elphinstone (u/elphinstone)

elphinstone commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau

pavel_lishin · a day ago

> I am not a casual user. I have literally written the book on Apple development (taking over the Learning Cocoa with Objective-C series, which Apple themselves used to write, for O’Reilly Media, and then 20+ books following that). I help run the longest-running Apple developer event not run by Apple themselves, /dev/world. I have effectively been an evangelist for this company’s technology for my entire professional life. We had an app on the App Store on Day 1 in every sense of the world.

I am surprised that with such a pedigree, the author doesn't already have contacts at Apple they could reach out to for that personal touch.

elphinstone · a day ago

Oh, yes, only "important" people deserve customer service. That is an appallingly elitist attitude.

elphinstone commented on Dark Pattern Games darkpattern.games... · Posted by u/robotnikman

elphinstone · a month ago

Even mainstream gaming sites cannot review even a fraction of the mobile games market; you've created for yourself a truly Sisyphean task.

A better approach might be to highlight the fraction of mobile games that deserve more recognition for avoiding dark patterns, like this site does:

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/android/

Alternately, focus on AAA games.

elphinstone commented on A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition generativehistory.substac... · Posted by u/scrlk

elphinstone · a month ago

I read the whole article, but have never tried the model. Looking at the input document, I believe the model saw enough of a space between the 14 and 5 to simply treat it that way. I saw the space too. Impressive, but it's a leap to say it saw 145 then used higher order reasoning to correct 145 to 14 and 5.

elphinstone commented on The emergence and diversification of dog morphology science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/Marshferm

elphinstone · a month ago

I always wondered if there was some genetic factor related to mutations, perhaps, that was stronger in dogs than cats, horses, cows, sheep, etc. There's such morphological variety.

elphinstone commented on Guideline has been acquired by Gusto help.guideline.com/en/art... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

tyre · a month ago

Interesting this is being posted now when the acquisition was two months ago.[0] Has anything changed?

My copium as a shareholder is that they’re beefing up their services to boost a valuation for IPO.

One can dream!

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshuareeves_better-together-...

elphinstone · a month ago

If I my retirement was tied up with some startup trying to IPO, I'd be furious. It's the exact opposite of responsible stewardship.

elphinstone commented on Malaysia: Truly Asia noahpinion.blog/p/malaysi... · Posted by u/eatonphil

elphinstone · a month ago

Smug blogger visits foreign country for a few days, finds evidence of his pre-existing belief system.

elphinstone commented on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly techcrunch.com/2025/10/27... · Posted by u/jnord

elphinstone · 2 months ago

How long until they monetize it with sponsored advice to go sign up for betterhelp or some other dubious online therapist? Dystopian and horrifying.

elphinstone commented on Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall polygon.com/counter-strik... · Posted by u/perihelions

elphinstone · 2 months ago

Good. Too many game companies are running unregulated casinos aimed at minors with their lootboxes and pay to win mechanics.

elphinstone commented on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous immich.app/blog/google-fl... · Posted by u/janpio

jstrong · 2 months ago

google: we make going to the DMV look delightful by comparison!

elphinstone · 2 months ago

They are not the government and should not have this vast, unaccountable monopoly power with no accountability and no customer service.

elphinstone commented on Buffett indicator says stock market overvalued cnbc.com/2025/09/28/buffe... · Posted by u/kristianp

Terr_ · 3 months ago

> not as safe or diversified as they think

I'd like to remind people that your profession should be part of your diversification decisions. (At least for those of us in the working class.)

For example, as a software developer, I am already tightly exposed to risks in the software sector even before I invest a single dollar.

You want to minimize the chance/amount that your investments implode at the same time you lose your job, which might force you to "sell low".

elphinstone · 3 months ago

That's valid in regards to one's own company (excluding options, etc.), but to avoid longterm investing in the most dynamic sector with outsized returns is pennywise, pound foolish as the saying goes.

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KarmaCake day91November 2, 2023View Original