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by perardi 4y ago
Seeing a fair number of comments about “Chinese cars aren’t just junk now”. Which is…not a shock? Japanese cars used to be jokes. And certainly, within my living memory, South Korean cars were regarded as abysmal little shitboxes—hence Kia’
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by perardi 4y ago
It’s another thing to implement something that is, in fact, trivial to make, because there are lots and lots of calendar-to-Slack integrations that update your status to show you’re in a meeting. https://slack.com/app-pages&
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by perardi 4y ago
Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
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by perardi 4y ago
I’ve even heard of such products containing hydroxocobalamin, and even a form of triphosphate.
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by perardi 4y ago
Oh, sure, to be fair, I only just started with Brex. And I am comparing their website to consumer-facing Chase—was just superficially impressed how much nicer Brex’s UI looks, and also feels more performant.
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by perardi 4y ago
Wow, no. I suppose it would be fine if you had a Slack integration that was a front-end to a proper piece of accounting software. But a completely ad-hoc system where accounting and auditors have to grep a giant chat log for an emoji is goi
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by perardi 4y ago
Sigh. No. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-psychopharmacology... Selegiline metabolizes to the inactive isomer of meth: l-methamphetamine. Which is very much not trucker crank—it’s an over-the-counter deconges
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by perardi 4y ago
I think the end of support for 32-bit applications in 2019 helped, slightly, with the run-up. Assuming you weren’t already shipping 64-bit applications…which would be weird…updating the application probably required getting everything into
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by perardi 4y ago
Is that any faster than modern versions of Photoshop today? I think you all may be missing the invisible sarcasm tag here. I am reading this more as a jab at Photoshop for not “feeling” faster on a contemporary multicore GPU-enhanced mach
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by perardi 4y ago
If Meta disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care or would they just move on to the next fad? I do think people would care about WhatsApp. Of course, someone with deep pockets would snap that up. Google comes to mind—what’s one more messagi
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by perardi 4y ago
There is a lot of CSS now…but so many of the recent additions have been useful. Really useful. Like, solves real-world problems, easy to understand, on their way to being very well-supported. For example… …Container Queries. ( https:&#x2F
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by perardi 4y ago
Let me second that. Besides perhaps the Canon 50mm f/1.8, 50mm lens are big now. Like a grapefruit on the front of your camera, to the extent it kinda obviates the size reduction in mirrorless bodies—slimmer body, and a giant lens. T
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by perardi 4y ago
Well, yeah, you have to have some sort of smoothing function to deal with exchange rates. Especially over the past year—the USD has been on a hell of a run. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-JPY?sa=X&ved
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by perardi 4y ago
Why? (And let’s set aside the how they’d possibly be able to compete with the scale, market penetration, marketing spend, and mature app ecosystems of iOS/Android and Apple/Samsung.) Privacy? Lack of advertising? Respect for the u
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by perardi 4y ago
Marketing had products for every conceivable niche. Ah, the Performa era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Performa Mind you, my first Mac was a Performa, as we sure didn’t know better.
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by perardi 4y ago
I personally cannot wait for container queries to be fully supported. And I’m pleasantly surprised it’s landed in the new version of Safari. If only for some presentational aspect of an internal design system I’m building, it’s a dream come
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by perardi 4y ago
Oh, no, Adobe does it even worse than just a tooltip. Rich tooltips! Big fancy full-color tooltips! That still don’t really show you how the feature works, and also doesn’t explain there are more features under that icon menu. That obscur
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by perardi 4y ago
So here is the proper source of the pool, with the actual question asked. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfnext-poll-crime-sfp... Responses to the question "During the last five years, was any item y
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by perardi 4y ago
“powerful lawmaker” Ever heard, vaguely, of Chicago-style politics? Well that’s the “powerful” guy here: Michael Madigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madigan https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago
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by perardi 4y ago
Judging by how many times they show up: Google. Just kidding. Mostly. Lots of little fiddly text editing patches for Google Docs, which doesn’t surprise me. It’s, I would assume, the most-used application suite on the web, and there’s going
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by perardi 4y ago
I long ago moved past the “oh I should try film” hipster phase…largely by being a hipster and shooting with Fuji. I was curious what a good, fine-grained roll of slide film costs nowadays…yikes. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
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by perardi 4y ago
Having lived in both places: Chicago. Dense downtown core, though Toronto has more people living there versus just offices. (Though that's been changing for a while now in Chicago) . Similar scope of mass transit, where the trains don
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by perardi 4y ago
I feel like it’s relevant to link to some stats here. https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/CompStat-P... And, for more easily visually parseable statistics on homicides, let’s link to… https:/&#
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by perardi 4y ago
I was an 80’s kid. Lots of childhood warnings about drugs or razor blades in Halloween candy. There were never any drugs in our Halloween candy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths
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by perardi 4y ago
…um, that’s a funny definition of “perfect” when you have a hacker with a Signal message history that they can use to blackmail you to hell and back.
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by perardi 4y ago
I’m entirely unclear if an ARM-based Mac Pro would look anything like the old Mac Pro. Well. Actually. If it would look anything like the late lamented cheese grater Mac Pro. I worry it would be a lot more like the trashcan Mac Pro. Because
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by perardi 4y ago
To really nitpick the analogy: Java is a Ford Transit cargo van. It’s primarily used by enterprise shops. You’d never brag you about driving a van. It’s not fashionable. It’s kinda ugly. But…it gets the job done.
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by perardi 4y ago
At my ripe old age of…38…I am of the opinion that text could use a bit more contrast. And not just the color—though bringing the color to #333333 does help a lot. It’s in part that font. Low x-height. Small apertures and counters. It’s a bi
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by perardi 4y ago
I had to go back and dig up a D700 photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi/8836490860/in/album-72... Yup. Image quality holds up! …OK, that’s not entirely fair. It’s more that the image quality of t
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by perardi 4y ago
I think Nikon would prefer to forget the whole Nikon 1 misadventure.

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