sandspar

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by sandspar 11mo ago
If someone says that they can't get a camera to work, you tell them how to fix it, right? I can't think of what other response is appropriate.
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by sandspar 11mo ago
"Progress by crashing into things then putting the broken pieces back together" is surprisingly effective.
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Her job is dependent on being likeable to a mass audience. If you want to be likeable to a mass audience then it's most effective to repeat bromides.
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Her essay makes it seem like she's mostly powerless. She gets shuttled around from place to place because other people make money by using her as a prop. She gets paid lots of money and is given freedom, in a sense, but it's freed
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Breaking an ankle bracelet and fleeing an international manhunt is a risky endeavour! Although I suppose world leaders tend to be risk takers. "I deserve the top job, and I'm going to scratch and claw my way to get it" isn&#x
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Having social power is like owning a gun. Yes it's nice to have it and not use it. But there's often a temptation to use it. And if you use it incorrectly then someone can get hurt. You spend years honing your skill with a weapon
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Apropos, from a book I read long ago and have forgotten, except for this passage: "Prior to the twentieth century, when life spans were shorter, a shepherd might have known hundreds of songs, poems, and stories and several languages, h
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Thank you for proving my point.
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by sandspar 11mo ago
Every American conservative knows the feeling of being at work and your liberal coworkers, not knowing you're conservative, start going on a rant about how terrible Republicans are and how stupid they are and how they all deserve jail
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by sandspar 11mo ago
You must have the most English name imaginable!
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by sandspar 11mo ago
I haven't found this to be true. For marriage, sure, pick someone close to you. But I've found that IQ is mostly irrelevant for friendship. Character and compatibility matter more than IQ. I've noticed that many smart people
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by sandspar 11mo ago
In "The Conquest of Happiness", Bertrand Russell wrote that, all else being equal, the man who enjoys eating strawberries has a happier life than the man who dislikes strawberries. I feel that way about AI haters like the author.
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by sandspar 11mo ago
I think the Job To Be Done of dating apps is "kill time on the couch". Dating apps aren't competing with speed dating; they're competing with Bejeweled. Basically dating apps are to love as Duolingo is to learning a lang
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by sandspar 1y ago
The article suggests that 2-3% of people have aphantasia.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Many people with aphantasia skip descriptive passages when reading books.
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by sandspar 1y ago
>Does anyone watch mainstream media? Many people over 60 (i.e. the people who vote) watch nothing but.
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by sandspar 1y ago
The subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI has 37,000 subscribers. And in the fantasy and science fiction section of big chain bookstores, 90% of the titles are porn for women. Women are absolutely the target market for text porn.
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by sandspar 1y ago
>Politics is everything This will sound rude but I'm trying to be sincere. You might want to take a break from social media. It sounds like you're neglecting your real life a little bit.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Thousands of indie games die on the vine for every one breakout. It's like saying you can make millions of dollars if your acting career takes off.
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by sandspar 1y ago
User: list crafts that software has automated GPT-5: Typesetting and paste-up, film prepress/stripping, CMYK color separations, halftone screening, darkroom compositing/masking, airbrush photo retouching, optical film compositing&
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by sandspar 1y ago
AI hatred is a shibboleth in western creative circles in 2025, but that doesn't mean it's wise or useful. It's also not universal (e.g. Chinese creatives are happily experimenting with AI). And the shibboleth may not last as
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by sandspar 1y ago
I think humans are information-eaters, basically. Short-form video is a highly efficient way to consume information.
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by sandspar 1y ago
I think that HackerNews is full of old techie greybeards, whereas Liquid Glass is designed for Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Young people tend to like things that wiggle and bounce around and so on. If I were Apple then I'd say hmm, we still wa
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by sandspar 1y ago
I think that would be considered a huge compliment in the "Gen-Z designer" scene that many of Apple's designers probably inhabit.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Erdos is awesome but he's so singular that I think his exception makes the rule.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Awesome. I like how fitness snowballs. Once you develop a decent body, it feels like a shame to eat bad food. And so on. It's like a guy who has a beat up car, doesn't like the way it looks, so doesn't take care of it - then
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by sandspar 1y ago
Sora 2 is a lot of fun. Using it feels like a glimpse into the future. The last time I felt this was with the Sesame voice demo.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Looking through Google's ad platform recently, I was struck by how searches like "how to become a game developer" have tens of thousands of searches per month and $50 CPC, whereas technical searches like "level design in
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by sandspar 1y ago
Check large chains like Indigo Books in Vancouver - Gibson lives there.
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by sandspar 1y ago
One of Picasso's acquaintances said that he would suck people's energy. When you hung out with him, you'd leave his presence feeling emotionally drained and frazzled. And the more Picasso drained you, the more enlarged he hi

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