly transparent (socket.connect() basically). You can of course add more JS too it.
Wow. This paper is _very_ well written. I am not an expert in neural networks, but the concepts were very well described and diagramed and I was able to follow along.
I would read a whole book about neural networks written in this style.
Normally, ML training is via back propagation, which is a synchronous technique. If you try to trivially parallelize, it doesn't work, for reasons (tm).
This lets you train a machine learning model of arbitrary size (bigger than can fit on a GPU, or even a multigpu node) using an actor-based distributed technique. There is a slight training cycles count penalty but it's way less than the cost of coordination.
I love Elixir and Phoenix/LiveView, but I have the same problem. I think it will need to gain the proverbial 10x improvement over React and JS frameworks in general before people consider it.
Sometimes you can come in the side door. I built a testbed reservation app for the GUI team I work with using Phoenix LiveView. The Product manager was surprised out fast I hammered it out. So far everyone is using it without a hitch. It's not product code, but it's still in active use with no problems.
not just this, but also no one knows elixir. Its a very niche language for very niche set of tasks, rewriting existing apps form react to elixir just to use liveview is a pointless overkill
I find it hard to drive through the Tenderloin without thinking “there is no fix for this”. Once someone has been homeless and into drugs for long enough, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to get them to fix their lives (if possible at all) for a good portion of them.
Beyond some massive investment in housing and recovery, it’s just going to continue not working. Prevention is the solution, we have to prevent it at all costs and do our best to ease the suffering of those who are stuck there now.
Unfortunately I think we’ll continue with half measures and the problem will remain unsolved.
As a cat owner who’s really bonded with his cat, this feels rather obvious to me. When he lays on my chest and stares into my eyes at the end of a day where I was gone a long time it’s pretty easy for me to feel like there’s more there.
Isn’t this kind of a social and cultural phenomenon though? It can’t be explained by means of a physical infection right, so it makes sense they have to reach for potential social or cultural answers?
Okay, let’s strap you into a chair and drill into your head against your will and then subject you to hours of tests only to realize it’s the wrong implant so we just have to kill you. Sound good?
Bud, these animals go to war with each other and tear each others faces off and get eaten alive by predators every day. This is hardly the worst thing to happen and its the only way to make progress in this area. They're also not trying to be cruel, its not some torture chamber.
It’s not? They’re recklessly messing up implants, forcing them to be killed. There’s no benefit to that, only needless suffering and death.
Humans go to war with each other and use nuclear weapons, does that mean murder, torture or human testing (in the form of implants against your will) are okay? You argument falls entirely apart on that one simple premise.
yes the human ubermench must rule over the savages as is his right as the greatest wielder of violence. Not familiar to ideology that we experience to bunch of in the 30s and 40s at all....
I think it was just sheer repetition. I had to switch back to VSCode a few times a week to be productive on a time crunch but other than that I just had the mouse enabled and scrolling and tried to not use the mouse as much as possible. I would often tweak my config to find more intuitive key bindings that I could remember.
My view is that it’s just like learning a language (albeit easier) and you just need to give yourself space and time. Structure is good, but can also be overwhelming in the sense that you try to min max like vim pros from youtube. I just found that I would take it in digestible pieces and build on that. First it was jumping lines, then changing inside or around, and so on and so on.
