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by brandon272 1y ago
New people in design roles that no longer care about old rules. Declining institutional taste and no one at the helm who appreciates or enforces old rules when necessary.
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by brandon272 1y ago
CarPlay has dark text on dark backgrounds in the latest version of iOS. And I’m talking about stock apps like Messages, not some obscure text buried somewhere deep in the operating system. Absolutely brutal.
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by brandon272 1y ago
> But it's getting so unstable. It generates code, I see it doing that, and then it throws the code away and gives me the previous version of something 1:1 as a new version. I've had the same experience. Totally unreliable.
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by brandon272 1y ago
> Some examples of these highly exposed jobs include customer service representatives, accountants and software developers. We seem to be in this illogical (delusional?) era where we are being told that AI is 'replacing' people
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by brandon272 1y ago
I have had the bright idea of replacing a couple of SaaS I rely on with the assistance of AI. I will note that I do consider a LLMs a genuine productivity boost. Observations: 1) It took a lot longer than I had hoped and I doubt the hours s
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by brandon272 1y ago
You can replace Vercel: Just “conjure it up” through ChatGPT, as per this article.
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by brandon272 1y ago
The question is, when is “tomorrow”? Dismissing a concern with “LLMs/AI can’t do it today but they will probably be able to do it tomorrow” isn’t all that useful or helpful when “tomorrow” in this context could just as easily be “two m
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by brandon272 1y ago
People love to dogmatically claim that any appreciation for past design can only be chalked up to nostalgia but the XP design is objectively an excellent balance between UI 'gloss' and very simple and clear, unambiguous functional
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by brandon272 1y ago
Could be that if I stopped showering for an extended period of time these issues would resolve, but… if I don’t shower daily my eczema quickly explodes out of control, worsening with each day.
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by brandon272 1y ago
It seems like the safeguards around accuracy alone might be nearly insurmountable. If you ask Siri to send an email that it drafts itself and then messes up, or book some appointment for a Tuesday that it ends up booking for a Thursday, tha
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by brandon272 1y ago
The idea of mounting a directional antenna "high up" on a house (or paying someone to do it) for the purposes of receiving SMS 2FA seems wild.
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by brandon272 1y ago
Yes, but Buffett’s diet has been famously bad and well documented in the media. Cookies and ice cream for breakfast according to one article on LinkedIn by Bill Gates. Daily McDonalds, hamburgers, and a lifelong love of (addiction to?) Coca
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by brandon272 1y ago
The interesting thing about this is that Buffett himself has never really had a reputation for taking care of his body in terms of getting exercise or eating well.
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by brandon272 2y ago
Emoticons! I completely forgot about that term.
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by brandon272 2y ago
There is an entire ecosystem of free and paid Mac apps meant to augment the Mac experience because MacOS does not provide functionality or configuration needed for a sensible computing experience out of the box.
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by brandon272 2y ago
Until things are actually built, I take press releases like these with a grain of salt. Similar to the stories about Mark Zuckerberg removing tampons from men's washrooms the week before the Presidential inauguration, I believe that a
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by brandon272 2y ago
> I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy narrative, but this says otherwise. I think we are perhaps the lowest point ever in terms of anti-surveillance efforts. There seems to be bipartisan effort among many (
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by brandon272 2y ago
As a Canadian I hope that the country undertakes an unprecedented effort to build the needed infrastructure to start exporting more goods to other nations. The message that Trump is sending to the world is that Americans do not keep their w
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by brandon272 2y ago
> I am here to tell you the guards and fences are down at the chow truck while commoners are using LLMs. I've read this over and over and have no idea what this means.
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by brandon272 2y ago
> 1) should institutions that have female only spaces or events be allowed to exclude pre-op transwomen? Post-op? For example, the women's only nude spa in Seattle that got in trouble for excluding a transwoman I'm not sure how
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by brandon272 2y ago
> Clinical psychologists Kenneth Zucker's work in getting the majority of his patients over their dysphoria is "evidence" that reparative therapy works You are conflating social trends among young people to identify as gen
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by brandon272 2y ago
> There are people who think they are dysphoric, transition, then realize they totally messed up. Some people start businesses, it doesn't go well, they then realized they messed up and totally regret it. Does this mean that all ent
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by brandon272 2y ago
I'm a bit confused as to why you are pretending that the word "gender" and the concept of gender either doesn't exist or is part of some very recent flimsy social construct. The concept of gender being used to categorize
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by brandon272 2y ago
> It doesn't cause extreme mental anguish, I just... don't have to play along with childish games like pretending someone can be the opposite sex. See, this is where you guys get it twisted. This is not a matter of playing alon
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by brandon272 2y ago
I am well aware of the current concerns around the incentives that exist in the medical industry when it comes to the treatment of gender dysphoric people. Some of it we should absolutely be concerned about, particularly when it comes to tr
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by brandon272 2y ago
A "delusion" would be looking down and seeing a penis where a vagina exists. There is nothing delusional about understanding and acknowledging a difference between your identity and biological sex and seeking alignment between the
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by brandon272 2y ago
It sounds like we have established that body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria are not really the same thing? Two conditions can have a similar thread but not be the same or even related, nor require the same approach or treatment. In terms o
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by brandon272 2y ago
The RCTs that validate your assertion (or mine) when comparing reparative therapy and affirmation do not exist. All that we have to rely on now is the overwhelming consensus among medical and mental health professionals, and that consensus
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by brandon272 2y ago
I’ll say three things: 1) Someone’s body dysmorphia is not - generally - affirmed or denied by ordinary everyday passing social interactions. In polite society, you simply don’t comment on someone’s body composition. Gender is an entirely d
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by brandon272 2y ago
A woman is an adult human female, or a person who identifies as such. In other words, there is biological definition. Then there is malleable social terminology. We can acknowledge biology while also accommodating who choose to - or need

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