Finnucane

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by Finnucane 2mo ago
I guess they got over it.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
AOL is still a thing?
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Yes, but music notation is not simple text. Markdown was made for simple text. If you try to represent more complex text, it turns into Asciidoc or Rst.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Isn't that what LilyPond does, more or less?
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Or even just using a plain old light meter. I use a Gossen Luna Pro (with 'spot' attachment) with my meterless cameras (which is most of them). It's reliable.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Lileks is still going. What else matters?
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Mostly spending time on Mastodon these days, which is only made tolerable by its lack of capabilities.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Ray wrote a later story ("I Don't Care Who Keeps the Cows") in which there becomes a trend of different kinds of brain-enhancement technologies to make everyone super-intelligent. Of course, the enhancements are sold by hucks
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
This has always been true. I never fixed my car. I knew how it worked well enough to know, hey, that sounds like its coming from the exhaust pipe. Then I took it to the mechanic. I can do basic maintenance on my bike, but I still take it to
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Some of them have gotten out of jail.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Because they're not as much 'freedom loving' as they are 'selfish dicks.'
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
everything degrades. We live in a world ruled by entropy. Even digital stuff degrades. It has to be stored somewhere, in some form, and there is always a risk of loss. No matter what.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
I recall reading some years ago about a study of tornado warnings that showed that every additional minute of warning time had significant value in terms of preventable damage and casualties. Presumably it would be similar for earthquakes,
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Then why even bother with using AI? Just pull random results from Heritage and Sotheby's and stick them in a template.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
That must be why it asked what David Gilmour's Strat cost in 1969 but the answer was what it sold for at recent auction. Also, random stuff sold at auctions is a weird basis for a price-is-right game. I mean, who keeps track of this
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
You think Brendan Carr gives a shit about terrorists? He thinks we're all terrorists.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Editors do try to get and use _relevant_ blurbers. And a weak blurb probably wouldn't get used unless they really had nothing else. Also, the first readers of blurbs are booksellers and reviewers, not readers, who may pass over a title
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Inside publishing offices, people who give a lot of blurbs for books are known as "quote whores." It's very much a game of who you know, who your editor knows, who your agent knows, etc. It's not to say a blurb is worthl
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Could be? Isn't that the whole point?
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
I worked at a culinary school for a while. In the bread kitchen they taught you the formula stuff, but also, to recognize what the dough would feel like, look like, even taste like, when it was right. They taught you how to adapt if the flo
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
>t's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec And yet reading systems fail to do that.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
None of my cats would eat those. Regular soft cat treats have always worked better.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
When I had to give my cats thyroid pills, I mushed them into soft treats. This generally worked, but sometimes took a couple of tries. But this trick only works if the cat wants the treat more than they don't want the pill. A dog can b
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
[insert Jeremy Clarkson meme here]
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Isn't the whole point of Substack, etc. monetization, one way or another? Maybe I'm just a cranky old man, but that to me goes against 'independent'. But then, I'm not just old enough to remember when blogs weren&#x
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
It's not stated explicitly, but I would assume that 'independent' blog means no Substack, no Medium, etc? Is that the case?
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
The war, and also Stalin.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Makes sense. Self-help books are kinda the human slop of the publishing business. Easily replaced by AI slop? Probably.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
Quark as an alternative to Adobe? From the frying pan into a smaller frying pan? My dream is raising the funds to buy FrameMaker away from Adobe.
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by Finnucane 3mo ago
It's not a direct substitute at all. It's not intended to be. And--it's on the vendors for making crap software and not keeping up.

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