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8mo ago
Didn't Icon Factory make that? https://iconfactory.com/bc.html
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8mo ago
Since you have a lot to say about these icons, I took a moment to look at your app icons. Why are all of your icons terrible?
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8mo ago
Google's icons are basically just different shapes of the same rainbow camouflage. While I agree that Google's is not a good approach, that is not what has gone on here.
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8mo ago
The original inkpot Pages icon was beautiful, it looked great when steve jobs had it large on screen at macworld 2005 stating that Pages was "Word processing with an incredible sense of style". At the time this made sense for the
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8mo ago
There may be an arrogance that we're not vulnerable to these tactics because the topics of conversation are science and tech focused, rather than celebrity culture. However this post and the comments really debunk that - here we have a
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8mo ago
It’s for you sunshine.
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8mo ago
I didn't expect this website would double as an intelligence test.
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8mo ago
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBRtbdVquWF/ Neither American nor from the UK, but I knew what this was about because it's possible to go online and seek out information. Neat. What I didn't do was become
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8mo ago
That's tiny in comparison to the FTC fine. Epic settled with the FTC for more than half a billion. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...
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8mo ago
While SparkFun may feel entitled to air their grievances as an "Official response", these types of public statements aren't productive for business nor useful/respectful to consumers. Public notices for the consumer shou
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Keynote is completely underrated, likely because people assume it's just a Powerpoint clone, but it's more like a highly templated motion graphics app with a UI that steers people into using it as Powerpoint replacement. So not on
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8mo ago
Oh that riled you up? Too bad. Better get out your alt accounts to address this great injustice.
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8mo ago
The scroll bars for those curious: https://imgur.com/a/uhVO8IA
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8mo ago
It's pretty clear they tried their best to miss or reinterpret the points I made so they could talk about something else.
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8mo ago
Nor was such a thing implied. The information in the various news articles about it also don't make that claim.
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8mo ago
This is a bit of a layer cake: 1. The first issue is that there is significant momentum in calling Siri bad, so even if Apple released a higher quality version it will still be labelled bad. It can enhance the user's life and make thei
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8mo ago
Yes, the scroll bars settings affects the scroll bars.
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8mo ago
There is an imbalance between the harms you're pretending to endure versus: 1. The trivial ability it is to resolve, and 2. The existence of an easily accessible user setting to enable the behaviour that you desire. Fundamentally your
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8mo ago
Many of the complains surrounding the former iOS7 and today's Liquid Glass are tied to the requirement of the interface never moving. Which isn't just an unreasonable requirement, but a ridiculous one. Just like iOS7+ it is possib
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8mo ago
If one chooses "Always" under the "Show scroll bars" option on the Appearance System Settings panel. They will be rewarded with thick*, always-on scroll bars that do not disappear. *They're the same thickness as Aqu
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8mo ago
This headline is a touch misleading as it gives the impression of being across all US households, the quote is: >Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an average of 5.3%. Among higher-inc
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8mo ago
You're right, it's difficult to get "left behind" when the tools and workflows are being constantly reinvented. You'd be sage with your time just to keep a high-level view until workflows become stable and aren'
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8mo ago
If your job involves detailed text review (such as coding) then splash out on a display with a pixel density of at least 250 PPI. The screen shown in this blog looks like it's ~140 PPI. Sure these screens are cheap, but they're be
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8mo ago
There is nothing wrong with obtaining additional, even false, information from any source that is available to you. (AI, Search, Websites/Blogs, Podcasts, influencers, word-of-mouth, etc) It's what you do with that information tha
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9mo ago
>I just read the post about Japan. Great, now let's stack what you've written in both of your comments directly against what Gruber has written, and not what an imaginary strawman wrote. You wrote: 1. I have no doubt that Grube
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中国制造2025 aka MIC 2025 https://jamestown.org/civil-military-fusion-and-the-plas-pur... Now read, since you clearly haven't.
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I don't think it's as black and white as you suggest. He just wrote about Japan's implementation of a similar set of laws rather favourably - the theme is that Japan's implementation looks very much like a genuine attemp
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I keep an unofficial record of instances where police and similar authorities have abused their access to these types of systems. The list is long. It's almost exclusively men stalking ex-partners or attractive women they don't kn
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that's comically* naive, and plainly false - China itself has already stated their objectives. * Actually, wilfully naive would be a better fit.
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9mo ago
If they want to position themselves with a point of difference from competitors, they could provide a settings list of AI features with check boxes for each. This would tap into the insight that not everyone dislikes the same AI features. F
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