Hmm, so where he moved his repos to is S3, which is owned by Amazon, also one of the companies in the targeted in ICE Out of My Wallet boycott.
Readit Newssumuyuda commented on A programmer's guide to leaving GitHub lord.io/leaving-github/... · Posted by u/stackptr
sumuyuda commented on The tech monoculture is finally breaking jasonwillems.com/technolo... · Posted by u/at1as
> Antitrust pressure has slowed consolidation, opened app distribution, killed the anti-competitive iMessage and AirDrop moats
iMessage is still only available on Apple hardware. Apple’s malicious compliance has made developing apps for third party app stores a no-go. I have AltStore installed but there are no apps worth installing.
I have just released a map of median rents in Berlin [0]. Now I'm improving it. I want people to enter their search criteria, and get an idea of how rare and expensive their desired apartment would be.
This will help people set clear expectations for their apartment search.
Is this only data for new rental contracts and doesn’t reflect data from older/existing contracts?
The prices match ImmoScout, but are insanely high above the Mietspiegel, and therefore not actually a legal rent.
sumuyuda commented on Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game anthonyputignano.com/p/th... · Posted by u/anthonyp
You should learn whatever field you are interested in, doesn’t matter if others are already masters in that domain. You life shouldn’t be oriented around how you can be most appealing to capitalist companies, but instead what interests you.
Imagine telling students in school to not bother learning physics or calculus, as others have already mastered those fields.
Programming used to be about finding the best way to communicate with the device. Now the device is trying to figure out the best way to communicate with you.
Now it’s about how the device can be programmed to spy and manipulate you so the company can extract more value for the shareholders.
I have lived in 3 countries with socialized health care system and the public systems were just average to poor, and costing me a lot.
In Germany if you’re mid to high earner, a private insurance can cost you less than half than the public healthcare system and you get much better service. Starting with appointments with specialists, who always give preference to privately insured people.
In this day and age public healthcare system are not efficient and bill the wrong people.
They are mostly payed by young population, between 18 and 65 years old. Specially the highest earners.
However most of the usage comes from 65+ citizens, which are starting to become majority. And also tend to be the ones concentrating the wealth of the country.
These public systems work great when most of the population is young and is paying into the system. But modern western societies are not like that anymore. Wealth is not owned mostly by older people while they barely pay into the system.
Private systems work better because each citizen pays into his old age health coverage during his young years.
> In Germany if you’re mid to high earner, a private insurance can cost you less than half than the public healthcare system and you get much better service. Starting with appointments with specialists, who always give preference to privately insured people.
The solution here is to get rid of private insurance in Germany and only have public. It creates a two class system and private is a terrible choice once you are older, as costs will skyrocket.
sumuyuda commented on Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again notesfrombelow.org/articl... · Posted by u/iSpiderman
At the heart of this article is the claim that buying equity is a form of theft.
That is an extreme claim (in the sense of surprising, remarkable, unusual, and one that needs a lot more support than ordinary claims).
It is inadequately defended here. The argument that it violates fair exchange is tautological.
I think the main argument that it is theft, is that they contribute nothing to the continued surplus generated after their loan was repaid. So they effectively steal the profits like a parasite.
Why should they get ownership of the business? When you get a mortgage for your house, the bank doesn’t permanently own part of your house after you pay it off.
They said the same thing about the loom. "I'm an artist, no machine can replace me!" Now it's all done by machine, and none of us worry about it. We're in the early stages of the same process with AI; history rhyme.
High quality hand made clothes still exist and people do want to pay for them. Mass produced clothing made in sweats shops are what the majority of the people buy because that is where the capitalist companies drove the production.
But there's a lot of hokey, amateurish stuff in there... with more added all the time. Let's start with the arbitrary "structs are passed by value, classes by reference." And along with that: "Prefer structs over classes."
But then: "Have one source of truth." Um... you can't do that when every data structure is COPIED on every function call. So now what? I spent so much time dicking around trying to conform to Swift's contradictory "best practices" that developing became a joyless trudge with glacial progress. I finally realized that a lot of the sources I was reading didn't know WTF they were talking about and shitcanned their edicts.
A lot of the crap in Swift and SwiftUI remind me of object orientation, and how experienced programmers arrived at a distilled version of it that kept the useful parts and rejected dumb or utterly impractical ideas that were preached in the early days.
Swift structs use copy on write, so they aren’t actually copied on every function call.