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by coldcode 1y ago
How does drone delivery make any financial sense at all? It seems riskier nad less likely to work, given that people's homes (not to mention apartments) may not have any reasonable or safe delivery spots.
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by coldcode 1y ago
People have said similar things about artists throughout history. Oil Paint? Non-religious/mythical subjects? Impressionism? Fauvism? Cubism? Modern Art? Etc. Throughout art history people have often not valued the new, but only the ex
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by coldcode 1y ago
This was prevalent until the early 2000s, it is far less common today. Corporate discounts used to exist based on guaranteed minimum legs in some time period. This ended when airlines discovered only flying full planes made them more money,
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by coldcode 1y ago
Every browser I tried on my Mac does not show any of the videos. You only see the top animation. Also shown: cdn.tailwindcss.com should not be used in production. To use Tailwind CSS in production, install it as a PostCSS plugin or use the
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by coldcode 1y ago
Exporting to the US is 15% of Chinese exports. Even if that goes to 0% it will not devastate Chinese businesses. It will hurt some there, but if your US business imports a larger percentage of its raw materials or parts from China, you are
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by coldcode 1y ago
At the risk of not piling on to the Apple dislike here, if you use a non-Apple payment system, and you have an issue, you now need to go to the specific company and payment system, you can no longer demand your money back by dealing with a
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by coldcode 1y ago
I have Photoshop, but I use Affinity Photo for 99% of what I do (make digital art, AP is used for assembly and effects). I use Photoshop for a few special effects, but often it's not worth the effort.
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by coldcode 1y ago
Long ago I sometimes played the organ. There is nothing more amazing than being alone in a large dark church, playing a pipe organ at full volume, feeling the vibrations. It's the original heavy metal. No other instrument can duplicate
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by coldcode 1y ago
"I'll gladly pay you the next four Tuesdays for a hamburger today" does seem like a bad economic concept.
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by coldcode 2y ago
"Training fodder" is a new one.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I've watched many war room in various employers. At one (20 years ago), they met for six months to determine why our field offices' network connection to the home office was so pathetic and unusable. It was led by the head of netw
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by coldcode 2y ago
Apple could start with the UK politicians' iCloud backups, I am sure there is a lot of useful compromising information in them. That might cause a change in attitude.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Math is such an interesting field. People can work for decades and not make progress, then discover something in a moment of clarity from some seemingly unrelated problem. As a programmer, I don't have that type of patience.
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by coldcode 2y ago
If you don't fund science, you give the world to other countries, especially China. If you only fund science that makes immediate profits, you never get them, as the foundation does not exist, and the researchers never learn enough to
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by coldcode 2y ago
Forget TikTok, I'd rather see a divestment of X. Twitter was the best idea ever but never made sense as a business; people keep trying to use X as if it still is Twitter, but it isn't. Bluesky is nice but still too small.
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by coldcode 2y ago
XCode's assistant AI suggestions are 99% ridiculous, often don't make sense, don't compile, or have nothing to do with my project. Every once in a while it suggests a line or so that is fine. The biggest issue is I want code
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by coldcode 2y ago
I first thought the headline was about crushing Jira itself. Many days it could be very tempting.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Sadly programming topics have not gotten much traction on BlueSky. You don't even have a real category for it (just generic Technology) as it's not all that popular. Most the programming related feeds are majority zero engagement.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Read recently in Smithsonian about a founder in a similar situation (although I think he was still involved) who started an organization to find missing soldiers and return their bodies to relatives. Spent a lot of time and money finding MI
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by coldcode 2y ago
I mostly use Facebook for posting tiling/tesselation art in a moderated speciality group ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/tiling ) that has 72,000 people in it. There are some really nice speciality groups you don&
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by coldcode 2y ago
There's a reason why Waymo isn't offered in Buffalo.
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by coldcode 2y ago
The idea that Google would spend money to help a non-business user for anything is beyond unlikely.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I remember going to the Apple Developer's Conference in 1986 (Nob Hill Hilton I think) and seeing the A-T gang (they brought more people than anyone else) wearing matching leather jackets.
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by coldcode 2y ago
If you make art in postcards, then maybe you will be replaced. Diffusion based AI image generation is limited to a little over 1 megapixel, or double if you use an expander, or you can infinitely grow an initial image with more of the exact
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by coldcode 2y ago
I love this type of art. I make digital geometric art, currently complex tilings, at https://andrewwulf.com (not selling any, just showing it). Geometry and math can be very appealing to people although it’s not that popular com
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by coldcode 2y ago
It has nothing to do with open source, it's about security. Installing an app with no connection to anything invites lots of people to build apps that steal your stuff (sure this app might be trustworthy, but not all). Every Mac and iO
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by coldcode 2y ago
MacOS refused to run the installer on Sequoia. Signing it is not all that hard.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I prefer I'm a coffeepot, but for some reason, there was a 404.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I never intended to have a career as a programmer. I planned to work for two years, save a bit of money, and get a PhD in Chemistry. Forty years later I retired as a programmer. Every step was something new, I had 15 different employers (pl
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by coldcode 2y ago
What are the performance requirements for all these new fancy features? What kind of systems (console, PC+video card) can actually use them at a predictable frame rate?

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