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by scelerat 5y ago
It's not just appearance but also behavior. There are differences across browsers, OSes, and devices in how UI widgets work and inevitably the "custom" approach is a compromise in favor of the PM's personal workstation.
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Atheist christian, I guess. Grew up in a denominational "peace church," Church of The Brethren, where quiet, non-self-aggrandizing service to others was emphasized over theistic dogma and attention-grabbing displays of piety. One
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It's been thus, nigh on two decades now. Product Designer: "No system controls; we want our users to have the Full Brand Experience, therefore, custom controls." Also Product Designer: "Why don't our custom controls
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by scelerat 5y ago
Hard to imagine Apple today without the Second Coming of Jobs. Incredible, aquihire. Hard to imagine JL Gasee leading Apple in the same way.
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by scelerat 5y ago
I tend to entertain the notion that anyone posting publicly isn't posting solely for their own indulgence but to others' benefit as well. insofar as making stuff goes, especially art, I think there are widely held views that it ei
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by scelerat 5y ago
I write songs too, and this is often how it works for me. Songwriting is like any other kind of creative work. You come up with an idea, put it into some concrete form. That first recording. If it's shite, give it a minute and then com
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by scelerat 5y ago
First, "objective" reporting is a very subjective concept! Even if rhetorical bias is suppressed, there is always an editorial bias. What stories get run? What is the shape and focus of stories that do run? All news organizations
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by scelerat 5y ago
Pray tell, which version of music business history elides the countless musicians worked for peanuts playing -- inventing -- ragtime and jazz to fill bars and brothels; the jukeboxes run by the mob as a pivot from their gaming machines; the
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by scelerat 5y ago
For myself and a lot of people I know, discovery is nearly as much a reward as the music itself. And there is no comparison between the one- or two-dimensional "discovery" offered by social media and streaming platforms and the r
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by scelerat 5y ago
Don't conflate "music" with "music business." GP is talking about the latter. As a musician who has toured and recorded, and someone who has worked for multiple concert promoters and streaming services, I think GP f
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by scelerat 5y ago
I'm reminded that in the early days, Apple made an effort to personify the platform by referring to it as "Macintosh," not "THE Macintosh," as though one was referring to an individual with a proper name rather than
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by scelerat 5y ago
And indeed they are, even in states without Texas-like legalized summary execution. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/11/oakland-12-year...
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This would not work in Oakland. Cold red? zooooooommmmmm
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But that is how the House is explicitly defined in the US constitution: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...&q
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I may be romanticizing it as a mere occasional visitor, but my impression of Tokyo is as a place which has managed to manage a balance of (incredible) density with livable neighborhoods. Lots of public transit, commercial districts, residen
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by scelerat 5y ago
Yes, I have experienced "blame the victim" as a cyclist as well.. Traveling down a well-lit street at night, lights on my bike front and back, approaching a four-way intersection, green for me, a car turning left across my path st
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by scelerat 5y ago
INT and WIS are separate, orthogonal stats
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A lot of things in my life have changed in the last thirty years, but one thing that has not is late nights and lost sleep (and angry/confused roommates, girlfriends and wife) due to a Civ obsession. I've played every version on t
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by scelerat 5y ago
TIL that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the planner of the 9/11 attacks as well as the failed Bojinka plot linked above, had his trial for numerous charges (including 9/11) restarted just yesterday. https://www.
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by scelerat 5y ago
Needs more latin
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by scelerat 5y ago
I have been using LunarVim for the last couple of months. I will have to give Doom and NvChad a look as well. One thing I appreciate about lunarvim (in its latest iteration) is that it keeps all its settings sequestered from the neovim sett
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by scelerat 5y ago
TLDR: garbage in; garbage out
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by scelerat 5y ago
Patreon made similar decisions about four years ago when they began to tighten their terms for NSFW creators. https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-27-patreon-adult-content-cr... Much of the pressure came from payment processing
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by scelerat 5y ago
And yet today, the descendants of ELIZA provide first-line customer support for thousands of companies.
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If you don't have twitter on your phone, you can go to twitter.com and the new font is active.
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> 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years My dad was a project manager at JPL during this time and I was in jr high or high school. I remember visiting during a JPL Open House and seeing a Mac IIcx or IIcx (the smaller Mac II box) mounted on a sm
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This is prominent among many reasons why I’ve kept BBEdit installed on all my Macs since the mid-‘90s, even after most of my development workflow shifted to zsh-nvim-tmux
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I'd stick to the spec and the conventions around them, if for the only reason that many tools have default assumptions based around these specs and once you start to veer away, you're coding around your tools instead of with them.
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“Internet” here is appropriate too. Although he’s reminiscing about mid ‘90s websites, most of that was still an extension of the amateur, interest-driven culture (and counter culture) that was prevalent across Usenet, gopher, and ftp sites
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by scelerat 5y ago
How does SF crime compare to neighboring SF Bay Area cities that don't have such an experimental DA? The author attributes rising crime, homelessness, and anti-Asian violence to the policies of one DA in San Francisco. Yet, sitting her

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