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by pickledish 6y ago
A link to this poem, since I was curious: http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=648
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by pickledish 6y ago
Ah yeah, so it is! Good eye :)
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by pickledish 6y ago
Hmm, anyone know the name of the font they're using in the pictures? Closest I was able to find was anonymous pro, but that's not quite it
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by pickledish 6y ago
Poked around their site a little and found this, seems to answer your question? https://www.overshootday.org/content/uploads/2020/06/Earth-O...
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by pickledish 6y ago
Man, I've been frustrated when I see that story recently; it reads like a bad caricature of what a lot of good movements are trying to accomplish. In reality the goal (though not always perfectly executed of course) is always about rai
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by pickledish 6y ago
This seems like a needlessly hard-line stance to me. It's not reasonable to think that "belief in one's company" is the only thing that will decide the success or failure of a startup, and wanting to hedge against the sc
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by pickledish 6y ago
Ah, yeah I do see where you're coming from. I guess I just haven't been looking at font faces so much as "art" (mostly because it seems like there isn't a lot of room for variation or creativity; most of these &quot
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by pickledish 6y ago
I mean, I'm not sure the world needs more font faces when the existing set of many many options seems to do a pretty good job for all purposes (who ever thinks, "boy this job would be much easier with a font more appropriately sui
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by pickledish 7y ago
I think you might be taking this line too seriously. In this piece I don't think the author is trying to lay out a well-thought-out, validated, and rhetorically-correct argument for his point of view -- if he were trying to do that, yo
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by pickledish 7y ago
You don't have to look it up if you don't want to, but you should know the health risks of eating factory-farmed meat (regarding antibiotic resistance, among other things) are almost assuredly worse.
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by pickledish 7y ago
I think any piece of code falls on a spectrum, somewhere between "software engineering" (efficient, well documented, etc) and "art" (interesting to look at in some way, someone had fun making it, etc). The two ends of th
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by pickledish 7y ago
I dunno, I find it pretty hard to get on board the home automation train. I feel like, working in tech, we know better than anyone else how incomplete or unreliable these systems can be, so why introduce it to your home? Why replace your pl
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by pickledish 7y ago
The best guide I've found for this is Learn You a Haskell for Great Good[0]. You'll probably see lots of recommendations for it around here; it's a very gentle/conversational intro to the language that's fun to foll
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by pickledish 7y ago
I've heard it referred as a "magpie developer": https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/ though that's less for a competitive advantage and more because new tech is shiny
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Exploiting Self-Improvement(willett.io)
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