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by the_other 10mo ago
I've generally preferred these over the mainstream chains. The nearest Picturehouse to me closed down recently, which was a real loss as it was in a great building. I feel they didn't lean into their art house background hard enou
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by the_other 10mo ago
In my opinion, here in the UK, the cinema/theatre business killed itself. Cinemas are horrible places to visit: - they smell bad (stale junk food) - they have oppressive lighting (mostly extremely dark but with garish turquoise and pin
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by the_other 11mo ago
I have a theory for this, but I don't know how I'd test for it (and I don't work in the field). We have a time window within which audio stimulae are interpreted as being "the same sound". When you hear two impulses
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by the_other 11mo ago
This seems like an admission that LLMs don’t bring the productivity gains claimed/projected. Advertising works entirely counter to (individual) productivity. Adertising requires attention, and attention distracts from productivity. So
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by the_other 11mo ago
Get them working on interesting projects building things customers/users/peers will value.
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by the_other 11mo ago
> These are not things that are going to happen in the US. Citation needed.
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by the_other 11mo ago
My only use of XSLT (2000-2003) was to make interactive e-learning applications. I'd have used it in 2014 too, for an interactive "e-brochure", if I could have worked out a cross-browser solution for runtime transformation of
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by the_other 1y ago
No, the problem is 100% the addiction to tracking and data harvesting. If you don’t do that, you don’t need the banner.
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by the_other 1y ago
> where wealth inequality has reached a point of a new feudal like caste system This is a global problem, not limited to the US. It's also the end-state of capitalism because having (access to) more money makes it easier to have acc
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by the_other 1y ago
This wording caught my attention: > have to come up with names for one-off element-specific styles You never have to “name styles”. You have to identify the target element as different from other similar ones. There’s a subtle differen
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by the_other 1y ago
That mass adoption has brought in the normalisation of automated surveillance, attention farming and arguably lowered peoples’ tolerance to “the other”. I’m currently not convinced it’s a net positive. Perhaps things would have gone better
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by the_other 1y ago
> If you are using a service weekly for a long period, you find it useful. Like sugar?
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by the_other 1y ago
It's the same direction of travel as recent UK laws allowing police to stop people preparing to join protests if they think the accused might be planning to e.g. glue themselves to something. IMO this is basically policing thought crim
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by the_other 1y ago
Years ago on the Ruby Rogues podcast, someone mentioned they aim to do just one operation per line. I’ve aimed to do that with ny TS/JS ever since. My files are longer but they’re usually easier to read.
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by the_other 1y ago
My iPhone X worked fine for 7 years, even without a battery replacement. It still works just fine. I wanted a larger screen and better zoom lens, so I upgraded earlier this year but I absolutely didn't have to and didn't feel an
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by the_other 1y ago
> Isn't this the case for all UI redesigns? This one is particularly bad because it's shit. It makes the device harder to use for most users. It introduces a load of utterly pointless, and/or confusing, patterns/motif
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by the_other 1y ago
> There’s probably a lot more money to be made from vendor lock-in than happy, $50 per year customers. As for me and mine, I will switch to the next small-to-medium-sized mail provider the second I get a sense that this is the direction.
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by the_other 1y ago
Cleaning is pointless?
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by the_other 1y ago
I picked React over Angular in 2015 and havn’t looked back. I’ve never done, nor been asked to do a rewrite. I once interviewed for a role that would have involved a rewrite from Angular to React. My current employer has a design system and
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by the_other 1y ago
When I talked about taking on the work at a lower rate, I had imagined that being part of a negotiation in which the provider says somethibg like “I have a strong feeling based on experience that this suggestion the client is determined get
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by the_other 1y ago
Fair, but neither do long line lengths.
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by the_other 1y ago
I think you’re being unfair on Discovery in attacking its “identity politics” as being more intense than earlier Treks. I say this because Discovery intensifies EVERYTHING it does over earlier Star Treks. The visuals are more cinematic, the
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by the_other 1y ago
As someone who uses screen zoom tools constantly, I vote in favour of the 80ch column width recommendation. If you want to support extra wide monitors, consider using multiple columns, rather than a single, wider one.
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by the_other 1y ago
Why on earth hadn’t the wife bought the domain name before it even got to this stage. Neither the author nor the AI will be able to argue with a auccessful project. ‘til the thing isnout there, this is just chin-stroking. The domain name in
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by the_other 1y ago
Costs (time/money) are metrics to help analyse your situation/progress. They are not quality of life. If you had a huge pile of money but still lived in a shack in a slum, you’d still have a terrible quality of life. If you argume
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by the_other 1y ago
I think you’re putting too much weight on cost (time, money), and not enough weight on “quality of life”, in your analysis. For sure, we can shop faster, and (attempt) research and admin faster. But… Shopping: used to be fun. You’d go with
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by the_other 1y ago
If you're not involving people in the problem solving, you're probably solving the wrong problem.
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by the_other 1y ago
That's in part because "common sense" is an illusion and fantasy.
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by the_other 1y ago
I don't think you mean "for the safety of the Nation". I think you mean "for my piece of mind my business is unlikely to get caught in a sting operation".
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by the_other 1y ago
> we might have a bunch of browsers with 0.1% marketshare. How? Ludicrous. And proprietary browser plugins, really? Such a market works for cars (kinda), vacuum cleaners, hifi, golf clubs, burgers, synthesisers, sofas, buildings, DIY too

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