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riley, to random
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Currently reading Less is More by Jason Hickel, but Mr. Watterson said it best:

tomw,
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@riley Can't even go in the car any more without getting rung up on the car phone

jk, to random
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in six months the nintendo wii will be 18 years old

tomw,
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@jk Coincidence: I found a copy of Wii Sports today in a box of books. I don't know how it got there

tomw,
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@jk I'm going to say Wii Sports is better than all 7 except A Tale of Two Cities

dangillmor, to random
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Social media disappointments:

  1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

  2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

  3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

tomw,
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@dangillmor People do not, in general, leave platforms because the policies and/or leadership are bad.

Lots of people are still on Facebook, and you don't get a more open-and-shut case than that.

You can't moralise your way out of this problem - only regulate.

pikesley, to random
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Presented without comment

tomw,
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@pikesley the best one of these (which I get loads) is "Tracking information will only be available once delivery is attempted", no further text. For something that was sent months ago and is obviously lost.

eniko, to random
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god i hate the words "asset flip"

10 years ago it very specifically meant using premade game engine assets, often whole example games, to slap something vaguely playable on steam to trick people into buying it and attract steam card hunters

now people call anything that reuses assets from a previous game an asset flip, or even use it for any art in a game they consider to look "generic"

its terrible i wish people would stop it

tomw,
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@eniko Agree, I don't know why anyone started using this to refer to (for example) graphics reused in a sequel. The point is very specifically about stuff bought from the Unity store and released basically unchanged. Outside that context the term makes no sense and has no utility.

tess, to random
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In which I passionately argue that "chat" is indeed a valid second-person pronoun:

https://www.tumblr.com/leftoblique/750471889313497088/well-now-thats-needlessly-confrontational-were

tomw,
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@tess This makes sense to me - I have heard for example "post it in the chat" jokingly used in situations where there is no chat. Not just in Twitch streaming but also things like Zoom, many people are used to having a parallel text chat now for many interactions.

joelanman, to webdev
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running a web service that sends emails, do you have to send plain text as well as html emails? If so, whats a good strategy to keep them in sync, content wise?

tomw,
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@joelanman Probably only one person ever is actually going to read the plain text, and that person is used to getting messed up emails. Something like running strip_tags (or your language's equivalent) on the HTML mail would do.

(An "I read all my emails in plain text using mutt" person may turn up here, but they do not exist in most real email lists.)

nikitonsky, to random
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Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you

Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch

That’s not progress

Modern flat UI

tomw,
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@nikitonsky The modern one would be way more usable with the addition of some shadows, even the black-boxy kind

tomw, to random
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GPT-4o? What even is this numbering scheme?

I'll wait for GPT-4: Golden.

tomw,
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Still annoyed that GPT-3 Reload didn't include the extra content from GPT-3 FES

tomw, to random
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When making a speech/Youtube video/whatever, you don't have to say "without further ado". Just leave out all the ado. I don't need any ado.

tomw,
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Related: don't say someone "needs no introduction" unless that is literally the only thing you say by way of introduction.

designthinkingcomic, to random
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I'm a terrible person.

tomw,
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@designthinkingcomic I'm seeing more and more of these, and even the DON'T RECYCLE ones. Seems to be connected to them using fancier printing on the package?

tomw, to random
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Someone needs to invent something worse than screens so that all the people who rabbit on about "screens" being bad will embrace them as "the wholesome alternative to (new bad thing)".

This is basically what has happened with kids' comics at this point.

tomw,
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Luckily this is one of the times when I'm pretty sure Silicon Valley is on the case

kev, to random
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I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

https://kevquirk.com/i-stopped-mastodon-ddosing-me-i-think

tomw,
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@kev Yep, a caching plugin fixes it as you discovered. I'm not familiar with your CMS but for the more common case of Wordpress, installing WP Super Cache (or similar) fixes the problem at a stroke.

tomw, to random
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I just used jQuery in a new project and you know what, I don't even feel bad. I just needed to hide all the elements with one class and show all the elements with a different class. A one-liner in jQuery and not in anything else!

tomw,
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Everyone turned against jQuery because it was a "big" dependency, which it kind of was... 10 years ago.

Nowadays people are importing 100x more JS without a second thought. jQuery is snappy compared to 'modern' websites.

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