sgarrity

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   by sgarrity 22d ago

   I came to these comments for a link to the high jump video. It did not disappoint. Now do the pole vault!
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   by sgarrity 3mo ago

   Forgive my quoting my own blog post: Writing is a shadow of thought. The better the writing, the more clearly the shadow represents the shape of the original thought. Even the best writing can never perfectly capture the original thought. W
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   by sgarrity 3mo ago

   I didn't even click on the link. I just came to give the author a hat-tip on the project name. Well played.
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   by sgarrity 3mo ago

   In Canada, we pronounce it Vinyl CachÉE.
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   by sgarrity 3mo ago

   I might print out this quote and put it on my wall! :-) "Looks like its coded by someone who has never split firewood. "
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   by sgarrity 4mo ago

   I did! I thought I was funny! We'll, today was my turn to be an idiot on the internet.
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   by sgarrity 4mo ago

   One of these days I'm going to see an article here about how the sex worker characters in GTA 6 have unionized.
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   by sgarrity 4mo ago

   Nice. Did you use AI? (I'm being half-sarcastic, and half wanting to confirm that this is an accurate reproduction of the text in the original)
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   by sgarrity 4mo ago

   "When people see an artifact, they make assumptions about the process that was used to create it. Without even thinking about it, they assume the creator had a basically human state of mind. This assumption is no longer true." I&#
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    by sgarrity 4mo ago

    I'm not worried about my privacy. No one can read the dark text on that page anyhow.
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    by sgarrity 5mo ago

    I agree (at least for now) that Claude Design doesn't directly compete with the core Figma tool. It does directly compete with Figma Make - which is also an LLM-powered tool that generates HTML/CSS/JS output (not a canvas of
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    by sgarrity 6mo ago

    My first guitar teacher told me that someday I'd start to notice that you can't get all strings perfectly in tune. At that point, he said, you'll know you're getting somewhere on the guitar.
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    by sgarrity 7mo ago

    I didn't even read the article, but the headline made me smile.
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    by sgarrity 1y ago

    The biggest "TBD" I've ever seen (in the slide deck for the winning entry): "(TBD ethics of voluntary euthanasia)"
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    by sgarrity 1y ago

    Are there benevolent AI swarms?
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    by sgarrity 1y ago

    That was close. We almost had clarity on something for a minute.
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    by sgarrity 2y ago

    Imagine if he was though...
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    I have a dehumidifier that I'd like this author to redesign please.
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    I imagine this varies regionally (I'm in Eastern Canada), but we keep running into limited availability issues. I'd consider myself in the early(ish) part of the mass-market adoption curve. I'm not an early adopter (I don&#x2
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    I remember a science radio program from years ago (might have been https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks ) summing up an explanation of how soap works with the summary: "Soap makes water wetter." It's obviously
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    If even one of those many mathematical formulas had been a YouTube video of a person running in super-space-boots...
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    This is like a super FizzBuzz test.
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    I'm pretty sure mine is.
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    The Blackberry movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_(film) includes a few examples of selling something without having anything real behind it.
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    10,000 trips / week is impressive. How many vehicles is this?
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    I had a similar experience. I asked if you can use CSS logical properties in IE11. It confidently told me YES with a whole bunch of follow-up. The answer was no.
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    by sgarrity 3y ago

    Is this sharing a criminal act?
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    by sgarrity 4y ago

    Sriracha is great, but we don't need Sriracha Cheerios.
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    by sgarrity 4y ago

    This feels a bit more like the power & water was cut off to the beach house, but I like taking metaphors one step to far.
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    by sgarrity 4y ago

    Yup. The flu and other colds/viruses have been much more prevalent this year in our corner of the world (Eastern Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-covi... ). We had strong ma