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by pixelbath 4y ago
> but he didn’t tell them that ahead of time He actually did disclose this [1], at least to the art fair administration: > Olga Robak, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, which oversees the state fair, said Mr. A
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by pixelbath 4y ago
There's also the linked "Game Within a Game" article linked from the above article: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameWithinAGame or the "Embedded Precursor" which is mo
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by pixelbath 4y ago
Well, for these particular challenges, we're all on a Discord server ( https://discord.gg/createwithclint ), and these are semi-regular community challenges. There are also smaller weekly competitions, but these are the
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by pixelbath 5y ago
> they have no intrinsic value Nor do paper dollars (or paper rupees). They're special because a group of people said they were, which isn't that different from cryptocurrency in concept.
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by pixelbath 5y ago
Great post! Here's one from Keith Peters with some interactive code examples: https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2022/01/circle-inversion/
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by pixelbath 5y ago
I finally made the switch from GA to Open Web Analytics. I'm already fairly experienced with PHP, which I considered a point in its favor, but I honestly haven't had to do anything with it other than copying it to a server and con
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by pixelbath 5y ago
Not GP, but when you're waiting for three-plus minutes on "did my change have the desired effect," it's incredibly easy to get distracted by "just checking on this one thing" for a minute and completely losing
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by pixelbath 5y ago
The article says this is "the latest battle between a Big Tech giant and a smaller technology firm." Roku is a technology spin-off of Netflix that went public on its own and last year reported revenue of nearly a billion dollars.
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by pixelbath 5y ago
If you're actually curious, the content of this post seems based in some sort of bitterness, like you have a specific axe to grind against management in general. I don't feel it contributes anything to the discussion, so I downvot
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by pixelbath 5y ago
I do; I installed on both my personal laptop (2012-ish Alienware 17) and my wife's laptop (2020 Asus Vivobook). The first thing to note is that Windows Update is completely removed, so unless you have fairly-current Windows 10 drivers,
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by pixelbath 5y ago
Why is every top-level comment equating autocomplete with the ability to paste a password? Those are two explicitly different use cases, and one should not affect the other. I don't want my password fields autocompleting; that sounds
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by pixelbath 5y ago
The link is pointing at the comment section for some reason. Remove ?comments=1&start=40 from the URL to see the actual article.
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by pixelbath 5y ago
No, there is no actual mention of anything practical in a design sense; it's a long-form implication that, "design teaches minimalism, and minimalism contributes to whitespace, therefore designers using minimalism like a cargo cul
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by pixelbath 6y ago
This isn't really what this is. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" is the idea that Microsoft would embrace open standards just enough to add their own proprietary extensions, then once theirs is the dominant platform, drop the re
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by pixelbath 6y ago
I installed FreshRSS on a server and imported my Google Reader feeds. I love having an RSS client that won't go away, and it's at least taught me that I should never rely on Google keeping something available, so it was a valuable
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by pixelbath 6y ago
That's hilarious. I had a customer in a computer store (decades ago) ask if I knew where to find Juarez. Given we were in Houston, it wasn't an unreasonable question so I asked, "Juarez...Mexico?" "No, like wah-rez.
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by pixelbath 6y ago
> What is "far right"? Someone with ideological beliefs that are either far away from or diametrically opposed to those on the left. > just a BS title So is "the left" and "Republican," but we need terms
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by pixelbath 6y ago
There's also MathBox, which seems to take a more D3-style approach to creating diagrams: https://github.com/unconed/mathbox Examples in a presentation: http://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixel
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by pixelbath 6y ago
I do find it fascinating this information can be offered as a service, given: 1. the data is already in the public domain, 2. is published as a single, easily-ingestable file, and 3. free to download and use already-licensed. Maybe this wil
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by pixelbath 6y ago
Similarly, in the northwest salt actually becomes a liability when temperatures are well below freezing. Using salt can actually increase the incidence of more compact, harder-to-see ice (aka black ice) because of the slight thawing and ref
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by pixelbath 6y ago
A link to an online brochure for a product that doesn't exist, submitted by an account less than 24 hours old. No thanks.
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by pixelbath 6y ago
Good luck. I had enough and dropped my Adobe paid subscription because they decided Windows 8.1 was a verboten platform for some reason. Not Windows versions prior to 8.1, mind you, because Windows 7 and regular Windows 8 was still supp
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by pixelbath 6y ago
One gotcha is there is no native bitmap trace. The developers currently recommend using external software to do so. Otherwise, I've been able to bang out some quick vector layouts since some of the basic hotkeys are the same, and it se
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by pixelbath 6y ago
It's a nice thought, but "the original" of nearly all (current) digital goods is a meaningless concept when all copies are identical. I can see this sort of thing being meaningful for some of the specific things you mention (
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by pixelbath 6y ago
I'm not really sure what went wrong on my Xubuntu 20.04 system; I was never able to get a single game running under Proton. Attempting to do so would essentially soft-lock the entire Steam platform until I killed every process related
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by pixelbath 6y ago
Without some serious way to draw in players, you're never going to acquire, and more importantly, keep them. Google should have kept leaning into the idea that Stadia could support the highest settings on any game at any resolution the
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by pixelbath 6y ago
> The solution is to use an Open Source browser, such as Firefox or some other alternative. Serious question: Why is Chromium the default in any open source operating system? For all the talk about how Google has their own interests wi
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by pixelbath 6y ago
Because a company is an asset, not a person.
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by pixelbath 6y ago
Have been using a Sculpt keyboard since around 2015. One thing that seems to alleviate the problems of missed keys and the keyboard going to sleep (at least on Windows): in the Device Manager, look for the connection dongle (it should be co
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by pixelbath 6y ago
I find it interesting that not a single problem mentioned in the talk has been addressed on the site in the intervening 5 years.

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