NoPedantsThanks

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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Or just the toaster dock and some bare drives.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Thanks for your reply. I’m on a phone at the moment but will check it out later. In the meantime I’ll say that the ambiguous capital I is indeed rampant in sans fonts, but that’s not a reason to perpetuate it. Why have any ambiguity ever, w
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
The crossbars on the capital "i" are not serifs. Serif fonts have serifs on the crossbar. Only sometimes does the lower-case L have a tail. And even if it does, there's no way to know that unless it happens to appear in the s
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Reminds me of the tape-backup units that stored files as VHS video.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Nope. No crossbars on the capital "i." I don't know why anyone opts for a font with this flaw. If you can't tell a capital "i" from a lower-case "L," the font is no good.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Because they overpay hacks to build them, and pass the cost onto consumers.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
2008? More like 1998. Totally unacceptable bullshit.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
I built an iOS app alone, from the ground up, in Objective-C. This was after I left Apple, where I mostly used C++. I hated Objective-C less than I expected, and the app was functional and reliable. Then I built an iOS app for a consumer-el
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Thanks for the replies. Sounds like a nice addition.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
So you don't consider the FTC to be "the government?"
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
"Incorrect output" is still correct to describe the cited behavior. "Hallucination" isn't. If a human behaves the same way when asked a question, we do not say he's hallucinating. One way to devalue incorrect t
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Wasn't there a post on here recently about OSM going to vector-based tiles? I did a quick search and it seems like this is already a widely-offered option. Can anyone jog our memory on what the change is?
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
The Obama administration did! That's why these have returned. I was disappointed by many of the "reforms" passed under Obama, but this one in particular and some other banking-related ones stand out as truly helpful.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Maybe they woke up to how bad that policy was. Here's another one that relegated my AmEx card to a drawer: To redeem airline-ticket benefits, AmEx forced you to use their own Web portal to book your flights. This inept portal considere
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Not to mention that all the new "small" trucks force you to get a giant four-door cab, which results in a puny bed. I guess the manufacturers have determined that everyone who wants a small truck is a poser. Look at Ford's ow
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
This is a recent uptick in enforcement actions. Meanwhile, TicketMaster/LiveNation/(scalping thing) has demonstrated a textbook consumer-harming monopoly for DECADES with impunity. DECADES. And politicians and agencies wave hands
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
It doesn't "hallucinate." It provides incorrect output. That is all.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Oh yeah, AmEx, the company that detects fraud on your account, cancels it, and then DOESN'T NOTIFY YOU. So you start getting notifications from vendors that they canceled your orders right before Christmas, because of trouble with your
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
That's what he said. There's nothing wrong with it, either. And don't bother pretending to think that he wants the government to use his opinion as justification. That's obviously where you're going, so don't i
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Not to mention that retailers are getting screwed harder all the time. I thought that the major cards had set fees across their brands, but NO: retailers are screwed at all different levels by different ISSUERS. Apparently Capital One is on
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Yay, and then you can join the homeless when your taxes double overnight and render your life savings worthless!
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
False equivalency galore there. Talk about ridiculous. There's plenty of justification for allowing people to choose what type of neighborhood they want to live in. Downtown L.A. is not "full." If you want high-density living
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Maybe you haven't looked into how these laws work, but they are handouts to developers because they guarantee that a developer can buy one house and put up 10 units (in CA, for example) without any opposition or time-consuming permitti
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Excellent news! More handouts for developers, targeting already-residential neighborhoods instead of mandating the redevelopment of blighted formerly-industrial and -commercial areas and dying malls with boarded-up Macy's and Fry'
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
I use my Macs for audio a lot, including with headphones, and have never experienced this in 20 years.
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Even more surprising: fobs that don't work if the key is in the ignition. My 1996 Mustang had a bad battery, so it would barely start. I took the remote fob off the key ring and left the car running, but locked it (using the physical d
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
People should by now have learned from all the footage on NextDoor of burglars ignoring obvious cameras. Mine are wired, but I'm not fooling myself that they're going to be all that useful if something happens. The other glaring f
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Huh, funny how you didn't manage to cite anything that was wrong in the Guardian article (or any of its other articles).
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Meanwhile, the trash responsible for this disaster is lobbying against safety regulations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/03/east-pale...
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by NoPedantsThanks 3y ago
Why would anyone care where a publication originates, as long as it does real reporting?

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