The developers building Lemmy are very different from the folks building bots. I’ve got a half-assed repost bot working, but there’s no way I have the time or inclination to work on Lemmy itself.

Generally speaking, a bot needs to meet a much lower quality/reliability bar than the server does.

I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.

As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.

I worry that training myself to be mean will bleed over into other parts of my life.

When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!

EDIT: the bidet people have arrived. Thank goodness. I was starting to worry that my instance had been defederated.

It sounds like you’re asking about algorithms, which are (sort of) language-agnostic.

You’ll find some neat stuff if you search for bubble sort, Dijkstra’s algorithm, tree sort, hashing, complexity theory, and number theory. The last two are more theoretical.

To my knowledge, Introduction to Algorithms is the standard textbook used to teach university students about them. When I was in uni, it seemed to be the standard. Some people find it accessible. I did not.

I’ve got a lot of unassigned schadenfreude I could put to this.

If the most creative thing they can think of to answer that question is “Money” then their critical thinking skills are pretty much zero,

Yes. If the candidate thinks acting out a post they saw on Reddit adds something to the interview, they’re probably gonna make poor choices as an employee.

Preach. Thanks for the kind words.

I feel like disposable cups, flimsy disposable plates, and crappy plastic utensils are the opposite of luxury. They remind you that you’re eating food made on an assembly line at the lowest possible cost. But maybe that’s just my point of view.

The version I present nowadays usually is better socially adapted and better able to integrate itself into a conversation

That seems positive. But it’s your call.

For me, “conforming” means listening, considering my audience, controlling interjections, and asking people about stuff. I don’t feel like I’m denying myself, I feel like I’m being more considerate.

I can see how other kinds of conformance could be awful. Denying one’s sexuality or something like that.

If the new you is closer to the person you want to be, isn’t that a win?

I feel like I do this enough that it becomes a comfortable habit. Occasionally, I still want to interrupt people to tell them how wrong they are, or how right I am, or just become the centre of attention. But that isn’t who I want to be. And that urge seems to diminish as I learn to listen and ask questions, and then that becomes more of a habit.

But I guess it depends on what you’re editing.

Over 20 years. We probably met through mutual acquaintances 30ish years ago, but that is lost to the mists of time.

I felt a great disturbance in the Roadmap, as if millions of unit tests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

They’re building a system that allows you to avoid censorship that you don’t like. I’d focus on that part.

That’s a good sign.

I recently hung out with my own father, and when he would say words that were in my head, they sounded awful.

Yeah. I get that with some of my family members. I try to use it as an opportunity to be more open and learn to like myself more, but it rarely works. I’d prefer it if they didn’t act the way I think.

In that order, right?