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  • Muslim Groups Who Pushed Against Kamala Harris Respond to Trump's Gaza Plan - Newsweek

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  • The EU/Biden proposals to help rebuild did NOT include removing all the Palestinians from Gaza before starting rebuilding. It’s like you don’t want to hear how genocidal trump sounds.

  • Muslim Groups Who Pushed Against Kamala Harris Respond to Trump's Gaza Plan - Newsweek

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  • Significantly worse because the EU/Biden proposals to help rebuild did NOT include removing all the Palestinians from Gaza before starting rebuilding. It's like you don't want to hear how genocidal trump sounds.

  • Let’s just add one more feature

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  • The side project is safe from managerial interference. At work though, nothing is functional. Well, boss always claims we're combining the best of the functional programming world and the best of the object oriented world and the best of the agile world, but what he means is we can have as many buzzwords as he's heard at conferences as long as we're prepared to ignore the actual principles and do it the way we always did it. Give him is due, he is not an unreasonable man and will actually support you and listen to sense, but he's absolutely not interested in fundamental change.

  • Let’s just add one more feature

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  • You reminded me of a guy who’s always banging on about how Elm combs the spaghetti in your source code for you and the meatballs and sauce are only mixed in at compile time. He says object oriented programming is like threading the pasta through the meatballs which is OK before anything’s cooked but after that it gets too soft and entangled and the spaghetti won’t thread through so you start again rather than refactor. It was a compelling image and got me curious.

    I used it for the second rewrite of a side project WebApp a couple of years ago, and I it felt like I had to do everything from scratch by hand all the time at first, but I have to admit that maintenance has been an absolute dream compared with the old codebase. New features, changed functionality, it’s always good and you don’t need to reunderstand everything because it’s all so separated and I told him he was right. It writes the css for you and I kid you not, I did not miss that flakey nonsense one bit.

    Our boss is shit scared of anything even a little bit different, though, so he noped out hard when he saw the syntax and got all shouty about all the whitespace and arrows on the big branching statements before launching into a sermon about how you can’t have a corporate look and feel unless you use css. I lost quite a lot of respect for him that day.

    Our code at work is so like the bottom picture. You have absolutely no idea whether you just filled someone's underpass when you build another bridge over the top and sometimes you just have to kill the whole branch you've been working on because adding a f*ing overhead sign collapsed seven other things and no matter what you try, you can't undo whatever it was that collapsed. I swear, one day we're going to find that someone accidentally nuked twelve routes six months ago and there's nothing anyone can do about it any more.

  • Let’s just add one more feature

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  • Edit: Oops replying to wrong person sorry.

  • Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

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  • Absolutely.

  • Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

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  • Not any more, they don't!

  • Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

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  • When they removed their "don't be evil" motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.

    It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn't want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.

    Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it's because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don't want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.

  • I need a ticket... fast! 😨

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  • Wait, are ticket inspectors allowed to slap customers' asses if they don't have their tiokets or asses ready? Asking for a friend.

  • I need a ticket... fast! 😨

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  • Good, because if it wasn't, there'd be trouble.

  • I need a ticket... fast! 😨

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  • Your monthly ass?

  • I need a ticket... fast! 😨

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  • Well, if you don't have one, you'd better have your ass ready!

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  • Username does not check out.

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  • Do you have reason to believe that the image at the top of the post is fake?

    Or are you one of these rightwingers who thinks Musk's salute wasn't nazi and holding a Trump banner doesn't mean you support Trump?

  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • Absolutely, signal isn't federated, but I don't want my messaging app to be federated. I want my social media to be federated. Lemmy is good because it's open. Signal is good because it's shut.

  • Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator

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  • PDF rose to significance because at the time, a Word document would look different if you opened it on a different computer and you'd have to adjust the page breaks and boundaries etc (because your normal.dot was different at home and at work or on different computers at work).

    Adobe won with a simple and easy to use format that reliably froze the layout and could be read the same on any computer, Windows, Mac, Unix.

    Then they kept adding features that they could upsell to corporates and forgot what the format was for. The handy hand tool for relegated in favour of a pointer and then when people insisted on using the hand tool they made it automatically turn into a pointer if your dragging isn't sufficiently accurately vertical or something.

    Adobe. Your PDF format is fundamentally for reading and printing documents reliably. Please stop making that bit hard.

  • TIL How Elon Musk Picked Tesla's Strange Charge Port Placement

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  • If the driver behind you is driving so close that they have to reverse if you back in, they're a moron.

  • The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal

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  • "Copilot, read this map of Gaza, and prioritising plausible denyability, give me a list of coordinates of sites that I can claim were being used by Hamas. Rank them in order of increasing atrocity, and make the list really really long, so that by the time we're literally just bombing schoolchildren, everyone's kinda got used to it and it's not much of a headline."

    "Sure thing, IDF, I am well trained to help you with the media management of your atrocities, and you can rest assured that I won't let facts get in the way of your genocidal plans. I am engineered from the bottom up to sound plausible and like I know what I'm talking about, and I never cared much for the distinction between reality and narrative-confirming fiction anyway."

  • Donald Trump says TikTok "worthless," might not save it after all

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  • I suspect it's a share price influencing game with some of his pals.