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by eszed 3d ago
Oh, you're not going to bait me into that one! "What is Art?" is the central 20th century aesthetic question, which no one ever answered to anyone else's satisfaction. Nowadays artists and critics have mostly stopped a
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by eszed 4d ago
Dude, I think it's worse. Some carpenters still make a living creating high-end furniture, or straight-up art pieces. I can't quite imagine a future where a hand-crafted app will ever be a status-symbol. The people who love coding
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by eszed 4d ago
I agree with all of that, but I think there's a bit of "ball-hiding" going on in most of these conversations. It isn't only that programmers crave(d) praise or social recognition (though maybe that's it for some), b
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by eszed 7d ago
Oh, absolutely! But, so are most of the lessons we draw from life experience, instead of, like, science. That doesn't make them unimportant to talk about, so long as we approach them - and each other - with appropriate degrees of humil
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by eszed 7d ago
Aye, and amid all of the (admittedly annoying) word salad, the "Claude" in this satire identified the reason the requested change was hard: someone(s) at some point had hijacked the button markup for other purposes. Un-doing all o
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by eszed 7d ago
I'm deliberately not addressing the article as a whole, but I'd like to engage with your smaller point. My parents viewed all day care as "dumping [their] kid in an institution" and made massive sacrifices so that my mum
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by eszed 9d ago
Don't leave us hanging, brother! What's the book?
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by eszed 9d ago
Whoa! Twenty-year+ Mac user, and I never knew that trick. Thank you for that.
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by eszed 9d ago
> the supernatural events described on stage are very difficult to pull off even with modern effects. But they were impossible with Jacobean setups Speaking generally, as a former theatre professional, using onstage "effects" i
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by eszed 9d ago
Corporate death penalty. I'm on board with that.
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by eszed 10d ago
Thanks for this. I'll give it a try, though I'm not someone who experiences much frustration with Finder, because I maintain a solid folder structure, and use Alfred (first) for virtually all file interactions. The deciders for me
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by eszed 11d ago
I'm with you, though I do it differently. I have a git-status plug-in in my editor that shows me what directories -> files have been changed, and then which lines when I open them. Scanning the sidebar is the same as running "g
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by eszed 11d ago
I understand what you mean, but I do not, at this point, think "public pressure" is sufficient. I once did, but that was before ad companies (and they're all ad companies, at their root) unlocked the full potential (if they e
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by eszed 11d ago
> your partner can abandon you at any time and leave you with the full burden and no financial support. Yes, absolutely. Or that a financially-dependent partner (I'm deliberately not applying gender), even without kids (though child
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by eszed 15d ago
Yep. All I want is allow/deny permissions on particular channels. For my little guy I'd set up a blanket Deny rule, with a few channels allowed; for older kids parents might want to go the other way. All of the "parent better
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by eszed 18d ago
I agree with much more in your comment than I don't, but > It's astonishingly easy to not get shot: don't invade someone's home. Is pat to the point of naiveté. People get shot turning into the wrong driveway[1], or k
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by eszed 23d ago
> [N]ot having an override or bypass is a software issue. Designing a system that doesn't permit exceptions or overrides is bad software design. I think his point is that the designers of the software would have been aware of this
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by eszed 27d ago
Lol. I had the same thought: "but, but... Hemingway!" Of course, his magic lies in how much thickness he creates with such terse prose.
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by eszed 27d ago
It's totally in earnest, and it's funny because Polonius isn't being self-deprecating: he wholeheartedly believes in brevity, when he isn't being it. At all. But, Shakespeare being Shakespeare, he's not being ent
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by eszed 27d ago
> unless someone explains it to them Yeah, that helps. But attending a performance by a company that thoroughly understands it themselves is a massive shortcut. Sure, you'll still not be able to define every word, but they'll g
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by eszed 27d ago
I agree with everything you say, but to offer an alternative (modern) take, from an actor who takes more care with the verse: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1u8OlUS7BhU
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by eszed 27d ago
I mean, isn't that the dream? I don't know if that's sarcasm or not. I know it doesn't work , but that's the future we've been promised, right?
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by eszed 1mo ago
Well, that sucks. Thank you for the information.
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by eszed 1mo ago
> constantly intaking information will ruin this synthesization. I don't find that it does, for me. If I'm chewing on a hard technical problem, then I actually need the surface-level distraction of a podcast or a news article o
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by eszed 1mo ago
Numbers is essential, because it understands dates, better handles CSV files, and doesn't corrupt long numeric UIDs. But, you're right: Excel is for the complicated stuff. I recommend Numbers to the vast majority of users in our c
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by eszed 1mo ago
> Reddit recently blocked access to old.reddit.com for users who are not logged in They haven't for me (just tested before posting this comment), which I realize might be temporary. Have they published a policy, or did you get caugh
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by eszed 1mo ago
I was going to point out the same thing. At least in the UK, it's a bit of an urban vs rural, or maybe urban vs village, divide. Small communities can rely on names; larger polities need numbers. This was pointed out in TFA, but not th
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by eszed 1mo ago
I rather like "man of many turnings", on the page. The problem I have with Claude's version - same as Lattimore, in fact - is that it's really hard to read aloud; the rhythm just doesn't hit right. Fagles is the bes
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by eszed 1mo ago
What's this unavoidable YouTube video that activates on-scroll? I that doesn't become a design pattern, because it's horrible.
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by eszed 1mo ago
You are correct, and deserve the up votes. I hadn't seen the actual photo. At the same time... How dumb is that? As the commenter above points out, $5-10B would be a drop in a bucket.

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