phutatorius
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- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 21 hours ago:
They try pushing a warable onto me, and I’ll insert it in them.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 21 hours ago:
Pass a law that protects wearable health data under HIPAA and I’d consider it.
And then the next bunch of fascists come in and seize all that data. Or the TLAs do it covertly.
We need strong data protection laws, but we also need strong technical measures to prevent intrusion.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 days ago:
Design that is in the interest of someone other than the user, intended to coerce or trick the user into behaviors that benefit that non-user at the user’s expense.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 days ago:
an alien fish dildo
That sounds intriguing.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 days ago:
That would make sense if evolution had a direction. But evolution can favor less complexity just as well as more: it depends on the selective pressures it’s under. “Fittest” is not necessarily “best.”
This applies metaphorically to marketed products as well as literally to biologiccal systems. It’s not inevitable that the marketplace will deliver progress. You might never get that invisible handjob.
- Comment on Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider 5 days ago:
Well, fuck a duck.
- Comment on What Happens If an Asteroid Heads for Earth? 1 week ago:
It’ll be disappointed when it gets here.
- Comment on The female TikTokers silenced through murder 1 week ago:
This is a tough one for me: I’m opposed to femicide, but I only wish the absolute worst on influencers.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 2 weeks ago:
IF bribe_received: return (“Approved”)
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Fairest damsel in the leper colony.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
We use Python on the back end of a public-facing website with massive levels of traffic. There are some maintainability issues due to the dynamic nature of the language, duck typing can be tricky for similar reasons, but as long as devs are sensible and test things rigorously, performance is fine, and I’m reasonably sure we’re operating at a scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than all Lemmy instances combined. Also, it’s a mature, concise language with excellent libraries, so most non-exotic requirements can be met without too much difficulty.
People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.
They don’t know why. I supect it’s because nothing works right if you do it wrong.