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by sambeau 1y ago
If you want to read it on a site that doesn't mess with scrolling, try here : https://kermit-font.com
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by sambeau 1y ago
I think that's a very myopic view of what Jobs did. I am of the opinion he was one of the greatest designers of all time. Just because he didn't move pixels across the screen doesn't mean he wasn't setting the design lan
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by sambeau 1y ago
Steve Jobs was not a marketing guy. If anything, he was a designer. His technical knowledge was also way beyond most CEOs. He designed his presentations with a high attention to detail just like he designed his products, product ranges and
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by sambeau 1y ago
Self driving cars, where you have to supervise and occasionally have to reign in from going off the path, are essentially faster horses. So they are finally here.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Yes, The Scott Trust. You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust
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by sambeau 2y ago
C. Elegant can suffer from depression, exhibiting some behaviours similar to humans with depression.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Here in the U.K. at least, vitamins are added to many of the basic foods: like breakfast cereal and bread. Putting aspirin in the water would be incredibly dangerous: brain bleeds and stomach ulcers would quickly knock out any other health
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by sambeau 2y ago
I like to take it one step further. Which country would you choose if you had to be poor? I’d probably choose Cuba.
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by sambeau 2y ago
He had a PR team. It all started to go wrong after he fired his PR team.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Sometimes I'm glad that artificial sweeteners taste incredibly bitter to me
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James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sambeau 2y ago|1 comments
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by sambeau 2y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388955884_JesseSort
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Elon Musk says he'll drop his $97B bid for OpenAI if it remains a non-profit(theguardian.com)
6 points by sambeau 2y ago|2 comments
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by sambeau 2y ago
(in mice)
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by sambeau 2y ago
And while I’m at it: https://libro.fm/ for audiobooks.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Can I take this opportunity to recommend the lovely http://bookshop.org and http://uk.bookshop.org
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by sambeau 2y ago
If I make an MP3 of a song or a JPEG of an artwork I cannot use them to reproduce the exact content, but I will still have violated the artist’s copyright.
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by sambeau 2y ago
That’s not journalism, that’s something else. There used to be fact checkers and editors used to have to verify the sources. I realise that the press barons no longer have any integrity, but it certainly used to be the rule.
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by sambeau 2y ago
The tradition of journalists using anonymous sources doesn’t mean they use anonymous sources, it means that they know who the source is, considers them reliable, but agrees not to name them. Usually they require multiple independent sources
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by sambeau 2y ago
Here in the U.K., where so many of these stupid rules and customs originate, dress codes have always been a way to exclude the ‘wrong sort’. Which, is usually working class and poor people.
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by sambeau 2y ago
I love this page in your docs: https://ghostty.org/docs/about Clear, friendly, modest, respectful and with the right balance of detail vs overview. Congratulations on your launch.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Love the graphics!
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by sambeau 2y ago
My mum brushes her teeth standing on one leg to keep herself young.
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by sambeau 2y ago
You are correct. Dickens didn’t write ‘novels’, he wrote ‘serials’, which are a subtly different thing: they were not composed in one sitting, rather in instalments. The question is, of course, were they conceived and planned as a single en
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by sambeau 2y ago
It's refreshing to see this labeled as a "step toward".
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by sambeau 2y ago
I had to write code at university in literate style back in the early 1990s
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by sambeau 2y ago
This smells to me of a team overthinking something so much that they land on something unintuitive. It smells of "over-fitting" — a solution way too specific when something general and flexible is needed. Pressing shift three time
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by sambeau 2y ago
If your software is free and the maintainers aren't getting paid then a few Easter eggs are a small price to pay. Colin was being paid, of course, but not primarily for maintaining man. Having said that, I once worked at a company (inc
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by sambeau 2y ago
My parents bought an iPad recently, intending to share it. They were dumfounded that it could only have one account and amazed that no-one had pointed it out to them when they went to buy it. It's now my Dad's iPad, which is a sha
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by sambeau 2y ago
I'd be interested to hear exactly what it is that Thomas Piketty has done that makes you call him notorious . Piketty's writing is deep and profound. It is well-researched. It makes sense. It has had a real effect on my own think

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