iCloud is almost justified by the number of expendable email addresses one can allocate
Readit Newsacephal commented on Another reason to use expendable email addresses for everything utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
Is the Bible still ok???
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Genesis 16:4 – “And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived…” (Abram and Hagar)
Genesis 29:23 – “…and he went in unto her.” (Jacob and Leah)
Genesis 30:4 – “…and Jacob went in unto her.” (Jacob and Bilhah)
Ruth 4:13 – “…and he went in unto her, and the LORD gave her conception…” (Boaz and Ruth)
Variants & related euphemisms
Genesis 38:16 – “…he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee…” (Judah and Tamar)
2 Samuel 11:4 – “And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her…” (David and Bathsheba)
Leviticus 18:6+ – “uncover nakedness” is repeated as a sexual euphemism.
Genesis 38:9 – “…when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground…” (Onan; explicit ejaculation reference).
Don't forget the story in Judges where a Hebrew assasin stabs an obese Canaanite king in the gut and he shits himself but his guards outside the room were already used to him shitting himself so ignored the smell.
acephal commented on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet worksonmymachine.substack... · Posted by u/Stwerner
This is all very emotive and I'm sure is a dream many of us would love to live.
But does Claude's code work? Does it work to the level where you'd depend on it yourself; where you'd bill customers for it; where you'd put your reputation behind it?
I say no. And it's because I use Claude. Two events changed how I use Claude: now it's an advisor, and I mostly type the code myself. Because I don't trust it.
First, I caught it copying one of my TypeScript interfaces and modifying it. So now we have User which looks like my actual user, that I defined, and UserAgain which does not, and which Claude is now using and proudly proclaiming that my type checks all pass. Well of course they do!
Second, I was told that the best way to catch this sort of thing is to get it to write tests. So it wrote some tests, and they failed, and it kept going, and it eventually wrote an un-failable test. The test mocked itself.
So, sure, enjoy time with your kids. Please don't ask me to use your app for anything important.
I had Claude, as an agent, get into an infinite loop trying to resolve a diagnostic in Java test that any human would easily figured out and fixed in a second.
acephal commented on Where's Firefox going next? connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
Let’s be honest, the only advantage Firefox has over other browser and especially chrome is its extension support. And it’s not even Mozilla merit, it’s Google who removed MV2 support.
Same for Android, the only advantage it has is its extension support because Google is stubbornly not adding extension support to Android chromium even though such support was already done by an indie developer (kiwi browser) and open sourced.
They hang on by a thread.
The web need Firefox to be thriving but it’s been a sinking ship since a while.
They know perfectly what users want, what makes a good browser : speed, good user interface, low on energy, block ads,.. These are universal things.
Have you taken a look at Android Firefox user interface ? It’s horrendous, the url box for instance is already small but now there is 3 buttons (share, reading mode, translate) on top of it. I got to put the phone on landscape mode to see the url.
And it’s not even that I want to see the url every second, but it just looks and feel bad.
On computer, there are 4 different browser history. The traditional one that opens in an outdated window, the « recent one » that shows only the 10 or something last links , a better looking browser history when you go in the top left button where there are synced browser tabs, synced history ,.. and an history in the sidebar.
Seriously ? 4 different history.
There need to be one clear, working history.
Firefox's WebExtensions implementation still has service workers disabled and no File System API. MV3 requires service workers, so Firefox extension ecosystem is on a countdown.
This is also Joe Rogan and his "just eat mushrooms" ideology
acephal commented on Manifesto of the Silent Minority lesswrong.com/posts/Kvxq4... · Posted by u/solvent
I think it’s satire.
If not, then I truly feel sorry for some folks.
The "Thiel Question" is Id-mining.
One of the things I often hear, when people are talking about "shock jocks" (both left and right), is "They are just saying what everyone is thinking."
In my experience, there's a reason that we don't just say what we think.
High likelihood most of these responses are from well-placed SREs
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acephal commented on Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers reuters.com/article/us-ne... · Posted by u/BigBalli
Netflix's current trajectory makes me sad.
It reminds me of cable TV now: cheaply produced shlock, with less and less premium TV.
The last thing I watched that was truly wonderful on Netflix was Mindhunter -- which I heard was canceled by Netflix because it's too expensive.
Meanwhile there's a dozen or more new "reality TV" knock offs seemingly every week.
We've switched most of our viewing to HBO now -- it has a lot of fantastic content, like Raised by Wolves, Lovecraft Country, His Dark Materials, Chernobyl, etc. And they actually stand behind their product because they believe in it -- they aren't constantly pulling the rug out from under their viewers like Netflix does.
Highly recommend watching the Italian show Gomorra
A Levite from the hill country of Ephraim goes to retrieve his concubine from her father’s house in Bethlehem.
On their return journey, they stop for the night in Gibeah, a Benjamite town.
The townsmen surround the house, demanding to “know” the man (sexual violence implied, similar to Genesis 19 with Lot).
The host refuses and offers his own virgin daughter and the Levite’s concubine instead.
The mob abuses the concubine all night; she collapses at the doorway and dies by morning.
The Levite tells her to get up, sees she’s dead, then cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout Israel to rally the tribes against Benjamin.