> Our strategy for our Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is to make it easier to communicate forecasts and conditions for regular and hazardous weather in a way that anyone can find, understand, and use to take action.
I think they've got you covered. Maybe not directly porting over, but it sounds like they're aware of the non-emergency use cases.
> A: Write or copy a link to a website or an image into the email subject line and send it to your secret Daft Social email address.
I'm not sure I fully agree with the "simplification and reduction" premise if the only way I can get an image onto Daft Social is if I host it elsewhere first.
So if I'm reading this right, I would snap a photo on my phone, host the image somewhere, then send the URL to that image in an email. That doesn't sound overly simple.
It’s an alternative for the “do not touch any plugin” crowd, which I would assume is the majority of Obsidian users. It’s not a replacement for the “install all the plugins” long tail, sure.
For my use I considered both and honestly Zettlr is not that far behind. Decent Zotero interoperability would have sold it for me.
Houston is okay to live in. I lived there for 30+ years and while you're not wrong about your pros and cons, those cons severely outweighed the pros more often than not for me. For instance, the zoo is great, when the heat isn't trying to kill you. The sprawl can be a real pain, especially if you're heading from one corner to the other (Kingwood to Sugar Land / Katy is just not enjoyable at all).
Add in the current politics in Texas and yeah, I'm glad I'm not in Houston these days.
So quote those things then! The edit was designed to imply something worse than it was - or perhaps OP didn't even read the article but wanted an opportunity to rant about Tesla.
I read the article. I did not edit my comment. And the fact that this incident involved contractors doesn't make Tesla any less culpable, especially considering the pattern of accidents across their properties. This case just seemed to highlight how carelessly Tesla and those they contract with are about safety.
GP's complaint appears to be that you edited your quote by eliding parts of it that seem material to the story, not that you edited your comment. Edited comments get marked as such last I knew.
If you're going to quote something, do it right. Making things up (effectively what happened here) just so you can stand on a soap box and complain about something/someone is absurd.
The OP selectively edited the quote to leave out the most important fact, knowing most people would not read the article and would just cargo-cult upvote the sentiment of not liking Musk and/or his companies. Cheap internet points for the win...
It was a rhetorical question. The article isn't bunk: you certainly haven't made any more convincing arguments than it did in the counterfactual with your witch hunt on quoting.
Being fined doesn't undo the violation having happened. The original comment wasn't anywhere near as egregious as you've gone on about it, and the worst cases mentioned in the article weren't those contractors' accidents anyways when you've got things like intentionally ignoring dangerous conditions:
> Another worker claims the molding machine also didn’t correctly seal and often spat out molten metal. When a worker presented a solution to fix the issue, they were reprimanded that shutting it down would slow production output.
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You seem to have more of a chip on your shoulder about defending Elon against an imagined unfairness in treatment than the actual violations that took place.
You'd think eventually Elon defenders would realize how "cool" it is to attack Elon at a given time tends to map pretty cleanly to when he does attack-worthy things. At which point it's not so much "attacking" as it is "speaking on reality as it exists".
I have a ton of love for Andy Weir (Project Hail Mary, The Martian) for the exact reason you describe. Not only does he love the hard sci-fi bits but he clearly loves doing the homework so he gets it right.
So the guy who made the classic Prince of Persia kept a regular journal during it and his previous game, Karateka. You can buy the journals on Amazon[1].
I found out that this year Digital Eclipse decided to turn those Karateka journals into an interactive documentary, and that's now on Steam under the title 'The Making of Karateka'[2].
Also Zachtronics (SpaceChem, Infinifactory, Opus Magnum, Shenzhen I/O) released a book called Zach-Like[4] which had a lot of design documents from their various games. It's available in a physical format as well as Itch and you can download it on Steam also. I have the physical copy. It's just a PDF though. Still super interesting.
Most valve games: half life 2, portal 2 have in game commentary from game designers, voice actors, etc. But I'm sure Braid's developer will be much more technical than those, but similar concept
Jonathan Blow also has a bunch of commentary on his youtube channel ... but it comes in multi hour chunks where the minute by minute value isn't necessarily great. Hopefully, the commentary for Braid will be focused.
[Although, ultimately, my purchase decision will probably hinge on whether or not they sped up that ~2hour cloud nap that's required to get that one star.]
> Hopefully, the commentary for Braid will be focused.
If nothing else, it's at least edited.
"We recorded over 60 hours of interviews and conversations, and we distilled those into 15+ hours of commentary that is actually in the game, in the form of 250+ activatable commentary objects." [1]
> ...the server-rendered HTML will always default to light mode. This creates a flicker for night owls...
I played with this a bit and yes, that flicker is harsh. I appreciate the fade-in, but maybe have the initial color on load be somewhere between light and dark and then fade it to whichever is set by the client.
> he can't realistically get rid of the mods and replace them, then expect that to not blow up in his face
I'm not so sure about that. I would be very surprised if there was a high % of redditors that know / care about the mods or mod system. This could be the cynic in me but I bet he could eject all the mods tomorrow, replace them with more faceless accounts, and the vast majority of reddit's userbase would not see a difference.
Those that have been around the site for a while would notice and feel the change and not be happy about it, but we're most likely talking about a very small single-digit % of the userbase.
I don't think the problem with ditching the existing mods for new ones has much to do with how users would perceive the shift. You have to ask how the hell Reddit would vet that number of replacements in any way, how they'd find the required number of able replacements, and not just people who would (through incompetence or malice) run things into the ground. That's doubly true for the mega-subs which genuinely require a LOT of constant moderation, specialized automated tools, and so on.
That doesn't seem like a feasible path to me, and I think if it was remotely possible it would have already happened. The only way it COULD work is to get rid of the volunteer mod system and replace it with paid mods... and I don't think Reddit has the funds for that.
You're correct if you hold the assumption that they actually care about the quality of the content.
I definitely don't think it's a good idea for Reddit to do that as it will eventually create a substandard product. However, I do think if the goal is "profits at all costs" and an IPO in the near future (which is what it clearly appears to be), replacing a large number of mods with literally anybody is a possible path forward.
Again, it's a horrible idea and I think it would cause irreparable harm to the platform down the line.
I don't think the users mostly care about the mods directly. They will care about the effects of not having motivated, committed mods, because it makes the subreddits less pleasant or compelling to use. That is, there wouldn't be user protests, just lots of users drifting away because reddit kind of sucked.
I agree, it would be a bad idea. But I also think it would take time for the average user to feel the negative effects of such a short-sighted decision. Enough time, perhaps, for an IPO and cash-out for the c-suite at reddit.
I think they've got you covered. Maybe not directly porting over, but it sounds like they're aware of the non-emergency use cases.