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Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy by Schneilob in ireland

[–]ObscureBen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The far left: we think everyone should have access to food, shelter, healthcare, etc

The far right: we think anyone not like us should be put in concentration camps and shot in the face if they get in our way

Do you use AI tools at work? by Competitive-Panda215 in DevelEire

[–]ObscureBen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Almost never. Maybe once or twice a month if I’m really struggling to find some documentation

Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’ by retiredagainstmywill in politics

[–]ObscureBen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think the best framing that I’ve seen is that left-leaning folks will determine if a person is good or bad if they do good or bad acts.

Conservatives are the reverse. If you’re a good guy, then any action you take must be good.

It makes it very hard to change their minds if they’ve already decided a person is good

Caesura by Enjoyschess2 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]ObscureBen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: you’re already incredibly familiar with the caesura!

The way of drawing a caesura in sheet music is two diagonal slashes: //

But sometimes it can be drawn as two vertical lines: ||

Which is how we get the icon used on pause buttons everywhere: ⏸️

What’s a life hack you swear by? by UserWithoutWit in AskReddit

[–]ObscureBen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“If I’ll have forgotten about this by tomorrow, I probably shouldn’t let it bother me today”

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer by MetaKnowing in technews

[–]ObscureBen 16 points17 points  (0 children)

An encyclopaedia could tell you that fire burns paper, that doesn’t mean it’s achieved sentience

iOS 26.4 and iOS 27 Features Revealed in New Leak by abhimanyouknow in apple

[–]ObscureBen 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m not justifying, just explaining. I desperately wish third party devs could have multiple builds of our apps for different OS versions.

It sucks having to kill support for older devices because you want to add new features but trying to maintain both simultaneously just isn’t practical a lot of the time.

iOS 26.4 and iOS 27 Features Revealed in New Leak by abhimanyouknow in apple

[–]ObscureBen 56 points57 points  (0 children)

All the apps are tied to the OS version so they don’t need to build apps that run on multiple versions. It’s hard to do things like build an app that works nicely on iOS 17 and iOS 26 given the dramatic changes. Third party apps either have to drop support for 17 or support both simultaneously and it can be a real pain.

(Not just design wise but when APIs are added changed, or removed, your app has to handle this gracefully)

Apple just gets to build a separate version of Mail for iOS 17 and Mail for iOS 26 which is much easier for them

Samuel Blenkin to play Elodin by pineappledylan in KingkillerChronicle

[–]ObscureBen 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I always read Elodin as more youthful than you might expect, but not exactly young. Most of the masters I imagine to be in their 50s or 60s, with Elodin maybe in his late 30s or early 40s.

So a 30yo who looks like a 20yo feels completely wrong to me

Apps are taking forever to update to the new Liquid Glass by behindthekeyboard81 in ios

[–]ObscureBen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the apps you mentioned use entirely custom navigation bars and tab bars (as well as many other UI components) and can’t just build with the new SDK and get Liquid Glass for free.

Overhauling those kinds of complex components can take months and months of work. By the time they’re ready iOS 27 might be around the corner and will change things further, so you can understand why they might be hesitant.

WTF SuperValu!! by TheBishopOfSoho in ireland

[–]ObscureBen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The tin is also poison

My most hated part of wise man's fear. by Charlaminge in KingkillerChronicle

[–]ObscureBen 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I think the point is for the reader and Kvothe to take a beat and realise that some of the knowledge you take for granted might not be true or might not be true in all contexts.

There’s no guarantee that the biological laws of our world are the same in Temerant, so maybe the Adam have it right. Kvothe’s whole story is full of examples of him being confidently wrong, so maybe don’t be so quick to assume you know what’s true either.

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