With Affinity (likely) switching to a subscription model, I wouldn't hold out hope they're avoiding enshitification.

How do you know they are switching to subscriptions?

I don’t, but they’ve stopped selling their software enter being bought by Canva.

Yes, but TikTok’s ownership has changed.

It has not: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-threatens-chi...

> U.S. officials said in September that China had struck a “framework for a TikTok deal.” However, in the following weeks, China has not confirmed that such a deal was agreed to.

> Many experts believe China’s strategy is to keep talking while making few concrete agreements.

Almost everything with this administration is just lawless uncertainty so it's hard to tell, but has that actually happened yet? The last info I could find is that some sort of rough deal was solidifying, but that even things like the investor makeup or components was still up in the air. That was just two weeks ago.

I don't think it has moved to the new structure yet, or the "all the servers in the US with Oracle control of the algo". Maybe they're just getting ready in advance.

Alternately, a motivated subgroup can often coerce platforms. A lot of platforms will engage such moderation simply because enough people brigaded to flag/report something.

I have a very big hobby code project I’ve been working on for years.

AI has not made me much more productive at work.

I can only work on my hobby project when I’m tired after the kids go to bed. AI has made me 3x productive there because reviewing code is easier than architecting. I can sense if it’s bad, I have good tests, the requests are pretty manageable (make a new crud page for this DTO using app conventions).

But at work where I’m fresh and tackling hard problems that are 50% business political will? If anything it slows me down.

Bureaucracy is often a bottleneck

“It’s not a problem for me so I struggle to see why it’s a problem for anybody else”.

The lack of empathy throughout your comments here is staggering.

I’m a fantastic baker. I can bake a much better cake than my grandma ever could, but I can’t bake the cake I had in my childhood without a box. “Just but two” is nonsense dumb advice.

You can't bake the cake you had in your childhood. You already had it. Even if it had all the same atoms in the same positions it would not be the same, because you are not the same.

I agree that the precise atoms don't matter that much, but disagree that you can't have the same cake again. You just need to believe that you can.

I just want Discord but a forum. I would pay good money to that

Discord has "forum channels". https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...

What aspects of conventional forums are you looking for?

The absence of chat channels, I suppose.

Forums had chat channels too; e.g., https://chat.stackoverflow.com/

Sometimes it just did not have live updates: https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/general/chit-chat

Saying this is clearly superior means you don’t keep your lists sorted. A sorted list is as likely to add something to the beginning as the end, where this solution has the same problem.

I just reverse the sort order when that case happens.

The only correct syntax/format

    [
      , a
      , b
      , c
    ]

If only there existed a language designer intelligent enough to support it

You want yaml

    key:
      - a
      - b
      - c

Lisp:

  (
    a
    b
    c
  )

Thank you for the humor!

I'm just suddenly slightly terrified someone's going to see this and think it's genuinely a good idea and make it part of the next popular scripting language, where lists are defined by starting commas or something :S

But do you call that latter thing you do “an em-dash”? Do you tell a peer “You should put an em-dash here” when what you mean is a “space en-dash space”?

I don't call it anything, because I'm not in the business of telling people how to write. (Besides asking them not to use SlopGPT, of course.)

This person understands the future of microwaves.

And yet for certain communities - like TTRPGs - it not only worked incredibly well but were still unlocking the effects of its loss.

I have found Skull to be a superior form of poker for people who want the game without the chip evaluation, and it teaches the same skills.

The biggest advantage of Skull over poker is that it's fun even without money.

This, eliminates most of the probability math and distills it just down to the game theory and bluffing aspects. One of my favorite games.