carcabob

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by carcabob 6mo ago
I am not actively changing how I write, but I think it's still affecting me, is what I meant to say.
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by carcabob 6mo ago
True. Writing structures for arguments and analysis make a huge difference in effective writing. I wish brevity and linguistic precision were taught more, as well. Miscommunication due to ambiguity is one of the biggest causes I see for con
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by carcabob 6mo ago
A few times in some Discord communities, I've been accused of being A.I. because of how I write. Kind of sad and a bit annoying. I also quite like em dashes, but have felt the need to reduce how much I use them. Glad to see some school
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by carcabob 7mo ago
For a while I'd see "Weird Al" in random headlines or something and my brain would read it as "Weird A.I." and I kept getting very confused.
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by carcabob 7mo ago
Agreed. I'm very glad Hacker News uses a typeface with serifs on 'I's, 'l's, and '1's. "Sans serif" can be descriptive, rather than prescriptive.
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by carcabob 7mo ago
This problem has been haunting me for years, except in Google Docs. At some point, some template my team used had slightly gray text, and I STILL find it cropping up in our most recent documents.
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by carcabob 7mo ago
This has been supported for a while now, so I wonder why this is being treated as news. But I guess it’s news to some people, so that’s fair. I tried to take advantage of it, but the implementation felt really clunky (formatting seemed to b
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by carcabob 7mo ago
Those without driver's licenses or passports can get a state ID card instead, if I'm not mistaken. A pain, but an option.
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by carcabob 8mo ago
If ads are clearly labeled as "ad" or "sponsored", and they only appear for free users, I think seeing ads is a pretty reasonable price to pay for those who want to use the service for free. If they're not labeled,
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by carcabob 10mo ago
I wish the article's graphs weren't distorted by skipping so much of the scale to make it look like a more significant difference than it is. But it does looks impressive.
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by carcabob 1y ago
The article makes some excellent points. I think this part isn't a great example, though: > Saying something like “Go to my cases” is awkward and unnatural – if I told you to go to my cases, you’d think I was telling you to go to my
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by carcabob 2y ago
Ironically, it actually helped me stay focused on the article. Kind of like a fidget toy. When part of my brain would get bored, I could just move the cat and satisfy that part of my brain while I keep reading. I know that sounds kind of sa
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by carcabob 3y ago
Novice Question: How can you have a relational database at all without foreign keys? In other words, if your tables aren't referencing other tables, how do you perform JOINS for your queries? From my limited experience, they seem prett