odd how it's still the de facto standard python library for plots despite much better libraries like ggplot or plotly

Plotly might just be one of the libraries that manages to make documentation less readable than matplotlib. API reference consists of 90% autogenerated doc trash 90 pages long.

I doubt they were fired. sanitation workers have pretty strong unions

It's 8 years and even then you'll still be be able to enable updates for Google chrome

effectively different languages? no, both the mainland and Taiwan both speak Mandarin, although with distinctive slang and accents. I grew up learning simplified and I can guess a lot of traditional characters reasonably well, although I hear going from traditional -> simplified is much harder

> My guess is not, network effect is extremely strong.

100 million users in less than a week

This might be how they got to that number so fast: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/110682943142004251

I also got a prompt to follow accounts that didn't exist yet, but my follow request was approved only after these users joined the platform. There's no proof these accounts were included in usercount estimates

What a dumb conspiracy. Like they just picked what? 1 in 20 or so of their Instagram accounts to get this "shadow account"? Or could it be exactly what the app says when you encounter that, that the follow request will be sent when that user opens a threads account?

It clearly says when you sign up that you will follow these people when they join threads. There is no evidence that these 'shadow' accounts are being included in the metrics before people sign up.

There are millions of fake account over at FB. There are multiple duolicates of accounts too. I personally had near 20+ FB accounts. Believing Threads having 100mil in such a short time especially back by a company that famously need billions of accounts to be valued in billions, is like believing Libra will be the next bitcoin.

People trying Threads isn't the same things are people leaving Twitter.

Not necessarily, I'm in both - hedging my bets. Whichever gets me better/more engagement, this is the platform I will stick with. I'm not fond of either CEO, but Elon keeps coming off more and more as a psychotic narcissist, and I find myself rooting for Threads over Twitter for that reason alone. He needs a big L to gain some humility.

then use Lightsail or set a maximum size for your ec2 autoscaling group

Or stop overengineering and use a PaaS like Netlify.

But outbound traffic

Cloudflare Pages is free.

zoomer here. that's the thing - I use Discord because when chatting casually, shitposting, and sharing memes I don't want my message to show up on Google tomorrow

this Canadian engineering student's favourite teachers are Indian YouTubers

I've always felt Canada was wildly overrepresented with great YouTubers.

The double double is living up to its name.

DeepL?

An Afgan electrical engineer was sent to Guantanamo Bay for wearing it as Al-Qaeda was known to use the F91W in IEDs

Im sure that was the only factor involved.

Yeah, I am with you on this one.

I even tried googling for it, but couldn't find any articles referencing both Guantanamo and casio watches, aside from the general ones talking about the whole phenomenon of Al-Quaeda preferring those watches or pieces talking about incidents where the watch was actually used as an IED component.