mercury_craze

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by mercury_craze 3y ago
With duchamgpt-v2.3 you can generate as many images of banana and banana-esq items affixed to surfaces as you can imagine, or, rather, not imagine.
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by mercury_craze 3y ago
So much of the media we consume has been focus-grouped, sanded down, moderated, de-fanged and otherwise diluted into bland corporate mush that it makes sense that we'd want to be able to skip the creative process altogether. Generating
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by mercury_craze 3y ago
My wife's floristry business has been blocked from being able to access facebook advertising and permanently restricted in how she is able to interact with her customers in part because a bot flagged and suspended her for trading in tr
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by mercury_craze 5y ago
I'll stick my head above the parapet and say that as a content consumer I really like Instagram and it genuinely is my favourite social media platform. I'm probably an atypical user but now that I'm well out of my 20's t
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by mercury_craze 5y ago
Facebook was doing this for a while on business pages, but it looks like they've backed out of it now. Around 2 years ago you were only permitted to see content 'above the fold'. Scroll down to the second page of content and
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by mercury_craze 5y ago
That series has always been a joy to read. Whenever I want to know what the established wisdom in making a classic dish are I'll check to see whether she's covered it first and use that as my starting point.
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by mercury_craze 5y ago
It never seemed important to the CEO of a previous company I worked for that we had something to say, only that we gave off the impression that we had something to say. We hired an outsourced blog writing service to fill our wordpress insta
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
Yes, you're out of touch. Access to the internet is seen as a luxury when you're relying on charitable donations to put food on the table.
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
This isn't totally related to infrastructure but figuring out what you should build, from what you could build is something I've struggled with as I've moved about the engineering management ladder. My current role is a stone
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
I've not encountered this format before, it looks really interesting, certainly much more human friendly than JSON. Thanks for sharing.
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
The story I've heard a few times is that students who are expected to perform poorly in their GCSE's or A-Levels get expelled for minor behavioural infractions prior to their final exams so their poor grades don't risk bringi
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
Seems fine to me. As this has been encouraged but not mandated by your organisation it seems pretty benign. From what I understand about this sort of initiative it's about creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing t
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
I found the Planet Money episode Big Rigged surprisingly moving. It covered the business model of American trucking company Prime through the story of Kimberly. It was the all too familiar story of employee rights being eroded through a sha
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
I enjoyed playing around with this and I got real value out of it as a discovery tool when I filtered to showing aclaimed fiction. I know its survivor bias, but I dont want to waste my time on something both terribly written and outside my
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
Fair point, overwhelmingly white was poorly chosen - should have left it as problem with diversity.
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
If it helps normalise the removal of problematic terminology in tech then this feels like a positive thing. Software development has a troubling history of being an overwhelmingly straight, white, male space, ridding ourselves of terminolog
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
Ignoring the bad faith questioning, I dont have to provide a gold standard in order to criticise Amazon. Everything I've said is extremely well documented.
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by mercury_craze 6y ago
Amazon is a great evil. It will not be remembered as a company that has had been a positive influence on the world but as a company that has treated its employees (both hourly and salaried) with contempt, driven independent stores out of bu
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by mercury_craze 10y ago
Planet money ran a typically excellent episode on why the Dow is a terrible mechanism for measuring the health of the economy. About the only redeeming feature it had was the length of time it has been running allowing it to be used to comp
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
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Ask HN: Is this recruitment tactic shady?
9 points by mercury_craze 11y ago|6 comments
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
I just successfully changed it, but it was a janky experience. Until I added an account to the mail app, the preference used to change the default email reader remained greyed out because I was being prompted to add an email account. Only
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
Also try clicking a mailto link. I'm sure that about once a day I see the dialog asking me to add an account into the default mail app. Basic integrations between MS Office apps also seem to be missing, I'll be damned if I can fin
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
I read this as "If you need to use stack overflow then you're not a real programmer. " Was that your intention?
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
Quite a few times this week I've seen articles posted from Medium that read like the sort of low content marketing fluff you get on LinkedIn. I used associate articles posted there with quality and depth, this sort of blogspam is helpi
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The Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999(nngroup.com)
1 points by mercury_craze 11y ago|0 comments
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by mercury_craze 11y ago
Ugh, not this guy again.
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by mercury_craze 12y ago
Absolutely check out Genymotion, it blows both the native android and Xamarin emulator out of the water. Xamarin studio sees it as a native device and any issues we've had with it have been minor annoyances rather than major blockers.
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by mercury_craze 12y ago
I came from a pure C# background about a year ago and I found I was able to get up to be productive within a month and feel comfortable within about 3. The major sticking points for me have been understanding the iOS and Android development
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by mercury_craze 12y ago
I was extremely surprised to read in the comments that this wasn't a parody.

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