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_coveredInBees commented on Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis sciencenews.org/article/c... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

mikert89 · a month ago

this is medical gate keeping ("only the holy priests can practice medicine"), please take this attitude elsewhere

_coveredInBees · a month ago

What a ridiculous statement to make. No wonder the US is in the state it is in. Lets let the ignorant and uninformed decide on policy rather than the scientific community and experts. What could possibly go wrong?

_coveredInBees commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

micromacrofoot · a year ago

both should be regulated, this type of predatory gambling-like behavior shouldn't be allowed for kids under a certain age

_coveredInBees · a year ago

Sure, I don't disagree with that at all. I'd love to see that happen. I was just pointing out that most of the industry is far worse than what I have seen with Roblox personally.

_coveredInBees commented on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable matthewball.co/all/roblox... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

GNOMES · a year ago

My kiddo has easily spent 500+ on Roblox across birthday/Xmas gift cards/chores.

I can't stand that almost all of the games seem to have a pay to win aspect, or are heavily advertising every chance they get.

As a gamer dad, I try to show my kid better games to play, but because they aren't free, his friends can't play. Just drives him to keep playing and wanting more Robux. It's compounded when his favorite Youtubers play...

Seriously don't understand how Roblox isn't being investigated for predatory practices. I imagine they can hide behind the fact users are making most of the mini games, and they are just providing a platform.

_coveredInBees · a year ago

Eh, I dunno. My son plays a bunch of Roblox and has spent a net $10 for a few custom avatar mods. While there is certainly a pay to win aspect for some games within, there is also a ton of "free" games to sift through, and since all of them are competing for players, they still have to make the experience compelling enough at the free tier. We've had conversations about the pay-to-win aspect, and even though he has several hundred dollars saved up, he has never once asked to spend money on pay-to-win aspects of Roblox. I'd argue that almost any modern videogame / mobile game is equally if not more "predatory" with the pay-to-win side of things. Just look at the menu screens in any modern first person shooter / battle royale type game. Those look far worse than anything I have seen in Roblox.

_coveredInBees commented on Google pulls Fitbit from almost 30 markets mobilesyrup.com/2023/11/1... · Posted by u/myth_drannon

bad_user · 2 years ago

Not sure what you mean by bloatware, but I prefer several Samsung apps over the Google ones. I prefer the Calendar app, for example because it allows me to draw on it with the pen. I also prefer Samsung's Calculator, Notes, Clock, and Health apps. I'd even prefer Samsung's Browser, which even has ads blocking, but I'm using Firefox.

The preference for the pristine Google experience is absolutely weird, because Google is not Apple, indeed.

On my phone, using Firefox with uBlock Origin, I go into ThePirateBay, download entire shows on my phone, then using VLC I stream them to my TV straight from my phone. There's nothing in Apple's offering that beats that for me. Mostly because Apple hates general purpose computing.

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

Totally agree. I enjoyed owning my S9+ and even though I was someone who used to root and ROM my older Android phones, I didn't really have any complaints about the Samsung "bloat" some people love to complain about. Even though I have a Pixel device now, I still use Samsung's browser as it is far superior to Chrome or even Firefox imo (I am a diehard FF user on desktop) and I even had to install a 3rd party app to replicate Samsung's "panels" application for a swipeable side app drawer which I loved and found extremely useful on my S9+.

_coveredInBees commented on A suicide crisis among veterinarians bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/rntn

philomath_mn · 2 years ago

So every pet owner without at least $10k set aside for pet emergency care is a bad owner. That describes 99% of pet owners.

I agree people should plan for more pet-related costs than they do, but, as technology progresses, there doesn't seem to be a ceiling on the amount you _could_ spend to save a pet.

In my case, we have always taken in rescue animals. So the choice is between leaving the pet at shelter or a life in a good home with some limited options when it comes to end-of-life care. I think the latter option is more humane.

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

There are pretty decent pet insurance policies responsible pet owners could purchase and pay a monthly premium on. I've used it for my past two dogs and it has been painless and easy to use when I needed to.

So it isn't a big $10K+ or bust argument. But the sad fact of the matter is very few pet owners assume ownership while planning for the potential bad days and the extra financial burden and responsibility that they should feel when they take on pet ownership.

_coveredInBees commented on Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider phoronix.com/news/Firefox... · Posted by u/marcodiego

gottorf · 2 years ago

I use Firefox everywhere I can, warts and all, just to avoid the Chromium monopoly. It was actually a huge bummer for me when Edge gave in and switched to Chromium; having a giant like Microsoft support a third browser engine would really have been a boon to the health of the ecosystem.

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

Same here. Then again, I'll never leave Firefox as long as Tree Style Tabs[1] continues to be supported as an extension. It's been a life-changer since I discovered it well over a decade ago and makes every other browser pretty much unusable for me as a daily driver.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

_coveredInBees commented on CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley sp23.datastructur.es/... · Posted by u/curious16

ericjmorey · 2 years ago

Or perhaps UC Berkeley's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Course https://cs61a.org/

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

Highly recommend CS61A. Can't say enough good things about it.

_coveredInBees commented on Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation twitter.com/DrJimFan/stat... · Posted by u/redox99

Robotbeat · 2 years ago

Exactly, so insisting on it being illegal now is inaccurate. You can bet that companies which have access to massive IP stockpiles, like Adobe, will absolutely be pushing things in a direction so that anything you see or hear cannot be used for inspiration without a hefty fee which is at their sole discretion.

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

The correct interpretation is that relying on tools like MidJourney can be a liability for the exact reason that this can go any which way and the legality issue is rather gray. So the point still stands that many companies would rather have a more clear-cut tool like Adobe Firefly without having to worry about potential liability.

_coveredInBees commented on How Python virtual environments work snarky.ca/how-virtual-env... · Posted by u/amardeep

_coveredInBees · 2 years ago

I'm surprised at the number of people here complaining about venvs in Python. There are lots of warts when it comes to package management in Python, but the built-in venv support has been rock solid in Python 3 for a long time now.

Most of the complaints here ironically are from people using a bunch of tooling in lieu of, or as a replacement for vanilla python venvs and then hitting issues associated with those tools.

We've been using vanilla python venvs across our company for many years now, and in all our CI/CD pipelines and have had zero issues on the venv side of things. And this is while using libraries like numpy, scipy, torch/torchvision, etc.

_coveredInBees commented on Elon Musk Texts Parag Agrawal twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/0xedb

version_five · 3 years ago

This is probably more common than the context suggests. CEO/CTO that both claim deep technical skills while not having touched code in decades, one demanding to talk to engineers, the other claiming he's deep in the codebase and knows what's going on. The best executives I've worked with are the ones that freely admit they don't know about the code, the worst are the ones that insist they're "technical" and keep bringing up stuff from 20 years ago with no bearing on the current problem but believing they're sharing their technical expertise

_coveredInBees · 3 years ago

Lol, I always find it funny when people pretend that Parag is some clueless "management type". I graduated the same year as him from the same school, and he is a ridiculously sharp engineer who has risen up at Twitter the old-fashioned way. It's painfully obvious that Musk just wants sycophantic yes-men around him and was pissed off that Parag wasn't willing to kiss his ass regarding all his "revolutionary" suggestions.