RickS

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by RickS 10mo ago
I adore camelcamelcamel and check them often. Does anyone else notice that their data has gotten much lower quality ~lately? Anecdotally, in ~2018 it felt like CCC was in sync with amazon's listed price (including sale prices) nearly 1
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by RickS 11mo ago
Cosmetically it's probably fine. The downsides all have to do with predictability and the ability to reason about what the wall is made of in the future. A person who goes to eg hang a picture frame or shelf there will encounter a diff
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by RickS 1y ago
The discovery of penicillin in dirty petris that had been left out over vacation: https://time.com/4049403/alexander-fleming-history/
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by RickS 1y ago
Bambu P1S, no question. Enclosed with filter for ABS fumes etc. Personally I've only used their A1, but it's the best printer I've ever used by far, and it's the first one that you can treat like a paper printer: plop it
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by RickS 1y ago
Very interesting. How long have you had this multi desk setup for, and how has it evolved? I've tried similar things over time and found a huge amount of variation in the results. The worst are sort of "negative equilibrium"
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by RickS 1y ago
WSJ seems to block the normal archives, but absent a gift link, this twitter referral seems to work: https://x.com/lindsaywise/status/1956170542601421040
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by RickS 1y ago
This video by Benn Jordan makes the case that yes, traditional capitalism and empowerment by way of ownership are eroding in favor of a rent-seeking subscription economy. This economy requires continuous payment for participation with servi
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by RickS 1y ago
Both apps involved email for magic link features, but then both apps genuinely insist on harvesting your email for instantdb before you can view them? . Gotta love living on the post-shame internet.
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by RickS 1y ago
Love orca, and that's a really nice example. Messed with it a bit when it came out, and one toy project I'll share in the hopes that someone does it before me: an orca GUI that uses a larger grid with representative images in plac
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by RickS 1y ago
Did you read the post? The numbers are fake, is how. That's the whole point of this post. They're arbitrary, made up, totally subject to change. The idea that they're immutable is corpo-propaganda designed to worsen your perf
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by RickS 1y ago
I am a somewhat unremarkable product designer. I'm great at my job, but still just a guy in a chair doing the thing. And I've been using this advice for years. It has made an absolutely mind boggling impact on my life. I recently
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by RickS 1y ago
Oof, i'll be donating big to help out. My partner's from here and i visited for the first time last year. Its fantastic. Half kitschy weird science stuff, but half genuinely fantastic maker materials at great prices. Salvaged air
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by RickS 1y ago
Another vote for ableton. Also After Effects. Comparing legacy vs new (rush, etc) Adobe video editing UI is a good way to see both of these dynamics in action. I used to work on the UI kits for Adobe. We supported multiple densities for thi
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by RickS 1y ago
I started out very interested. I tried the particle photon when it first came out years ago, and this feels like a spiritual successor, somewhat. Good demo video. Various thoughts: 1. Consider defining best practices for solar and selling h
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by RickS 2y ago
Now this is a good friend! Love to see it.
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by RickS 2y ago
Design Systems Technologist / Product Designer / UX Designer Location: Seattle Remote: Preference for hybrid, or at least some regional onsite availability. Full RTO or full remote possible for the right team. Willing to relocate:
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by RickS 2y ago
This is the china of "let it rot"[1] and a housing market so f'd that people felt pressure to buy and pay for houses that didn't even exist yet, leading to a massive mortgage boycott[2] in protest of all the resultant sh
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by RickS 2y ago
It continues to astound me that Apple seems not only reluctant – but actively disinterested – in bringing general purpose computing to touchscreen devices. I want whole-ass macOS on the iPad, and not only are they not doing it, they're
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by RickS 2y ago
Planned? Perhaps. Destined? Certainly. The imperial boomerang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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by RickS 2y ago
Design Systems Technologist / Product Designer / UX Designer Location: Seattle Remote: Preference for hybrid, or at least some regional onsite availability. Full RTO or full remote possible for the right team. Willing to relocate:
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by RickS 2y ago
I've worked on some of this stuff. It was mandated by Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulation on the finance industry, who developed smoother UX patterns and white-label vendors for doing such a thing, which
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by RickS 2y ago
Oh hell yeah. Stoked to see something like this in TS. I enjoy making a toy DSL here and there, but it's a lot of friction to relearn Lex and Yacc every time. The editor looks great too, really like the visualizations. For anybody alre
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by RickS 2y ago
This might be scandalous enough to generate pushback if it were loudly reported on to the general public in a certain way. That is, with overt overtones of "you are being cheated by a contemptful corporation and it's appropriate t
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by RickS 2y ago
> This makes sense for putting a headquarters in California but doesn't explain incorporating there. Good point. Agree that DE C corp has been the norm and expectation since forever. Doesn't look like CA is a mentioned contende
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by RickS 2y ago
> Which values exactly are being expressed by being incorporated in, say, California? Depends on when. The whole point is that the incentives, and signal generated by responding to them, are changing a bunch. Just my opinion, but between
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by RickS 2y ago
Generally, no, at least that I know of. Of the ones closely following the format, lobste.rs had a pretty good run, and designer news was busy enough to be worth visiting for a few years. With some more flexibility on format, product hunt mi
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by RickS 2y ago
38, but only by tabbing to the button and finger drumming the enter key
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by RickS 2y ago
IMO experience provides better immunity for common hangups. Generated code tends to be directionally pretty good, but with lots of minor/esoteric failures. The experience to spot those fast and tidy them makes all the difference. Copil
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by RickS 2y ago
One of the more insidious versions of this is the static thresholds for things like "a suspiciously large amount of cash", which are not inflation adjusted, causing them to effectively shrink over time. A $10K cash travel limit es
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by RickS 2y ago
My partner has celiac, and has mentioned something like this, but rather than chemicals, it purportedly had to do with heirloom seed strains. europe apparently has more variation among the same crop, and they're also closer to the thin

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