Variadic Switch(pydong.org) Several years back I found an interesting question on Reddit. Essentially the author asks why there is no way to expand a pack into a sequence of case labels followed by a statement. It was illustrated with the following imaginary syntax:
Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality(mssv.net) The moderators of the popular subreddit r/changemyview revealed yesterday that researchers from the University of Zurich had posted comments written by AI bots in an experiment to “assess LLM’s [large language models] persuasiveness in an ethical scenario, where people ask for arguments against views they hold.”
Mean People Suck, Folks(reddit.com) I've been using Emacs since 1983; it's been my go-to editor the entire time. I've given talks on it, recorded videos, and generally have promoted it forever. I'm not quite ready to abandon it, but I am feeling pretty unhappy about r/emacs. For whatever reason, this subreddit seems to be inhabited by people who delight, when someone asks a reasonable question, in downvoting them and being as unpleasant as they can manage to be. This happened to me just today.
Elon Musk Gets Reddit CEO to Censor Critical Comments(thedailypoliticususa.com) The power of the broligarchy grows as new reporting comes out that Elon Musk, who runs a government department called DOGE and thus can be seen arguably as the government when he speaks, pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on content moderation.
Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?(ycombinator.com) I used to really enjoy reddit but find it toxic and too “mainstream” recently so I moved to Lemmy but it’s quiet and kept a lot of redditism. I’ve been enjoying reading HN daily but want to read more than 20-30 top posts. I like the general kind attitude and professionalism as well as the interesting topics.
Elon Musk may be causing Reddit to censor Luigi Mangione posts(slate.com) Last week, Reddit administrator Worstnerd shared a significant update to the social network’s content-moderation standards. As of March 5, “users who … upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.” They added that the company will “consider adding additional actions down the road.”