As someone who lives a few miles from Georgetown, KY, it's important to note that this factory already exists and sounds like they are (partially) re-tooling it to begin EV production. So that might explain the dollar figure.
Another Kentuckian in tech here. Thanks for the list. A friend recently attended https://13layers.com/event/lextalktechjan24/ and said it was a good mix of talks. I think they're quarterly and it's on my list to follow up.
I also lurk on these slacks: bluegrass-dev.slack (same folks as the meetup I assume), Louisville Tech louisville.slack, and startuplexington.slack
Hope we keep this ball rolling a bit longer on meetups and gatherings both in person and online.
Will it? If the creator is really passionate, and the few people that consume the content is passionate, it seems like the opposite will happen. Look at Patreon and Floatplane, for instances of that.
It won't go away though, as long as it has a community that wants it.
What goes away is things that get entrusted to capital. Netflix will run a show for two months and then remove it from the universe because it saves them taxes or something.
The internet has passed around documents containing knowledge since way before the capitalists showed up and built their silos.
We are still a society that is half comprised of people who are only capable of thinking of the internet as a better television, with a ruling class willing to do whatever it takes to give them that, but it has never been that and it will never be that. YouTube is just as doomed as the rest of the Free Money Era corporations.
Random stuff, mostly software with a little bit of 3D printing. My latest physical project (an ABENICS clone -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48) has been getting a bit of traffic from the 3D printing community.
> I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk.
I agree. These protests have missed the point. There is a (very) loud minority raising hell right now, but spez is right, it's just noise. The silent majority is still hanging around.
My bet is that quality will go up. I'm not really interested in reading what the small number of people who spend 8+ hours per day on Reddit think, about any topic. Hopefully they'll take their silly Reddit mannerisms and inside jokes with themselves on the way out.
We'll see. Reddit will not die in 2 weeks that's for sure. But some people will leave and maybe a viable alternative will surface as a result of this shifty behavior
Right? That's what I've never understood. Putting ads in the API is irrelevant, since the 3rd party clients will just ignore them.
The Reddit that the loud minority wants is never, ever coming back. These protests are just a blip -- if you don't like what Reddit has become, your only recourse is to leave.
I agree with all the points in the post. It's really not that bad. If I had more time to devote to it, I think I could have reasonably completed more.
Here's my writeup, contains a link to the repo if you want to see some of the soutions.
https://github.com/ty-porter/advent-of-code/tree/master/2024...