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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Kotlin Multiplatform is just a system that allows code to be shared between target platforms.

    JVM is a target platform, meaning that once your application is compiled, it can run in a JVM.

    Kotlin/Native is another target platform, meaning that once the application is compiled, it runs natively rather than through something like a VM.

    Kotlin Multiplatform is not a target platform, it just makes code sharing easier.


  • From the California Legislature’s document site:

    This bill would enact the Right to Repair Act. The bill would require, except as specified and regardless of whether any express warranty is made, the manufacturer of an above-described electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances, and in those same circumstances but sold to others outside of direct retail sales, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, to product owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, the means, as described, to effect the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the product, as provided. The bill would also require a service and repair facility or service dealer that is not an authorized repair provider, as defined, of a manufacturer to provide a written notice of that fact to any customer seeking repair of an electronic or appliance product before the repair facility or service dealer repairs the product, and to disclose if it uses replacement parts that are used or from a supplier that is not the manufacturer.

    SB 244 has been around since the start of this year, at least officially.

    If anyone is interested in seeing how legislation changes over time, I implore you to look at this service; I would go as far as to say that educational instruction would be aided by directing students here.

    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB244

    There is a lot of content in here but becoming accustomed to reading the text of legislation allows you to be more independent from mass media.



  • Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.

    Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

    The jet, which was flying from the capital to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

    They probably don’t mind losing the crew and Piggy might have been the target (assuming this was intentional) but who else got disappeared along with him?


  • Speaking with FedScoop, the officials expressed concern that USDS, led by Mina Hsiang, and GSA, led by Robin Carnahan, in the past year have focused on small, niche projects while deprioritizing big ticket items like redesigning government websites, setting tech policy standards and improving agency branding. One such niche project, cited by two officials, was a public benefits studio run by GSA’s Technology Transformation Services team, which is a pilot text notification system.

    It sounds like too much progress is being made for the sake of progress.

    We should be hearing about budget concerns rather than these agencies focusing on non-priotity issues.

    I don’t want to start saying that these agencies are bloated or are set up in a way to benefit political partners without any work being done but it seems that way.

    Perhaps it would be better to get people with real passion into the rosters rather than people interested in entertaining the public.






  • My wife was taking it for a while and it impacted her life in a negative manner.

    She felt more anxious, restless, and depressed.

    This was confusing for her and since reuptake inhibitors are new to her, she didn’t put the two together.

    I recommended to her that she should bring these symptoms up to her physician and explain that the severity is likely a result of her taking this medication, specifically because it had already been several weeks into the prescription.

    She came back and said her physician said that not every medication for specific mental issues work for every person’s situation and that a different medication may be better; I was expecting this but I don’t have any formal medical background so I’m glad something I’ve learned was of use.

    I’m sorry that this isn’t a positive experience like you were hoping for and I’m sure you’ve spoken to your physician at great length but just for the odd chance that you haven’t brought these feelings up with them, please do.

    Edit: I should also note that my wife and I suspect she may have ASD to some degree as well but it has not been diagnosed.


  • I’ve always preferred CSS preprocessing with tools like SASS over frameworks like Tailwind.

    They work extremely well with JS frameworks like React since they’re both pretty much just syntactic upgrades of existing systems rather than an obfuscation of systems that abuse modularity.

    That being said, CSS frameworks are still wonderful, used right they can save a lot of time during early development by outsourcing the majority of design to the framework devs.