Yes I’d be disturbed if my news source was run by Forbes Marketplace. But it would explain a lot.
Propaganda source
Readit Newsmpalczewski commented on How Airline Lobbyists Just Got Humiliated thebignewsletter.com/p/ho... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
They should get out of that business altogether and let anyone sue an airline
>> It is that both sides of the conflict decided to use misinformation to bolster their media presence and their right to defend themselves.
In the wars I've seen in my lifetime, this really seems something that only started with Ukraine/Russia. I know in the Gulf War the sides would spin news to portray them in a more favourable light, but not (to my knowledge) masses of lies like in Russia/Ukraine or Israel/Hamas.
This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotten worse.
Wow. Could you tell us more about your journey?
I bought a t-mobile g1 the first android phone. At the time my school's wifi needed you to log in every time you joined the network. I wrote an app that logged you in automatically. Solved a need I had, I then put in in the app store for $0.99 and sold a few hundred.
I went to a small company career fair for the free lunch. When they saw I had an app in the app store, I had immediate interest and got an internship.
This would have prevented me from publishing my first app, which ended up getting me my first job and a great career.
I've always had the sense that Google was really bad at negotiating.
mpalczewski commented on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts nytimes.com/2023/11/05/bu... · Posted by u/ljosa
Horrible. I've heard similar stories but this one's the worst by far. This shouldn't be allowed to ever happen again, such sudden closures without warning need to be illegal.
The issue is banking is highly regulated but a lot of the regulation is about AML, terrorism screening and such. Not actually protecting customers from abuse but rather the other way around - banks are taking precautions to protect themselves from customers. Some of the regulation is also the result of decades of lobbying efforts by major players, making it extremely hard for new ones to compete. Banks are rarely held accountable because for some reason most regular people are fine with this or don't understand it.
There is a solution - not sure if everyone's ready to hear it yet: Decentralized finance. Good luck to a bank trying to shut down your self-hosted Ethereum wallet. Banks provide important services and will continue to exist, but giving them full unchecked control over our life savings and finance is mad. There are a lot of other issues with the current system, and many people don't really understand the contracts they're signing, including that they don't legally own "their money" in the bank account in most cases (they're creditors). But the question of effective control over ones own funds is the most crucial one to me.
A big centralized government bank is not somehow going to be magically better than multiple commercial banks. At best it would be equally bad but more likely it will be worse than the dmv and irs put together. Going to the bank will be like doing your taxes. Maybe it would be so bad that it would solve this problem because people would have cash.
mpalczewski commented on Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 blog.timac.org/2023/1019-... · Posted by u/ingve
Having written ObjC since 2009 or so, honestly it's a fine language, and although I wrote a fair bit in Swift, I don't really see it as a significant improvement over ObjC, which is Good Enough™ to keep using. Something has to cause serious friction to be replaced with something significantly better, and ObjC/Swift just don't fit that pattern.
I’m in a similar boat. Header files typically led to faster compile times. OCMock worked like magic.
Where both languages are poor is how large the binaries they produce are.
Professional tip: work isn't meant to be fun. (If it was fun then it wouldn't be called "work".)
I’m most productive when I’m having fun. There’s always going to be not fun shit. Is on you to find the fun and on the employer to make it possible. Otherwise I’m unable to give my best.
You mean the gas taxes that fund road maintenance? That tax is a tyranny imposed by how much we rely on cars, not by climate change.