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by jmbwell 2y ago
I would add that, at least historically, a reputable photojournalist wouldn't likely build a very successful career on faked photos. It's heavily disincentivized. The time and effort required to build the necessary skills and clou
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I sometimes battle perfectionism for various reasons. Someone pointed out that it can’t be perfect if it isn’t even finished, so why not add “done” to what it means to be “perfect.” Somehow that tweaked my perspective in a helpful way. Edit
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One of my early frustrations with Microsoft's "To-do" app was that it discarded my "today" tasks every day. But now I love that it does this, for the reasons the author describes. I was used to apps like Asana that
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This was a fascinating and ... detailed ... story. I appreciate that it went a little further into the history of Apple's involvement ARM than the recent spate of blog posts that didn't go back past Newton.
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[[[[[THINKING]]]]] [[[[[PRINTING]]]]] The first time I saw the pulsating rainbow screens as a second-grader, it blew my mind. I'm not sure my experience with The Print Shop didn't set me on the path toward my early career in publi
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With so many other package managers available, I often wish something else was the de facto package manager on macOS. Something like pkgsrc, which follows conventions much better and is thereby much easier to manage.
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Here in Houston as well, dew point is as important as temperature and %PoP. Apple Weather suffices for now but I hope it gets richer with the various types of data that are of greater relevance in different regions.
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iOS/iCloud has a built-in TOTP function also. Maybe better for friends and family than some people here. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/automatically-fill-in...
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The president now has legal authority to do whatever he wants. At the same time, the president's agencies no longer have the authority to do whatever they want. So I guess the president can order the military to drone strike the FCC if
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Ah the push and pull. In the beginning, scroll bars were a feature. Then proportional scroll bars were a major development. Then scroll bars were dynamic, auto-hiding, optional, or removed altogether. So designers put progress bars across t
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A ToC might be more distracting with a style that benefits less from a clear structure, like a personal essay. It can be important in a more technical-procedural style of writing, though.
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In which case, why not just have humans write the text we need instead of firing all our writers in the first place?
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I have Ambient Weather equipment at multiple locations and it works great. Ambient’s own site and software is also very good lately.
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Holy crap, this list nails it.
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"But all the cheap front-end talent is in thick client frameworks, telemetry indicates most revenue conversions are from users on 5G, our MVP works for 80% of our target user base, and all we need to do is make back our VC's inves
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> Even if you do your own thing and make something super cool, nobody's gonna stumble upon it randomly. You either have to spam it on social media or aim for high ranking in search results (while that's still somewhat of a poss
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If things are working well, they are automated and I rarely see the real time output. If I’m looking at real time output, it’s because I’m doing something manually because something isn’t working the way it’s supposed to, and I’m in no mood
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Being reachable only from a PC at home… man. Now that I miss. The whole lifestyle of having a clear distinction between being at the computer and not. Status messages for a time when “away” was a state of being you ever were . Coming bac
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I don’t think there’s an XKCD for this, but there is a Sesame Street: https://youtu.be/aCsY3REaADo?si=ODNcG3LvXNPxYSyQ
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Still throws me that “order” here means something like “instruction” as in “that’s an order, lieutenant!” and “code” means something like “set,” as in “legal code” or “code of conduct.” “Program” however is already used here by Knuth in mor
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This was my question. The article mentioned the project was proposed by a producer. I gather the Beatles at the time were throwing money into all kinds of things that would go nowhere. I could see this as an earnest attempt to make the film
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I've seen this in Texas, notably on I-35 through Austin and on I-10 east out near the state line. In sequence, single-file, all the machines needed to do the job, from milling the surface at the front to laying down the new blacktop, r
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One potential difference might be that china could be banning western media to stifle opposition, while the US could be banning TikTok primarily to protect its commercial interests. Though I guess you have a point if they are, fundamentally
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I began wondering about this and planning to investigate. My first impulse was that Vyos would know about anything Debian would know about, so if I could get Debian to deal with it, so also could I vyos. Until I can buy one of these things
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From what I understand, Google, YouTube, the web site that used to be called Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook are all banned in China already. So I suspect the state department would say something like, "the state department
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No matter the price? No wonder we're drowning in limeflation!
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I want this and I want to put VyOS on it.
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It’s true that sometimes an outsider can offer a fresh perspective. From where you sit, there might be a solution you can’t see. The nearest exit might be in the row behind you. Maybe this applies more often when the one giving advice has m
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It’s phrased that way to resonate with the intended target audience, people who identify with the premise. A book of outrage would probably phrase it similarly if it wanted to target you instead. It’s such a ubiquitous, pervasive tactic, it
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I don't get great results myself from diving into coding immediately. I personally get better results if I have some storyboards, workflows, ins/outs, etc. identified and worked-over first. But when I do get down to writing code

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