turkishlurker

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by turkishlurker 2mo ago
nitpicker here: enshitified or enshittified?
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by turkishlurker 3y ago
I've been in manufacturing for ~13 years across 5 different organizations. There'll inevitably come up a spreadsheet use case where you'll have to execute a well defined series of steps on a recurring basis (and some of these
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by turkishlurker 4y ago
The company in question must be taking planned obsolescence very seriously or else with the R&D budget I assume they have, they would have come up with a nearly durable product by now.
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
One explanation would be that if you are an "extreme" user, you are bound to find fault with all the offerings on the market. The need to tweak/customize/adapt naturally arises when you have reached a certain level of so
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
Assembly in auto plants relies on a parts bundling/feeding process that begins in advance, analogous to mise en place and cooking.
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
I wish Kenji did a piece on the components of an "ideal" salad.
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
I remember a PG tweet along the lines of "if faced with a choice between two things, pick the harder one".
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
A former version of sandberg.nl from circa 2005. It was Flash based and if I recall correctly the work of Luna Maurer, a Dutch designer. I am not sure it is safe to admit it here but I am nostalgic for the heyday of Flash.
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by turkishlurker 5y ago
Schliemann was a curious character--he seems to have been as much of a pillager as an archeologist. As a non-sequitur his personal story is a testament to how much more "globalized" the world was in the 19th century, for better or