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macedotavares

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UX/UI lead from Portugal. Into physics, philosophy, history, music, tools for thought, Star Trek, oddities, gloriously bad movies and anything that tickles my sense of wonder. I miss the times when "not a fascist" was assumed by default.

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ronanmcd, to design
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Can anyone explain why Adobe's Indesign defaults to adding bleed to web documents? Is there even a god?

macedotavares,
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@ronanmcd @Theriac Affinity!

ellane, to random
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I'm one week in to using One Big Text File . It's a different kind of simple to the one-file-per-idea system I've been using (and haven't yet given up).

Personal experiment: Can OBTF be a worthy companion to my paper Bullet Journal? So far that's a firm yes, but one week isn't long enough to know for sure.

Looking forward to observing any friction in what's meant to be a frictionless approach.

From: @mikegrindle
https://indieweb.social/@mikegrindle/111886036108359427

macedotavares,
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@ellane @mikegrindle Funny how this may point to yet another resurgence from the early 00s. Like the indie web (I hope). As complexity and siloing increase, I often find my self yearning for simplicity.

macedotavares,
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@aral @ellane @mikegrindle already a fan, sir.

jynersolives, (edited ) to VideoGames
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    macedotavares,
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    @jynersolives Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ✨

    textfiles, (edited ) to random
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    Picked up Otaku Chow

    macedotavares,
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    @Hasufin @textfiles “Human food, I like it.”

    macedotavares,
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    @Hasufin @textfiles I had never heard of those. The idea reminded me of modern meal replacements like Soylent or Huel, though.

    macedotavares,
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    @textfiles @Hasufin I once had to research these, because the company I worked for was about to produce something similar. The funny thing was, there were lots of possible angles to sell it from. Gamer food. Old people food. Dystopian larping. Space!

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    macedotavares, (edited )
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    @jynersolives There was angst and rage and sarcasm before, but even those could be channeled in a naïve way. It was cool to be cool.

    Then the 90s gave us cynicism. The 90s postmodernized postmodernism. In an admittedly oversimplified way, I blame it on Nirvana.

    macedotavares, (edited )
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    @jynersolives I get your point, and I agree that cynicism isn’t the only lens. It’s just the one that strikes me the most, but I could never formalize it in a clear, understandable way. Taking your examples, I’d frame the excesses as “fuck consequences, the future is shit anyway” (instead of a celebration of life); and conspiracies as “why bother, it’s all rotten from the inside” (instead of idealism).

    macedotavares,
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    @jynersolives well, now I’m sounding like an old man. Don’t get me wrong. I’m as cynical as the next guy.

    Jedigirl, to random

    macedotavares,
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    @Jedigirl In 74, Portugal got rid of a 41-year-old dictatorship. Growing up in the 80s, I had my father constantly reminding me that going back is easier than it seems. I have been overreacting all my life, and now I wish everyone else had, too.

    rodhilton, to random
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    How long ago did Google just altogether disable the feature in search where adding a "+" before a term means that term is required to be in a result?

    macedotavares,
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    @rodhilton @jaykass I noticed that double quotes don’t work anymore a few weeks ago. That was a big part of Google’s usefulness for me.

    clive, to random
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    Google search is getting so bad it almost makes me wish someone would mount an old-school Yahoo!-style site again

    Hand-crafted taxonomized guide to what's online

    https://boingboing.net/2023/10/27/google-returning-ai-nonsense-in-search-highlights.html

    macedotavares,
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    @clive I don’t know if this is even related, but — for weeks, now — I’ve been getting fake results that don’t even contain my quoted search strings.

    codinghorror, to random

    Ministry and Gary Numan? I'm so down. @jwz I wish this was at DNA Lounge!

    macedotavares,
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    @codinghorror @jwz I saw Gary Numan last year and it was AWESOME. Even better than I expected.

    macedotavares,
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    @codinghorror @jwz I wouldn’t mind seeing FLA too. I’d just leave after GN if I were you.

    grumpygamer, to Logseq
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    Thinking of switching my TODO task list over the Logseq. A lot I like about it, but the new user experience is horrible. Still trying to figure out how to use a pixel font. If you want to customize Logseq you need to write .css files.

    macedotavares,
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    @grumpygamer Do you already use Logseq for anything else? I’m asking this because I felt that its task management wasn’t particularly good.

    macedotavares,
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    @grumpygamer Have you looked into Tana? It’s like a Notion/Outliner hybrid. It’s still in closed beta, I think, but I’ve tried it and it was amazingly powerful. The only cons for me were that it’s online-first, its proprietary format and the insufficient export features, but this may change in the future.

    BartoszMilewski, to random
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    Sufficiently advanced determinism is indistinguishable from free will.

    macedotavares,
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    @BartoszMilewski I was surprised when I first heard about superdeterminism. I mean, is there really any other kind?

    macedotavares,
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    @BartoszMilewski Yeah, I get the distinction. To me, it feels a bit artificial to remove ourselves from the context of the experiment, as if we were part of a separate reality. We, our choices and the results of the experiment can share the same chain of causality.

    Superdeterminism may be unfalsifiable, but to blindly assume otherwise just because we value our free-will so much seems, idk, fragile.

    macedotavares,
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    @BartoszMilewski That goes so much against my intuition — for all the weight my intuition carries with science and reality — that I’m constantly looking for a theory that I can (just barely understand and) stand behind. The same goes for the continuous vs. discrete nature. Know of any good superdeterministic discrete theories of everything? 😂

    macedotavares,
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    @BartoszMilewski True. But relativity introduced some pretty outrageous notions that go well beyond our daily experience, and still it makes much more human sense than e.g. the Copenhagen Interpretation.

    Also, isn’t intuition a valid reason to pursue a certain scientific path? Honest question.

    I genuinely hate decision theory.

    Bit of a rant but I genuinely hate decision theory. At first it seemed like a useful tool to make the best long term decisions for economics and such then LessWrong, EA, GPI, FHI, MIRI and co needed to take what was essentially a tool and turn it into the biggest philosophical disaster since Rand. I’m thinking about moral...

    macedotavares,
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    @billseitz @sb @utterfiction @dgerard Thanks for this, guys. All I can do is add this old, precious post by Stephen Bond.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20130910231534/http://www.plover.net/~bonds/cultofbayes.html

    aral, to random
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    Neoliberals are the folks you send in to sanitise the place before the fascists move in.

    macedotavares,
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    @aral Funny thing is, neoliberals seem to think they are in control. Even after the fascists took all of the Popular Party's seats in the portuguese parliament, "Social" Democrats still try to groom the far-right into something they could more comfortably introduce to their parents. Not that it bothers them too much individually — Neoliberals and fascists will get along just fine. This is something they do at the expense of their own party and, eventually, democracy.

    codinghorror, to random

    "The password feels elegant, like a beautiful ballgown. It has an air of refinement and sophistication. It also feels exclusive, like it's meant only for a select group of people. Overall, the password exudes a sense of mystery and intrigue." https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

    macedotavares,
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    @codinghorror Ahah point taken. But really, I enjoy the puzzle.

    macedotavares,
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    @codinghorror I'm a design-stealing UI designer, by the way —aren't we all? — and I agree with the core of your argument. It's a shame that most links are dead now, though.

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