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by forsythe_ 4y ago
Oh no. I never understood why the upload didn't work but had no idea it was abandoned. That really sucks. For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in ter
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
> Twitch is like a low cost off-ramp for having friends. The better, well adjusted version of twitch is that you log on to xbox, playstation or PC, hit up your friends and play some games and chat. That's the ideal. Then everything
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
Same here, I'm getting ready to return soon and feeling nervous but cautiously optimistic. I wish you the best.
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
I think the entire point is that Mozilla has depended on people "like you" to stay relevant for years and knows that's not a great long-term growth strategy compared to appealing to the general populace who cares about things
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
Counter argument: is it actually worth getting this upset over themes? Yes, the marketing behind it is stupid because it attempts to correlate some deeper symbolic meaning to the act of choosing colors for your web browser. But as a fellow
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
Are you able to talk about what you're doing in help desk that still pays so (relatively) well? This honestly sounds like a dream to me.
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
> It sounds like the author never got a chance to figure out the intersection between what he liked to do and what he was actually good at. Instead, he was trained to respond to the approval of authority figures. I also read that section
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
I agree. This is one of the big factors that I haven't seen thoroughly addressed on this topic: no matter how capable AI tools are at interpreting broad declarative prompts there's still a wide degree of complexity in expressing d
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
I left Facebook/Twitter years ago for this reason and then got an ADHD diagnosis shortly after. So yeah, I can relate. I've never downloaded TikTok but I subscribe to two users via my RSS reader, which at least provides insulation
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
Wow, excellent article. And it sent me down a deep rabbithole reading the rest of Bret's blog. Thank you.
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
> I believe playing video games for hours is more infantilizing than hunting, fishing, or tinkering on cars. I prefer video games over most outdoors activities but still largely agree with you. One minor critique is that I would substitu
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
A couple years ago I decided to fork StyleGAN, optimistic to kick the tires and just see if it would run on my desktop. I got bored after an hour or two and scrapped the setup, having felt it was too complex for someone with a casual intere
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by forsythe_ 4y ago
That's what I suspect is happening too. ADHD doesn't necessarily present as "hyperactive child" or the other stereotypes to which it often gets associated. Many people receive an ADHD diagnosis in adulthood after years o