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> Are you angry because Steve Jobs got a transplant?

I am not angry however that was a sentiment often linked to the fact that he delayed his surgery.

> Have you tried reading the research in the post before commenting?

Unless I missed a comment there was absolutely no serious research shared that credibly connects let alone confirms that his death was connected to this diet choice.

> calling people names won't change the fact that his life-long diet caused his cancer and killed him.

Steve Jobs was not a life-long fruitarian. He dabbled in all sorts of different diets. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography he seems to have generally lived as a pescatarian. Interestingly enough that diet is considered one of the healthier ones.

Obviously Steve Jobs should not have delayed his surgery. I understand that people are angry that a man with his means was still able to get a transplant and all the medical care that is unavailable for the rest of us. I understand. However to assume that his disease (and death) was the result of a diet choice when there is no credible evidence for it seems rather absurd.

Saudi Arabia is the country that was alleged to have killed migrants en masse at its border with Yemen. Don’t be shocked that their interest in human rights and thus working conditions is inexistent: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killin...

> There have been other cases in the past where drivers had an accident and claimed they were using autopilot when they actually were not.

Wouldn’t this be protocoled by the event data recorder?

This section is definitely interesting to read but also leaves me a bit hungry for the supposed intellectual "intensity" earlier paragraphs promised about the company and its (ex) employees. The model proposed for thinking about the morality here is incredibly limited.

>No GUI-based CMS not built on PHP can be as flexibly hosted as one that is. PHP is easy and can be secured. And there are no PHP-based competitors for WordPress that are as easy to use.

There have been many attempts in the past. Some offered better performance, security, were easier to use, more lightweight, etc. However they all lacked the ecosystem that WordPress provides. They just didn't have the plugins and themes, the webhosters which optimize for WordPress, the developers and companies which are dedicated to developing for, maintaining and optimizing WordPress sites.

It might sound redundant but I do think there can be an achievable balance. I worked at an organization that was allergic to documentation and safeguards of any kind and relied fully on certain talents to resolve issues. This was not just incredibly inefficient but also caused many problems when some of these people left the company. I think some safeguards and consistent documentation would have avoided the majority of this. And the talented individuals would also have had more time to work on other things, learn new skills and get even better at crafting in a more broad sense instead of only playing fire department.

And finally, I can reassure you that there will always be room for “individuals” and “heroes” to do their craft and also save the day. Most systems don’t run like clockwork, there are always bugs, weird failures, strange oddities, most systems will need saving at some point. So, creativity and craft will generally have a place and value.

Is there any place we can follow the development? I have soft spot for new games for old hardware.

Here is the unrolled tweet for those without an active account:

https://unrollnow.com/status/1182635589604171776

I think you might be a bit misinformed there. I’d suggest you give this a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

You don’t have to like Harris - it’s very understandable - but she is not a “DEI” hire as you’re claiming. Look into her record.

What would you change if you could? The EU already offers freedom of movement to EU citizens. Of course the US being a country instead of a connection of countries offers a more streamlined experience and surely the shared language plays a huge role too. But when I want to come up with examples such as a Greek person having completely different retirement, health care and legal schemes in Sweden compared to Greece, it seems the US is not so dissimilar there either given that states sometimes have very different approaches to health care, taxes, labor laws, etc.

I would argue that the EU is quite a successful organization given the task of setting up general market rules for 26 countries.

Obviously there is a lot to criticize about the EU and I can offer you a gigantic list there too. However, I do not see any clear failure of the EU’s approach as a single market so far. Additionally part of the philosophy was establishing peace in a region that was torn up by wars for a lot longer than Christianity exists. I would argue the EU was quite successful there too.

> The DAX is made of the 40 most valuable German companies.

Not to be too nitpicky here but these are only the publicly traded companies. You have a number of pretty large German companies that are still entirely private such as Aldi, Schwarz Group, Boehringer or Bosch.

Language aside, the entire point of the EU is the single market so you don’t have 26 different rule sets. (There are some exceptions such as health care but that is no different in the US.)

You could try switching your keyboard to an English layout within your OS. That should do the trick even if it's still a little annoying.

What?

The first paragraph is about misinformation in the digital age. The second paragraph is about the promise of his podcast. The third paragraph sets up the premise that some of the information that is shared on the podcast is possibly incorrect or is based on faulty or inconclusive data. The fourth paragraph contains three sentences referring to the story about his relationships and is the only mention of that in the article at all. Then the article lists at least four examples of faulty information and explains exactly why that information was not credible. Where exactly do you see an "ad hominem" there?

This is very impressive. I think the way you are timing the audio is clever. What kind of model are you using?

Ruby is a very beautiful language both in logic and consistency. Rails is a mature framework. The ecosystem is very much alive albeit not “exciting” anymore and at the end of the day people use what they know. The 2010s have produced a large number of Rails developers. For the majority of CRUD apps Rails (or Laravel or Django) are just fine thus there’s no need to really make a switch. Finally, React can power a lot of things but in my experience it is far from offering the right integration and rapid development speed that something like Rails or Laravel come with.

>If the narrator actually read the _real_ prompts they fed Gemini in these videos, this would not be as impressive at all!

It's crazy that this is where we are now. This is obviously still crazy impressive even if hadn't done those edits.

At my job I have to write a lot of internal documentation and teaching material for teams to learn from. Since ChatGPT I've changed my writing style slightly because it often could be perceived as written by AI. It is comical that I'm now thinking twice about using certain phrases because they might mirror ChatGPT's writing characteristics. I am now even including different paragraph lengths because everyone is familiar with the way ChatGPT divides content.

>or that dairy farms don't care about their cows

If you go by the conditions the majority of milk cows in industrialized nations live under that is a very obvious conclusion.

In the world of literature you will find much of what you're describing. Just to name a few: "Hard Times" by Dickens, "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck, "Germinal" by Émile Zola. "Christ in Concrete" by Donato is another one.

If you want non-fiction, I can recommend "Nickel and Dimed" by Ehrenreich or "Working" by Terkel.

Tesla doesn’t sell Autopilot as cruise control though.

Do you still have invites? (:

That's interesting, thank you! It seems very weight loss oriented as you said, which is not really what I'm looking for, however I'll check the notes feature you mentioned.

>otherwise, spend time cleaning up your diet and improving your exercise and sleep...you can't get healthy just moving data around

Thanks for the suggestions, however what I'm asking for here is not so much about a data-driven shortcut to "getting healthy" but a way to track specific metrics. The data is scattered around different places and I mainly want it in one place so I can have a quick overview of the numbers, spot trends and make associations where needed.

People tend to claim their hardware is generally overpriced. I do think that's more of a myth when examined more closely. However their RAM and storage upgrades are clearly absurdly expensive as we can easily compare them to retail numbers.

Most meat people eat is from sentient beings. Cows, pigs, yes, even chickens are sentient. I'd urge people to consider the capability to suffer and not mainly the level of intelligence.