CoryAlexMartin

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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
Apple seems like the kind of company that would greatly benefit from having someone opinionated at the helm to keep the different teams oriented towards a unified vision and to intervene when a team produces something crappy
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
Meetup has become the worst service I use, bar none. They pretty much doubled our group fees from $200 a year to $400 a year, then started putting giant banner ads at the top of all of our member emails, then started locking essential featu
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
You cannot use bold or italics in plain text mode in TextEdit. It is truly a plain text mode. If you try to switch from rich text to plain text, and you utilize any rich text features in your document, it will warn you that you're goin
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I'm in Tennessee but can still access it. It seems like the law was blocked by a federal judge. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2024/12/31/tennessee-a...
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
You can use the time to think and process, or to rest your mind. Hardly useless!
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
There may be some screaming into the void, but at least some of it breaks through. I was someone who, for years, bought into the idea that being idiosyncratic and self-expressive and following my passions and self-interested dreams would le
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I've seen the sentiment building over the last several years. Though I think part of why it's such a prevalent sentiment now as opposed to a few years ago, is very obvious signs of cultural breakdown started to show strongly in ma
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I think it's a pushback against the emphasis on individualism in our culture, which many find does not lead to real fulfillment. When you start a family, you're giving up your own glory, but in doing so you become deeply integrate
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
It is certainly a stronger argument in the gun case, since defensive usage significantly outweighs criminal usage and most people don't even shoot anyone. Here we're dealing with a situation where being addicted to your smartphone
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I think one problem is some people don't realize that some of these models and implementations are so highly agreeable that they practically are mirrors. This kid seems to have been treating it like a therapist. Though this isn't
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
Yeah a big reason I started doing pixel art back in 2009 was because it enabled me to do lots of trial and error by changing pixels until I got it to look good. It's much harder to do that with more traditional art, because there are w
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I was at a Honda dealership in late 2021 looking for a car, and I mentioned to the car salesmen how I don't like how touchscreen-dependent cars have become. Then ten minutes later he's showing me the touchscreen climate controls i
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by CoryAlexMartin 2y ago
I wish they would provide useful customization features, such as adjusting the drop shadow on the app names that appear under the icons. Look at those images in the article; the "News" text is way less legible because it's ov
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
Mac OS 10.7 was a downward turning point. That’s when the iOSification started.
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
It’s very funny and strange that one of the defining characteristics of modern GUI design is that everything is very large. Lots of whitespace, buttons twice as tall as the cursor, windows that have to be maximized in order to see more than
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
Echoing what others have said. When I used DuckDuckGo, I would have to resort to using Google all the time because Google's results were often better. Since switching to Kagi, I never feel the need to use Google anymore.
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
I have the same experience. Dark mode automatically turns on way later than I’d like it to. From the article: "It is an alternative to the built in macOS automatic mode which only switches when the user steps away from the computer.&qu
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
I installed this app earlier this year, and uninstalled it a few days later after I noticed it constantly using obscene amounts of my internet data.
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
I simply was working far less than I actually wanted to. Being good at my craft and producing good work is important and enriching to me. For people with my priorities, it's not good to always be told that we _shouldn't_ work that
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
I've always been fascinated with NeXTSTEP. It's kind of unfortunate that even the basic interoperability features that made it over to Mac OS, like Services, seem underutilized. I often forget they even exist, because they don&#x2
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
Probably one of the most damaging ideas I ever bought into (some time in my late teens) was the idea that people are not generally capable of being productive for more than 35 hours per week, and sustaining it. It seemed true, because I alw
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
What does it mean for everything on screen to have a relationship to everything else? Could you elaborate?
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
There actually were things of note from the early demos that didn't make it into the final game. For example, the way you created your creature had gameplay implications. Things like limb length, limb count, limb placement, center of m
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
How could it not be innate? One of the most noteworthy properties of humanity is our tendency throughout history to make unparalleled technological progress. Surely something like that requires a dissatisfaction with present conditions. It
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by CoryAlexMartin 3y ago
He’s actually using Stencyl, which has a programming interface based on Scratch.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
You're reading (1) without the context of (a). (a) A healthcare provider shall not perform or offer to perform on a minor, or administer or offer to administer to a minor, a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Have you read a summary of the bill? As far as I can tell, it specifically pertain to medical procedures and therapies. The activist article you linked mentions clothing and names as being things children may change when they see themselves
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
The Tennessee bill you’re referring to specifically prohibits children, not adults, from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapies and sex change operations.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
Interesting. I spent a month in San Diego earlier this year, but maybe I didn't go to the right places, or maybe it's because San Diego is conservative relative to some other parts of California.
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by CoryAlexMartin 4y ago
I had some friends come visit me here in Nashville for a week earlier this month. We went out to eat almost every day, and I did not encounter a single one of these. Where have these things taken off?

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