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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, I’d seen higher-frame rate video before, and since (though maybe not again in a movie theater?) but that’s the only time I’ve noticed that particular problem. I spent a little time searching around after I saw it, trying to figure out
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by wharvle 3y ago
I remember one small town post office we frequented wasn’t much to look at outside—brick, but not fancy—but was gorgeous inside. Marble everywhere, including floors, brass everything including solid wood brass-clad exterior doors and fine,
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by wharvle 3y ago
Also saw the first film in 2d in the theater at 48fps, also very excited going in, also felt like everything looked sped-up. What it reminded me of was silent era film that’s been slightly sped up on purpose for comic effect. All the walkin
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by wharvle 3y ago
It’s mostly a recent problem, oddly enough. Only one of the last nine big-two party candidates didn’t go to prep school (Hilary, as you mention). Typically more than half the primary candidates “prepped”, over the same period. Most VPs have
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by wharvle 3y ago
Oh, for sure. The biggest sacrifice isn’t sleep. It’s money. So very, very much money. And having to pare your hobbies down to one or two things to avoid going crazy. Both much worse than any sleep disruption. (But yes, worth it).
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by wharvle 3y ago
Reminds me I really need to do something about those checks notes 99 compromised accounts in my password manager.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Most of the important functionality that’s been added didn’t require the changes to UI that I consider a downgrade.
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by wharvle 3y ago
This makes more sense when one recalls that a whole lot of powerful people, including and perhaps especially politicians, come from a handful of prestigious schools, and are surrounded by advisors and assistants largely from those same scho
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by wharvle 3y ago
If “just soundproof the room” is an option, I’m guessing a night nanny’s in the budget, too. What we did was just one of us would sleep in another room with the monitor, and the other in our normal bedroom. Fan and door closed was all the s
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by wharvle 3y ago
Like a charm, three for three. No night feedings past 12 weeks for any of the three. Longest “cry it out” period of the three was three nights (because all were comfortably at a single feeding by then, and used to falling back asleep on the
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by wharvle 3y ago
What’s with the soundproofing thing? I don’t follow what you’re getting at. Yes you could solve the problem with soundproofing, but that’s really expensive. Some distance and a loud fan is something more people already have than soundproofe
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by wharvle 3y ago
Nb to observers considering having kids but worried about this, unless you’re badly space-constrained it’s pretty easy to keep sleep for both adults north of 6.5hrs a night, and to have catch-up nights for both on the weekend (9+ hours). Pl
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by wharvle 3y ago
Desktop program UI design mostly peaked in the 90s (search-to-launch becoming ubiquitous is about the only really good thing to happen since then). Desktop web design peaked somewhat later, in the two- and three-column era. ‘00s. It was nic
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by wharvle 3y ago
This one’s lost. Carry on using it correctly among those who get it, avoiding the expression among those who probably don’t, and quietly accepting this usage from those who employ it (while, perhaps, marking them off your mental list of pot
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by wharvle 3y ago
Gmail’s always very nearly unusable on mobile safari, mostly due to their user-hating decision to use custom scrolling. Constant accidental touch events when trying to scroll, and it breaks in weird ways that require reloads to fix. And tha
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by wharvle 3y ago
This can be made better or worse by processes and tools. After years and years in Slack workplaces, I’m now witnessing firsthand how Teams can effectively throw sand in the gears of remote work, simply due to how its UI is designed. The lac
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by wharvle 3y ago
I’ve noticed large regional differences in truck prevalence (vs. more jeeps and even more SUVs, it seemed to my eye, in the relatively-low-truck regions) so that may be account for difference in perception. In my part of the Midwest, the
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by wharvle 3y ago
Appliances with better energy efficiency don’t get to advertise a price different from what’ll ring up at the register just because they’ll cost less in electricity over time.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Devil’s advocate: “You can choose what to give us and we’ll display it… but if what you give us isn’t good enough, who knows what might happen to your links’ prominence on our site?” isn’t quite some fully-voluntary thing when Google’s th
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by wharvle 3y ago
The sun setting at or before 5PM is so very much worse than morning darkness. Especially for kids. They need sunlight and their only real opportunity to get much time outside during the school year is the late afternoon and evening, especia
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by wharvle 3y ago
I still just use Spectacle. Still works, has never in years given me any trouble whatsoever—zero jank, never crashes, just works—so haven’t bothered to switch. Being able to get its behavior with same key-combos on any other OS I might se
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by wharvle 3y ago
Characters can definitely enjoy copyright protection, distinct from trademark protection. At least in the US.
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by wharvle 3y ago
More things people actually like doing will lose both social and economic value outside the very top tiers of skill, and become quirky hobbies you mostly do alone for yourself.
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by wharvle 3y ago
This seems more like an argument for mandating up-front pricing, than against up-front pricing. That way nobody can “defect” and gain business by obscuring prices.
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by wharvle 3y ago
My very first, naive attempt at DDG’ing this revealed a bunch, yeah. Quantified weight gain in immigrants, studies of gain then loss again once moving back to the original country, all kinds of angles of approaching it. A second search with
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by wharvle 3y ago
The phenomenon of people from skinnier (but developed) countries spending some time in the US and complaining that they gain a lot of weight suggests a pretty damn strong environmental component. Strong to the point of overwhelming most oth
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Unfortunately history has shown us time and time again that oppressive leaders disarm their populations before subjecting them to horrific abuses of their power. We aren't falling for it again. I would (no sarcasm) love a link to
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by wharvle 3y ago
Just 9 years to go before Wayland’s replacement protocol is revealed, going by the X11 timeline. Or, in the next year or two, going by the Xfree86/Xorg timeline. It’ll be interesting to see whether the (inevitable) Wayland or X11 compa
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by wharvle 3y ago
100% of the ~20 people I personally know who were happily doing their entire job just fine from home in 2020 and 2021 were in the 40-90 income percentile range. The ones who’ve totally lost that benefit are mostly on the lower end of that.