Well cultural habits are slow to change. I suspect it would take some 20 years to change the dynamics such than women are always expected to make the first move.

Bumble was well positioned to push for that change, unfortunately earning revenue has a priority, they are are a business after all. Still their gimmick got the ball rolling, we’ll see who picks it up next.

Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.

khm, khm
let gender

please don’t use deprecated syntax

Gender is a pointer

If making good software was their goal they wouldn’t be in the situation where software engineers are replaceable with AI.

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don’t think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.

They weren’t before? Instagram was running political ads since at least 2017. It went under the radar because it wasn’t in the US, and nobody cares about content not in English.

Every company’s lineup these days:

Pro > Pro Max > Pro Max Ultra > Pro Max Ultra Black Edition

Better headline: Dell kills all brands

Given that Dell has lost most of it’s old reputation in the last couple of years, not surprising that radical moves were taken. Trying to navigate Dells product range was a quick way to get a headache.

Lemmy may be free to access, but certainly not free to host. Am I paying for it personally? No, but someone is.

Kind reminder to donate to whoever is hosting your instance. Covering a share of costs increases the chances they will continue running it.

Ah, the myth of infinite growth again. I guess the majority of Chinese people have a smartphone by now, why would they constantly buy new ones

This one is especially harmless

the last recorded instance of an MP taking snuff was in 1989, when 1.5 ounces (43 g) was taken at a cost of 99p

I don’t know how it could get any worse than now. Basically we’re all in echo chambers whichever platform you use. Including Lemmy.

Agreement with “consensus” of whatever bucket you’re placed into is rewarded, and disagreement is punished. Even if only by upvote/downvote. Switching platforms won’t change much.

If someone really does nothing, it’s really obvious. You don’t need statistical analysis to determine who it is, just ask their teammates. Developers don’t work in isolation. Actually, it’s a very collaborative job where you’re in constant interaction with other people. If someone doesn’t contribute their fair share, it’s going to be obvious very quickly.

The problem is often a lack of mechanism to act on it. Sure everyone might complain about a coworker, but once a person is hired they become just a number and management doesn’t typically care about individual performance, only that all the spots in the org chart are filled.

At some point the growth can only follow fertility rates from 10-15 years before.

Chat GPT is wonderful as a search engine for SO. It regurgitates the answers in a format easier to incorporate into your own project.

The thing I’m worried about is a lack of new answers. You need data to train an LLM, what to do if nobody is producing it?

Makes sense from manufacturing and business perspective to refresh your offer every year. It doesn’t have to be a huge improvement, but technology slowly advances, there might be a better or cheaper manufacture for some components, etc.

On the other hand there no reason for any individual to be buying a new phone so often. Software support must be a thing - there’s no reason for a phone to become obsolete after 2 years because of the software. It’s a computer, you can update the OS almost indefinitely.

The only thing changed between photos is clothing and pose. Is that gender? Well maybe it is, but it’s useless for classification.

It’s good to have competition. Dropbox has to rethink their plan if they want to keep existing

It’s such a harmful aspect of American culture not just in this case - they treat White and Black people as fundamentally different and separate, and each must have it’s own kind of healthcare.