Chris had the best produced thermometer ads, hands down

Very one-sided report from RNZ 😒. The courts were clear: regardless of what Uber call it, the level of control Uber exerts, their ability to dictate terms, no direct driver-customer relationship, all point to employee status. The courts acknowledged platforms are not alike, it depends on specifics.

Countdown has chuck steaks at $32/kg. Normalising by median wage in NZ and Iowa, that roast would be about 1.2 hours in NZ, and about 1 hour in Iowa.

After swearing off everything Adobe forever and losing my shit at Krita on mac I was ready to throw money at Serif, only to find they didn't want it any more. Willing to try this freemium thing at least until they enshittify it though.

Bug: shouldn't it have STOP! SIN!'ed early because it was a Sunday?

Being nitpicky: the Inkscape timeline is a little misleading though as it was a fork of Sodipodi/Gill which dates back to 1999. Chrome wasn't released until mid 2008 -- WebKit got SVG late '06, but KHTML had it since '04 (Apple's fork wasn't kept in sync).

Saw this in a browser recently too, might have been reddit web. Followed a link and along the way it made an extra history entry so my first back took me to the home feed. Very not a fan.

I checked the source on C-SPAN and seconds before this clip starts he talks about the Cambodia/Thailand conflict. I reckon he's ad-libbing as he reads off a list of countries. Also, what a load of incoherent narcissistic nonsense that speech was 🤮

High switching costs too. I despise Jira, but I'd take it in a heartbeat over the abject misery of ADO Boards.

I think part of the legitimate hate for these tools is the impedance mismatch between a top-down hierarchy of tasks, and the way software is actually made.

It's been a YouTube premium feature for a while. I thought it only appeared one you started seeking ahead so it didn't seem that obnoxious.

I don't believe you're obligated to watch ad reads, I'll skip them if they're mid video and particularly annoying.

Wow two of the guys behind one of the games I enjoy with my friends have joined another game company to work on another game I would probably enjoy. Awesome. I just wish I had the time and creative energy to play all of these great games!

Yeah seems a bit unfortunate. Hopefully they reverse course and dual-license the SRD otherwise it's just even more unnecessary barriers to D&D 2024's adoption

If you provide a detailed prompt, tune the weightings, then iterate on this, filtering the output and perhaps composing multiple elements, that seems like expressing a vision.

My big objections are the lazy unsupervised slop, and the devaluing of art by those who only see it as costs to cut.

We grant copyrights on photographs whether it's a meticulously framed shot or a blurred mess. The human perspective comes from selecting an image that expresses meaning or emotion. I'm hardly a fan of GenAI, but if a human is selecting and refining the output it's much the same.

"SEX" from The Man From Utopia.

"The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'"

Please.

Sincerely,
The Rest of the World.

The clip of Spectre looks like it might have been captured in limited range RGB (16-235) and not converted to full range correctly, leading to it looking washed out. Here's a better capture -- darker blacks and overall better contrast. It's still poorly lit even in optimal viewing conditions.

We shouldn't take it for granted. Disinfo, lack of political and media literacy are a risk that will erode faith in our political system. There are even fewer checks and balances against elected idiots/vandals here!

This. A cat needs the right mix of gasses. The closed loop control of EFI oscillates rich and lean by design to ensure there's oxygen. Nobody fondly remembers the era of pre-EFI emissions equipment to try achieve this on a carb 😂