Ash Davies 🇩🇪 🏴
@ashdavies.dev
Google Developer Expert for Android, failed blogger, public speaker, maker (and breaker) of shiny things. Kotlin aficionado, Multiplatform manipulator, prolific facilitator of cute cat photographs, spends more time travelling than working (he/him).
I had the same answer when my doctor asked me if I knew what might be causing my back pain
Anna E. Cook@annaecook.com · 2d agoI was filling out a new patient form and accidentally submitted it with only this in the “Please list current stressors in your life” input Meant to add more but you know what I think this captures it well enough
Two people are walking down the street when they see a billboard that says "The AI singularity is on the horizon!" One turns to the other and asks, what's a horizon? The other one answers: it's an imaginary line that moves away as quickly as you can approach it.
If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo agoFunny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974
Gemini really needs to add some more idioms to its repertoire, I'm kind of getting tired of it having found the "smoking gun"
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
Something big might happen to the Kotlin Multiplatform Ecosystem 👀 We were never too happy about how Kotlin publishes and resolves KMP libraries. It takes up significantly more space than it has to, produces a ton of artifacts and Maven modules, and is just... complex!
Breaking: Eric, who along with his father, was caught stealing money from his foundation for kids with cancer, has released his new book.
"How do Germans cope with having Nazi grandparents?" Probably the same way they cope with having neo-nazi grand-children www.dw.com/en/how-do-ge...
How do Germans cope with having Nazi grandparents?
Since millions of NSDAP membership cards have been made available online, many Germans have been surprised to discover that their ancestors weren't always as innocent as family stories had led them to...
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I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.
Despite my distaste of AI, I must still test and play with the limits of this tool, the hallucinations are just beyond comprehension, does anybody recognise this? I obviously don't speak the language #AntiGravity #GeminiFlash
It was never about productivity, sometimes side projects were just about the love of coding
Haven't really shared this publicly, I lost my mum earlier this year, biological father left before I was born, so she was my only parent, it hit really fucking hard, not fishing for sympathy, just it changes how you see the world, I'm trying to be more careful about where I spend my fucks.
“It's entirely possible to build cities for people instead of cars. This square in Malmö was just a parking lot not too long ago.”
Kristina Lindquist@syrran.bsky.social · last mo.Det är fullt möjligt att bygga städer för människor istf bilar. Det här torget i Malmö var ganska nyss en parkeringsplats:
Once again for the people at the back: Housing is a human right. www.berlin.de/en/news/1046...
Berlin is building 3,000 new apartments for state employees
The difficulty in finding housing is considered a serious obstacle to filling job openings at the State of Berlin. The Senate hopes to alleviate the problem by providing new employee housing.
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Some useful information about memory management on Android #Android #GoogleIOConnect #BuildWithGemini
How do I disable Android Studio's "Tab to Accept" stupidity?
"Also: your job might no longer offer what attracted you to this line of work. If you loved to write code meticulously by hand – instead of asking a chatbot to write the code for you – you’re probably not super stoked about this movement." Hammer, meet nail 🤝.
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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More AI responses!? Really? That's exactly what the Play Store needs... 🤦♂️
The Uuid type in the standard library is now stable with Kotlin 2.4! Work with v4 and v7 UUIDs, easily, with multiplatform support. I made this overview video when the type was first introduced: www.youtube.com/watc... And then more API updates in 2.3: youtu.be/_6PSSkqwbp8...
UUID in Kotlin Multiplatform
UUID reference documentation https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlin.uuid/-uuid/ UUID KEEP discussion https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/382 Kotlin 2.0.20 release notes https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew2020.html#support-for-uuids-in-the-common-kotlin-standard-library 0:00 Intro
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Imagine laying off employees because you believe AI can do their jobs only for AI vendors to raise their prices. 😭 And that’s before you find out that AI actually cannot do their jobs.
