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mrbombastic

1,061 karma · joined October 20, 2012

Interests: Mobile Development, Open Source, Remote Work, Hiking, Digital Nomad

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Mobile Developer in Brooklyn. Primarily native iOS but comfortable working on and learning different parts of the stack. Contact me for remote work opportunities or opportunities near Brooklyn.

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mrbombastic··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
Just make it a semi-hidden multistep option like browsers when you visit a site with a bad cert, just annoying to leave what you are doing go to system settings and fiddle.
mrbombastic··on I want to live like Costco people
Ruta Maya is quite good as well, probably not as big of a coffee snob as the author though.
mrbombastic··on I want to live like Costco people
Are you sure you wanna live like costco people?

https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0

(I love the Shatner version, sorry!)

mrbombastic··on Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent
Relevant snl skit: https://youtu.be/wXZNuwY_5-U
mrbombastic··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
I use this all the time dropping files from old android device to mac, thanks devs!
mrbombastic··on Meta to cut 10% of jobs
What do i have to be to get Fridays too?
mrbombastic··on Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
It makes perfect sense if you think things cannot improve indefinitely
mrbombastic··on Claude Design
Finally a product for me!
mrbombastic··on Claude Opus 4.7
productivity going right back down again, ah well they weren't going to pay us more anyway
mrbombastic··on I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
Calling Yosemite bog standard beauty in California is a pretty wild statement. California definitely punching above its weight for natural beauty and Yosemite is overcrowded but the valley is still one of the more breathtaking places in the world IMO.
mrbombastic··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
You often find expat communities have the exact opposite viewpoint as those that remain, part of the reason they are expats. See cuban expats, nicaraguan expats, not to say they are wrong but they are not a monolith representing all of a civilization. Presumably those standing around the bridges don’t want them bombed.
mrbombastic··on Slop is not necessarily the future
these economic incentives for good code would also apply to code before llms no? And we have had plenty of shit code that stayed shit for a long time. I find this idea that economic incentives will necessarily drive the outcomes you desire to be akin to a religious belief for some people.
mrbombastic··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
Yes of course we are all brainwashed by the famously democrat controlled media at _the Wall Street Journal_ which is owned by prominent leftist Rupert Murdoch. bro you are being robbed in broad daylight.
mrbombastic··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Didn’t even strike me as weird phrasing. Or rather: strike me as weird phrasing it did not.
mrbombastic··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
You certainly built a large strawman out of one sentence.
mrbombastic··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.
mrbombastic··on Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app
Also https://maestro.dev/ is pretty good these days
mrbombastic··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
Account created 52 days ago and working over time ever since to defend trump and the regime. No submissions. Color me skeptical.
mrbombastic··on Astral to Join OpenAI
As much as I dislike facebook they have been pretty good stewards of their open source projects and mostly seem to let them stay isolated.
mrbombastic··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
Yeah it is worse now but I don’t remember it ever being good. If you know where to look and have a trusted set of resources curated sure, but of course you won’t for unfamiliar territory which is exactly what LLMs help with.
mrbombastic··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
these choices are really up to the individual and what is important to them. as for win what, I am specifically talking about opposition to the current admin and political gravity, to which they are not immune. If say a protest of 30 million people happened tomorrow, the Republican's would see the writing on the wall and things like impeachment which previously seemed impossible now become required if you have any hope of maintaining a political future.

As for a recent successful boycott, see Disney Plus cancellations in response to Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air.

here are some concrete things I can think of: - don't like that Sam Altman is aligned with the regime? boycott chatgpt, it fell from the top spot in the app store and Sam Altman felt forced to address the controversy to his employees, it wouldn't take much more to turn the tide and other companies take notice and be disinclined to do similar - don't like that your elected representative was mum on the Iran war? write them an email, call their office - think that a candidate is best chance at change? donate to their campaign - show up at the next No Kings protest, politicians take notice of the coverage and what people are mad about

If you are waiting for a guarantee your actions will affect change I can't help you, but I can guarantee doing nothing won't.

mrbombastic··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
Not recommending first point 3 letter agencies! but if we all did something, volunteer, protest, donate, boycott, we would win tomorrow. Boycotting seems particularly effective, would start there.
mrbombastic··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
I am not confident that is as cut and dried as you are putting forth, there have been massive swings in heavily red districts the other way for special elections in the last few months and Republican polling is abysmal.
mrbombastic··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
Agreed but we also have to stop saying "the majority support this" or "half the country supports this" it ain't true and leads people to feel hopeless.
mrbombastic··on MacBook Neo
how much money I have lost to this damn ladder
mrbombastic··on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
we are going to do the same "everything is binary" engineer thing with bombs and innocent casualties we did with self driving? there is also an accountability crisis that will unfold if we loose these things on the world, it is not just one metric is better than human operators therefore take your hands off the wheel and hope for the best. Please file a ticket with support if your child's school was accidentally destroyed.
mrbombastic··on Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
in a similar vein if you are looking for a nice GUI, daisydisk is great: https://daisydiskapp.com one time $10 payment
mrbombastic··on Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
They stated 2 red lines, mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, as a result Trump admin threw a hissy fit and cancelled all military contracts going forward and designated them a supply chain risk to further punish them. https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070 OpenAI on the other hand after all this is openly partnering and seemingly has no such red lines and has given milquetoast explanations as to why this is acceptable. What is surprising about the boycott?
mrbombastic··on Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%
I did it as well, 2 days of oatmeal (plus some chicken and toppings) and then oatmeal most days just one meal. Didn’t expect much…my cholesterol dropped 25% over a period of 3 months. One data point, will do another 2 days and see in another 3 months.
mrbombastic··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
A witness also reported to the FBI that Lutnick and CF are engaged in massive fraud: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA012492... Oh and he bought his house from Epstein for $10. Nothing to see here just a criminal admin fleecing you without even shame enough to try to hide it well.
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