Someone who buys books at Barnes & Noble is not going to print online fan fiction on demand. If you think this is something a “mainstream consumer” would do, I think you’re very out of touch with the average person.
Isn’t reading stuff on the internet more mainstream than buying things at Barnes and Noble? Not necessarily those specific things, but the notion that something needs to be physically available at a bookstore to be relevant is at best dated.
I think you should also assume it's called "Archive of our own" because of the same sense that Woolf had in "A Room of one's own". This is our space to do our thing, precisely because if it was someone else's space sooner or later they, at least ostensibly for good reasons, prioritize something else over our thing and it's destroyed.
So it's at least not at all a coincidence that AO3's authors are predominantly women. This story of assuming that they can thrive in a shared space and then discovering that, again often for ostensibly good reason, they're not welcome to use it after all, is very familiar to women. Whether you're being thrown out of a cafe for breast feeding ("Nudity, not allowed") or turned down by employers despite having the same skills as successful male candidates ("Bound to have kids and then we'd just have to replace her anyway") it gets wearisome, better to have a place of your own.
That's an interesting perspective, I hadn't considered that the name might be a reference to A Room of One's Own.
My understanding was that the whole "of our own" thing is mostly in reference to fanfiction sites going through a predictable cycle of becoming popular followed by overmonetizing, enshittifying and losing touch with the community, which means everyone migrates to the next site which becomes popular and repeats the cycle. Hence Ao3 run by a non-profit "of our own". But that might not be the only way in which it's true. I would certainly agree that it is somewhat of a safe space for all kinds of disparaged groups, women in general being the biggest of them
This is probably my approach (maybe minus the AI), I do think networking and reaching out to people can yield better results but I was never any good at that
Yes, but that's exactly why I mention this. By explicitly creating a class (that behaves the same as a lambda) the author might get better names in crash reports.
I’ve started with a cpap recently and my biggest issue is that it interferes with snuggling with my wife, that may seem trivial but it can have a big impact on my mood
I'm curious if anyone has a good solution for this, how to accurately display cases where a storm might hit either Monday or Tuesday, say 50% chance each. If you just say there's a 50% chance of rain on both days, it looks like there's a significant chance (I guess 25%) that it will rain both days, when the real likelihood of both days raining might be far lower.
- The chance of precipitation line tends to gradually go up and then back down over several hours.
- The expected mm of precipitation bars tend to be more actionable: the chance of precipitation may be high, but if the expected amount is low you are not likely to experience much, if any rain; much less need an umbrella.
I think when we look at general intelligence we need to look at multiple methods of reasoning working together. Looking at children there is an instinct to blindly imitate those around them, trying to match behavior without fully understanding it, however the experiences from this behavior then feed into a symbolic understanding in the child’s mind, allowing them to reason about the situation later on
Here’s the question, are the benefits worth the increase in complexity, or rather are they worth more than other features that could be worthwhile for libraries to support.
For the hyperscale web sure, but for the long tail web that is very unclear.
