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by marstall 5y ago
>Long-lasting Twitter problems (culture, spam, algorithm issues) ... don't see how an edit button will change any of that!
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by marstall 5y ago
when I argue with my wife, we always make up in the end with a one or both of us apologizing, saying the words "I'm sorry". sometimes it takes a day for me to get to saying it. And sometimes it feels like a major blow to my e
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by marstall 5y ago
how does that work? do people forgive you, does the relationship/friendship return to what it was before? do you say "I made a mistake" or some phrase similar to "I'm sorry"?
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(2004)
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by marstall 5y ago
or 20 minutes https://twitter.com/dhh/status/738333393688100865
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> number of temperature records broken in the past N years instead. or the total number of temperature records broken per year, charted over time
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wow, straight up running their own obtrusive ads on it no less.
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by marstall 5y ago
any kind of information can contain falsehoods - and every form of discourse has its biases. so consider the source - and consider multiple sources!
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why is google's font so damn tiny? It's like they don't want you to read this stuff.
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I remember it well. We sold it at the Mac Emporium in New York City when I worked there in 1990. It was cheaper and easier-to-use than the gold standard, Quark. If I remember correctly it sold for $495 to Quark's nosebleed, "Pro&q
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by marstall 5y ago
I do like this interview question - but I would angle it a little differently. I'm definitely a "senior" web developer - been doing this since '97 - but I couldn't talk fluently about a number of these tags, particu
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total gibberish?
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the best artists are the ones that set the fashion, which is not about figurative art now. think Ai Wei Wei
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No, because portraiture has been out of fashion for many decades, so the best artists by and large don't work in this medium.
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often companies are the sole providers of needed products and services. or increased efficiency which is important too. I work on software that makes factory and warehouse operations more power efficient, and that feels meaningful to me!
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by marstall 5y ago
this artist has captured so many of the aesthetic qualities of these classic cover images here. One that is missing, I noticed, is the quality of sparking my imagination, or the evocation of a world. There's nothing in those images tha
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by marstall 5y ago
I can't find the article I first read about this in but the Wordle wikipedia page mentions a couple of antecedents with near-identical gameplay, including a TV game show called Lingo ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by marstall 5y ago
I agree - then I think of quality period pieces that use CGI with great artistry ("Zodiac" and "Hail, Caesar!" come to mind) and I think again. Check out, for example, this VFX before-and-after clip for the show "Ba
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by marstall 5y ago
They're not paying for wordle, the game - obviously that's been cloned a million times over (and it's a clone itself). They're paying for the viral social network around Wordle. My family has a group chat where we brag a
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by marstall 5y ago
I work very near to this part of Southie and it's hardly Mumbai in terms of traffic chaos. Mostly residential. Not too many cars or pedestrians. A modern, rational street grid with parking regulations obsessively enforced. Lots of doub
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by marstall 5y ago
I love the LoFi Room. Would be cool to be able to set any kind of music there!
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also possible to share (nearly) 100% of code between mobile+web using react-native-web (plug: I did this, save a small iOS shim, for my music player https://shelf.fm ).
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by marstall 5y ago
yes. totally agree. I LOVE adaptive cruise control, but also love/need the ability to work the music and environment selection buttons - switch stations, switch cds, change sources, turn heat up down etc - with just an instantaneous gl
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lol #1 ... looks straightforward ... #2 brain shuts off instantly
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"The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine started in 2017. It publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been criticized for publishing false stories and COVID-19 disi
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by marstall 5y ago
can't tell from your post - are you OK with major platforms publishing vaccine disinformation? Overall is that good for society? Whether you are or not, is it ok for people to decide to peace out from that platform and move to another
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This misses the point. People are checking because they can - no-one is looking.
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> Who are you to determine what are/are not lies and what is/isn't truth? a human being?
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he's saying the media "shouldn't spread misinformation". this is very far from censorship. This is the Surgeon General Surgeon Generaling. Censorship is when the government makes it illegal to publish information. It
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This study says that a Keto diet cured mice of a rare genetic condition ... anyone know anything about how that works? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27999180/

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