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This is the point.

You can't call yourself a democracy just because we can change the colour of the same bus every 3 to 4 years

I like this. And organising by feature has been something I've gravitated towards as a SWE, so I dig your thinking

Thanks, apparently others didn't appreciate or understand it, heh

Daily reminder that "championing human rights in the middle east" is the easiest thing in the world if you get to determine who is considered "human" and who is considered "cattle".

I think the important thing to remember, when they say "all humans deserve life and democratic process" - is the question of "what do they consider sub-human?" Ie: do they believe employees have souls? Or that the masses are cattle? Because it's then very easy to have strong conviction of human rights when you get to choose who is a human and who is cattle.

I don't think it's a dark pattern. Just a common marketing thing. Not "everything that annoys me" is a dark pattern.

They're defending themselves.

If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war

No one gets a newborn to configure nginx

> my job is easier now, I do less. > I am terrified about what's coming.

God I hope I never ever have to work with you

Wrong to elephants today

India, that's where everyone else gets them. People are just economic units

Thankfully there's infinite people from other countries who can migrate freely and replace the aging population, right?

(Serious question)

A better alternative to Meetup.com

This is why I think AI generated code is going nowhere. There's actual conceptual differences that the stotastic parrot cannot understand, it can only copy patterns. And there's no distinction between good and bad code (IRL) except for that understanding

instantly awesome.

I suck at chinese but I want to get better and I'm too embarassed to try and talk with real people and practise.

This is a great compromise. even just practising for a few minutes I already feel way more confident based on its feedback, and I feel like I know more about the details of pronunciation.

I'm worried this might get too big and start sucking like everything else.

I see this as "my problem is to grow these people" so I don't solve anything for them

I think it's just a case is perspective

I feel more useful now more than anything.

The amount of ai generated planning and fluffy workloads that I've been able to just delete from the team has saved the company many engineering hours. Not least of all in bugs.

Value your expertise and experience. It's only greeting more valuable, not less.

I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

I make an effort to talk to people and now we have "come over to dinner" friendships with people we met at a public park.

I actually like that. ambitious!

the issue I have is that I want to have some apps that will need to be approved somehow. banking for starters, but some other things as well.

I just got the bigme hibreak pro, which is an e-ink android phone, and while I loved it in all cases, I realised it was a total dealbreaker that the Android Auto navigation was broken (something to do with their display chip couldn't report the right display size, I also want to be able to take and look at colour pictures. so e-ink didn't quite work for me there.)

Otherwise, I love the idea of this!

I think I would like a bit of an escape hatch: maybe have the normal web-browser that's accessible under like 4 or 5 clicks.

The big issue isn't just that these phones are set up to be addictive, but they are also too legitimately useful in other situations as well. I use facebook to scroll AND check marketplace. I use instagram to scroll AND talk to friends.

so some friction is necessary, but some friction is a total dealbreaker. if I can't bank or navigate, then the change of phone had affected me too much for me to not counteract my whole life needs to change in some way.

I've been thinking about this often, because i wanted the hibreak to work.. I actually think there needs to be some sort of "Life OS" where we can get told how to live in this new world where we can't check our phones as often. Do we include "look at a physical map" as part of our routine or do we just allow android auto to work and accept that it might be an avenue of leaking through some content? (not a great example)

That's so funny, i made the same thing. Looks to function exactly the same.

https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects. (click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)

this is beautiful, thank you :)

I dunno, he might have just been reading too much that he really writes like this now. I've seen it happen.

And reduce demand, by not importing 3% year on year, where we can't keep up

Or so they say, judging by the passports that survived the carnage and inferno

I guess we should be praying for Jens-Frederik Nielsen's family now

Shooting kids, bombing schools isn't war.

Israel was created after WW2, and it has never been at peace. It's kind of proof that it's not going to work. They're not fighting for survival they're fighting for expansion. Nethanyaou even claims this point: his mission is the greater Israel project, to take land from egypt and surrounding countries, and settlements in Gaza are used to block the formation of a Palestinian state.

If Jews are allowed an ethnostate, then any country in the world should also be allowed an ethnostate.

If Jews are allowed to have nukes in the middle east, then any country in the middle east should be allowed to have nukes.

Remember that IDF were told to stand down during the music festival. They're also allowed to shoot Israeli civilians if it helps their objectives. And somehow they new about the Australian mass shooting in Sydney months before it happened, without telling Australian authorities.

Israel is not doing a good job in terms of world peace and I would say that if they can't find peace then the state of Israel should be dissolved for the good of the planet

I actually just recently bought a big me hibreak pro phone. Eink, supports Google Play natively, (I can still install Instagram, Google maps, Facebook, and WhatsApp, etc). Which were my two biggest needs.

It has been pretty great to use. The whole paradigm changes, because it also has the slow refresh, and the screen is physically different, single level brightness.

Funnily enough, I now catch myself with increased short term anxiety and FOMO. I've just acknowledged it as withdrawal syndrome from the dopamine of short form videos. That and I misplace the phone a bit more now because it's no longer a crack pipe.

It's taking effort to stick with it, but I increasingly love it. And I still get to partake in "society" and social media, just on my own terms.

You also realise just how many ads there are, because they don't draw you in so you can see them more critically. What I thought was one in 20, is actually something more like one in 4

We will poor billions into this until you are begging for us to run your business!

Separating "one take" from "many takes" -- one should be able to give grace that people are wrong occasionally, and especially that they are fallible and susceptible to being emotional or relying on anecdotes for a particular theme that their experience has affected them differently than your experience has affected you.

Just brace for the societal correction.

There's a lot of things going on in the western world, both financial and social in nature. It's not good in the sense of being pleasant/contributing to growth and betterment, but it's a correction nonetheless.

That's my take on it anyway. Hedge bets. Dive under the wave. Survive the next few years.