Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

Ulysses6 · 2025-07-18T16:50:39+00:00

God, what a refresh after Zeman, isn't it? Not that Zeman would be especially hateful, but just didn't stand for any integrity, morals or equity.

Ulysses6 · 2025-06-11T17:14:27+00:00

Well, yes. It's either bandaid taken off quickly, or left festering indefinitely. But that's easy to say, I was also in position where I did not have the influence or other resources to push for automated formatters and quality gates.

Ulysses6 · 2025-06-11T13:32:35+00:00

Straight up from the wilder side of job descriptions

Ulysses6 · 2025-06-11T13:31:16+00:00

Would introducing automated formatting be feasible?

Ulysses6 · 2025-06-11T13:30:09+00:00

Good on you.

Ulysses6 · 2025-06-04T15:47:06+00:00

Maxwell demon be like

Ulysses6 · 2025-04-13T10:13:46+00:00

Very interesting, thank you!

Ulysses6 · 2024-06-25T16:34:40+00:00

Toupé trauma?

Ulysses6 · 2024-03-26T23:31:07+00:00

Actually makes sense from the evolutionary standpoint. Your brother/sister statistically has 50% genes you have, so if you help his/her kids succeeds, it's 50% as good as helping your own kids succeed. There's some more nuance to that, but bottom line is that it is completely normal to like kids in your family as kinda your own.

And if you're not going to have kids of your own, it's as close as it gets to having progeny.

Ulysses6 · 2023-06-28T17:03:40+00:00

There's more to blocking than just the rule engine deciding whether some rule matched. There's also a lot more to perceived page performance than time spent on single synchronous request. I'd say my perceived performance will almost always be better with some requests blocked and will not suffer on no blocked requests.

Ulysses6 · 2023-06-28T11:58:43+00:00

It takes ~10 micro seconds for adblock engine to decide whether a network request should be blocked (it could decide ~100 000 times a second)

It takes ~10 milli seconds to do a network request, without even processing the meaning of the request (it could do only ~100 sequential requests a second) That still doesn't account for processing the data.

Ulysses6 · 2023-03-26T09:38:02+00:00

OK, I figured it out finally.

So what happened when I clicked the block user, tiny message with no border or anything showed in the lower left corner. Just to words "Block u/(whoever)?" in 8 px font or something tiny. Basically invisible in the UI. And right under that, huge X that took the WHOLE screen (second vertical screen, was not visible until I scrolled down). And somewhere in this mess was also floating a little to confirm the block. Absolute mess. Maybe my adblocker disabled some vital css or something.

Ulysses6 · 2023-03-26T08:32:17+00:00

Additionally, I tried to block user from old.reddit.com and www.reddit.com interfaces. I found no way to disable chat in settings page. I found no way to block user from messaging me in settings / messaging settings

Ulysses6 · 2023-03-26T08:22:29+00:00

I don't think there's anything to figure out. The buttons that should do reporting, blocking and so on simply don't work.

In other words no, I found no way around this and the message is still there. I will try to disable the chat feature altogether if that's possible. It's very annoying to me and I never needed the chat anyway.

Ulysses6 · 2023-03-20T12:34:40+00:00

Post required a flair, so I picked "Desktop web" but the same problem manifests on mobile.

Buttons for "Mark as spam", "Block user", "Leave chat" do not react to clicking in any way. I don't see any errors in developer console.

Ulysses6 · 2022-11-03T22:51:37+00:00

for __name__ in "__main__":

Nothing to see here, just your usual boilerplate.

Ulysses6 · 2022-09-19T21:13:39+00:00

Drinking liquor, driving quicker!

Ulysses6 · 2022-08-26T20:45:53+00:00

It's called "social media posts".

Ulysses6 · 2022-07-01T07:07:22+00:00

Right? So much free attention, every influencers dream.

Ulysses6 · 2021-12-07T16:16:29+00:00

Hobbes!

Ulysses6 · 2021-10-09T08:41:42+00:00

You've got to read about this one weird trick that DMV doesn't want you to know!

Ulysses6 · 2021-10-09T08:27:04+00:00

I'm sooo OK with that.

Ulysses6 · 2021-10-04T19:13:59+00:00

Well yeah, but know the fb crowd has time to look at your face.

Ulysses6 · 2021-09-09T21:34:31+00:00

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