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drahardja

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Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

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Holberg, to random
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Reading this thinking ‘But isn’t it completely normal to put a house in the name of a trust or LLC?’ when it hit me I lived (2019-2021) in the exact neighborhood they’re using as an example—possibly the exact street—so of course I’d think it’s normal.

San Francisco Chronicle: Trusts, corporations and LLCs were behind more than 70% of home purchases in Atherton last year.

https://apple.news/AqZLSqkOJRo-sm8eFRK5sfQ

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@Holberg Given California’s horrible probate court system, I think holding your house (and bank account, and other assets) in a trust is advisable for anyone who has assets to pass to their heirs. The alternative is having your assets held up in court for literal years, and causing your survivors to have to deal with legal nonsense right after your death.

To a casual reader, the statistic in the article may read like these corporations are an indication of some kind of scam or abuse of homes for investment by “uber-rich” people, but I bet the majority of these corporations are set up precisely because California inheritance law is broken, and that rich people are more likely to have been educated about the risk.

drahardja, to random
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A 1970s Triumph GT6 Mark III. Stunningly beautiful.

drahardja, to random
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I guess it’s a type of day

drahardja,
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@brennansv I use Sumatriptan.

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@brennansv Wow, daily! I take it as needed, which is about once a month probably.

matt, to random
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Lots of comments recently on my channel from people immediately NOPEing on an app with a subscription.

I'm starting to feel like the App Store wrecked people's expectations for what software they can use with basically zero cost. When everything was like $1-5, you could buy every single cool app that people talked about, and not really feel the pain.

Downside is companies could not sustain themselves on that little revenue, so many didn't make it.

drahardja, (edited )
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@gruber @matt To be clear: there is no viable alternative to subscriptions for iOS apps because Apple made it that way. They never really supported free trials or upgrade pricing, so subscriptions was the only viable path left.

This was the consequence of their decisions. Apple could have made choices that would have led to the success of paid-up-front software, but they chose this instead.

drahardja,
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@jjoelson @gruber @matt That might be a reason if Apple actually broke apps on iOS updates. While iOS privacy or security settings might get tightened down over time, API support is virtually never dropped even after years of deprecation. The 32–to–64 bit transition was probably the only time in iPhone history where there was a hard cutoff for support.

drahardja, to photography
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Spotted today: A superb example of a 1970s Mazda RX-3 Coupe with a rotary engine.

Close up of the Mazda RX-3 badge mounted on the rear quarter panel, forward of a red reflector light.
Rear view of the Mazda RX-3. Red, round taillights and round reversing lights are mounted on chromed rectangles.

drahardja, to internet
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I met a contractor today who said that their recent affected mostly Full Time Employees, but spared contractors. This comment came from this person’s manager, who appeared to have had to lay off FTEs but not contractors in his org.

Any truth to this?

drahardja, (edited ) to random
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Is it just me or has reddit dot com broken all of its image hosting links by returning atrociously broken, unzoomable HTML pages for all their images, including ones that end in .jpg?

Oddly, curling the url yields the actual file.

Here’s a sample: https://i.redd.it/fp4xc3hlv71b1.jpg

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The kids are all right. https://press.coop/@washingtonpost/110408600724841030

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Sat next to one of those stupid big imported US tanks at a traffic light earlier. Had a fleeting thought that the roof of my Mini was about the same height as its bonnet.

And yeah, it was.

Those things are ridiculous.

@notjustbikes

drahardja,
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@DJDarren @scrummy To be fair, they are very tiny doors 😉

drahardja,
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@DJDarren @notjustbikes I’m surprised these monstrosities are successfully exported into the UK. In the US manufacturers get away with them because of the “light truck” loophole which allows them to be exempted from fuel efficiency and crash safety standards. How do they manage to conform to UK regulations?

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From the “Americans will use any measurement unit except the metric system” department:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis

drahardja,
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@titociuro It’s easy! You know how heavy an elephant is? Just multiply it by 140 million!

drahardja,
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@wellschmaltz At least 125 million Bocce Ball courts I think

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@Enema_Cowboy Trillion pounds

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@stephen @marioguzman A fathom is about the depth of 0.8 African elephants I think

drahardja,
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@pixel A large boulder the size of a small boulder

drahardja,
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@inferis @pixel That’s about the same thickness as four coats of paint on a 1976 Chevrolet Impala

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: How do you access Mastodon? (Please boost for reach, TIA).

drahardja,
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@nixCraft @stux Desktop app (Mona).

drahardja, (edited ) to random
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Here’s a thought experiment: If you had a small group of skilled mobile, desktop, server, and web front-end engineers who have access to time and money, and are eager to MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE USING THEIR SKILLS (and not just spin up yet another exploitive startup) what would YOU have them do?

Be specific.

Assume cost is no object.

It’s time to stop bellyaching about how bad tech is, and start brainstorming about what good it can do.

Please repost for exposure.

EDIT: Let’s add hardware, industrial design, and UX engineers in the mix as well, to round things out.

drahardja,
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@siderea Thank you for this. There are a lot of facets here that can be solved. The “What is my actual insurance plan called?” question is probably most directly solved by a self-serve app or website, where—like you mentioned—people could take a picture of their card and some pattern-matching thing could identify it. This could be something productized quite quickly. If the program fits entirely into a mobile app, then there’s not even any running costs associated with it. The challenge is training the model to recognize all insurance cards, and update them as they change their designs.

One thing I keep imagining is how insurance companies might sabotage any ratings service to stuff it full of (AI-generated) garbage, to protect their obfuscation.

drahardja,
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@lisseuse I’m actually surprised transit services in Germany weren’t better!

drahardja,
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@siderea Incredible.

solely, to random

Kazakh is a gender-neutral language, so Google Translate makes some.. interesting assumptions. 🤔

drahardja,
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@solely @tillianisafox I posted the same thing in Indonesian on Twitter before I deleted the account. The translation model definitely picked up gender biases in its training.

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