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Mario Arias

@dh44t

Christian, Kotlin expert, Open source contributor, BJJ Blue Belt, Cyclist

Singapore Katılım Nisan 2009
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Will McGugan@willmcgugan·
I think its about time I drop Python3.8 support in Rich. EOL was 2024-10-07 Do you think anyone will complain?
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James Gurney
James Gurney@GurneyJourney·
Thanks for talking about this old painting I did in 1982, more than 40 years ago, before any of us had desktop computers, laptops, cellphones, or any digital options. All I had was a fire-burned memory of seeing Blade Runner, a piece of board, and a drawer full of gouache paints.
Wetterschneider@Stretchedwiener

I don't know this artist but this image is a great example of how to tell when something is or isn't AI generated, because finger weirdness will not always be around. What jumps out in this image that makes it feel (because it is) human made? cont...

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staysaasy
staysaasy@staysaasy·
Ok I finally replaced meaningful piece of enterprise SaaS with a build internally solution. We had this software we bought for like $100k and it was just so dumb. We used it once a quarter and someone on my team said they could one shot it. Go for it I said. And they came back a week later with 90% of the functionality. Internal users started trying is out and they actually liked it BETTER than the billion dollar company version. We cancelled our renewal the week later. Their AE offered to bring us to a fancy dinner to reconsider and I couldn’t even bring myself to get a free dinner because there was no chance. But also couldn’t take him up on the offer because this is totally made up, nobody running a real business is replacing anything with DIY software unless they’ve completely run out of other ways to advance their business or are being bullied by rogue engineering leaders looking for promotion projects before they apply to a frontier lab.
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Mario Arias
Mario Arias@dh44t·
@JustDeezGuy I remember that by the late 00s, a lot of voices were critical of Agile development. Complete silence now
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Paul Snively
Paul Snively@JustDeezGuy·
Agile development was invented by dynamic typing enthusiasts, to have its limitations (small teams, small codebases, OCD-level example-based unit tests as a Greenspunned type system) elevated to “principles” and insist upon themselves.
Rick@rickasaurus

Spicy take

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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen·
I don't think it is as big of a deal as people are making it. Hype is annoying, anthropic please just IPO already.
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MAR♱YR
MAR♱YR@MinisterMartyr·
Its really sad i have to do yet another post explaining how people don't even know pagan religions or myths... First, Osiris as the "original reincarnated god" and template for Jesus. Yeah, Osiris gets killed by Set, chopped into pieces, and Isis magically puts him back together so he can rule the underworld. It's an ancient myth about death, fertility (tied to the Nile floods), and the afterlife. But calling it a direct blueprint for Jesus' resurrection? Scholars who study this stuff point out the differences are huge. Osiris doesn't come back to earthly life in a bodily, witnessed way like the Gospels describe, he's a mummified king of the dead. No crucifixion, no empty tomb with witnesses, no "defeating death for everyone." Christianity grew straight out of 1st-century Judaism (Passover timing and all), not Egyptian paganism. These "Jesus copied Osiris" ideas pop up in memes and documentaries, but mainstream historians and Egyptologists treat them as overstated parallels at best. The word "Easter" literally meaning rebirth from "East"? Nah. In English (and German Ostern), it comes from Old English Ēastre or a possible Anglo-Saxon spring goddess Ostara, tied to "dawn" or "east" in a Germanic pagan sense. The Venerable Bede mentioned it back in the 8th century. But in basically every other language? It's Pascha or similar, straight from the Hebrew Passover. Early Christians didn't "inherit" the name from Egyptians, they adapted local spring festival names in Germanic areas while keeping the core as the resurrection celebration. No ancient Egyptian texts call anything "EASTer" for rebirth. Easter Bunny from Unut, the rabbit-headed goddess who "assisted in the resurrection of Osiris"? Unut (or Wenut/Wenet) was a real, pretty obscure Egyptian goddess—often shown with a hare head, linked to swiftness, fertility, and the 15th nome (Hermopolis area). Hares symbolized new life or "opening" the year in some contexts. But she wasn't a big player in the Osiris story. Isis and Nephthys are the ones doing the heavy lifting there. No ancient records have Unut showing up to help resurrect Osiris. The Easter Bunny actually traces to European folklore, probably tied to that same Eostre/Ostara hare as a spring fertility symbol (eggs + rabbits = obvious new life vibes). This Unut connection feels like modern retrofitting. Easter eggs from the Egyptian cosmic egg, buried with the dead? There's a Hermopolitan creation myth with a cosmic egg from the Ogdoad gods (the primordial eight), and eggs could symbolize rebirth in Egyptian thought. Cool symbol, sure. But "easter" eggs; They show up in Christian traditions (like Orthodox red eggs for Christ's blood) and other spring cultures way later. People weren't just copying Nile Valley burial practices into chocolate eggs and garden hunts. Eggs as new life symbols are pretty universal across cultures not a secret Egyptian import. Lent = 40 days because Isis searched 40 days for Osiris' 14 pieces? This one's straight-up not in the myths. The classic Osiris story (from Plutarch and Egyptian texts) has Isis and Nephthys hunting the pieces with no specific "40 days" timeline mentioned. The 40 days in Lent comes from the Bible; Jesus fasting 40 days in the wilderness, echoing older Jewish numbers like the flood or Moses' time on the mountain. The number 40 pops up as sacred in lots of ancient cultures; it's not uniquely Egyptian here. The timing (first Sunday after spring equinox) stolen from Egyptian solar reincarnation? Easter's date was set at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to follow the Jewish Passover (first full moon after vernal equinox), then the next Sunday. Spring equinox mattered for renewal in tons of cultures, including Egyptians (they had spring festivals like Sham el-Nessim with eggs and outdoorsy vibes). But Christian Easter didn't "inherit" it as solar deity day, it's tied to the lunar Jewish calendar that Jesus' Last Supper followed. Speak from knowledge; not ignorance
🧬Maxpein🧬@maximumpain333

THE REAL ORIGIN OF EASTER Easter was stolen. Let me explain. Thousands of years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Osiris was murdered, resurrected, and proclaimed to have risen in the East. He is the original reincarnated god. The template was set long before Christianity adopted it. The word Easter itself is the giveaway. The ancients understood that the East means birth and the West means death. The rising and setting sun made this clear. EASTer literally means rebirth. This was never hidden. It was simply no longer taught. The Easter Bunny? That’s Unut, an Egyptian goddess of rebirth depicted with a rabbit head. She assisted in the resurrection of Osiris. The bunny didn’t come from a chocolate factory. It came from the Nile. The Easter egg? The Egyptians believed creation itself began with a cosmic egg. Eggs symbolised resurrection so powerfully that they were buried with the dead as offerings for the afterlife. Thousands of years later, you are hiding them in your garden and nobody is asking why. Lent lasts 40 days. Osiris was dismembered into 14 pieces scattered across Egypt, and Isis spent 40 days searching and reassembling him before the resurrection. The number 40 was sacred in Egyptian ritual long before it became Christian fasting. And the timing? Easter falls on the first Sunday after the spring equinox. The exact moment day length overtakes night for the first time since winter. To the Egyptians, this was the sun’s reincarnation. Its eternal victory over darkness, playing out in the sky for all to witness. Christianity did not invent the timing. It inherited it. Here is the summary they do not teach in Sunday school: 🥚 Osiris, resurrected god, predates Jesus by millennia 🥚 Unut, rabbit headed goddess of rebirth, present at the resurrection 🥚 Cosmic egg, Egyptian creation symbol, now made of chocolate 🥚 East, the direction of rebirth, now the name of the holiday 🥚 40 days, Isis searching for Osiris, now called Lent 🥚 Sunday, the Sun’s day, chosen for solar deity resurrection 🥚 Spring equinox, the day light defeated darkness, now Easter weekend The myths did not disappear. They were rebranded. Blissings to Unut. Happy Easter.

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Alastair Thomson
Alastair Thomson@FinanceDirCFO·
I wish someone would do the maths. It's simply impossible to do all the things AI folk claim they'll do by taxing them a little bit more. This is just an attempt to sidestep the regulations this sector desperately needs. More PR fluff from a profoundly untrustworthy sector...
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets

🦔OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a 13-page policy blueprint today proposing a new social contract for the AI era. The proposals include a public wealth fund giving every American a stake in AI-driven growth, taxes on automated labor, a four-day workweek pilot, and automatic safety net triggers that kick in when AI displacement hits preset thresholds. Altman told Axios superintelligence is close enough that capitalism as currently structured won't be adequate to handle what's coming. My Take I've spent months covering what this transition actually looks like for regular people. Oracle sending 30,000 termination emails at 6am. Microsoft freezing hiring in its core business. New graduates unable to find entry level jobs. Private credit cracking under software company debt. Companies using AI as cover to cut the people who built their products. Now the CEO of the company driving a lot of this is publishing a policy paper saying the disruption is so serious it needs a New Deal scale response. He is not wrong about the scale. But OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round just last week at an $852 billion valuation while losing billions annually. He is racing to build the thing, raising record amounts to do it faster, and asking government to protect the people his technology is displacing. The proposals themselves deserve serious debate because the alternative is nobody in power discussing this at all. But the people writing the blueprint are not the people losing the jobs, and that distance is important when you're deciding how much weight to give the solutions being proposed. Hedgie🤗

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Jade Cole
Jade Cole@JadeCole2112·
Dude you are RIDICULOUS.
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The Goddamned Penguin
The Goddamned Penguin@who_shot_jgr·
writing an e-mail and getting a prompt from AI "this sentence could be more concise" no. i am verbose. i am loquacious. i am long-winded and often redundant even. you machine, do not tell me how to form my words
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Mario Arias@dh44t·
@GaryMarcus A big microslop client in Singapore isn't happy about its Copilot adoption among engineers
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First time that I've seen people sharing Easter messages on LinkedIn
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