exodust

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by exodust 4y ago
Depends on the climate. On a hot summer night running around the streets, the reasons for wearing a hoody are limited. "I like to sweat in warm clothes during summer months" isn't a valid reason.
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by exodust 4y ago
But why are you the middleman between the other engineer and chatGPT output? If any role is doomed to obsolescence it's the guy forwarding chatGPT output to his coworkers!
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by exodust 4y ago
> BreatheRight nasal strips Never knew about these. I'm guessing you can't re-use the same strip each night? I don't have sleep issues apart from a bit of snoring and blocked nose. I might buy a pack of these to try.
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by exodust 4y ago
You're right, my bad. To clarify, I chose dishwasher tablets as a common product among many I've noticed sharply increase in price here in Australia. AUD $48 for a pack of 32 tablets is about USD $32. When I look on Walmart US si
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by exodust 4y ago
NAB - the big Australian bank that uses children in their ads, reading scripts in a grown-up manner about the importance of money: https://youtu.be/bk952JcRyok They've aired several ads like this using children to conv
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by exodust 4y ago
I'd recommend expanding the browser configuration information on your site to include the options found under about:config. There's a bunch of settings in there not available under the main settings. Eg privacy.resistFingerprintin
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by exodust 4y ago
The FBI page in question[0] (I hope ic3.gov is legit!) says "Before clicking on an advertisement, check the URL to make sure the site is authentic." But on a mobile device nobody knows how to do that. And the URL will be some kind
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by exodust 4y ago
> "...Apple is spying on them etc. Fabrication is well and alive among us." It's more likely your claim of mass-fabrication is the fabrication. Without knowing details of what you're talking about, I'd put money
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by exodust 4y ago
The watched kettle never boils. Kids are impatiently waiting to grow up, to get through their teens so they can drive cars, earn money, live freely. The average school day is a long day at the office. I recall sitting in class day-dreaming
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by exodust 4y ago
Don't know who Henrik Mans is, but his post sounds triggered and bitter. Sounds like Mastodon is the place to whinge about Twitter? If that's the vibe, I won't be visiting any time soon. A room full of "how about that ev
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by exodust 4y ago
In the footer is says "made with [2764]/love in San Francisco", but when I query "what is Phand made with" it doesn't mention [2764], It doesn't know the answer, even though the answer is right there on th
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by exodust 4y ago
> "I will only know if you’ll like this article once I publish it." I don't like it. For starters, the length is only slightly longer than a handful of tweets. Barely qualifying as an "article", it ends abruptly,
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by exodust 4y ago
> "I really don't get why people are so offended by these changes..." The problem is, changes are made simply because a fictional female character happens to stay at home. Which is fine if she wants that, or it happens in
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by exodust 4y ago
I've always avoided the "post what you had for dinner" content on forums. That casual stuff didn't work well for most forums. It's good that low quality content moved to social media. > "decision by Google t
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by exodust 4y ago
To be fair, the sight of ping pong is a positive sign in my book. Table tennis is a good and healthy thing to do in a lunch break. 8ball even better!
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by exodust 4y ago
Why talk in past tense about forums? Still plenty of active forums. These days they are topic-specific, product specific. Some I've visited recently: https://fuckcombustion.com/ https://forums.unrealengine.c
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by exodust 4y ago
Rude AI is a good thing, I hope to have many competitive arguments with uncensored bots, that cross the line and not be a big deal. It will be like a video game. Sign me up, not for the fluffy censored ai, but the darker AI, the gritty expe
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by exodust 4y ago
Funny how you stopped checking after the first gif....didn't scroll any further?! I'm talking about the second gif on the page. The big one. The 90+ meg one!
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by exodust 4y ago
On a side note, I was curious to know the design story behind the Meta logo. Found the page below explaining the branding, and how the logo can be used in motion. But why would they choose to display the animated logo as a 97 megabyte anima
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by exodust 4y ago
The URL has "UFO" in it, so probably the title was updated. reuters.com/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-about-alaska-ufo-new-object-seen-over-canada-2023-02-11/
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by exodust 4y ago
> literally brings food It literally doesn't. > I'm profesionall freelance artist Artists shouldn't be tied to brands and products. Artists get shit done using tools they have available. All you've done is list 7 A
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by exodust 4y ago
A low point for sure, but given a pass because the ads are meant to be relevant to the search. In many cases the ad links would satisfy the search intent. Unlike youtube videos which put ads for Big Macs and other horrible things on rand
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by exodust 4y ago
It's not about giving up a tool, it's about swapping it for a different tool. Creating a "food on table" dependency with Adobe is what's unrealistic.
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by exodust 4y ago
> "congress wanted to know why users weren't forced to update their computers" That sounds made up. Happy to be proven wrong, but I doubt congress demanded to know why people aren't being forced to update Windows. It&
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by exodust 4y ago
Playfulness, "flair" and other emotive forces guide creative decisions usually, but there's nothing stopping a technical person from arriving at similar outcomes via a more technical process. It will take more time and be les
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by exodust 4y ago
> "It shouldn’t be brighter than a sheet of white paper held next to it" That comparison makes no sense for emissive light sources such as screens. You could argue it for e-ink displays, but not normal screens where we watch mi
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by exodust 4y ago
> "80% of design is technical and 20% is creative." Can you provide an example of a 20% creative decision that has no technical aspects?
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by exodust 4y ago
Better solution: provide user controls so people can select the contrast themselves. It's never going to happen that developers and designers all decide never to use pure white. User controls and options is best solution.
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by exodust 4y ago
It's "too bright" because 100% white is being used and covers most of the screen. When most displays blast intense white light in your face at normal settings, it's not a screen brightness issue, it's a content brig
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by exodust 4y ago
Agree about the date. Even saying the year is better than nothing. In another of his articles he begins with "Stripe recently refreshed their website..." but we have no way of knowing what "recent" means. The article mig

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