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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Yep. If I just naturally lay my hand down on something, my middle and ring fingers do tend to naturally come together. It takes a tiny bit of intent to splay my fingers out. Portrait artists constantly study people very closely and are like
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Would it be legal to just “clone” Photoshop or Lightroom as a FOSS project? I mean create a nearly exact clone. Everything down to the layout, tools, menus, options, etc. Who would Adobe sue? Could they make it illegal to distribute?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Same with Lightroom. I still use v4 and it’s still better than anything else available today. I try all the alternatives annually and nothing has as comprehensive and complete a toolset.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
The use weasel terms like “such as” and “may include” are great big red flags. “Your vehicle purchase may include items such as a steering wheel and brakes.”
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Not to mention there realistically aren’t any alternatives. For what it’s worth, their products are unfortunately still best in class in most categories.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Every time I read corpo-speak like the voice in my head is Joe Isuzu.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
It seems like coordinating the supply of available units is the real evil (and maybe illegal) part. Pricing information is public, but inventory is typically not, at least in this context. A cabal deliberately keeping supply down to drive p
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
> Altman, and Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Ellison, and Edison
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Recursive garbage in, garbage out.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
My favorite part of Copilot is when it auto-completes a call to a function that does exactly what I need to do, like magic! Except that function doesn't exist and never did. LLMs don't know what they don't know, so they just
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
That describes the whole internet. It was never meant to be anything more, so that's what we got. Which was fine, until we had the bright idea of feeding it all into a neural network as a collection of facts. Then we gave that neural n
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Did this at camp in the way deep woods. The troop I was in was sort of “outside” the mainstream campers. It was a blast though. So many good memories. I would definitely recommend it if you’ve got the space.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
That’s a really good point. A variation of the Streisand Effect. Makes you wonder what misdeeds they’re trying so hard to hide.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Sounds like retaliation to me.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Right? I take Slack and Salesforce at their word. They’re good companies and look out for the best interests of their customers. They have my complete trust.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Yikes! Thats some pretty heavy insecurity signals from leadership. Please like us! Sad.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Lol, my favorite corpo-speak. I’m not eating a steak and have no plans to eat a steak. Ask again tomorrow.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
How much money ya got?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
“… splitting off bits of the company and massive outsourcing to screw labor as hard as possible.” I think that’s the key point. I don’t think Boeing could have built _any_ aircraft successfully with that business strategy and culture. If no
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I agree, but I just don’t see an alternative future if we want to maintain an open platform for the global exchange of ideas. I also don’t feel like this changes the privacy debate. I’m not naive enough to think Google and 1000 other data b
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
https://berniedurfee.substack.com/p/end-anonymity-on-the-int...
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I was thinking the other day if lab grown wood would be viable, like lab grown meat. Maybe genetically engineered trees that all grow in nominal dimensions like Minecraft trees.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think it’s the only way forward. I wrote a blog post about this recently. I think abandoning anonymity is the only way forward and I think it’ll be glorious.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Shoot. I saw Fusion and thought Autodesk. I’d forgotten that VMware was still a thing.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Quitting nicotine ends up being a lifetime battle for most people in my experience. I’ve know too many people who simply cannot quit smoking, even when it’s clear they’re rotting from the inside out. Nicotine addiction is on an entirely dif
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Or more generally, marketing budget and trustworthiness tend to be inversely proportional.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Same. In fact my biggest worry is that the software will be abandoned and as cars age, edge case bugs will appear, but there’ll be no way to fix them. There’s going to need to be a robust aftermarket for vehicle software. Though, I don’t kn
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I’ve never had nor heard of anyone having an issue with a foreign object breaking a side window. Is it common?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
For a time GE referred to itself as a 124 year old startup and acted as such. It didn’t end well.

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