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by devindotcom 2mo ago
yeah this is what I heard from pretty much everyone in the business down there. since production has gone international LA can't compete with, say, Romania. You can ship out your must-haves and rely on locals for the rest, the savings
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Excellent books, full of understated spectacle and really excellent wordplay. If you get into them you may want to pick up "A Sea of Words" as a guide to some of the more esoteric terminology. Pretty much guaranteed you'll be
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
this is a tangent but you should revisit your assumptions about giraffe anatomy. their necks actually weigh a tremendous amount and are kept upright by an interesting system whereby they actually stretch this giant tendon to bend down and t
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
"Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity and the less they are deflected by considerations of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare but to the equa
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky - wouldn't it work with the same type of horizont
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Great book. But if you want some even earlier forward-thinking stuff, look up Forster's "The Machine Stops." It's not a full book, more a novella if it's even that. Extremely prescient! And of course if you haven&#x
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
the interface shows the top movies right now on https://www.themoviedb.org/
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Looks nice. Personally I don't know I can go back to 220ppi, but if I did I would definitely pay for the touchscreen and light over the X4! Maybe you already have this, but I'd encourage you to put a "pure" reading mode
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
oh for sure I made no attempt to make them regular, not to mention some are Kare's. I was trying to make them as small as possible but that leads to its own kind of confusion.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
had no idea, thanks for the link.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
heh yes I do plan on doing something like that. it was just a little hobby thing I threw together last year. I've been meaning to harmonize the styles a bit and put small versions in the body text. Putting them at pixel-perfect size th
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
obligatory susan kare mention - her icons were amazing. I started making my own small, monochrome icons for a personal project ( https://anachronomicon.coldewey.cc/ ), trying to make them reasonably small while also intelligi
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
I know what you mean, but there is a reasonable distinction to be made especially for living persons. An "authorized" biography would be something like what Isaacson does, where they get exclusive access, anecdotes, and importantl
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
you are yourself commanding a well-meaning person to stop doing X, like some dictatorial authority, with no attempt at persuasion. I recommend reading past the headline before making glib dismissals - spicy but it turns quickly against you.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
by this standard no good faith criticism of anything musk-adjacent is possible
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
And there are others who left years ago and warned us. Back-patting isn't all or nothing, and I think it's reasonable to praise those who left when they saw the writing on the wall more than those who leave only once they see thei
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
Bret previously on "statue pfps" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-g... and chatting with one directly https://xcancel.com/BretDevereaux/status/1742957031353
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
Guessing Vancouver WA (just north of Portland OR) not BC (Canada). For those not familiar with the area.
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
Piramidal was doing that last I checked: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/23/piramidals-foundation-mode...
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
the graph actually makes it look like the jump was due to Trump's policies, since the spike started in his term. if anything the graph shows that Biden policies arrested it shortly after. I recall reading deportations were actually ver
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
Got it. If the diner says "whites only" we should wait a few years to see if racism is actually good, otherwise we are discriminating against racists.
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
sorry but your argument is sophomoric and disingenuous. and your absurd complaint about "killing" makes it pretty clear you're not engaging in good faith.
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
just a friendly note that the idiom is "one and the same"
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
insightful like your crude, substanceless objection?
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
If we're going to sealion, why don't you first explain what you think my argument is and why the quote does not support it?
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
I see... so the people boycotting companies over jim crow policies in the civil rights era were the intolerant ones?
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
Is IKEA's founder alive and currently donating lots of money to a political party advocating for mass deportation of "parasites"? If so let me know and I will stop buying IKEA furniture!
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
brave! but fortunately you are safe because no one is challenging his right to say it.
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by devindotcom 3mo ago
you value privacy, but you don't think privacy is a political topic? VPNs, encryption, and other privacy tools are regularly under attack or protected by legislation and policy that is actively debated and lobbied for. I think that you

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