hydrospanner

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I feel like the main step he's forgetting is that he wanted to install an interim CEO to make these unpopular changes so they didn't happen directly at his direction, so that the dust up can be laid at someone else's feet...after which he can swoop back in, replace them with himself again, not reverse the changes, and avoid the blame.

Not that she was great, but I do kinda feel bad for the way Ellen Pao got dicked over by Huffman and hated by the community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's the classic catch-22 of internet communities, though: as a community grows, there's a gradual trade of quality of the average individual post in exchange for a higher population and the increased overall activity that it brings.

The former attracts the latter and the latter provides the critical mass of buzz and activity that tends to foster longevity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Basil is pretty resilient, but I've never had volunteers from the previous year.

My biggest volunteers are usually tomatoes, although last year, my neighbor had pole beans that went wild, got up into a tree, grew up over my beds, and dropped beans all winter, so this spring, while tomatoes are definitely my most pulled weed, now pole beans are in second place.

Also had one volunteer nasturtium that grew exactly where I had one plant last year, so I'm happy to have it there again this year!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Laranity on YouTube has some fantastic tips like this on the "things you probably don't know" videos that she occasionally does.

One that lots of people probably already knew but that I learned of within the past year or so is that if you're moving things from your inventory to a stack of that item in your bank (not material storage...if they go there, use the drop down menu to send them), that you don't have to find the item stack in your bank.

Just double click the stack in the inventory side of the bank dialog (not in your actual inventory window), and it'll automatically stack them on top of an existing stack of that item in your bank.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Within the game, you can also access the event timer by typing

/wiki et

Into the chat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

On this note, I like turning on the option that limits the skill placement marker of ground targeted skills to the skill's actual range.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

When you're fighting a world boss, significant champion, or any enemy that is an event unto itself (read: has an event with a skull symbol, and is the main target of the event), you can click on its orange health bar in the sidebar to target that enemy.

This can be very useful in chaotic fights with lots of mobs running around, when hitting tab might guess wrong a dozen times before putting you back on the main one, and there's too much visual clutter to get a good targeting click on the mob itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of the sources I'd found on the subject seemed very cultish ("You have to do everything exactly my way or else you're wrong!"), which was also what I found when I looked into the square foot gardening method.

I find this very off-putting, so I rejected both and simply continued using what has worked for me in my raised beds and so far I've been happy with it.

For me, that means adding some compost to the beds each year after scraping off any mulch from the previous year that hasn't started breaking down into soil. After adding the compost (usually just a bag of black cow and a bag of mushroom compost per 4x4 bed) I turn everything over and break it up well with a spade shovel, smooth it out, plant, and re-mulch.

I'm only doing 4 beds and a few containers, so I use starts instead of seeds. As such, I fertilize each one at planting by adding granular fertilizer, bone meal, and crab & lobster meal to the bottom of the planting hole, stir it in with the dirt, and plant over that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like this one is one where they took an existing shirt and ran the instructions through an OCR program.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would definitely consider that a serious potential issue, if for no other reason than so many communities will likely find a use for tags based on the nature of the community structure.

For example, I could see a ton of communities having tags for things like modposts, new member intros, meta topics, memes, questions, reviews, how-to's/tutorials, guides, etc. and that's just for broad post types that would apply to thousands of communities.

I think letting users manually make their own multi-lems, perhaps with the ability for communities to sort of team up to make uber-lems of closely related communities to help users discover more of them...but sub, unsub, multi, and un-multi as they see fit...is likely the best approach.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe don't take disagreement so personally?

I too would like to do this myself and not have AI or anyone else decide for me what content gets lumped together.

I predict that this is also an issue that will slowly resolve itself over time, as critical masses of users gradually coalesce around one community, or more...but only if the extras are distinct in some way...which would very specifically be made more difficult by the sort of programming you're proposing.

I'm not saying there's no merit in your suggestion, only that it may not be the one-size-fits-all solution that you seem to think it is

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