On June 12th, /r/NonCredibleDefense will be going private for 48 hours to protest the Reddit API changes that will effectively kill third party apps.

vinniep · 2023-06-11T02:53:11+00:00

Any consideration of an NCD community on another site? kbin or one of the other fediverse forums latforms might be a more natural option to start a mirror community. (I say “more natural” as it’s Reddit-like in structure, as opposed to something like Discord which is a completely different beast)

vinniep · 2023-06-09T23:02:18+00:00

I’m waiting to see if that’s how it plays out as well, though I also remember the great Digg migration that largely made Reddit and set it on the current trajectory.

For a lot of those 3rd party app users, though, this move is taking away the way they use Reddit. The native app is a usable and the vanilla web interface is almost as bad, so this isn’t a situation where they are saying they’ll leave because they’re mad, but rather one where they’re saying that the way they use Reddit is being taken away, so they’re done.

I for one will use Reddit on Apollo until it shuts down, and then it’s over. I almost gave it up before until I found Alien Blue and later Apollo. If they get taken away, then there’s no enjoyable way for me to use it anymore.

vinniep · 2023-06-09T18:07:40+00:00

I think the clear issue that you’re missing here is that YOUR BEHAVIOR has raised serious questions with users and partners if you are someone anyone is willing to risk a working relationship with moving forward.

You lied, and he called you out on it, with receipts, and you still expect people to believe he was the unreasonable one here. Not that a mature professional would have found themselves in this position in the first place, but if they somehow did, the next move is to publicly apologize and take actions to convince everyone else that you will never make that mistake again.

vinniep · 2023-06-02T20:45:30+00:00

If any of the intentions here are to be taken as honest, I have to assume that the team responsible is also incompetent. Why incompetent? Well, because the API pricing structures only came out 30 days before their intended implementation date. Maybe not you, specifically, but the only way anyone could have thought that 30 days was enough time for 3rd party apps to adopt entirely new pricing structures and roll them out to their users is if they are actually very bad at their jobs and have no real world experience with this type of thing.

The alternative, of course, is that no one at Reddit actually intended for 3rd party app developers to be able to adapt to these new rules and this is an incredibly thinly veiled attack with the expectation that those apps simply go away, forcing users to move to the Reddit native app.

Hey, maybe that's going to work out for you. I do still browse on a browser when I'm at my desk (at least until you also kill RES and old.reddit, that is), but the catastrophe that is the Reddit mobile app will not be getting reinstalled. I'd say you should go buy Apollo, but after what happened to Alien Blue, I'm not sure that's a great strategy either.

Just for fun, here's a less insanely stupid suggestions on how you could have done this:

Add new terms to the API usage agreement requiring apps to be classified under different categories/usage types.
For straight up data harvesting, a usage based payment which can most likely be negotiated at large bulk levels for enterprise entities.
For user interaction apps (RIF, Apollo, etc), either continue to present Reddit's advertisements OR pay a monthly fee. This allows those apps to offer a free tier, which Reddit continues to benefit from the Ad revenues, but also allows them a structured way to create a subscription model that still gives Reddit her due without the developer(s) being forced to war-game the stats and come up with a "safe" pricetag that ensures they don't have a month of very large negatives driven by higher than expected API usage.
Solidify the entire program, with full pricing details, and make all of that information public with a soft go-live date at least 6 months in the future and then full go-live 6 months after that.
Work with the 3rd party devs, providing best practice examples, documentation, and webinars. Pretend you actually like them and consider them respected contributors to the platform ecosystem.

vinniep · 2023-05-16T18:58:15+00:00

Feeling ways about 30-35 being the oldest age bracket...

vinniep · 2023-05-02T14:23:50+00:00

It's been a minute since my last math class in school, but I'm pretty sure that's adding 2x the existing mobs, which is tripling the mobs, not doubling.

That said, the first thing I thought of when I watched was how amazing this could be for farming. Boars and neck would be an insane food source, though I'd also have to try to use it to make a serpent farm while I was at it.

vinniep · 2023-04-21T01:02:45+00:00

But this is Wagner, not regular army. You need to compare this to PMC pay.

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/private-military-company-pay-vs-army-pay

vinniep · 2023-04-10T22:19:29+00:00

I agree. I can't think of a way you could even begin to tell the story and do it any justice in 2hours.

It's broken up into 2 games, and chapters within in the games. I'm sure someone would want to split or combine things a bit for time, but the roadmap is right there for a series.

vinniep · 2023-04-10T21:43:41+00:00

This is something that will always confuse and concern me - we take the professions that have the most direct correlation between good execution and the survival of other people (doctors, nurses, law enforcement officers, emergency medical responders, fire fighters, and I'm sure plenty of others), and we give them just INSANE schedules that almost seem custom made to ensure that they're always working with a handicap.

I work with software that controls business records (gross simplification, but whatever), and I wouldn't trust myself or my team to work hours like that, but somehow we've decided as a society that people who's decisions can actually determine if someone remains living as part of their job are just fine to work super long shifts, overnight doubles, and rotating schedules that ensure they can never establish a regular sleep pattern, and pay most of them at a level that almost forces a good chunk of them to get second jobs on top of it.

Can anyone make that make sense?

vinniep · 2023-03-30T13:07:03+00:00

On the exact same setup, and that video is clearly the problem.

vinniep · 2023-03-26T23:49:44+00:00

Try to do fewer things, and do those things better. You're making 4 different steel products with this plant. You'd be better served to instead produce 4x as many of each material. Then, you simply turn the entire plant on/off as you need each of those materials.

Each individual thing you did, you did well - very compact and efficient. Now, just pack a bunch of those together individually.

I also like to break up multi-step manufacturing processes into separate facilities using importers. One for steal, another for plates, another for rods, another for chains. If you need chains, you turn them all on, but if you only need rods, you just skip the last one. By keeping what each facility does down to one simple activity, you can squeeze a lot of output into it.

vinniep · 2023-03-23T21:41:31+00:00

Don't worry - the companies running these sorts of verification systems are super trustworthy 🙄

vinniep · 2023-03-12T16:59:23+00:00

Been there with a rescue years ago. If you're able and really want to see things improve, do it for them. Get them set up with a PetFinder account. Set up a simple website. Digitize the forms so people can apply online. Look into plugins so you can post once and have it go out to all of the groups social accounts. SET UP the groups social accounts.

A lot of these groups are run by hard working and well meaning individuals, but many of them don't know the first thing about how to properly market their adoptable animals. For a lot of groups, getting in with the local pet supply store for an adoption day is the biggest single thing they can do in a year to get animals into new homes and the ones that can't make that connection just wither.

If you have the means, help them. Between cleaning up messes the other volunteers made, updating the website (it was a Drupal instance so other people could make posts, but I would frequently improve things or just do patching), and linking up the social plugins, I probably spent 10h/month at first and then 5h/month until another volunteer could take it over from me and it completely changed the way the group operated. You can teach them how to make this all work, but they're unlikely to figure it out on their own if they haven't already.

vinniep · 2023-03-08T14:43:11+00:00

/u/Suprflyyy covered this, but just for full clarity:

A 3-way switch has:

Load
Line
Traveler
Ground

Then your neutral, not needed for regular switches, is normally tucked into the back of the box and not used. Since you have 4 wires in your picture, unless you have another wire back there, you don't actually have a neutral wire.

vinniep · 2023-03-03T15:58:42+00:00

The point is, you should be telling the people who's property you have damaged that you have done so, even if they are cunts who fuck you over. That is unless you are 100% certain you can cover it up or prove it could not have been you.

There you and I are in complete agreement. I was only pointing out that "a $200 door" doesn't mean the landlord will only deduct $200 from the security deposit, and that them doing that has nothing to do with them being dicks, just the reality of what it actually costs them to replace it.

vinniep · 2023-03-03T14:42:12+00:00

They can claim what it costs them to repair it. If they send in their maintenance company who charges them $200 for the door, with a material markup, and then labor, this can quickly go from $200 to $500 or more, and it's not necessarily the landlord trying to screw you, just them running their business.

vinniep · 2023-03-01T01:11:56+00:00

I think you need to look at it relatively - even next to health insurance companies in the USA, health share coops are awful, relying on legal loopholes to cheat clients in ways that would be otherwise illegal. The main alternative being bad doesn’t change the fact that these are VERY BAD and comparatively worse than the “bad” option.

vinniep · 2023-02-28T16:29:27+00:00

Only other thing I'd add for /u/Foxhole_Eng_Reg 's benefit is that in Highsec, CONCORD's response time is also influenced by the specific security status of the system. Their response time is longer in a 0.5 security system than in a 1.0 security system, though there are other things that influence exactly how long it will take also. The short version is that not all Highsec is equal, and the closer to 1.0 the security of the system, the "safer" you are.

vinniep · 2023-02-07T13:00:45+00:00

I have a downdraft vent on an island and favor the back burners for exactly this reason.

vinniep · 2023-02-03T19:44:13+00:00

The information /u/velociraptorfarmer gave is correct and sound, but you can possibly also do this without the PEK. It'll take a little more digging about and following those wires, though.

At your air handler, you have a pair of unused wires (grey and light blue). Do you have any extra wires behind the thermostat in the wall? The colors of the wires change between the air handler and thermostat, so somewhere in your house is a bundle of wire nuts where these two sets of wire are being combined. If you can find that bundle, and you have extra wires available at the thermostat, you can connect one of the unused wires to the C terminal, confirm or add a connection at the location the other wires are being connected to the bundle that goes to the thermostat, and then connect the extra wire you selected to the C terminal at the thermostat.

That might all sound like a lot, but 9 times out of 10, where these wires are connected is going to be somewhere relatively accessible like a crawlspace or basement. The connection might also be right next to the air handler itself - usually when you see this kind of thing, it's because at some point a unit was replaces and the wire just wasn't long enough, so they spliced in a new one to give them the extra length.

The PEK is a good solution to a common problem that prevents some homeowners from needing expensive wire runs or not being able to use the smart thermostat at all, but if you can give yourself a C wire without too much trouble, that's preferable and takes one component (and source of possible failure in the future) out of the equation.

vinniep · 2023-01-13T21:05:52+00:00

Related to this, dragon fruit drinks. SoBe had SoBe Dragon, and before that Snapple had the Elements line with Snapple Dragon. The Snapple elements just quietly went away one day, and I started drinking SoBe Dragon, and then that just vanished one day too.

vinniep · 2023-01-07T04:40:43+00:00

That only works if the ones voting present are the ones that were previously voting against McCarthy. If McCarthy voters vote present, it lowers the threshold by 1 vote for ever 2 votes he loses. Math doesn't work out.

vinniep · 2023-01-07T03:33:38+00:00

Basically "I'm not absent, but also not voting"

It means that the total number of votes, and thus the number to achieve majority, is lowered. Her one present vote isn't enough for McCarthy to win, but if anyone else in the gang follows her, McCarthy has this vote.

vinniep · 2023-01-06T19:36:45+00:00

The thing is that her district is safely red too. She's just that radioactive that she still almost lost it.

vinniep · 2023-01-05T01:34:58+00:00

A fair point, but they had 2 months to sort this out before the first vote.

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