This is a few paragraphs of fluff and then an ad for Purism.
I immediately mentally discarded everything I read once I realized it's an ad. Can we please get a better link @dang.
Readit Newszodiakzz commented on Google restricts Android sideloading puri.sm/posts/google-rest... · Posted by u/fsflover
zodiakzz commented on Google Gemini has the worst LLM API venki.dev/notes/google-ge... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
The page 404s now. I wonder what was said. :(
Google could be running foul of antitrust laws if forcing Gemini as default on Android OEM's is part of the standard contract required to use the Android brand.
2011 article, so GP's timeline fits.
It's not a 2011 article. The alleged statement by Tim was made in 2011.
I feel tracked.
zodiakzz commented on Iran quickens path towards the atomic bomb english.elpais.com/intern... · Posted by u/geox
zodiakzz commented on Iranians sell kidneys on Instagram to survive economic hardship thenationalnews.com/mena/... · Posted by u/ryzvonusef
When I was in prison I was approached about creating an app to sell/buy kidneys for third world countries by a guy with really good connections. I was like traffic in human body parts? Yeah no.
Then the next app old boy wanted help with was 'arranged marriage' in countries that practice that where it was more of a bride auction marketplace. So now straight human trafficking? Again pass.
He finally settled on a project where he and his son arrange for people overseas to come study in the USA. What? How do you go from human trafficking to something harmless like that? They have to live/stay on his properties so he was directing money straight to himself, and after they got to the USA his 'associates' coerced them into signing contracts to work for his companies for X years. So basically human trafficking again, and sanctioned and sponsored by these peoples home country (whom he had connections within and who was paying for these people to study overseas). Now that I'm thinking about this I should probably look into if there is a way to report this.
Smart dude with lots of money but he just couldn't not be shady AF. He thought all of these were perfectly legit things and was surprised when I didn't.
Can you name the country please?
zodiakzz commented on Were React hooks a mistake? jakelazaroff.com/words/we... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Only if you weren't writing code for a bigco (imo) - hooks simplified a lot of enormous components to be almost readable
Can you give any example where hooks helped readability without trading it for extremely high complexity behind the scenes? I maintain a large React codebase part-time. The client is a very good friend of mine and I was the one who chose to make my own life miserable by selecting React. Needless to say I won't touch/introduce anything "new and/or popular" for customer projects with a ten-foot pole for the rest of my career.
I used both class-based (thank goodness?) and hooks based components but only coz React ecosystem forced me to, class-based were frozen and left in a sorry state - as if React's dictator-in-chief (forgot whoever they are/were, don't want to know - tried to engage once in writing the "beta" React docs but they were horribly toxic in response for no reason) is the only smart person(s) ever and all these OOP language designers are... No, dear Kim Jong(s), you were the ones abusing JS classes in strange counter productive ways and I easily found better OOP patterns for my class-based components. Then I met hooks - the definition of anti-productive. Not to say people don't have a right to write/reflect whatever madness in their code they want to but for me it's a tragedy their "work" became so popular. I don't mean to belittle people who actually have it but hooks is what comes to mind when I think of what PTSD must feel like. I no longer take up JS/TS SPA projects. For the mental strain - the pay feels peanuts compared to native mobile app development so why bother.
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