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by pirogen 7y ago
I've been using Firefox as my default and only web browser on Windows and Linux since it was called Firebird and Phoenix before that (or was it the other way around?). When Chrome first came out, Google's aggressive attempts at sh
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by pirogen 7y ago
By "drawing from imagination" I meant drawing without a reference (live or otherwise). You point seems to be: "drawing a very realistic rendition of an object/subject without looking at it is hard". Which is true, b
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by pirogen 7y ago
I wasn't always aphantastic. I've already talked about it in another aphantasia thread here on HN, but when I was a child I was actually hyperphantastic: I would spend endless hours playing and directing vividly realistic (albeit
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by pirogen 7y ago
I'm aphantastic and I'm very good at drawing. I come from a family of academically trained artists and almost ended up becoming one myself, actually. Drawing from imagination is actually drawing from memory. In my case, even thoug
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by pirogen 8y ago
I went from hyperphantasia as a child to complete aphantasia in my early teens. When I was <= 7 y.o. my favourite past time was playing and directing vividly realistic movies behind my closed eyelids. Sometimes I could even visualize thi
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by pirogen 8y ago
>he actually preferred working with record companies that had conservative, old, cigar-chomping executives I think it's more of a general observation than his personal "preference". Zappa only worked with two record compan
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by pirogen 8y ago
Is there any viable alternative to PayPal for a EU-based micro-business wanting to accept CC payments from North American customers? I run a legally operating one-man business providing electronic services to customers (mostly other busines