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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Yeah I've shopped for clothes enough for my wife to know that even with an hourglass shape, you're guaranteed to find lots of pieces that're like "OK none of these sizes will work on you". Her particular problem is
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure everyone who cares about getting a good fit (and isn't simply trying the clothes on in person) is looking at measurements, which you can usually find for any half-decent vendor (though it may take some poking aroun
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
At a minimum, I'd expect a networking program named "echo" to be able to talk to port 7...
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Yes, I am one of the people who has a preferred tailor who can do more than just let trousers waists out. I also know where the nearest cobbler is. That’s not normal, though. A dead industry often doesn’t entirely disappear, it just shrin
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Tailors are a niche thing for weirdos, now. It's not exactly a growth market. Most folks only wear a suit to weddings and funerals, and maybe job interviews. They have basically no need for more than two suits, and many try to get by
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
… what’s the thesis?
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I think you’ve misunderstood what I’ve written here. Graeber’s book might make it clearer for you, he probably did a better job of explaining it than I do. It’s about spendy Red Queen’s races, not just trying to make something better or try
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
An odd tendency I’ve noticed about Graeber is that the more someone apparently dislikes his work, the more it will seem like they’re talking about totally different books from the ones I read.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
The parts that are only done to maintain status quo with a competitor aren’t productive, and that’s quite a bit of it. Two (or more) sides spend money, nothing changes. No good is produced. The whole exercise is basically an accident. Like
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I have seen two of your five shows and like them a lot, and heard of another and it’s already on my to-watch list. This is enough overlap to get the other ones added to the list (plus that pilot). Given the agreement in taste so far, here’s
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
What counts as “concretely”? And I don’t recall it calling sales bullshit. It identified advertising as part of the category that it classed as heavily-bullshit-jobs for reason of being zero-sum—your competitor spends more, so you spent m
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
My company’s behind the curve, just got nudged today that I should make sure my AI use numbers aren’t low enough to stand out or I may have a bad time. Reckon we’re minimum six months from “oh whoops that was a waste of money”, maybe even a
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
The Zombie Simpsons explanation paints it (fairly convincingly) as a combo of deaths, turnover in the writing room, and the influence of The Simpsons and other “subversive” shows affecting the mainstream so much that it was no longer distin
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
We’re probably settling into what they call a “hybrid regime”. We’ll likely wobble between periods of relative stability, with about the amount of liberty and corruption we’re used to at the federal level, and more-authoritarian high-corrup
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
What I’ve seen in the wild is that this is entirely a veneer. It’s important to have numbers. It doesn’t matter if they mean anything. In fact, management is full of numbers that a slightly-clever high school sophomore who’d paid attention
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Very-publicly doing work that lots of people enjoy tends to have that effect.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
This is also what OpenAI’s “safety” angle was all about. “Ohhhh this is so scary! It’s so powerful we have to be very careful with it!” (Buy our stuff or be left behind, Mr. CEO, and invest in us now or lose out)
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I would like them to also fix all the weird rendering bugs they introduced in Safari. Though maybe those are also liquid glass’ fault.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Ah, mostly big, durable stuff. Interesting, that’s a very different sort of thing than the cheap consumer goods I had in mind.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Simply banning most forms of advertising would be extremely welcome and might largely solve the cookie-popup issue, too.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Given the sheer volume of cheap stuff that had been coming straight from China, and the end of de minimus, my first guess would be the majority of this is Chinese and other foreign goods that are now being imported in bulk to minimize dutie
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Why does everyone describe this wrong, every single time this comes up? It’s the consistency of the wrongness that confuses me. No, you do not see others’ messages as blue or green. You see your own as blue or green to indicate what kind