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by cgrealy 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand.... if 90%+ of your contacts are on iOS, why are you using SMS instead of iMessage? I wonder if that's a US based thing (I'm in NZ)?
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by cgrealy 4y ago
`class exception1 {}; class exception2 {}; try { ... if (condition1) throw my_exception1 (); ... if (condition2) throw my_exception2 (); ... } catch (my_exception1 &e) { handle_exception1 (); } ca
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Exactly. Your subjective opinion (or mine for that matter) is not relevant to someone else’s situation.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Those peoples opinions are irrelevant.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> Is there any viable reason why Apple users use SMS so much? They don't. At least not in my experience. I have an iPhone, but there's about a 50/50 split ios/android in my friends and family. Group chats are almost e
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Group messages to anyone regardless of platform. SMS is crap for group chats, and imessage doesn't work if someone in the group isn't using ios. Now, you absolutely might not care about those things, but millions of people definit
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Which is why there are accessibility settings for exactly that.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Because it's really handy to be able to run things like rest requests without any tooling more than curl or postman?
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Oh and Lucien as a black woman... I ask why not ? How does it hurt the character? The actor playing Lucien is is perfectly fine, so why not add some more diversity to the cast?
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Gaiman has publicly stated that he loves the actress as Death. Someone then complained about disrespecting the artist and the model, and the artist responded he loved it too (the model has passed, but the artist, who was a close friend, sai
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Just to be pedantic: the demon is actually there, he just chooses Lucifer as his champion, which makes sense from a show perspective as it gives Lucifer (a major character later) more to do in that episode. I don't believe the battle i
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Let's say you're building a robot tennis player. Ignoring the physical engineering for a second, let's assume it can move around and swing a racket with roughly the same speed as a human. It doesn't have anything other t
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by cgrealy 4y ago
“Obvious” was probably the wrong word there. I think “achievable” is probably more apt. Poor choice of words aside, the point stands. And as for humans being far more intelligent in the future, I don’t buy it. Maybe in millions of years wit
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by cgrealy 4y ago
That is completely inaccurate. They didn't say anything like "humans have already discovered all of the “major advances” in the sciences". They said that the big obvious discoveries have been discovered. There's very l
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Probably, but right now, it's definitely not irrelevant. In fact, your plumbing analogy is more correct than you think. Most devs these days are connecting existing pieces together to make a system flow. We don't get paid to make
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by cgrealy 4y ago
> There's no HTTP result code for "your request was successful but your Smart Washing Machine is out of detergent", for example. That comes down to your definition of success. Yeah, the client successfully connected and th
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by cgrealy 4y ago
It's down to utility. It turns out that using JSON is easy, has good support and is relatively compact on the wire. It also turns out that using HTTP verbs and transferring the entire state of an object makes development easier. And eq
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I remember reading one of Anythony Bourdains books and he talked about how much experience matters to food. I don't have the exact quote but it was something like: I've eaten in 5 start restaurants, had meals by the best chefs, bu
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Some American comedy (Parks and Rec, Brooklyn 99, Cheers, Community, etc) is amazing. Most of it is crap (2 1/2 Men, Big Bang, 90% of SNL, 100% of "middle aged dude with a family and a wife that's way too good looking" s
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by cgrealy 4y ago
I 100% agree with all of that. That’s how you make good software in a sustainable business. Unfortunately, that’s not how the market works anymore. Do the minimum, get to market first, hype features over reliability and performance, get a n
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by cgrealy 4y ago
That’s a terrible name
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Then the opposite would be true (and equally nonsensical). If billionaire is a binary status, then Gates, Musk, and Bezos could get on a bus, and on average there are no billionaires on the bus.
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Wasn’t Zone also used for Xwing vs Tie Fighter? Fun times
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by cgrealy 4y ago
"mass immigration" != "great replacement" The "Great Replacement" specifically talks about this as being a deliberate plan by "wealthy elites", and again, is racist paranoid bullshit. If you're g
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Not my area of expertise at all, but I would imagine 8 mins on a track is easier than 8 mins climbing a steep mountain road. Just as a very unscientific benchmark, looking at the instant fuel consumption on my car shows that driving slowly
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by cgrealy 4y ago
The "Great Replacement" theory originated in the 2010s and is specifically about white people being replaced (in case anyone was in any doubt, it's racist bullshit). It's a (bullshit paranoid) predictive theory about the
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by cgrealy 4y ago
That argument could be made in the case of massive monied lobbying, like the NRA, the fossil fuel industry, medical insurance, etc, but neither Greenpeace nor the EFF have anything like that kind of clout. The government (especially in the
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the point at hand. Whether you agree or disagree with this stance is completely irrelevant. My point was that Greenpeace don't make environmental policy, the same way the EFF does not write priva
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Why do you keep writing "EFF / govt" as if they are somehow equivalent or related? The EFF are a non-profit that has nothing to do with the US or any other government. They have no power to do a "fairer job", they&#
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by cgrealy 4y ago
Non pay-walled article at the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en... and the transcript of the interview: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sen

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