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Imagine going to a software dev conference and they have a talk about good UX presented by a Facebook engineer. Just let that sink in. It's like having a conference on social issues and inviting Hitler to talk about minorities.

it was interesting to learn that most mammals are fat enough to float on water without much effort; with the notable exception of hippos, which decided to go for the tungsten cube approach and became so dense they can run on the riverbed.

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java, a boiler plate driven language designed for writing verbose object oriented instant legacy code
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Telegram has released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany in several cases, Spiegel reports.

The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism."

https://gettr.com/post/p1clhn8469c

Massive respect to for not only making their code open-source, but also providing an easy to understand ToC and docs.

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MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language where programs are combinations of rewrite rules and inference is performed via constraint propagation.

github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior

People that say "the market is just a theory" have the same energy as those saying "evolution is just a theory".

There are not enough AI competitions. I totally want to see teams of bot creators compete in games like Dota, Trackmania, Brawlhalla etc and see what kind of weird plays this results in.

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This is your periodic reminder that personalized advertising, which is a gigantic invasion of all our privacy and makes the entire web significantly slower and shittier to use, is often less effective then simple situational advertising (on a blog about ponies, advertise pony stuff).

We are losing so much of our privacy for what is essentially a scam all the way around. The best sales pitch made by advertisers is the one they made for themselves. They fuck us, and the people that buy the ads.

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Has AVD ever first-time worked for anyone in the world? Ever?

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