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calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
I’m talking about masks not vaccines. There are also a lot of assumptions about who you think the people in the crowd are. You don’t know it’s a social event for the Q crowd. Why is it strange that people have different opinions, right or wrong? What’s perplexing is believing every single person should agree on something.
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Yes there was no R rating for a long time, and the ASRB still takes a negative view of illicit drug use in games. But is 'cant use illicit drugs in games' the definition of excessive media censorship?
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Nothing to do with strong masks. Knowing the cheap masks you bought from the chemist are useless, why must we be forced to wear them? Why not mandate that everyone needs to wear a wig, they are just as useless as stopping covid.

We can all play pretend and think they work. But is that cheap mask thats been re-used, continually adjusted or worn incorrectly really helping?

In Australia we had mask mandates during summer where temperatures would be over 35 degrees during the day. How well does a sweaty cotton mask work to stop covid?

calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
It's so trivial when you gridlock major cities REPEATEDLY to spread a 'message' that could be told in a million other ways. Its trivial to worry about things like 'the economy' that provides a means to put a roof over your head and the ability to feed yourself and your family. Only someone who has little to no responsibilities could find it trivial.
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
He has posted bail. You don't just walk out of court after you receive bail, there are always conditions associated. Knowing that these people are repeat offenders, the judge has ordered these conditions so they don't once again attempt to break the laws set by created by elected officials who were democratically elected to office. No liberty was stolen today!
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Where are these people protesting non-existent mandates? Thats like protesting against wearing a fake moustache when there is no mandate to.
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Yes those anti-mask nut jobs complaining about how spare rags fashioned into a mask don't stop the spread of covid. Wow thats crazy talk!
calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
Yeah because everyone has the right to impede on others freedoms. Would you prefer,

1) Limited access to electronic devices or 2) Incarceration?

They got a pretty good deal wouldn't you say?

calsy··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
What extensive censorship of media? Australian's have plenty of 'constitutional rights', the right to vote, the right to property, the right to trial by jury, freedom of religion.
calsy··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
Well maybe those in power should have read up on their history before trying to 'take over' Afghanistan. Might have been a good idea for a country half a world a way, separated by a large ocean.
calsy··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
Yeah westerners have so much access to information. I mean look at all those informed opinions about WMDs in Iraq. The US begged countries like Finland, Sweden and Australia to join them in their middle east occupation.

Australia has assisted US in most all major conflicts they have been involved in since WW2. Being a small democratic nation, the US is our most powerful ally and we have invested in that relationship for close to a century. We didn't just come knocking on the door yesterday 'begging' for help.

calsy··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
Didn't the states just pull out of Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation? Or is that last years news?

20 Years!

Edit: Downvotes, whats the best way to deal with colossal failure... pretend like it never happened. Afghanistan, huh? what are you talking about.

calsy··on WeatherKit
I just wanted to know if I was missing something, Maybe there is some way of simplify forecasts for local areas that I'm not aware of. I would be interested to know.
calsy··on WeatherKit
Well the weather by nature is a chaotic mess of pressure systems and weather patterns, a major cause being the junction between the hot and cold temperatures of the 2 hemispheres, no?

I say 'washing machine' as it is a swirling mass of unpredictability. Yes there are obvious patterns that follow the seasons, but forecasts are required to be much more accurate than predicting the weather by patterns of the season.

They need to be accurate to each day, predicting temp, rainfall, wind etc. etc. The only way to do that is to try and predict how this chaotic system will progress over a period of time. Thats why all these weather agency talk about their new 'supercomputers' able to create more accurate forecasts. The processing power required to build these models is enormous.

No matter if you are forecasting locally or across the multiple states or countries, it still depends on forecasting the outcome of this chaotic system.

calsy··on WeatherKit
Im interested to know how weather forecasts can be trivialised or 'simple' in other words for a local area? It is still dependant on predicting what happens in a washing machine of pressure systems and weather patterns split between 2 hemispheres that are in different seasons.
calsy··on WeatherKit
Im interested to know how weather forecasts can be trivialised or 'simple' in other words for a local area. How is it easy to predict what happens in a washing machine of pressure systems and weather patterns split between 2 hemispheres that are in different seasons?
calsy··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
Doesn't the blog post clearly show thats its not a real review site. It's also not that hard to find things written by humans.
calsy··on Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
Isn't it funny that the single particle that they 'found' happened to be the one governments and investors gave them billions in hopes of finding. Nothing else, just the single particle to validate the entire existence of the LHC. I wonder what it would do for future investments if they didn't find it?

But hey, I probably don't understand the science like 99.999999% of people. It's so technical that you just have to take their word for it. I do understand humans though.

calsy··on What Everyone Knows
These people? as in those in authority. Those who have both the platform and power to manipulate the public.

Why are you so willing to vigorously defend them and deride opposing views as charlatans and crackpots? What have these politicians and media personalities done to deserve your undying loyalty and trust?

calsy··on Tracking Heat Records in 400 U.S. Cities
Right....
calsy··on Tracking Heat Records in 400 U.S. Cities
No one has ever forgotten how to close the tab. Whats the point of being exclusionary and having a 'if you don't like it, leave' attitude to presenting information? It isn't some pretentious indie bands website, its weather data!
calsy··on Tracking Heat Records in 400 U.S. Cities
Ahh its the users fault for not reading the data before clicking.

Imagine an unholy text book where once you turn the page, the pages before become inaccessible. Its your own fault for not understanding everything on the previous page and you have to read the entire thing before you can start again to find that page.

Yes its the users fault.

calsy··on Tracking Heat Records in 400 U.S. Cities
Not every website is the same and this is not the best way to present statistical data. It pays to keep things simple and cohesive when you're trying to explain what a big block of numbers or a graph with bars/lines represents.

After all, your goal is to make sure the viewer understands the information being shown, not impressing them with moving text.

calsy··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
They are engaging externally because the issue has gained traction in the community. I also don't think people need to be grateful because they were blessed with a response.
calsy··on I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
most are lacking what exactly?
calsy··on I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
Why do supporters of exclusive native development have to act all pretentious about it. You are developing mobile apps, get over yourself.

Guaranteed you could not tell if 10 randomly chosen apps were developed natively or cross platform. I'm sure you will say you can though.

calsy··on I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
5 years ago is a lifetime in tech, the blog clearly mentions the difference. Web dev stack is a dead-end professionally? That doesn't line up with reality at all does it.

You attracted better-qualified colleagues? How so exactly? You have a smaller pool of candidates to choose from. Are you implying native developers are just smarter?

Outdated opinions, favouritism and elitism all wrapped in one.

calsy··on Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year
Did everyone ignore the word 'considered'.
calsy··on A Gripe about the Los Angeles Metro Bike App
UI latency is palpable, so palpable that the millions of people who use apps developed in react native wouldn't notice the difference or care. node_modules is such a dumpster fire that it's the most popular package manager in existence.

React native is for prototypes although it’s used in both the public and private sector to deliver apps. You can make 2 versions of an app in half the time apparently just by saying so.

Somewhere reality disappeared in your argument. Your employment history is of no concern to me.

calsy··on A Gripe about the Los Angeles Metro Bike App
You are overstating the value of ‘native’ development and understating the cost of developing natively on multiple platforms. What capabilities are exclusive to native apps in the minimal well defined sandbox provided on portable devices?

You are generalising about attitudes of businesses who are concerned with return on investment, an obvious priority that I shouldn’t have to point out.

The reputation you mention is just an opinion based on inherent bias not shared by all. If you were to choose at random 10 reasonably well performing apps on the store you could in no way tell if they were developed ‘natively’ or not.

React native is compiled into native code, by definition it is ‘native’. It is not running in a virtual box or a web browser.

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