tpmoney

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by tpmoney 9mo ago
What is an "ad company" though? If it's someone you pay to advertise your product for you, well that's something town criers often did for merchants so "ad companies" are at least that old.
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Does a director make a movie? Serious question. Can we say that Steven Spielberg made Jurassic Park? Can we say the George Lucas made Star Wars? Directors rarely act in their own movies, write their own scripts, operate the cameras, operate
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> Suppose you keep this up for 15 years; how will you grapple with all the cruft you have generated? I can't speak for the OP but the worst software developer I ever worked with was myself from 1 year ago. Provided what "cruft&
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Alternatively, we can build things fast as long as you don't need an act of congress to get it built or funded.
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Sure, but that’s still not free. The company is spending time, money and resources on soliciting the reviews, sending units out, receiving units back and then scrapping or selling those units as refurbs/open box. They’re not spending t
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
When did we have a functioning economy without ads? Was it the 1980's when some of the most classic children's shows were 30 minute commercials for toys? Was it the 1960s when Charles Schultz was lamenting the commercialization of
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> until the 19th century, ads were basically just information dense textual statements. I'm curious how does this account for "town criers" and the like? And there seems to be quite a few examples of less "information
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
I sincerely do not believe this. I suspect that you have a very specific definition of ad that is far narrower than I do, but I do not believe you never once saw a movie trailer and decided to go see the film, or saw a billboard or sign for
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Even without being paid, unless someone is advertising the product somewhere the reviewer won't know it exists to review. And if the reviewer is being sent free product or solicited directly by the producer, that's still advertisi
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
The early web very quickly gave rise to curated directories of information and stopped working on word of mouth. Yahoo was a directory before it was a "search engine". AOL was a curated walled garden. Web rings were a thing, great
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
They won't. Notice that Angies list doesn't operate on the "customer pays for the list" model. That's because any directory service that depends on the searcher paying suffers from the problem that once you've
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
You can make it more level, but in any system constrained by the physical world, you can never make it completely level. Ever notice that there used to be a lot of businesses with names like "A+ Heating and Cooling" or "AAA C
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
Some people are using it that way sure. And some people are using it to automate things that "should" (or at least that someone would want to) be automated. For example, here's a video from the Corridor Crew channel[1] that u
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
This is being pedantic though. Is there nothing in your life that you outsource because you just don't enjoy doing, or it would take too much time away from what you actually want to do? It's highly unlikely you grind your own f
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
Not all art is intended to "say something". Sometimes you want a piece of artwork because you want a portrait of your D&D character for the character sheet. Sometimes you want some background for some color in a slide. Sometim
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
> I feel like this will get missed by the general public. What’s the point in generating writing or generating art if it gives next to zero feelings of accomplishment? It depends on what you're trying to do. I mean if the point of d
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
> Your argument is perfectly well suited to justify the imperialist Russian aggression against Ukraine. Once you accept that there may be cases where you need to interfere with another country’s internal affairs, you can make up all sort
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
The principles of self defense say that once you are no longer being attacked, any further aggression on your part is no longer defense. For example, you can use lethal force to protect yourself from a person attempting to cause you grievou
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
Not to justify what happened here, but your argument would mean that the US would likely have remained a British colony given that French intervention on behalf of the colonies was a contributing factor to the success of the revolutionary w
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
And this is why I think intent matters more than the tools. Lets say I had framed the photo when I took it such that the turd was not in the frame. Is that a "fake" photo because I framed it in such a way as to exclude something t
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
> I think the headline is problematic because it suggests the raw photos aren't very good and thus need processing That’s not how I read either the headline or the article at all. I read it as “this is a ‘raw photo’ fresh off your c
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
But that was the point the OP was making. Not that you couldn’t differentiate between white balance correction and generative fill, but rather that the intent of the change matters for determining if an image is “fake”. For example, I took
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
I didn’t read the article as implying that the final image the author arrived at was “unprocessed”. The point seemed to be that the first image was “unprocessed” but that the “unprocessed” image isn’t useful as a “photo”. You only get a pro
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
My lived experience with human drivers and outages at intersections is most people get it very wrong. If you're lucky and the lit intersection is 1 lane in each direction, more often than not everything works out well. But any intersec
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
Neat. How does that apply to a homeless man dealing wth the system in the UK?
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
> Art eludes definition while asking questions about what it means to be human. All art? Those CDs full of clip art from the 90's? The stock assets in Unity? The icons on your computer screen? The designs on your wrapping paper? Som
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
> Let's say, in an alternate universe where Rubio's department genuinely thought there were cost or coordination issues with Calibri. They could have reversed the decision and cited that. So apparently Daring Fireball (of all p
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
If you're a Dell customer, Michael Dell taking the company private again seems to have done wonders for them.
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by tpmoney 10mo ago
It feels like the question that gets raised by this is why was there such a blind spot here? Apple's UI/UX decisions aren't for everyone to be sure, but they were a core differentiator for Apple. So if so many people inside s
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by tpmoney 11mo ago
So I thought that might be the dialog you're talking about which is why I thought it was weird that ghostty didn't have it and curl seemed to work just fine. I also could swear that it did show you rejected apps in the list just w

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