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tobr

14,326karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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The writer, Marcin Wichary, was also behind https://guidebookgallery.org/ on the same general topic... Can it really be almost 20 years ago?…
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At least a few of these look like Photoshop color manipulation rather than generative AI. The black and blue roses are identical other than the color, for example.
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> It is sad to me that the skill required to navigate everyday life are being delegated to technology. Isn’t this basically what technology does? I suppose there is also technology to do things tha…
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Oh, so in other words, there is business value in Easter eggs.
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I guess you’re being sarcastic, but I think it’s perfectly fine that only the middleman handling the transaction and skimming off the top knows who the customer is. Plenty of systems like that around.
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This is part 4 in a series. Part 1 makes it more clear that this is a very new feature with limited availability. https://utilitybend.com/blog/the-customizable-select-part-on... …
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I don’t have a strong opinion on the topic, but bluefirebrand did not claim that wages only go up because of worker uprisings.
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The quiz at the end that looks interactive but tells you it’s only for paying members once you click on it… is quite something to put after a detailed dissection of deceptive design patterns.
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We’ve been through this cycle before with Apple. They come up with a new aesthetic direction, and tries to follow through on it all the way. First version goes too far and impedes functionality. Then …
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> I’d never dream of reporting a bug to Apple, they don’t care. One of the few issues I’ve reported to them was promptly responded to and fixed, but that was probably because it had privacy implica…
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It didn’t seem like it ever referred to documentation? So, obviously if it’s only going to draw on its ”instinctual” knowledge of Tailwind, it’s more likely to fallback on a version that’s been around…
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I tried Cursor again recently. Starting with an empty folder, asking it to use very popular technologies that it surely must know a lot about (Typescript, Vite, Vue, and Tailwind). Should be a home ru…
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But I’m talking about Slides, not Figma in general. Presentation software actually working correctly when you have your presentation is mission-critical.
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Regardless of the specific bugs he ran into, it is a product that only works well online, despite how difficult it is for a user to know for sure ahead of time what kind of connection will be availabl…
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What the article describes about Slides, last year’s big new Figma feature, doesn’t inspire confidence in the half-dozen new features from this year.
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Option C is about integrity and honor - I don’t deserve something I didn’t earn the hard way. Option D is more about pettiness - you don’t deserve something I tried to earn the hard way.
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