DeusExMachina

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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
Also, when most work is unproductive, like managers shuffling around and relabeling issues, you can remove those managers without affecting output.
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
This is an idea I had in mind since I started developing for the Mac 20(!) years ago. I obviously never even got to create a prototype, so it's cool to see someone finally implement it.
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
> Natural selection will take care of them in due course. While you are seemingly not at the moment, some day you might be at the receiving end of that "natural selection" in ways that seriously impact your remainint time on th
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Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How LLMs Navigate Conflicts of Interest(arxiv.org)
1 points by DeusExMachina 5mo ago|0 comments
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Key Strategies to Make SwiftUI Views More Reusable(matteomanferdini.com)
1 points by DeusExMachina 5mo ago|0 comments
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
It is your opinion that it is a bad thing and that it affects all his other points. That's why you felt the need to cite those points. And you did the same in this comment, which is again an ad hominem.
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
> please note that he is a right winger criticising wokeism Ad hominem. Criticize the argument. Your opinion about Shellenberger or even his other opinions are irrelevant. I don't particularly like him, but that does not mean all hi
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
> But thinking it is possible to store something safely for >10000 years is just wishful thinking. > Imo it's stupid to put nuclear waste in a place where you can't get at it anymore. Things obviously need to be weighed
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by DeusExMachina 5mo ago
> the storage of the nuclear waste is very far from a solved engineering problem. Nuclear waste is small and solid, not a leaky green ooze like you see in the Simpsons. You can just bury it deep in a mountain, which is where you extracte
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Apple UK Age Verification Chaos(reclaimthenet.org)
7 points by DeusExMachina 6mo ago|10 comments
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The Myth of the MV pattern: Why SwiftUI developers just reinvented MVC(matteomanferdini.com)
1 points by DeusExMachina 7mo ago|0 comments
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by DeusExMachina 7mo ago
The same should be said of the senile old women that damage Europe's reputation. That is, if they were actually elected and not appointed by bureaucrats.
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by DeusExMachina 7mo ago
One thing you learn from game theory is that you need to understand the rules of the game everyone is playing. You cannot change them, you can only play by them. "Making a cultural change" is not something you or any group of peop
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by DeusExMachina 7mo ago
I don't disagree with providing people with more privacy, but what you present is a false dichotomy. For a long time we lived with private messages over SMS that were easily readable by third parties.
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by DeusExMachina 7mo ago
You are forgetting all the money Google pays to be the default search engine in every browser.
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by DeusExMachina 8mo ago
The same way you avoid it doing anything else illegal that involves cash. Crime is risky, but not pure anarchy. It is still based on trust and rules, just not those written in the law. There are plenty of regular people who interact with cr
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by DeusExMachina 8mo ago
Then the others should also not be shielded from criticism instead of focusing only on the one you personally dislike, or his social media. There is plenty of toxic behavior on other platforms, especially Reddit and Bluesky, to name a few.
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by DeusExMachina 8mo ago
> If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace. I'm n
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by DeusExMachina 8mo ago
I also use it every day. It does its job, but it has many usability issues that make it less than ideal. For example, copy and paste retains the text color (probably by design). So, sometimes I get black text on a black background, when the
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by DeusExMachina 8mo ago
That can be said about any post that goes against the guidelines. At that point, why even have guidelines in the first place?
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
The same happens with their developer frameworks. I used to submit tickets (radars, as they call them) for framework bugs clearly reproducible in a few lines of code. They never got fixed over multiple OS releases, so I stopped bothering.
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Why VIPER and MVVM in SwiftUI are the same pattern(matteomanferdini.com)
1 points by DeusExMachina 9mo ago|0 comments
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
> One of the main reasons we end up with populist leaders [...] is social media and the attention economy. This problem of democracy was already discussed in ancient Greece. Social media might have exacerbated it, but it's not new.
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
It is amazing the lenghts Apple is willing to go to make exceptions only in individual places that force them to.
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
Where did you pull those numbers out from? But ok, if we want to play with made up numbers, pop-ups working with the 0.01% of viewers that are willing to spend money are worth alienating even 10% of people that will never spend a dime. You
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
Revenue is how businesses and even no-profits survive. You can be idealistic about it all you want, but if there is no cash flow, those websites will go away.
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by DeusExMachina 9mo ago
> I understand that some companies depend on ads, but this is not my problem It is their problem, though, and they have figured out that pop-ups work. It is not their problem, however, if you decide to never go to their website again. Th
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From broken to testable SwiftUI navigation(matteomanferdini.com)
1 points by DeusExMachina 10mo ago|0 comments
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Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis(med.stanford.edu)
19 points by DeusExMachina 10mo ago|43 comments
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by DeusExMachina 10mo ago
> why exactly do you need a deity to tell you to love your fellow man? Because that is not a given, as shown by the entirety of human history. Without God, the only arguments for love, or what is right, is just what people think/fee

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