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Android Engineer at Reddit. I take photos sometimes. Georgian Bay, ON. https://adambennett.dev/

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Two hours after sunrise and the sun is still orange due to wildfire smoke. Who said the end of the world isn't pretty

03.08.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think a part of the reason why this works is many of the books featured are quite self-help-y, and those tend to be very long on anecdotes and light on actual substance. It's quite nice to have them be condensed into something succinct.

For other types of books it's a bad idea.

22.07.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not really surprising. Yeah, it might get you 80% of the way there, but we all know that reading someone else's code and finding the issues takes much, much longer than just building it ourselves. It tracks that the last 20% takes longer than expected.

11.07.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI | CBC News A series of AI-generated videos that show a white man complaining about how difficult it is to get a job in Canada have been taken down by TikTok, following inquiries made by theΒ CBC News Visual Inves...

I hope Google are pleased with themselves - the technology to do this does not need to exist and is only going to be used to create 1) derivative junk and 2) misinformation www.cbc.ca/news/ai-gene...

09.07.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Burning down the rainforest for a single sentence which could be trivially gleaned by reading a graph

07.07.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When your beautifully designed piece of software collides with telemetry requirements

27.06.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wild to revisit System Of A Down in 2025 and realise 1) they were absolutely spot on, and 2) things have only gotten much, much worse.

Also bonkers that their drummer turned into a MAGA tankie

27.06.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen a loooot of social media about the Fujifilm X Half but I've not seen a single decent photo taken by one yet.

As much as I love the idea of the camera I think it's a miss overall

23.06.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol, America

22.06.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Judging by the setlist and the production we are in for a fucking treat in August lfgggggggggg

16.06.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah but at least your autofocus works now πŸ˜‚

13.06.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! Fujifilm X-T5 + all but two of these were on the XF 35mm F1.4

13.06.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow that's quite a relocation πŸ˜‚ brutal

13.06.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reddit Expands Midwest Presence with First Chicago Office - Upvoted After a strong entrance into the Chicago market in April 2018, we are thrilled to celebrate the opening of our first Chicago office in the historic Merchan

That's our office :) redditinc.com/blog/reddit-...

13.06.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some of my favourite snaps from a week in Chicago

13.06.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I bet Google's design team have been having a jolly good laugh today

09.06.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot stop laughing

05.06.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

05.06.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 44713    πŸ” 9783    πŸ’¬ 527    πŸ“Œ 553

I have never known peace like taking an edible and paddling through mirror-like water in the evening sun with my fiancΓ©e. A+++ life experience

03.06.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Summer is FINALLY here in Ontario and we're going paddleboarding this evening and I can't wait

03.06.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interfaces are your best friend. Put wrappers around third party code, especially for data requests. It will be an immense help for testing and for changing data sources over time.

28.05.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When the day's rise in your company's stock is offset by the fall in the value of USD

23.05.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Union types coming to Kotlin is sweeeeeet

22.05.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really really like the idea of the Fujifilm X Half, but that price is brutal. Nice to see them experimenting though.

22.05.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have to say I'm digging Material 3 Expressive, it's nice to see a bit of playfulness in our UIs and a bit of a refresh of Android feels good.

21.05.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Enter the code sent to your phone to securely use your saved information."

Phone buzzes.

Me, a stupid person: ooh a text

20.05.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3 Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

20.05.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9

What do you reckon that 50x increase in Gemini token usage costs us in terms of energy?

20.05.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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