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by ianstormtaylor 4mo ago
A few different resources with various ways to go about it, one of which may be near what you were hoping for: FontStruct: https://fontstruct.com/ Calligraphr: https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ Kreative
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by ianstormtaylor 4mo ago
If anyone’s wondering why this replier is so angry, it’s because they spent a lot of time arguing with people further down the comment section over whether this article is too heavily written by AI. (I'd say it is.) It probably irked t
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
This is such a weird counter-argument, that only serves to prove OP’s point. “It’s not that it’s not documentable. It’s just that it would take tens of thousands of pages and no one would be able to write that or read that to effectively ta
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
This website lists no sources, no author, and all of the content is littered with traces of being AI-generated (both in the table and in the descriptions). It seems hard to trust any piece of it that you don't already know in advance t
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
Check their ledger for a full database of the goods and bads: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
That's fair. I'm also heavily opposed to VC-funded, market-distorting behaviors and the later extraction-oriented outcomes they produce. In this case I was framing it in terms that might be more widely received by folks who aren&#
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
Under that logic is a free trial a bait and switch? How about a 1-month free deal? How about what Adobe (and many others) do where they license to the school and students get it free until they graduate? It seems like a really weird point t
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by ianstormtaylor 5mo ago
The article makes a good point about how Figma's non-open data model is limiting their utility as the source of truth. But I think it's part of a larger mistake Figma is making: they seem to have shifted to an extraction mindset t
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by ianstormtaylor 8mo ago
It would be nice if the “optimal” view visualized both my solution and the optimal one at the same time, like a Venn diagram.
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by ianstormtaylor 9mo ago
That wasn’t my experience, having just driven across the city and back during tonight’s outage. It was actually weirdly inspiring how well people coordinated at so many of the powerless intersections. There was a lot of confusion, and some
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by ianstormtaylor 9mo ago
So, just to make it clear… you define good art by “whether the artist is any good at art”. Illuminating… —— For anyone who’s interested in a slightly more nuanced take on how people in the Middle Ages perceived of “art” — and how different
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by ianstormtaylor 9mo ago
I agree with you to a degree. I considered that as a reason as well, and "meeting people where they are" in communication design is something I think about a lot. But if using an approachable format to deliver an alternative mess
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by ianstormtaylor 9mo ago
I can't help but feel that this article was written in a format that is the textual equivalent of thin desires… Every sentence is separated into its own paragraph, like each one is supposed to be revelatory (or maybe tweet-worthy). It&
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by ianstormtaylor 10mo ago
Nong's is insanely good. You can actually buy her sauce online now, in case you ever want to have a go at making it at home — https://khaomangai.com/products/nongs-khao-man-gai-sauce
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by ianstormtaylor 10mo ago
Basing it around the act of selling data seems like a much better approach to me than what OP suggested, I agree. I imagine there are edge cases to consider around how acquisitions of company assets would work, although it’s not a use case
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by ianstormtaylor 10mo ago
No I don’t think it’s “very hard”. But I also don’t pretend like OP that it’s super simple, only to suggest a law that would make most people criminals. I think regulation is critically needed in this area, but acting like it’s easy to do w
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by ianstormtaylor 10mo ago
Not saying I agree with OP, but for the law you described: any photo you take of a license plate on your smartphone would fit that description (unless you’ve explicitly disabled the automatic location and time stamping default). So you’d ne
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by ianstormtaylor 11mo ago
Is it live yet? I'd love to see it whenever it is.
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by ianstormtaylor 11mo ago
Seeing this on the front page again prompted me to dig into some of the Whole Earth Catalog successor publications for the first time. I came across an article in Whole Earth Software Review, where many participants on a forum discuss the e
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by ianstormtaylor 11mo ago
Then why does the product description continually reiterate how “real” the conversations are?
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by ianstormtaylor 1y ago
It seems fairly easy to figure this out with a little thought… When talking to a chatbot you're likely to type more words per query, as a simple measure. But you're also more likely to have to clarify your queries with logic and i
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by ianstormtaylor 1y ago
I completely agree. Paper was so frictionless that you could actually use it as a tool to think and sketch ideas with. Instead of Notion which feels clunky just to type in.
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by ianstormtaylor 1y ago
The way Dropbox has mismanaged Paper over the past decade, and squandered so many opportunities in the productivity tools space, has been one of the most frustrating things to watch. Dropbox bought Hackpad and launched Dropbox Paper a decad
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Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood (1976)(jofreeman.com)
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
One way to gain a different perspective could be to ask a similar question, but replace typographic adjustments with something in your domain of expertise that requires deeper experience to see the value in. Assuming programming, it might b
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
They could in theory yeah. I’m not sure if Uber still offers it, but I think its uptake is so low (anecdotally from people I know) that it’s effectively not a solution to societal isolation, because it doesn’t end up being used.
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Well, I’d say it’s different in a similar way that Uber’s are different from driving yourself. For physical trips it’s similar, but lower barrier to entry, so you do it more. And for deliveries it’s a much lower barrier because you don’t dr
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Honest question out of curiosity, since you seem genuine and open to discussion… I agree with all of your points about Waymo vs. Uber-like ridesharing—the average Uber ride is so much less safe that it’s hard to argue for. But I also agree
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Lol you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. (a) The massive plastic producers are multinational oil companies, and they see it as a growing industry to capitalize on, so they are extremely influential lobbyists for maintaining p
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Unfortunately your logic is incredibly naive… it ignores the fact that (a) the money behind pumping oil is partly due to the plastics industry itself, (b) that creating plastic already burns fuels and releases emissions, and (c) that plasti

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