I hope Twitch chat never becomes more of a police state than it already is. Streamers consistently demonstrate the ability to create the chat environments they want with the scarce tools Twitch has provided them. That seems good enough to me.
The problem you are describing is easily solved by simply joining a different chat room while watching the stream. For example: I'm a member of more than one "<streamer name> civil-chat" chat room which I can hop over to if the main stream chat is a bit too cancerous for my veteran eyes.
Echoing sibling comment sentiments about enforcing a top-down moderation policy: it's a bad idea. One of the most important things that watching Twitch and playing online games with notoriously toxic communities has taught me is that fun is unmotivated.
If you don't understand how someone derives pleasure from an action you find repulsive, it's because you're not meant to. Stop considering other's motivation and suddenly it becomes much easier to enjoy yourself, now that you're not raging at how dumb everyone is.
I hope Twitch chat never becomes more of a police state than it already is.
This isn't a great analogy. Twitch doesn't use physical violence against people chatting on their website. The normalization of racism and bigotry through ironic edginess has much more potential to cause real-world violence than chat moderation.
There's nothing wrong with the analogy (except being dramatic).
edit: this isn't agreeing with the parent poster, as a police state is about the level of control, not whether violence is used which is a fact of policing anyway.
Are you suggesting the grid will turn into an interconnected graph of power supply lines with a routers and a routing protocol to supply power dynamically based on usage? Sounds a lot like our favorite graph.
There are obvious political problems with rate advertisement. Some are actually beneficial, such as being able to guarantee critical power supply on a more granular level. But what about ending up with a handful of backbone power providers with shady preferential practices and lackluster competitive spirit?
Self-regulating devices that turn themselves off during peak usage (back off packet sending...quiet broadcast radios...) seems extremely susceptible to bad actors. Perhaps I underestimate how bad current power infrastructure consistency is.
I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly.
I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases.
I also didn't realize at first that they offer a public API. The Picard client was decent, but I'd be interested in a command-line solution. Does anyone know if this exists?
I will wholeheartedly echo the sibling's suggestion for beets (http://beets.io/).
No music makes it into my collection unless it's been imported via beets. It has a powerful import/query/alter API, sufficient config options, and a nice plugin system.
I am not entirely sure this is what you are looking for, but Beets [0] is a really cool command-line music organiser which uses the MusicBrainz database.
After reading this, I'm just wondering about two possibilities for the development of Internet culture:
Increased policing -- people fear repercussions for posting disturbing content. The darkest corners live on.
Increased exposure -- people share the psychological burden of knowing disturbing content exists, and develop meaningful discussions and coping mechanisms.
Increased tolerance -- people become so thoroughly jaded that the lines between shocking, disturbing and sick will go from uncertain, to blurred, and eventually insignificant.
In fact, we've seen this development already. It began even before the public became aware of the internet, and we're all becoming more benumbed.
Disassociation can't be a healthy coping mechanism.
Talk to an actual law enforcement professional. They see shit too. This isn't a new problem. Their processes and techniques are open. The number of cops we need to maintain order is budget item that responsible experienced qualified people debate about publicly every year. What's new is silicon valleys private police force of the internet is all secret.
It's actually a pretty big problem–there's pretty clear evidence that policemen serving in majority-black neighbourhoods tend to drift towards prejudice from workday to workday, only to somewhat recover on off-days. That's obviously a problem for the communities, but it's actually noticeable to the affected person as well, which really isn't enjoyable either.
What helps is to have people work as police officers, and paramedic or firefighter in turn. That way, you get to experience the good side of humanity and don't lose faith. But of course that makes training somewhat more complicated.
This isn't a new problem, so based on how often and easily it gets pushed out of sight I'd calmly say we are going for a third option
Pay the least we can, to ensure that this goes away.
From a company perspective, this is a cost of doing business, its not a "Profit Center". It gets treated and measured by the same metrics as credit card fraud. As long as the number is X low, then we need Y number of people to handle it.
X is variant on size of site, so Y is the only thing we can control, so lets keep it as low as possible.
Don't assume tolerance and open-ness on the new Network.
Do note - Increased exposure, without guidance, means that people will become ANGRIER and MORE intolerant. This is the stuff that gets "weaponized" and you see one community yell about it by saying "SEE! This is Happening and no one is talking about it".
I do not build my resume from scratch. Often it is exported to PDF from some other service. I store this PDF in the git repository for my website, which is published on GitHub Pages. So inevitably, my resume has snapshots.
File formats like PDF do not lend themselves to version control. It would be hard to merge improvements on a shared "feature" of your resume from one branch into another branch.
I tend to use the .doc format and edit locally on my computer, and only export to PDF when I'm ready to send out the resume. I'm not certain if .doc would be much easier format to share changes on a resume.
> Remember, the focus of a business should be on delivering value and making money while doing so, unlike a usualstartup, whose sole purpose often seems to be burning money and thinking of ways to eventually turn a profit in the future.
Rewrite: offering a free service, then boiling the frog by slowly introducing more ad revenue schemes until eventually users are fed up and jump ship to the next iteration of the same service.
Prepare ahead of time. Short of using an elastic load balancing service, predict when you may have traffic spikes, and choose a cheap-to-implement solution such as request-level load balancing.
Create replicas of your web server processes on different machines for the duration you expect a potential traffic spike. Use a fast dispatcher like nginx[0] as a reverse proxy to load-balance requests to the appropriate replica web server machine.
If you see consistently low traffic, spin down the replicas and remove them from your load balancer configuration.
I am a recent undergraduate. My undergrad CS major did not offer courses in line with my interests (they focus on data science, I focus on systems). The bulk of my working knowledge has come not from that program, but from the countless hours I spend reading at practicing at home.
Undergrad has given me credentials, and provided invaluable momentum to get me started, but over 4 years has acted as a hindrance to allowing me to become a strong candidate for jobs in the focus area I care most about.
The problem you are describing is easily solved by simply joining a different chat room while watching the stream. For example: I'm a member of more than one "<streamer name> civil-chat" chat room which I can hop over to if the main stream chat is a bit too cancerous for my veteran eyes.
Echoing sibling comment sentiments about enforcing a top-down moderation policy: it's a bad idea. One of the most important things that watching Twitch and playing online games with notoriously toxic communities has taught me is that fun is unmotivated.
If you don't understand how someone derives pleasure from an action you find repulsive, it's because you're not meant to. Stop considering other's motivation and suddenly it becomes much easier to enjoy yourself, now that you're not raging at how dumb everyone is.