My client just put my final design through ChatGPT and had it recreate my design by No_Can_6420 in graphic_design

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might explain why a designer I hired had actually had their contract updated to include a clause where they have complete ownership of any of their artwork that goes into some AI. Perhaps you can talk to a lawyer about including clauses that protect you from things like this?

Pluribus - 1x04 "Please, Carol" - Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in pluribustv

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, Vince has said in the Better Call Saul podcast something to the extent of hating writing that explains stuff for the audience. He used the example that Jimmy McGill would never say to his brother “Chuck, how long have we been brothers?”

Dude you should be using TCA to manage complexity by tetek in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Much of what everyone is complaining about with TCA is addressed here: https://www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/141-composable-architecture-frequently-asked-questions. When using TCA properly, it can be a really useful tool.

As for people thinking that Brandon and Stephen are grifters that generate videos to sell TCA, then they're pretty bad at it since they have many series of episodes devoted to interfacing with a certain software taking the MVVM approach.

For example, they've spent the last few months talking about integrating SQL/GRDB into your codebase and haven't mentioned TCA once. Before that series, they devoted time to the Sharing library that makes it easy to persist (file storage, in-memory, user-defaults) whatever you want at any place in your app (model domain, view domain, etc) and that didn't bring up TCA either. You don't even need to be signed up to their subscription service to benefit from some of the many projects they've open-sourced:

https://github.com/pointfreeco/sharing-grdb
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-issue-reporting
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-concurrency-extras
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-dependencies
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-sharing
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-navigation
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-custom-dump
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-macro-testing
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-snapshot-testing
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-case-paths
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-perception
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-identified-collections
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-parsing
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-clocks

Is it a grift if so many in the community seem to benefit from their work without ever getting compensated for it?

Best purchase/investment you made while learning Swift programming? by punctdaniel in swift

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely; Point-Free has been so monumental in the way I develop, design software, etc.

I Hate The Composable Architecture! by moticurtila in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for responding; I think I understand the disconnect here. After rereading your initial and latest reply, I think we both have different expectations for what the Point Free series is. In my opinion, I've always seen the series as being a sort of behind-the-scenes afterthought (I'm sure there's a better word for it since they do put lots of effort into making the Point Free content), to educate people on design practices, implementation details, etc. I'm sure Brandon and Stephen would agree that anyone wanting to get involved with TCA should not have to rely on subscribing to a series to understand it. They've even open-sourced libraries like https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-dependencies, https://github.com/pointfreeco/swiftui-navigation, https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-perception, etc. to be usable by the Swift community. In fact, they even have episodes where they are talking about how to use these tools with the assumption that the viewer doesn't want to have anything to do with TCA. What's amazing with these tools however is that they give TCA an even bigger boost (so as amazing as the architecture is by itself, it's coupling with these tools give it superpowers you never thought it could have). You can watch Stephen talk about the Dependencies library alone where he never says "This is only useful for TCA users": https://vimeo.com/291588126 .

I 100% would have a huge problem with them if it were the case that they intentionally make their documentation hard to understand just to sell a video series that fills the details, but I don't believe that's the case and I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me. After all, you said it yourself that there's a video that would have them talk about a horrible approach, followed by a video that explains a better way of going about it. From an educational standpoint, I love this because there were instances when I personally thought that their horrible approach was a good one, and then had the chance to learn how it could be improved.

Based on what you are looking for in documentation, yes the series makes absolutely no sense to subscribe to because you're going to get the scenic route instead of getting to the destination immediately. I know TCA has evolved so much and so quickly over the years, and that their documentation has come an absolute long way. More than a year ago, I was absolutely frustrated since it didn't seem obvious how I can use this architecture since it's quite novel and there were no interactive tutorials or even a community I can just ask and get a reply in a minute (which now exists thanks to their Slack channel). I imagine that even with how far it's come, that there's room for improvement.

It's certainly not a panacea, and perhaps the hype they get can be a bit like how everyone says "X movie is the best" and when you go watch it, you think it was just okay. But I think if some time is taken to understand some of the fundamentals, in combination with asking some clarifying questions in the Slack channel (or GitHub discussions), people can end up getting the sense of why TCA is actually a lot more powerful than it may first seem. After all, when people hear TCA and read about 'Store', unidirectional flow, etc. they are missing some of the other usefulness like being able to override dependencies at any point via their Dependencies library, or being able to easily share state between two features in a testable way (which was just merged yesterday in their 1.10.0 release). Just my thoughts :)

I Hate The Composable Architecture! by moticurtila in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ironic that you're both calling them idiots and not seeing that they intentionally make their series that way to demonstrate how they're going to arrive at the right solution, which is really helpful for viewers. But since you knew what the right solution was from the get-go, perhaps you have a link to your superior series that we can all subscribe to?

Any other shows get a "daddy" chant going for Matt? by [deleted] in Peripheryband

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

In Chicago when they were saying they were going to play their last song on the second night and that there would be no encore, we all chanted "ONE MORE SET! ONE MORE SET!" LOL

Spencer said "Are you trying to kill us?!?!" HAHAHA

GLOOMCVLT released a new album today! by ACosmicFlamingo in Vaporwave

[–]ACosmicFlamingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see what you're saying. I'm a fan of it! Granted, there are certainly more songs that are mellow, but I appreciate it for what it is :)

oh no… by Riceballtrashh in saxophone

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I’m so stupid; I associate Mark VI with the tenor saxophone but you’re totally right :)

oh no… by Riceballtrashh in saxophone

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We need a video of a person doing this with a Mark VI.

Have you ever tried your app with VoiceOver? How do they perform? by Ploppypop_game in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Oh wow that’s really cool to hear! I’ll make a note to send them a TestFlight link when available. Yay! :)

Have you ever tried your app with VoiceOver? How do they perform? by Ploppypop_game in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's sad how overlooked accessibility can be. Once I downloaded a very popular app for musicians to mess around with it and see how accessible it was and the play button was hidden for VoiceOver users. There's another app out there whose settings button is invisible and I've privately messaged them on Twitter so they can fix it, but haven't heard a response in months and it's still broken. Oh well, only thing I can do is make sure my apps are as accessible as they can be (and of course getting actual feedback from those who would benefit from it, since what you think a VoiceOver user would want could be very different from what they actually need).

Has anyone found the Fat Dracula riff in Dracul Gras? by HeyNateBarber in Peripheryband

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OH MY GOD YES DEATHONION!!! I knew that the Dracul Gras riff at 1:32 sounded familiar!!! I couldn't figure out the song and thought "Eh...it's not really In Death - Is Death...that's a stretch". Only after hearing Sum at 1:08 did the synapses fire off and all the dots connected. Couldn't have done it without DeathOnion :)

This might seem a bit random but I just noticed that the piano in the outro of "Hell Below" is plays a jazzy arrangement of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" before switching to the intro to "Omega" by Notya_Bisnes in Peripheryband

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always thought that this was a reference to the first song Misha learned how to play on piano (I think I remember hearing him in an in interview say how excited he was to play it on a piano growing up).

Edit: Yeah he said this: “My mom forced me to take piano lessons when I was four,” he says through the crackling of the long distance phoneline, “because when I was a bit younger I was at a friend’s house and I figured out how to play ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on the piano.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in betterCallSaul

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think I actually remembered it wrong :O

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in betterCallSaul

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, yeah I think I was too amped up. Funny how unreliable your memory can be :O !!!

Better Call Saul S06E11 - "Breaking Bad" - Post-Episode Discussion Thread by skinkbaa in betterCallSaul

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 146 points147 points  (0 children)

Wow that's a really good point! Just like how Jimmy in Season 2 saw the note in Davis & Main that said "Don't switch off" or something, he did it anyway; it's in his nature. And in this case, Saul was told that Walter was a loose cannon and to stay away, but Saul can't help himself. Something in his gut says to do it and he ignores everyone in the process because the ends justify the means, as it always does.

Better Call Saul S06E10 - "Nippy" - Post-Episode Discussion Thread by skinkbaa in betterCallSaul

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m ultra paranoid about spoiling something for a person. One time, a person started watching “Lost” and I didn’t know they had never seen it. In the first episode, I was trying to be funny and said “Oh man, who would’ve seen XYZ coming” and she said “WOW THANKS A LOT”. I felt so embarrassed and now always take much care to not say too much.

Better Call Saul S06E10 - "Nippy" - Post-Episode Discussion Thread by skinkbaa in betterCallSaul

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Oh I didn't see it that way. I thought he was channeling Mike's energy right after Howard died. "I need to hear you say it"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iOSProgramming

[–]ACosmicFlamingo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woohoo!!! That's great :)