And a very important section, that does not surprise me at all:

The low success rate of applications has been put down, in part, to an increasingly number of speculative applications being submitted. Industry reports show a rise in so called “phantom projects” in these cases, developers submit multiple applications for many sites, with the expectation being that very few will connect. These speculative and duplicate applications have seen the connections queue grow, increasing the work needed to progress projects.

It becomes a sad self-fulfilling prophecy. Applications take a long time to process, so companies fling lots in parallel, then only use the first to get through.
Which means that applications take even longer to get through.

Mike Ashley didn’t actually want a game shop, he wanted people spending £70 on each football/COD release, then buying that season’s team strip on the way out of the shop.

Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

For components and wires that are made to a spec, I feel far more comfortable buying from CPC or Mouser.
Amazon sellers just feel like a coin flip if the guy is going to ship you CCA 24 AWG instead of OFC 23, in the hope you don’t notice or bother complaining.

This is the thing, the balance of anonymity and preventing people using that anonymity to be a tit.
In my opinion, one of the answers is keeping the signal-to-noise high: Make sure that there are enough sensible people in a community that if someone starts acting up, they’re alone. And then they can either correct their course, or get banned, ideally before the next moron shows up.

And part of the way of achieving that is raising the barrier to sign-up, if only a little, and rate limiting.

Just for context, the full database of feddit.uk compresses down to about 4GB. I am not sure what’s going to happen to the ghosts long term, but I don’t think storage will be a huge issue.

And the shoe will probably drop at some point. Something like “communities must have nitro to access posts from more than 6 months ago”.

Or that 50% of the users on the discord only went there to find one thing, and probably won’t ever interact again.
So it looks like a bigger community, while losing accessibility.

Why Discord took off as a medium to replace forums is beyond me

My theory is that it was used as the primary form of informal communication by groups doing something, then it felt like a community.
And since everyone was there…Why not put the documentation there? Sure, it’s not indexable, but the group is open-sign-up, right? Right?

Then a few years down the line, someone suggests switching to another primary storage location…Then faces huge amounts of push-back from people comfy sitting on discord.

What’s even more crazy, is Adobe has a system called something like “docusign”, where you can just fill the document in in-browser.

I’m fortunate that I haven’t yet hit a form I couldn’t just edit in GIMP!

I’m just going to bump this: The deadline to register is 11:59 on Tuesday the 18th.

If you are not yet registered, you have less than 35 hours to do so.

Exactly that.
With the current ceo, it’s been hyped beyond value.
One day, the value will return to the actual value.
If the ceo is changed, it will happen pretty rapidly, then the company can grow from there.
If the ceo is not changed, the hype will continue until either a breaking point, or the ceo changing.
So the shareholders have voted for the thing that preserves the status quo a little longer. Road-runner as it is.
And the ceo seems to have managed to extract a large chunk of the current hype money, in exchange for not changing the status quo.

I definitely did a double-take on that. “This guy is doing what my predecessor did”.

I guess he’s trying very hard to not be Corbyn?

I’m still of the opinion that the basic message app should only be SMS.
Then anything else should be its own thing. Mixing the two is a recipe for disaster, where it’s a consumer product.

I’m going to review it when I have a sec in terms of whether it’s a source that should be used here.
A cursory glance at their record on Wikipedia suggests the answer may be “no”.

I tried to disable the atom cores on the £2000 laptop recently.
It took me about 10 mins not finding it in the BIOS, to discover that HP just doesn’t have an option for it.

Isn’t there a risk that town would vote for him?

Cutting dev time, because instead of having to use smoke and mirrors to create…smoke and mirrors, they can just use GPU manufacturer’s libraries to render it in real time.

Your default sorting may handle it. I have mine set to Top Day, and because it was from over a week ago, it doesn’t show up.

Unfortunately, I’m not aware of another way to do it, other than blocking poor old frank, or waiting a month!

This is what I do. Edges under 'edges don’t get mown, and I do sweeping corners (because who stands in the corner of the lawn?).

The best bit is, the wild sections are no more than 1m deep, so I can still lean in to remove non-native plants.