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by atoav 4mo ago
As a young film student my Prof asked me whether I wanted to go to a talk to which he was invited. It was on the genres shown in German public television. There the summary of the discussion was: Our core demographic are 60 to 70 year olds
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by atoav 4mo ago
I have used many things to generate print documents and layouted PDFs: - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe InDesign - Markdown with and without custom themes - Markdown compiled to .idml to integrate into InDesign - HTML and CSS - LATeX Typst is so
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by atoav 4mo ago
Yes? With sufficient pedantic spirit anything can be argued against. This is what you're doing. So to give a counter-example: You drive with three friends in a car. You ask them: "Do we all want to go to MC Donald's?"
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by atoav 4mo ago
If this is in fact an issue where you life, then you should consider stopping to elect politicians that allow bureaucrats to be unaccountable. Or stop believing politicians who rave on about how bureaucrats are unaccountable while they them
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by atoav 4mo ago
A government ideally is a representation of the democratically chosen will of the people. If it is not, work towards making it so. IMO wherever someone says "the government" we should mentally substitute "we all, collectively
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by atoav 4mo ago
Well mine is, see below. Rental managment. Making this for myself and plan to surprise my collegues once it is ready.
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by atoav 4mo ago
The camera auto orientation was 180 degrees wrong after clearing a stage. Maybe you need to give it a sort of "preferential direction"?
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by atoav 4mo ago
A rental managment system for university workshops that rent out equipment. Since I have been doing this for 5 years I know all the realworld edge cases and what I have is already better than most competitors.
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by atoav 4mo ago
I decided to tell the LLM to not generate any CSS for a web frontend I am working on. It is just not worth the hassle and doing it myself is actually a way to think about usability and design in a valuable way, that flows back into how I wa
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by atoav 4mo ago
If no government ever got involved we would all be slaves to a family of inbred kings.
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by atoav 4mo ago
Well I think it is even more complex. If you're a plumber in a rotten system of pipes the whole company depends on, you can fix issues day in and day out, without speaking a word and they will notice everything is a bit unreliable and
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by atoav 4mo ago
On your dad: "This is what my regular customers pay me. If I hired one of my friends or relatives I see it as my duty to pay them at least what they are worth, this is the way you raised me." I believe this to be true btw. If some
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by atoav 4mo ago
> I've always been curious - but presumably that’s true even after volume matching? Yes. Many musicians want their stuff to sound like the music of their heroes they grew up with, and that music is often compressed to a block as wel
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by atoav 4mo ago
No it does not need to come from the outside. If you're an underfunded IT department and your network has an issue twice a week, you will get that funding. If you're heroically obscuring the fact that things are falling apart you
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by atoav 4mo ago
I run the media tech at an university solo. Needless to say I am underfunded. But more importantly, the infrastructure was underfunded too. I made it my first policy to also report near misses up the chain with their full implications, e.g.
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by atoav 4mo ago
As a mixing engineer: 1. Compressed sound can be an integral (wanted) part of different genre aesthetics. I personally love dynamic mixes, but if you let your customers A/B mixes they will often chose the more compressed/louder on
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by atoav 4mo ago
Well, I do.
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by atoav 4mo ago
Yes you used HTML to design a website in a way that was the opposite of semantic. Semantic HTML is about just writing your content and then using CSS and js for everything else (as far as possible). Also: the meaning of the word semantic
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by atoav 4mo ago
Headline from March of last year: Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump See: https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/22636-bird-flu-screwworm... Elect stupid leaders, get stupid conseq
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by atoav 4mo ago
Many people understand that criminal law is like a bandaid. You apply it after the bad thing happened. Sure, it may be a common believe that the punishment formulated within it also scares away new or repeated criminals, but that is way w
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by atoav 4mo ago
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by atoav 4mo ago
By this point people don't appear to have any real clue how to write HTML anymore. Writing semantic HTML isn't significantly harder than say writing Markdown. You copy some HTMl skeleton and you literally just stack your elements
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by atoav 4mo ago
One thing I have learned about verification is: Don't just put a link into your mail that directly verifies an email when visited. At least put some button or code input field there. Why? There are mail clients that will automatically
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by atoav 4mo ago
I think most of these issues are easy to resolve by being more permissive and supporting what the technical standard allows for. The Big Problem™ however is case sensitivity in the local-part, because there multiple incompatible things coll
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by atoav 4mo ago
You don't?
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The first example also reveals the crux of the issue. The actual problem is that the merging intent is not mathematically solveable in a satisfying manner. E.g. let's say two people edit the body element depending on the content of the
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by atoav 4mo ago
Woah, I didn't notice. What is going on? I probably will have to tell the students using the computers today.
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by atoav 4mo ago
Teenage Engineering has the market of people who have a lot of money to spend on a hobby, want a fancy product design and don't care about cost. The exception is their PO series stuff which is actually kind of affordable for what you c
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by atoav 4mo ago
I guess in my case it has to do with the aspect that I am teaching Media Technology and Electronics in an Art university. The students studying here are the 5% that made it through the selection process, but math and physics aren't typ
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by atoav 4mo ago
Yes, this is what I meant University is both academic in the sense that it is about research for the respective field(s), but it is also in a very real sense the last educational institution for many students who end up outside of academia.

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