wildpeaks

One problem is the gamification rewarded some bad behaviors, especially once one accrues enough points to get away with it.

I know exactly when I permanently stopped contributing to the site: it had been a few years since I happen to have something worth posting a question about, but for once I had a niche question about a popular-enough framework it was worth a shot.

A guy replied with a generic wall of text that had nothing to do with what I had asked, merely contained some of the keywords I also used.

When I politely pointed out it's not what I asked and reformulated in case he merely misunderstood, he got mad that I had refused to just give him the points.

He got extra mad when I figured out the answer on my own and posted it as answer in case others stumbled on the same issue, so he tried to edit my answer to make it look irrelevant.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize I also have enough points to edit it back, so he gave up and deleted all his comments to make it look like I'm talking to nobody, then went to downvote a bunch of my older posts.

And the sad part is that guy initially seemed well regarded in our small community, kinda killed my motivation to contribute to the site again after that. Plus I usually always find answers on my own, and anything I can't figure out on my own is so niche it would be pointless to ask.

I suspect it's because they have no incentive to fix it, people will spend tokens searching using Claude rather than doing it themselves for free.

I often half-joke that my ICQ number is the last thing I'll forget if I get Alzheimer, long after my own name.

Same reason an ATM gives you the card back before the money because too many people would forget to cleanup (picking up the card) once they reach their objective (getting money).

My only issue with Web Components is that, by design, they need to be registered with a globally unique tagname and can't be unregistered.

It's a reasonable compromise given the original purpose of custom elements, but in practice it ends up more maintainable to be inspired by its structures without using real custom elements despite I was initially excited that jsdom supports custom elements nowadays.

I wish Autodesk had a Creative Cloud equivalent: imagine a 50€ / month subscription that gives access to all Autodesk apps, it would have sold like hotcakes.

By remaining expensive proprietary tools, they lost the new generations of developers who learned 3D with Blender and Houdini Apprentice and who will naturally continue to use them once they become professionals, so the customer base will keep shrinking.

This is why having a human in the loop isn't enough because they will cut corners and skip reviewing what they should review.

I can imagine the resulting texture feeling better on the skin, but I can't unsee the lack of symmetry.

I lived in Germany for 10+ years, so unsurprisingly got Both (40/62) as result, although it was slightly frustrating sometimes to pick between answers where none really fit precisely (which in itself is probably a sign too, lol)

One issue is other people might still upload information about you, so you'd have to limit your irl interactions as well