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   Advertising (2023)(voussoir.net)

   3 points by voussoir 7mo ago|3 comments
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   by voussoir 7mo ago

   I wrote this a few years ago. I like to re-read/re-listen to it every once in a while to check if my beliefs are still the same, and they pretty much are. I never posted this to HN because I think it's too long to ask people to re
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   by voussoir 7mo ago

   Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342382
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   by voussoir 9mo ago

   Neat, I did one of these too :) https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing
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   by voussoir 1y ago

   If Google's customers are the advertisers, maybe the correct answer is "attention".
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   by voussoir 1y ago

   This is beautiful man, congratulations. I love how much personality there is in the animations!
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   by voussoir 2y ago

   It's funny, I was just thinking about this recently. I noticed that a lot of electric cars or PHEVs use cyan accents to signal that they are EVs, yet I also think yellow is the more obvious color for electricity.
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   by voussoir 2y ago

   I've been a Purelymail customer since July 2021. For the most part I have been very satisfied. However, in July 2024 I sent an email to Scott for support because I have been getting too much spam. He said that the spamassassin auto-lea
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   by voussoir 2y ago

   This might not be quite as strong a rebuttal as you were hoping for!
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    Wow, these letters are extremely pathetic and unbecoming for a government agency. I would have expected the BBC to have more self respect than this mafia LARP.
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-virgin-wizard
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    Funny seeing these headlines come back around. Here's something from seven years ago with the same kind of problem: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-December.
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    Your comment is phrased as a disagreement, but it's not. The GP post said the IRS can't do everyone's taxes, and you replied that they can do most. I think we're all on the same page that people would benefit from having
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    I feel like I'm seeing an effect where some people don't want to say the word "AI" because they don't want to look like a normie, so they stick to "LLM" which sounds smarter and more technically adept. The
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    Here's Matthias Wandel doing something like that with his microwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkqpNI7q1Dc
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    The other video you're referring to is "Games as a service is fraud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    Here's his other video from 2019, "Games as a service is fraud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
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    by voussoir 2y ago

    > If you want to preserve a game, you have to decide what parts are important to preserve [...] you might be able to do it but you then don’t get the real game experience The author of this website is aware of that. Everyone will come aw
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    I have been making these generators for my workplace, so the project scope is very narrow. You can follow the idea with any dimensions you need. If you want to use these techniques on a global site, I think you could use multiple @page styl
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    There are way more length units than you'd expect! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Wow, great use of the attr function, thank you!
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Oh, I see, thanks. I did figure out that thead automatically repeats across pages, but I also had to repeat other stuff outside the table, like letterhead. I also made this sample file that shows thead repeating, but since it's a singl
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    I'm sure there are smarter ways to do some of the things I'm doing. Could you let me know what fancy tricks you're referring to, perhaps ::before and ::after with content properties? These generator pages already rely on java
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    I realize you're working on the software side rather than the hardware side, and you mentioned you're trying to support existing printers, but your comment reminded me of something I'd like to throw out there: I would like to
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Thanks for your feedback, I've added it to the footer of each article and made it more distinct on the main page.
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Thanks for taking the time to write out your system!
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Thanks for the comment! I like black for myself but I bet your notes look beautiful. I agree with buying heavier paper. I recently bought some 100gsm paper for my notetaking at work, whereas I was previously stealing whatever they had in th
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Thanks! Here's the link, it's at the bottom of the article list but I suppose it doesn't stand out well enough. https://voussoir.net/writing/writing.atom
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    Hi, this is my article. I think it's silly that newspapers dress up ordinary criticisms and disagreements with this overly dramatic, violent language, so I started compiling them and the list just goes on and on and on. It's kind
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    by voussoir 3y ago

    They're big Ricoh brand scanners at my workplace and I used the top document feeder which was able to handle big stacks at once. 600 DPI, 1-bit tiff. We have a scanner at home but it's only got a glass bed, that's why I hadn&