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by perardi 3y ago
- Mathematica( https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/scrapbook/ ) — Still going, and Stephen Wolfram won’t let you forget that - xScope ( https://xscopeapp.com/history ) — OK, I’m cheating, 19 years, bu
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by perardi 3y ago
A 16:9 screen is too short when working on 16:9 video. It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area. But 3:2 is even better. Hell, giv
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by perardi 3y ago
You’re getting a little doddery, old man. CMYK support was in 2.0, and Layers came about in 3.0. …I say as someone who used Photoshop 1.0. (And HyperCard.)
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by perardi 3y ago
1. It’s a very complex problem…and the solution isn’t coal. Because natural gas is cheaper than coal, and less polluting. 2. We build a robust safety net with worker retraining and…haha, I can’t even finish that sentence. It’s the same thin
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by perardi 3y ago
OK, the headline and the first few graphs are a bit angering…which, mind you, they spent a billion dollars with nothing to show for it…but then the rest of the piece goes into in-depth discussions on what went wrong. It’s pointing out the l
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by perardi 3y ago
I suggest you read the article—it may not be what you think from the headline. It’s not that NIH didn’t find a cause of “long COVID”…it’s not that they didn’t find any treatments for long COVID if such a thing truly exists…the NIH just did
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by perardi 3y ago
…or Star Wars . Luke was supposed to be, I believe, 19 during A New Hope , which was a movie about young rebels throwing off the almost literal corpses running the Empire. (Same as it ever was…)
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by perardi 3y ago
Yeah, I am not used to seeing the term “cloud” for a single electron. Is that a common term in physics for a single electron ? I am very much used to seeing that phrase as the probability space for electrons in orbitals in an atom. https:
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by perardi 3y ago
Does it make you feel better to further contribute to the flames by commenting here?
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by perardi 4y ago
One little thing that stuck out: The USA leads the way in terms of household electric usage in the world – an average US household consumes approximately 975 kilowatt-hours of electricity each month, three times more than for example the U
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by perardi 4y ago
And that strident libertarian Peter Thiel is the chairperson of a company that makes its money off government contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies Must be nice to be a libertarian—lot of fat g
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by perardi 4y ago
Probably because the potential market of enthusiasts is quite small, and not enough to even cover the legal fees for disentangling whatever knot of copyright and legal issues that Amazon presumably spun out over the years.
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by perardi 4y ago
…do you really think that a bash script is the best interface for the masses to explore the Talmud?
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by perardi 4y ago
Republican/conservative talk radio is a huge force in American politics, so there’s a lot of incentive to somehow force manufacturers to include the feature.
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by perardi 4y ago
Ah, the Great Chicken Sandwich War. So many lives lost, so many psyches shattered…I fear we’ll be living with the consequences for generations. But nah, I doubt it’s any particular product issue. If it’s not just a matter of goosing the sha
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by perardi 4y ago
I can’t imagine it’s worth supporting the vanishingly small install base of Windows 7/8 machines out there. I can’t particularly imagine why there is any appreciable Windows 7/8 user base outside of enterprise machines that are,
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by perardi 4y ago
I am curious what country you could move to that isn’t co-opted by the wealthy and powerful. Sure isn’t Canada. Sure isn’t anywhere in the EU. Super-duper-sure it isn’t anywhere in Asia.
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by perardi 4y ago
Who is this community that’s dead-set against this? There’s lots and lots of academic research. And a fair bit of Department of Energy money flowing into those labs. There’s lots of interest. There’s lots of papers. And the great thing abou
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by perardi 4y ago
Oh you want totally impractical nostalgia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software) Kaleidoscope. In the old days, we could change every single icon on our Mac. You kids, you’ll never know the freedom of p
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by perardi 4y ago
Wait, before deflecting them? Why? There’s at least a plausible need there, what with the whole “don’t want to slam an asteroid into the planet” problem. Mining is still an utter fantasy. It’s completely economically unviable to mine anyt
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by perardi 4y ago
Related reading: the Murchison meteorite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite It’s an extensively researched meteorite that is just full of organic molecules.
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by perardi 4y ago
Yup, they can use Jira for task management…oh… That same day, Jira — a tool Twitter uses to track everything from progress on feature updates to regulatory compliance — also stopped working.
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by perardi 4y ago
almost no one even acknowledges the existence of font licensing Ha, that seems to imply that people even know there’s such a thing as font licensing. I’ve been a graphic designer for a long time now, and I barely even remember font lice
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by perardi 4y ago
Well that’s why we have amphetamines and modafinil.
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by perardi 4y ago
Hm? More flexible? Besides dynamic range, that’s a real stretch to say color negative film is more flexible. That sort of film arguably does a better job of preserving highlights, but I don’t see a plausible argument for any other aspect
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by perardi 4y ago
It’s really cold outside, I’m bored, let me play devil’s advocate… Snap is well-positioned for a comeback. TikTok is at a high risk of being banned by the US government, and Meta properties increasingly lack any sort of focus and coherent
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by perardi 4y ago
I want to say I’m a “power user” on iOS, though that’s debatable, as I am old, and default to “go to your ‘real’ computer for anything non-trivial”. Anyways…discoverability? 1. If you are on the normal Home Screen on an iPhone, where is the
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by perardi 4y ago
I disagree, because it is 2023 now. Twitter was not, well, Twitter without the users and developers. Hashtags, replies, threads…users and developers. Not the product managers. And that’s relevant because: if you’re developing a product to
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by perardi 4y ago
Twitterrific, and a lot of these early iOS clients, really helped defined the Twitter service, and even more so, our interface idioms for mobile apps. Right from the bird’s mouth, which by the way, they created, not Twitter… “Since 2007, T
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by perardi 4y ago
That what confuses me about the market fit here. It’s not an amazing voice assistant. It’s OK as a wireless speaker, but Sonos is almost assuredly better, and similar aesthetics and ease of use. So this is targeting…uh?

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