curtisblaine

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by curtisblaine 6d ago
I don't think you're "absolved" if you don't know you're harming, in fact, yourself. Guilt is all about intention.
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by curtisblaine 7d ago
"The honest caveat"
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by curtisblaine 8d ago
I have this in the greenhouse that came with my house. Seeing its roof closed in fall after it had been open all summer made me question my sanity.
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by curtisblaine 10d ago
I'm always wary of colleagues like that. They start doing everybody's job (worse) and immediately management expects everybody to do the same ("there are no excuses..."), with terrible consequences. From experience, they
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by curtisblaine 16d ago
Isn't inherent impermanence one of the factors that make street art art? If we treat graffiti like museum pieces exposed outside instead of inside, we don't do justice to them (and we end up in these kind of ridiculous situations)
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by curtisblaine 18d ago
By the name, I thought this was gonna be a lightweight AI vector distributed database with data science analysis baked in (for AI, of course) at the minimum. Imagine my relief when I discovered this is... an atlas of actual bird feathers.
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by curtisblaine 24d ago
> It still means something different because you took it. Well, no. At least, for me this cheap "feel good" stuff never really worked. It means something different if you made it different in some way. Could be a different tech
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by curtisblaine 28d ago
Isn't this basic enshittification? Offer a really good product to get users, use number of happy users to get funded, then once you're funded you gut the product, you raise prices and you hope not all your customers flee.
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by curtisblaine 28d ago
Not for a company app, where support and maturity count.
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by curtisblaine 29d ago
It depends how you define "named", but for example, not all the grain of sands you see on a beach are named (yes, they are named collectively , but not individually. If "collectively" is valid, then that's further
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by curtisblaine 29d ago
How is it a paradox? Isn't this just a proof that there are many unnamed things, but no unnameable ones?
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
What does nostr have to do with crypto?
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
Why is it not? I'm sincerely curious. It seems to include users that were excluded from other platforms, by virtue of making centralized censorship impossible, so I would argue it's more inclusive than anything else. Or do you mea
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
I really like nostr because it gives you freedom of association. You can unfollow other users and, if you run a relay, you can refuse to accept content from users you don't like, but you can't ban other relays (like mastodon does)
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
It was pretty common with the IRA, apparently. They hid bombs in metal garbage cans and used the shrapnel as a damage multiplier. I think they did that at a commercial center and killed several people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
In city centers it's usually counter-terrorism: it's easy to throw a timed bomb in a metal garbage can and flee the scene, so they got rid of them (London did because of IRA, and of course now they have Islamic terrorism). Outside
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
Fun that this article concentrates on gay sex restrictions and pressure by temperance advocates - two "enemies" that conveniently serve a certain social agenda - while public toilets, at least in Europe, died because of heroin use
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
> Neurodivergence does not require a diagnosis. It does if you require to be treated specially.
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
Clickbaity title. Boring show off of vibe coded apps that only make sense to the author, disguised as think piece. This post has it all.
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by curtisblaine 1mo ago
Actually a bad result for Binface: you'd have expected the whole opposition to converge on him (they would have had nothing to lose), but many non-reform didn't vote at all, giving Farage the absolute majority.
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
Those animations are... series of steps, each with a description? How different is this from a plain text list? It's not that you can see forks or that the layout of the assembly line gives you more information. If anything, a plain te
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
Sigh, I expected some crazy project like hooking a big Xeon rack to batteries, running Graphite or Android on it and sticking it in a backpack to use as a primary phone. That would have been glorious. Instead, I got the same old post of som
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
The discourse is nuanced, but isn't CD standard sampling rate greater than anything that's obtainable in practice with vynil?
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
I might be weird, but I love phases 2 to 5 and I hate phase 1 with a passion. I hate speaking with people to see what their problems are. I want to solve problems, not user surveys. And all the itches I have are either already solved, not
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
Didn't we say a thousand of times that local apps are not "winning" because they can't be monetized (a bit like web games)?
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
The more sophisticated magazines had CRC codes after every line, so you could know where in the code you has mistyped.
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
This reminds me of https://github.com/electric-sql/d2ts . Not sure they're comparable, but they seem to be aiming at the same problem.
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
Question: aren't you allowed to photograph or film anyone you want in public? Or the target being underage somehow removes this right? I always thought you can film whoever you want, but you can't publish what you filmed in some c
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
> the cultural values that a detached elite wish to impose on their offspring for life have been transposed into law, policy, and regulation, and from there, into the personal lives of young people Isn't this what happens in Islamic
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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
"Tightening" and "wiring" something. You're not in the construction industry, you're writing unit tests for a cookie modal.

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