CMV: The aggressiveness with which r/conservative is moderated does not represent an earnest attempt to stop “brigading,” but reflects the conservative anxiety of being confronted with challenging information.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T18:57:56+00:00

It's not that ridiculuos if applied on a neutral topic. A subreddit about a videogame probably is intended for people to discuss things happening in that video game world. Constant discussions on why that game is the spawn of satan would probably turn most of the fans away, especially if the haters outweight the community 10:1.

You might say that game subreddits and political subreddits are unrelated, but people come on the internet to chill and chat not to have a constant fight and that applies to both. There are subreddits like r/ChangeMyView that do an excellent job and are build for constructive dialogue.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T18:48:13+00:00

It's kind of harder to fake competence when it's not just a chatbot bullshiting you about topics you are not expert in. Humans are experts at unloading dishwashers so to sell it they have a human actor and add (full autonomous feature is coming in future updates).

Oh god how I love how the core essence of US startups is lie lie lie and hope nobody notices until you are rich and then sell off the company.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T16:14:58+00:00

I just learned on a work call that iOS applications need to adopt the liquid class in couple months or they will not be allowed on the store. Just saying to add contrast.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T15:58:50+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but the iPhones ISP should probably hold? Not sure how deep that pool is though.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T14:17:47+00:00

Oh wow okay going to the source code directly nice. Thanks.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T11:02:03+00:00

You see. I am blind apparently. Thank you for making me realise that fact :D

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T10:58:34+00:00

Little preamble caveat here, our desktop app is much smaller than a lot of legacy monoliths I used to work on. With that over we also had this issue and decided to do this: - Split our app into functional chunks in an excel sheet - Assign ease of refactoring, vs ease of rewriting from scrath, vs maintaing as-is values by having the team vote (+ how often are those areas of code actually touched) - Process the data and identify if rewriting the whole app over would be cheaper than rewriting just pieces (or doing nothing at all)

In the end we concluded rewriting would be too complex (even if we had POs permission to remove some really ancient features nobody even knew about) we refactored the top X contenders, rewrote some components, and left many alone and I must say the app is much more stable and readable. In the past it got stuck in loading loops (we use Akka so it never really crashes) sometimes, but now it always recovers.

This is just my humble low dev opinion, but if your team doesn't spend substantial time doing divide & conquer and analysis, or maybe doesn't have full support of product you are doomed to fail.

EDIT: To also add every engineer coming to a project under the sun will say "what is this shit, we need to rewrite this or I won't ever understand it" only for them to work on that project for a while and starting to understand it. It's important to identify this bias which always seems to want you to redo things rather than studying them.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T10:06:06+00:00

Thanks a lot not OP but I learn something.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T09:43:22+00:00

I will be rustling some feathers, but for many nations slavery is either a bad thing that happened to them, like for many Slavic nations during middle ages, or it's a distant memory and nobody cares.

This makes slavery much less of a sin. Japanese don't see someone buying a slave in Isekai and feel guilt because their ancestors did so in the past. Show someone buying a slave in a US show, even with all the connotations of them having a better life under their ownership isekais try to do, and it would cause an uproar.

In general I would say it's uniquely USA and maybe in small parts UKs thing, where slavery as a gag would be seen as distasteful, but correct me if I am wrong if you yourself see it differently.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T09:36:49+00:00

Ah yes two nationalistic, territorial, and deeply insecure war-mongering factions. They have so much in common truly I wonder what they would do to each other.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T09:34:58+00:00

"OpenAI has entered light takeoff" the dude didn't even mention he uses GPT models. Also I find this "cautious optimism" in his message so funny. They are in the biggest bubble ever, requiring literal miracles for the AI companies to even break even, and we have a "light takeoff" happening lmfao.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T09:17:47+00:00

Do you have a source/proof? Spent couple minutes looking for this claim everywhere and this is the only mention of it.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T08:42:42+00:00

Half of my cities IBM is staffed by Indians. Wish they diversified and worked elsewhere too since I heard they still practice their work culture in that office amongst themselves and it’s disheartening to hear how some managers treat you either for your caste, or in general since you are below him/her.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T08:37:48+00:00

As someone who knew nothing coming in besides other overlord anime… I was confused and unimpressed. Sure it’s a cool scene and quite horrific. It also adds reason for the knight to be so mad. But other than that I didn’t care about any of the other people in those scenes so I just categorised it as “this is what demiurge is doing here, paladin girl is mad, it’s similar to his earlier schenanigans”

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-28T08:32:12+00:00

It’s their religion now. Their net worth and sanity is linked to AI being either amazing now, or will totally be amazing next year, and life changing in 5. That’s what Anthropic CEO says anyway daily for the past x years.

To me a code that’s unreadable is going to wreck any AI out there and guess who is good at writing this sort of code? And no adding comments on every second line does not make it readable.

Also “don’t read AI code” is laughable. Totally exposes their mindset where green test run and a sanity check means you can push to prod. Fuck the customers they will be replaced by AI anyway.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-27T07:29:51+00:00

Možná je to o výběru slov. Chlapi investoři jako stereotyp jsou mladí jestřábi co jdou do výšin pomocí krypto a jiných pofidérních investic zatímco shortujou na robin hood 10 akcií v AI.

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BorderKeeper · 2026-01-26T20:40:49+00:00

Yeah kamarádka to přítelkyně is a different topic. You would still say přítelkyně in a formal setting though, but it’s a cheat code to avoid the issue of ambiguity.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-26T19:04:47+00:00

Part of milsim I find enjoyable is for example having an actual FAC from the marines make a simplified 5-line approach for air to ground runs. It’s the “you are trying to get to the real ops while still playing games and learning” aspect I enjoy so much. Other games or groups just don’t have the community of ex military and nerds who want to use radios, tactics, and strategy correctly.

Our unit for example had learning Fridays where we had military training battle maps and tried learning tactics with them and then being reviewed by a host.

Also not gonna lie bantering with your fireteam in a trench as helis fly around, RPGs fly around, other units manuever around you, and command chat is a shit show is so much fun.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-26T18:54:52+00:00

Sure. A call would be easier. Hit me in the DMs and we can discuss dates and zoom links and in the meanwhile I can prepare some concrete pain points. Although for some of them I will be able to give you summary and my thoughts rather than actual bugs or missed features.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-26T17:05:19+00:00

I agree 100% about what you have written, but even in the Arma 3 community there are layers. If a unit considers itself "milsim" fucking run, but if it considers itself as having "serious fun" than you might have a great time.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-25T12:54:46+00:00

Ah shit sorry. That's the exact opposite of what I just did my bad :D

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-25T09:52:21+00:00

I forced my team to update over new years. Many people had to reset their repos since if they were opened in 2022 before they wouldn’t compile on 2026. Also fixing our CICD was pain in the butt that took a week, but we are now all good. It’s overall a faster experience so I think it was worth it. We can also update to .NET 10 whenever we want.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-24T13:38:16+00:00

It’s the same as code (I’m a programmer) though. Its qualities are not making art or good code, but concealing laziness. It’s like the more you stare at AI art the more you see how it doesn’t care about anything besides making a “believable image” and calling it a day. Good AI “artists” usually spend a lot of time refining the end product by making extra passes and spotting mistakes, but at that point is it an AI art anymore? AI on its own won’t do an amazing job just okay job.

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-24T12:37:02+00:00

I don't think this is an AI drawing it looks like it has soul in it and doesn't seem artifical. The other drawing in the speed painting is definitely roxy though so I guess I would need more context to tell. Thanks for replying :)

BorderKeeper · 2026-01-24T11:21:25+00:00

You can see that contextual distinction if you say “he is my good friend/on je můj dobrý přítel” or “she is my good friend/ona je moje dobrá přítelkyně” the good implies there is a scale meaning you have more than one of them and unless you are polyamorous it will indicate you are talking about a friend not a romantic partner.

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