neocritter

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by neocritter 1y ago
>> "At the very least, this research doesn’t appear to be a reliable indicator of people’s willingness to pay for human-created art." It's no secret that what does well commercially and what represents good craft does
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What's next for ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and other apps(techcrunch.com)
7 points by neocritter 1y ago|0 comments
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by neocritter 1y ago
I got the occasional A/B test with a new image generator while playing with Dall-E during a one month test of Plus. It was always clear which one was the new model because every aspect was so much better. I assume that model and the mo
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Programming Isn't Enough(blog.fallible.net)
30 points by neocritter 2y ago|2 comments
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by neocritter 2y ago
How much of this is the bicycle, and how much of this is that it enables less conscientious people to go more miles at otherwise normal cycling speeds? The e- part is limited to speeds most people can reach on a normal bicycle unless they m
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by neocritter 2y ago
That was back when everyone was trying to make a "portal" to compete with AOL. It seems like browsers are headed down the same path now with replacing the simple search box new tab page with the same stuff the portals had.
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by neocritter 2y ago
Most people will never personally encounter more than 0-1 of any rare or uncommon way of thinking or living. The loudest people are the most self-sure and radical, which makes them ideal candidates for those rare encounters. They come to re
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by neocritter 2y ago
Probably in the /r/battlestations/ sense. https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/
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by neocritter 2y ago
That is the sneaky thing about rewrites. The "Ship of Theseus" rewrite is reasonably safe based on the article and what I could find of people sharing their experiences with rewrites. Fix what needs fixing, but swap in the newer b
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by neocritter 2y ago
There's a parallel universe where someone convinced you to rewrite it in something else from the start and you spent years on the rewrite instead and it never went anywhere. Could you have done that emergency rewrite without 10 years o
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by neocritter 2y ago
A classic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... >> "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bug
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Alright, Let's Fedify(activitypub.ghost.org)
5 points by neocritter 2y ago|0 comments
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by neocritter 2y ago
What's the % look like for people who use password managers? There's probably a reason they all support Linux.
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by neocritter 2y ago
The existence of a port does not guarantee future support of a port. Safari used to run on Windows. They're also somewhat notorious for trash quality Windows ports.
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by neocritter 2y ago
Can confirm. I bought Freespace 2 in 2009 and it's still there in my account with no DRM.
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by neocritter 2y ago
A good comic on the difference between what most people think when they hear wheelchair vs what wheelchair users need to be independent: https://www.tumblr.com/calvin-arium/184341867538/its-here-th...
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by neocritter 2y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg
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by neocritter 2y ago
“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted
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by neocritter 2y ago
RSS is fine. A thing doesn't have to make headlines with VC rounds and take over the world to be alive and well.
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by neocritter 2y ago
You and I know very different artists. "Logical" people have their woo, too.
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by neocritter 2y ago
Tech is also full of delusional hacks. You find them everywhere. Delusional hack artists are more fun.
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by neocritter 2y ago
Weigh stations might work. Trucks increasingly roll through on scales that can weigh in motion, but there is a spot to pull off for inspections. This could be a service offered to trucking companies to help make up for loss of fuel taxes.
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by neocritter 2y ago
Black Sails in particular evolved with the writers' historical knowledge of real pirates as they moved from made up nonsense they read to actual research.
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Failing and Flying (2012)(npr.org)
1 points by neocritter 2y ago|0 comments
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by neocritter 2y ago
Changing it is part of one of their paid things for some reason.
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by neocritter 2y ago
It's not even hypothetical. I've seen these offers. Every single article is hot garbage.
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by neocritter 2y ago
It's been a long time since I thought about any of this, but last time I did, social media traffic was some of the worst quality. Search traffic was seen as golden because it came with intent. Social media traffic was wandering and aim
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by neocritter 2y ago
Would it be accurate to say this is like one of those web host 1 click install things, except it runs on your computer?
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by neocritter 2y ago
Everyone interfaces with it as secure abstractions in their chosen language, so it's understandable if most people don't think of it when they think of programming languages.
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The Coddling of the American Parent(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by neocritter 2y ago|0 comments

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