DrewADesign

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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
You’re essentially just repeating the point I was responding to.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
You can’t make those funding generalizations because the end amount that schools spend on students is defined locally. I just looked in the Massachusetts school funding database. The town I’m not going to out myself as having attended spent
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
> Also, why ask this here, and not simply use Google or an LLM to find the information? It comes off as a bit lazy You gave a good answer: why SO the thread? Conversation is the goal here, right? If you’re feeling put out by the question
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Sounds like that leader should fire his agent.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
You are dramatically mistaken about the funding and education quality for low-income school districts. You might find some with good sports facilities, probably from a grant from an outside organization or local college, but anything relate
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Unfortunately, as soon as they can’t find work, everybody interested in the more easily automated dev work will suddenly become very interested in up-skilling into all other kinds of dev work. So then you have an excess supply, which mean
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
“include common grammatical imperfections and awkwardness common in casual message board interactions.” I’m not saying that’s what’s happening here, but a high school student told me that’s basically what they do to make papers not sound li
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
That doesn’t mean their schools aren’t better. Money isn’t the only reason having a thoughtful, rigorous and well-constructed education is important.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Someone I used to work with left to start a business selling “phone booths“ for private mobile phone conversations in public. I believe they’re called Private Talking Spaces. Not sure if he’s still doing it. I thought it was a good idea but
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
If Manus was as common a word as Duck, it would read pretty differently.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
As a teenager that hated being at specific places at specific times, it was often an annoying problem for me. The second I realized I could get a cheap pager, I did so without hesitation.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I don’t actually care about this flash-in-the-pan company, but the name Manus is the reason startups should have a branding designer or branding agency do branding work before they’re too recognizable to change without throwing people off
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
“Well it’s not technically plagiarism because ChatGPT learned how to draw just like a human and who am I to stop it from being inspired by the Blender logo! Just don’t you dare imply that I am not the sole author of this work because that
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
I don’t think most people under 40 can wrap their head around what it was like to need to be home or at work for someone to reach you, which required a phone call. And you couldn’t make a phone call unless you were at home or work, or sto
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Nice to have: - graduate degree in ethics from an obscure diploma mill Strongly Preferred: - Experience in PR - Crisis Management - Public Speaking - Agentic management of *flexible ethics initiatives* All Candi
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
And I’ll bet someone made a comment exactly like yours here, a couple of years ago… and guess what definitely didn’t happen?
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
So, if they got ahead of us by whatever arbitrary measure someone pretends is objective, then suddenly our stuff… what… stops working? Does it say somewhere in the big book of AI rules that the first entity to beat the US AI companies would
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Classic letterpress type is lead, antimony and tin, but I don’t know if the so-called hot lead machines used that particular alloy. People usually just call it all “lead type” though.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
If that is the case, I seriously doubt the blame would ever touch the people that oversold this shit.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
It wasn’t even all that long ago. I noticed around the time ChatGPT 3.5 was released I saw a significant change in tone regarding LLMs and diffusion models. I think that’s when some serious astroturfing started. I’m old enough that I worked
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
But the problem with LLMs is that they get the facts wrong. PhDs are PhDs because they’d look it up in an authoritative source, or actually find out through research and experimentation. The whole point is that facts aren’t a matter of op
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
The fact that some people get genuine value from LLMs when learning doesn’t contradict the fact that they’re Dunning-Krueger “expertise” generators. The fact that the person learning from them is in charge of ensuring they aren’t full of sh
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Yeah. People with technical and/or tech business bonafides claiming that AI granted them expertise are so often taken at face value when they really shouldn’t be. Who told them that they were proficient — a chatbot? Someone who knows e
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
As are mass hysteria dynamics.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Hyphenation isn’t the best for readability, which is especially important with moving text. (That’s also why there was so much leading, so it would be easy to see which line continued the one you’re looking at.) Many of the word combination
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
> they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner. As told through a Reddit post.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
More like sects of a major religion. Or, a minor and incredibly expensive religion, in this case.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
While what you’re seeing is almost certainly a compression artifact or digitization difficulty (keep in mind, theater screens were the target media,) it was almost certainly a product of phototypesetting, so it would have to be inverted at
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Yeah, I was gonna say that. The proportions are pretty different. Though I rarely use them inline… I’ve used them in a few logos when the uniformity of the letterforms just clicked in-context.
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by DrewADesign 2mo ago
Nope. It might improve readability for individual words, but for blocks of code with similar features at irregular lengths, uniform kerning provides structure and a bunch of clean edges that help you visually orient yourself. Just like titl

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