Given how most Americans can't afford a lawyer and how those Americans who can afford a lawyer use said lawyer to abuse the legal system to their gain...
Let's just stop and take a moment and realize how amazing it is that this country has a longstanding public defender system.
Is it perfect? No, of course not. But imagine how fucked we'd be without it.
Biden now has a choice.
He can either denounce this warmongering...
Or he can play the part of Netanyahu's puppet.
Ben Thompson gives a detailed breakdown of the sentiment I shared yesterday that Google lost the Epic case by pretending to be open.
Apple is up front that they are a closed platform. Consumers and developers know this when they choose iOS.
Google markets Android as an open platform to consumers and developers but then uses OEM contracts and constantly changing rules to effectively make Google Play and its in-app billing as the only effective choices.
So they lost.
I've always had a sneaking suspicion that #Git was a flaming bag of dog shit, but because it sucked so bad, I never wanted to use it enough to figure out if that flaw was the software's or my own.
Reading this document, though, I feel pretty vindicated. Git really is a dumpster fire. We developers deserve better.
"What if (#ChatGPT) learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December ... and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?"
Shout out to a rare example of a corporate phone app done well: Delta Airlines' phone app is useful, more than just a webpage, doesn't have ads, and can be used without signing up for an account. If you have a ticket, you put in your info and it *just works* for the duration of your trip and provides valuable information and updates.
I don't know how the engineers managed to keep the executives from inserting dark patterns, but kudos.
It’s striking that they’re so open about this being viewpoint discrimination.
They’re not calling for speech to be repressed to stop Islamophobia or anti-black racism or any other form of bigotry. Just #antisemitism, defined as overheated rhetoric against Israel.
#censorship #fascism
contrapoint; anticapitalist rambling
@nazgul I think this gets the root cause analysis wrong on the cotton gin -> slavery thing. The cotton gin itself did not cause people to do anything; it enabled what they wanted to do anyway. The *cause* of the increased slavery was... slavers.
It's important to differentiate, because in a less fucked up world, we could have had the happy "and then everyone worked less" story in reality. Any time-saving invention can result in either "less work" or "more production". The only reason we didn't get "less work" is because we never do that: our society is fundamentally set up to prefer scaling production up whenever possible, instead of just producing the same things with less work, and it's also fundamentally set up to require everyone to work full-time.
*That* is what we need to fix. Making humans do things that could be automated, just for the sake of having them employed, isn't a solution. It's just turning the fine adjustment knobs on the "exactly how shit are things" panel.
(To be clear, this is not to imply that AI is good at everything people are currently slapping it on.)
Wow, this is a shockingly blunt and factual description of Trump from a major news source.
Great piece on the Cybertruck’s design
… which distills every malign trend in US trucks: Massive weight, jacked-up height designed to lethally throw accident victims beneath it, noise baffling so perfect you can’t hear the outside world
Cars are rolling buckets of externalities: They greatly improve the life of their riders, while making the lives of everyone *outside* them worse
The Cybertruck is a tone poem to this impulse: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/12/02/how-to-build-a-car-that-kills-people-cybertruck-edition
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.