PebblesHD

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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Another happy Pixelmator user, migrated across from Photoshop and Illustrator. For the relatively small cost ($30 on sale) its most of the way as good for my semi-professional work creating content. It has some rough edges but has so far be
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
And I’m sure like every other cool, reasonably priced American thing it’ll be over $100,000 when it gets to Australia. Our import and ‘luxury’ taxes are really silly when we don’t make anything here anymore. I still remember visiting the UA
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
The shorter attention span idea is an interesting perspective on this. I’d have thought fidget toys like electronic pets etc. might have the same effect of inducing attention diverting behaviours but as you said, my experience of Facebook&#
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I’m still very confused why this has become such a thing recently. I was in senior year a decade ago and we had iPhones back then too. iPods and tamagotchis too. If the teacher needed to deal with a student on their phone rather than workin
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
My average (3 days a week ish) day includes sipping the same can of energy drink for probably 8 hours during which ill get through about 3/5 of the can. I drink water throughout the day and like the occasional acidic zest of a sip of d
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Something sounds a bit off if your IT professionals don’t understand files and folders. In any case, my anecdata in an organisation of over 1000 windows computers and about 400 macs is the windows device owners are generally the ones with i
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Only a little disappointed the header video isn’t Colin Furze’s wall of death built out of pallets. Still, using the lower gravity to your advantage without requiring mechanical leverage is a very cost and energy efficient approach to enab
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I see your second point as exactly where Google and many other hyper-scale companies are going. They seem to legitimately see all employees as spreadsheet rows to be shuffled around to achieve maximum efficiency. Outsourcing in general come
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Still doesn’t really answer the question as to why an employee in a high HDI country would move to a lower one for reduced pay when they could remain in their existing one and get a different job? Not sure any amount of money could convince
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I’ve been running a Phillips 49” ultrawide for nearly 2 years now and it is simply the best thing I’ve ever used. The USB-C / display port KVM built in works a treat and makes swapping from my laptop to my desktop a single plug, and th
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
> a setback in its yearslong effort to improve consumer privacy on the internet. Not entirely sure these are the words I would use to describe Google’s years long efforts with regards to the web. Eroding consumer privacy with invasive tr
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I agree with you, however: The WaPo has a veeeeery wide variety of endpoint devices. If they stuck to HTML + CSS it would mean an imperfect output on things like kiosk panels, public news stand displays, ebook readers etc. or needing to mai
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Ahh yes, Google Chrome flags like picture in picture, notable for being hidden behind a paywall by google on every platform where they can get away with it. How forward thinking…
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
In a similar flavour, on older versions of Mac OSX, you could touch an initial setup file and reboot which would start the out of box experience and let you make a new admin user if you ever found yourself locked out of one for some reason.
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Ours are all stored and managed in the CMS/DAM we use, which happens to be Adobe Experience Manager. When the email service renders an email, it calls the CMS endpoint which returns the html with handlebars style template placeholders.
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
AWS Summit in Sydney was the same this year. Every topic and talk was ‘using generative AI to…’ which I’m sure was very popular with most of the business people there, but on the builder day felt like a bit of a miss with most of the platfo
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Are there any videos or screencasts of one of these in operation? I’d love to see a fresh out of box to up and running walkthrough similar to what VMWare produced for Tanzu. It’s such a niece thing that lots of tech people who’d be really i
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
You should use whatever makes you productive. Programmers aren’t paid to hand write software, they’re paid for features. Creature comforts as the article calls them , like auto-refactoring and jump to definition, make writing features more
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Then why not release it for free? I suspect the poster above might be right that the loss is on the investment creating the thing not the income tax.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I’d have expected you would need to demonstrate an attempt to generate income from an asset before the government would effectively give you a write off of the whole value. Anyway, thanks, hadn’t thought of it that way.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Not an American so a bit unsure, why does voluntarily choosing to destroy this IP create a tax advantage? If this is not the intended behaviour, why does the IRS not come out and say ‘we will not accept this loss, please revise your return’
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Assuming things are as they seem to be from the context provided in the video, this is really disappointing to see from a company that I largely respect and appreciate for their technology and engineering content. I do hope we get some insi
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
At least here in Australia it’s a popular option to de-badge your BYD removing the ‘Build Your Dreams’ from the back hatch.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I wonder what the Australian government’s excuse will be to make it impossible to import one of these like the rest of the affordable EVs you might actually want from China and elsewhere around Asia and Europe. Instead we get a few $40k MGs
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
That may be the median for all dwellings including apartments. The median detached house price is closer to $1.4m AUD in Sydney at the moment. Grocery prices are still near record highs, petrol has come down slightly but give it a week and
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
And continues Sydney’s inability to build any public infrastructure without then selling it cheaply to a private company to then reap massive profits for decades from us. Sydney was already the most tolled city in the world before this open
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Investing in actual office space that isn’t directly in my bedroom space, with a large solid desk on a standing frame, and a 50” ultrawide with a KVM in it. Everything just works, I can focus, I have good music and speakers, and when it’s t
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Roughly a third of the entire country is currently without mobile service. The communication from Optus has been rather lacklustre.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I think I’ve made this comment before, but there really are some jobs that monolithic big iron does better, particularly in banking where you need guaranteed exactly-once delivery scaled massively to support transaction processing, where re
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
>> or using a M&K for Halo where headshots are instant kills on Swat/Snipes game modes By this do you mean a mouse and keyboard? And you consider this to be cheating? For the others, I feel like banning all third party periph

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