If I remember correctly, the properties the API returns are comment_score and post_score.

Lemmy does have karma, it is stored in the DB, and the API returns it. It just isn’t displayed on the UI.

someone watching you code in a google doc

I’ve had nightmares less terrifying than this

Fair enough, I can understand the emphasis on mod autonomy after the recent Reddit events. I really like this instance and appreciate the work you and the other admins do to make this a great place.

First, I’d like to thank @Ategon for their work on these icons and also for running this poll to determine what people who care about the issue want.

It’s no secret that I vastly preferred the “All Unified” option - the coherent visual identity would not only help recognition across different instances, but it would also strengthen the community and the sense of belonging on this instance.

With this in mind, I find myself somewhat puzzled by the this remark in the post:

Community mods though have the final say in what their community icon looks like and can choose not to follow this result if they want

While the question of icons might seem minor (maybe even trivial), allowing this would set a precedent that undermines the effectiveness of such polls in the future. Everyone who cared about the issue had the opportunity to vote for an entire week, and the “All Unified” option won by an overwhelming majority.

If even one mod disregarded this result, it would run counter to the result of the poll, effectively making the end state undesirable for the supporters of any of the options: the icons wouldn’t be “all unified”, the “general unified” option wouldn’t happen either because at least some language-specific communities would also have the unified icon, and obviously, “no unified style” voters would be dissatisfied too.

We should do an AmA with her!

Here people actually react to what I post and write. And they react to the best possible interpretation of what I wrote, not the worst. And even if we disagree, we can still have a nice conversation.

Does anyone have a good theory about why the threadiverse is so much friendlier? Is it only because it’s smaller? Is it because of the kind of people a new platform like this attracts? Because there is no karma? Maybe something else?

Did I miss something? Or is this still about Beehaw?

Made the switch 4 years ago. No regrets.

Here is your Lemmy Gold:

Hungarian here. It is safe to drink without boiling. People only boil water for baby formula to be extra safe.

You can also use it as a PWA, it will be just like a normal app

This describes 99% of AI startups.

The company I work for was considering using Mendable for AI-powered documentation search. I built a prototype using OpenAI embeddings and GPT-3.5 that was just as good as their product in a day. They didn’t buy Mendable :)

First, thank you for the detailed response.

Second, I think you finally convinced me to delete my FB. I will link to this comment wherever possible to show people what a terrible company Meta is.

Good humor is based on reality

After all, they said we need quality content to attract new users

They got gregnant

This is frighteningly realistic

Yeah, the situation seems pretty clear

I’m the author of that bot. It will have an opt-out option, I implemented it as soon as someone suggested it:

https://programming.dev/comment/305938

Don’t spread sensationalist lies.

Oh wow, I’ve just realized it was OP I talked to in the comments. I immediately replied to their suggestion. What a clown 🤡

Can you tell us more about what they are like?

Finally I could get into the beta and all I can say is wow, I’m in love with this app 🤩

Keep up the good work!

I have a question. If these were the final results (in descending order of votes):

• x₁ votes for UBP icons for non-language-specific communities
• y₁ votes for UBP everywhere
• y₂ votes for colorful UBP everywhere
• x₂ votes for colorful UBP icons for non-language-specific communities
• z votes for no UBP icons

Where y₁ + y₂ > x₁ + x₂, so more people wanted UBP everywhere but because of the two independent options (where to use them and what color), their votes got fragmented, what is the right course of action?

I think it would have been better to have two polls, one about the question of using visually consistent icons and another one about what they should look like.

That’s a problem for sure. And if someone has a display name, someone else can create a user with the same avatar and display name on another instance, and pretend to be them.

Thank you, it’s really cool, I like it!

Exactly. Federated services seem to be much more resilient against abuse by design.

Community name squatting doesn’t make sense at all because different instances can have communities with the same name. So unless they manage to create one on all the big instances, that’s completely useless.

I’ve already seen and reported an obvious, low-effort spam comment. Looks like they don’t use particularly sophisticated methods.

These are awesome! One thing I like about beehaw is their visually consistent icons. It’s great we’re planning to have them as well.

I’m terrible at graphics so I used Midjourney to create the icon and background for !auai@programming.dev but I must admit they turned out pretty bad.

If it’s not too much trouble, would you consider making an icon for us too?

This is an excellent explanation of hashing, and the interactive animations make it very enjoyable and easy to follow.

aka - abhorrent kafkaesque arithmetic

🤣🤣🤣

Actually the communities show up in the search results, but only after some time (10-20 seconds). At least for me.

It’s intuitive to those who grew up using it. For me, Celsius is much more intuitive because people around me used it all my life and refer to common temperatures in Celsius.

So I think intuitiveness is very subjective and not a good criterion to judge a unit by.

Unfortunately the tutorials out there are mostly terrible. I’ve learnt it by experimenting a lot and seeing what worked for me. Some general advice:

• Subscribe to both Copilot and ChatGPT Plus and try using them as much as possible for at least a month. Some people prefer the former, others the latter, and you can’t know in advance which.
• Always use the GPT-4 model in ChatGPT but keep in mind that there is a 25 answers/3 hours rate limit. So try to squeeze as many questions and information into your messages as possible. GPT-4 is miles ahead of any other publicly available LLM, including GPT-3.5.
• Tips for ChatGPT:
  • Give detailed, well-written prompts. Try to describe the problem the same way you would to a coworker.
  • After describing the problem, ask ChatGPT if it needs any additional information to implement the code well. It usually asks very insightful questions.
  • Answer the questions and then ask it to break down the problem into individual functions and then, in separate messages, ask it to implement them one by one.
  • Remember that the context window is limited, after some time it won’t remember the beginning of the conversation so it’s worth repeating parts of the specification later.
• Tips for Copilot:
  • Write the method signature and have Copilot implement it for you
  • Write a comment and have Copilot implement the corresponding code
  • Paste the code as a comment in a different language, write “the same logic in $lang2” in a comment, and it will translate it from $lang1 into $lang2.

Trust me, the shit show is glorious. I even instinctively upvoted a couple of medieval memes but quickly realized what I was doing and closed the tab.

So you mean deadly effective?

I’m firmly in the print statement / console.log camp but this article convinced me to try using a debugger.

I absolutely agree. But:

• sometimes you need to modify existing code and you can’t add the types necessary without a giant refactoring
• you can’t express units with types in:
  • JSON/YAML object keys
  • XML tag or attribute names
  • environment variable names
  • CLI switch names
  • database column names
  • HTTP query parameters
  • programming languages without a strong type system

Obviously as a Hungarian I have a soft spot for Hungarian notation :) But in these cases I think it’s warranted.

I understand what you mean, and I even agree with it, but just to be a little pedantic, variable names are code, or at least they are more code than comments or docs.

But yes, encoding units into the type system is a much better solution. It doesn’t work however for config options, environment variables or CLI switches.