adamrezich

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by adamrezich 1y ago
See guys, it's shit like this.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Phase was such a cool game! I spent a lot of time playing it in high school, both with my music library and with music my friends and I made. Only a couple years ago would I learn that Jon Blow was one of its programmers! https:/&#x2F
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by adamrezich 1y ago
The paper was written in 2021, the skin-tone modifiers were added in 2015.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
It shouldn't be a surprise that these would be the findings of post-hoc research done in 2021, long after skin-tone modifiers were made available and in common use, rather than research that was done before skin-tone modifiers were a
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by adamrezich 1y ago
> The point is that white people (and yes East Asians too) are more readily able to identify with a yellow smiley face than black or other dark skinned people are. A citation is needed for this extraordinary claim.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
It's all downstream of yellow smiley faces (1950s)—raceless ideograms conveying a common emotion (happiness) that humans of all races happen to share—and I honestly have no idea how this seems to escape everyone today.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Honest question: do you see Caucasian features in the default yellow smiley face ideogram? When Wal-Mart used it as their logo, was that an attempt to market toward white people specifically? When a Japanese guy drew the first widely-used s
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by adamrezich 1y ago
The “LEGO (race) problem” was only a problem once LEGO began licensing IP (it was NBA first, not Star Wars, actually) and had to make minifigs to match real people. Before that, minifigs were perfectly raceless, able to abstractly represent
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Great to see people finally beginning to agree with this when I've been saying it for at least (according to comment history) eight years now. It was always obvious that in a globally-connected Internet age, having universal, skintonel
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by adamrezich 1y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but for me at least, in 2025, it's hard to view a company not only making a bespoke typeface but going out of their way to write a press release about said bespoke typeface as anything other than a
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Feel free to assume whatever you'd like and ascribe whatever implicit outgroup labels you'd like as well.
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I assure you there's quite the difference between a city (that even has “City” it its name!) of 80,000, and a town of 500. It's easy to see conflating the two as “high density population dweller ignorance” for anyone who has lived
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Your theory of urban/rural bifurcation is overly reductive. My city had a population of about 40,000 in the 70s (when guns were left in racks in the backs of trucks in the high school parking lot)—it's about twice that today. (I d
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by adamrezich 1y ago
When my mom attended the same high school I graduated from, in the 70s, kids who were hunters would leave firearms in racks on the back of their pickup trucks in the high school parking lot. Not only did said firearms never once get stolen
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Maybe there was something to the high-trust society we once had. Perhaps it had something going for it that we lost when we decided to forsake it.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
So if I'm understanding the situation correctly: - Activism group lobbies banks/card companies/payment processors to ban content - itch.io takes immediate action to prevent them from losing access to payment processing - Mass
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Parsing Without ASTs and Optimizing with Sea of Nodes [video](youtube.com)
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It's kind of funny how “Copilot” has become the new “Live”—this Brand Word that Microsoft marketing seems obsessed with, branding everything they can with it, completely regardless of how much they dilute whatever positive qualities th
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by adamrezich 1y ago
This is why it is so tiring to see everyone reduce what is happening here to “they're trying to ban [specific thing I care about]!” rather than take the objective facts of the situation in total.
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Good thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school. Oh wait—no such thing exists! It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hop
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I simply found it startling that the article was so well-written, and well-researched, given that my only exposure to Salon has been since the “bloggification of news”, which has seen them become
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Man, this makes me really miss Actual Journalism.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
Sorry, but I don't care about the self-interest of my nation in any matters that don't concern the self-interest of her citizens, much less any matters that work directly against the self-interest of her citizens—and no amount o
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by adamrezich 1y ago
In order for such a statistic to be useful, you'd not only have to demonstrate it, but also demonstrate evidence that companies they start add more non-H-1B jobs to the market than they add more H-1B jobs to the market.
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by adamrezich 1y ago
> And I care a lot more about what’s good for America as a whole than trying to protect someone’s income. Uncharitably, it sounds like you think of your nation as a generic economic zone whose growth you want to continually increase at a
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by adamrezich 1y ago
I dunno man even just learning that Bjarne thought Simula's classes were cool specifically because of the domain of what he was working on —and learning that he ran into the same “unity build” problem that anyone who's worked on
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To be fair, though, the video has an uncommonly high (by modern standards!) information density/signal-to-noise ratio—there's minimal filler, and it's very straightforward and to-the-point with regards to its subject matter!
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I know a two-and-a-half hour video is a hard sell for most people, but I found this talk to be absolutely fascinating. It's not yet another tired “let's all shit on OOP just for the sake of it”-type thing—instead, it's basi
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You really don't think the tone contributes to the insincerity?
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Have you seen Idiocracy, specifically the very beginning of the film? These excuses sound similar to those made by the “prosperous yuppie couple” (who end up never having children)—contrasted with “trashy” couple, who churn out progeny with

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