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SteveSmith16384··on I live my life a quarter century at a time
The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.
SteveSmith16384··on I live my life a quarter century at a time
History would suggest otherwise. Ripping Woz off springs to mind. And is giving the world expensive Apple products making it a better place?
SteveSmith16384··on I made $100K from a dick joke
Ah, the golden age of Android where any app could make you money.
SteveSmith16384··on My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
It makes such a refreshing change to have a web page not cluttered with adverts and popups. Just nice, clean, well-spaced-out text and simple organisation.
SteveSmith16384··on How fast does Java compile?
I think it means "compile it into bytecode", which can then be run by the Runtime.
SteveSmith16384··on The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
If it makes any kind of decision whatsoever (like an "if" statement), slap the word AI on it.
SteveSmith16384··on What Came First, The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg
I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)
SteveSmith16384··on Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
When did the people specifically asked for this kind of system?
SteveSmith16384··on Israel's bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
Let's not go down this route here.
SteveSmith16384··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.
SteveSmith16384··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dangerous-daffodils-and-1...
SteveSmith16384··on Your Computer Is Not Yours
I'd be very surprised if things were better today.
SteveSmith16384··on Guiding principles: How US dietary guidelines contribute to obesity
Maybe this is the issue: 95% of the 2020 DGAC was found by an analysis to have at least one tie with a food or pharmaceutical company, and 50% had 30 such ties or more. (https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/news/usda-fails-to-fully-i...)
SteveSmith16384··on Guiding principles: How US dietary guidelines contribute to obesity
The irony is that the government is supposed not to interfere with people choice, but for-profit capitalism is allowed to interfere in everything.
SteveSmith16384··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
GDScript is closely tied to the engine, making it incredibly easy to affect any part of your project. It's also very terse and simple to use, and anyone with a passing knowledge of Python should be able to pick it up in minutes.

I've used C# for my day job for years, but never felt the need to stop using GDScript for any of my projects.

SteveSmith16384··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
Godot much prefers composition over inheritance. It's possible to use inheritance in Godot, but no-one recommends it, except maybe for a data structure.
SteveSmith16384··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
I remember joking 10-15 years about how Sourceforge seemed to have far more game engines than actual games. Is this another one to add to the list?
SteveSmith16384··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
I'm not sure why you were using Inheritance in Godot? Just use the "gameobjects" paradigm as you did with Unity.
SteveSmith16384··on Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023)
Jeez, just don't go to Center Parcs already. Everyone knows it's massively expensive.
SteveSmith16384··on 84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress
Maybe they're letting the big corps get fatter ready for a big EU-style lawsuit.
SteveSmith16384··on The Empathy Punishment
Related: I clicked on "Start your trial now", and got a 404.
SteveSmith16384··on Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis
By the same token, generalizing the whole of Europe to say "33% increase also applies to health insurance" is a very broad brush.
SteveSmith16384··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
If (world_pace == false) solve_world_peace();

easy!

SteveSmith16384··on Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking a question only CEO could answer
"The WhatsApp messages seen by Bloomberg didn’t come from Vigna’s usual business mobile number. The profile picture also was different.."

I think common sense was more than enough here.

SteveSmith16384··on Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why
Agreed, I think the statement should be "supermarkets want to sell us products all year round".
SteveSmith16384··on Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
"No-one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft".
SteveSmith16384··on Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
But we shouldn't have to, and just because Google is famous for it, it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
SteveSmith16384··on Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
That doesn't change anything.
SteveSmith16384··on Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
I'm not sure what your point is?
SteveSmith16384··on Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
How do you downvote? I only seem to have an upvote icon.
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