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No. Believe it or not, "Artificial America".

I’m not a hardcore Lightroom/Photoshop user, but I have hundreds of RAW product photos that I need to cycle through a few times a year, and a few new ones to add whenever I make a new product. I long-since canceled my CS subscription because it wasn’t worth hundreds of dollars a year to me.

The artcraft versions are rough, but good enough for what I do. Mostly background removal, blemish removal, exposure and white balance adjustments. A professional’s mileage will almost certainly vary.

I’ve tried Gimp, photomator, a few others. The artcraft versions at least retain the muscle memory of the creative suite apps, whereas the alternatives all feel like I need to start from scratch to relearn their features, limitations, shortcuts, and quirks.

If Adobe had frozen features and offered a paid perpetual license pinned at a certain version I probably would’ve bought it.

We’ll actually have AI Anthony Bourdain doing it.

They vibe-coded an asset class using the same chips they’re leasing back to themselves. This is the new dogfooding.

Did you notice anything about their quant?

Near my house I saw two large blocky buildings being constructed on a main thoroughfare. Different construction companies, but within about 100 yards of each other.

"Fantastic!", I thought. New apartment buildings. That means new restaurants, stores, and other conveniences. Not to mention desperately-needed housing.

I'll never forget my despair upon learning that they were BOTH going to be large multi-level self-storage facilities.

I don't recall signing up to live in a Neal Stephenson novel.

To quote David Graeber by way of "Can't Get You Out of My Head": The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

If the elite class decides they are going to checkmate all others, winner take all, the smartest play is probably to flip the table.

Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Those stupid effing TurboTax ads are the only time I’ve ever been motivated to actually write feedback to apple about a feature. So aggravating and user-hostile.

The first few times the App Store opened to TurboTax while scrolling past, I assumed it was my fault and I was somehow misclicking. Then I slowed down and confirmed, no, this is the intended behavior. It’s meant to pop up and disturb your reading.

What slimy behavior. And the fact that it’s TurboTax of all companies they’re doing it for is just salt on the wound.

I use µ for microns or micrometers µm. Option + m.

Also if you need ad-hoc bullets, just reach for option + 8.

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The difficulty in accessing symbols like these is one of my (I'm sure correctable) hang-ups when using Linux — Arch, btw.

Assuming we take the statement "more free market equals more efficient outcome" as always and absolutely true, it raises the question: Are the healthcare-related needs of a society aligned with the most efficient outcome that a free market can deliver? I don't think they necessarily are.

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

Silenced by whom?

A.k.a. Propecia.

Dead Kaczynski

Under $100: Not really a purchase, but a habit that involved several purchases. Making L. Reuteri "Yogurt" using half & half, biogaia tablets, mason jars, and a sous vide. Helped with gut issues.

Under $1000: An Ooni pizza oven. It's a relatively low-stakes investment and you can produce some pretty phenomenal pizzas after you get over your first few "catastrophe calzones". Just a nice weekend dad hobby.

I think that's why Fish's tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".

Yeah. I wish subtle design cues didn't turn folks off from useful software. That said, when I was test driving terminals a few months ago, I saw WezTerm and just skipped it because the main image shows the opacity-enabled terminal with a Cyberpunk image in the background, and that just seemed…amateurish? Dunno.

This article is convincing me to give it a second look.

Taking retro to its logical conclusion.

There are a few blog title/conference talk title cliches that I would love to toss in a volcano and never hear again:

X, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Y

X for fun and profit

A tale of two X

X considered harmful

Our team already uses cap.ly. How does this compare to that, or, say haberdash.er? Congrats on the launch.

Something similar happened to me. An artist I liked effusively praised Django Reinhardt in their CD liner notes. For a sheltered suburbanite, the words "Django Reinhardt" were more or less gobbledygook, so I had to figure out exactly who or what it meant and why it prompted one of my favorite guitarists to pen an ode of praise. All this sent me on a months-long quest to track down albums and information in a pre-search-engine flyover state about an obscure gypsy guitarist.

It wasn't till I was a year or so into knowing about Django Reinhardt that I learned he did it all with just two fingers on his left hand. It blew my mind.

I wonder if we've gained or lost something culturally by having the detailed discography and life story of every artist in our pockets.

Legal counsel isn't allowed in small claims courts. It's just a question of whether it's worth your time.

edit: Ha! Here is a guide on how to sue Ticketmaster: https://fairshake.com/ticketmaster/how-to-sue/

Some of those tempos at the bottom seem way off. Hotel California is 147 bpm?

I started a few months ago. Reddit's /r/homelab has lots of great resources, and you can get some good deals through /r/homelabsales, though the best deals usually go quickly.

Like with learning a programming language, having a specific goal helps a lot.

Reading other people's posts about their hardware, how they use it, and what problems they solved with their homelab can be a source of inspiration that sets you on the right path.

Like others on this thread have said, while it's tempting to immediately dive into racks, patch cables and network diagrams, you can achieve A LOT with something simple like a small NAS or a NUC. Even a spare laptop that you can repurpose might be more than sufficient.

Unless you're trying to simulate managing enterprise hardware (and I mean physically managing it), the greatest value lies in learning the software side of thing, IMHO.

GTD, BASB, bullet journals, org-mode, todoist…

What do we do? There are infinite methods, tools, apps, and only so many hours in a day. Do you just keep trying tools/methodologies till one clicks with you?