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nikkigrace at nikkigrace dot ca
It’s the kind of place you can maybe talk to an actual human.
It’s not the kind of place where you break your Credit Card Merchant’s rules and refuse refunds on items poorly packaged and broken on arrival.
After reading OP’s comment, I will never be ordering from this company, and I was highly considering it.
f/2.5?!
Heh - this is a remarkable feat of intentional engineering; but it’s absolutely useless as a functional camera.
I want more control over my hardware and software, not less. I want less connection to or dependence on any sort of ‘cloud’.
Give me liberty or give me a dumbphone.
GitHub is one of the most valuable troves of information we have on the entire Internet, certainly - and represents countless hours of work from millions of people all over the world, openly contributing and sharing knowledge and tools with others, without the interest of profit.
I don’t think there are many other websites in the world that align with HN’s values more than GitHub. It’s almost invaluable to humanity.
If I’m creating a CSS framework anyway, I’ve gotta test it. It literally takes 2 seconds - literally - to hit CMD+Shift+4 (I don’t know the Windows equivalent) - and when I publish to GitHub and write my readme, it takes another handful of seconds to add that image into the article.
Since that GitHub page is about a CSS framework, people are much more likely to download, use, fork or contribute to it - if you’ve spent this less than ten seconds to help your potential users out.
There’s lots and lots of utilities and articles for which you wouldn’t need to use screenshots as examples - command line utilities, certain frameworks, etc - but this article is an example of the opposite.
The reason I can’t understand people who would do that - especially in the example of said CSS framework - is if you’ve spent all this time working on something like that, and you’re choosing to share it with people - why not undergo that ~10-15 second long process for their sake?
But nothing bothered me more than the actor himself. The way he spoke, his ridiculously teen angst emo attitude…his hair alone.
I just could absolutely not take him or the show seriously whatsoever, because - even though I’d never seen it - I could literally not get the picture of Edward the vampire from Twilight out of my mind almost any time he was on screen.
There were several times I laughed out loud during periods which were supposed to be dead serious moments - and most of those times were simply due to the hilarious emo attitude of the show’s lead.
Was it intentional? He plays off like a character from a Young Adult novel, not from a legendary Graphic Novel author. The lead was just cringe incarnate.
I just cannot understand people’s aversion to including images in instances where the core point of the article or project is visual technology.
It does not take long to take a screenshot or two of either what you’re discussing, as in the case of this article, or what your project is capable of, as in the case of that CSS framework.
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ has never rung truer in situations regarding visual technology.
I’d played stuff like Virtua Racing on my Genesis and Star Fox on the SNES, but without texture mapping, there still felt like an awful lot of compromise; moreso like how Atari 2600 games still required a lot of ‘imagination’ compared to even an NES.
My point is, I guess - that Super Mario 64 was the first ‘true’ 3D experience without any compromise I first played.
I get that it’s no ‘Metroid Prime’, and the low poly count and admittedly poor texture quality take away from the experience a bit, but it’s my first memory of a ‘true’ 3D game.
It’s very cool, they’ve got little metal clips under these special conductive bricks.
If you’ve ever played with MindStorms, you’ll know how bloody cool it is.
So you don’t have to worry about ‘Lego(c)(r) Mini Batteries’ - if you’d read the article; you’d see, that brilliantly - this is actually already the way the pieces are powered!
They have no batteries in them.
If you can’t see the value of working displays in especially a collector’s (adult) edition of, say, the X-Wing with that Death Star trench thing, then it’s not a product for you - but I assure you there are thousands of us who will happily say ‘shut up and take my money’ for such a thing.
Needless to say, as soon as I looked up the company (it smelled more like bullshit than a cattle farm) - I saw on a rudimentary Google Search that; of course you can’t buy a square foot of land and be a ‘Lord’.
Needless to say, I got rid of those subscriptions right after.
It’s unfortunate how some YouTubers who get sponsored either don’t even Google the companies they shill for, or in the case of someone like AVGN shilling ‘Raid Shadow Legends’ - they know what they’re shilling is complete shit.
The USA is certainly the most racist first world country I’ve been to. (I’ve visited Canada, England, Denmark, USA)
The incarceration statistics for African Americans vs. white people alone tell you all you need to know.
I’m considering buying and renovating an older RV as my first ‘home’.
Any advice on this? Other than avoiding driving through the prairies? :P
That is…unfortunately, exactly the opposite of what happens more often than not.
More often than not - promotions are accrued through social credit and personal preference.
You will quite often see the hardest working people get passed by for a promotion for the manager’s friend, etc.
Your ‘objective observation’ is…not accurate.
If this was the way it was - we wouldn’t need laws related to racism, sexism, etc in hiring practices.
I don’t know what kind of idealistic fantasy America you’re imagining up, but in the real one that exists on Earth these are serious problems.
I surely can’t be the only one. It’s a no brainer - especially for a CSS framework - to include visual examples.
The joy of synchronous communication is that it is also asynchronous. If you didn’t get my Teams message at the time - you will after!
Email offers no benefits I can see compared to instant messaging. Plus, you can always turn off notifications. I also don’t need to make filters to drown out the massive amount of sheer noise and unrelated garbage.
When someone sends me a direct message on Teams, I know that’s a real person, asking for me directly.
I have never had a Teams notification, at my current workplace of 3+ years - sent to me by a robot. Imagine that!
In contrast - least 90% of the email sent to ‘me’ from within my company is not from a real person. I’d say 98% of email - not exaggerating whatsoever - is completely unrelated to me, or effectively ‘corporate spam’.
What benefit does email provide above a service like Teams, and how does it curtail all of the above issues?
By requesting people use email exclusively to reach you; you’re choosing to inconvenience me, and many others - because you’ve refused to move on to the next logical step in communicating with your coworkers. You’re forcing me to use a service to communicate with others that is ineffective at best - frustrating at hell at worst.
It appears entitled, and; frankly, you’re the type of person I’d hate working with because of it.
An email sent to me is a fish in a bucket of mostly fake fish.
An IM sent to me is a direct message, sent by a human; specially to me - and if I don’t see it when it’s sent to me - I can still see it later.
I have explicitly told my coworkers - all of them - to reach me exclusively on Microsoft Teams; because my Outlook ‘inbox’ is so consistently full of garbage that I’d say about 1/40 messages are actually relevant to me.
Email is a problem that needs to be solved. I could never - do never - blame anyone for not answering an email.
Sony’s 1992 Data Discman would beat that by 6 years.
This epitomizes the point, I believe.
There are high level hip hop producers who are still using, say; an MPC-2000 mk2 to produce top ten hits.
Let’s say Dr. Dre, or DJ Shadow, etc - with decades of experience with this tool, suddenly try to move to newer technology. Nothing can trump their experience with that. Dre is going to be better on a decades old piece of hardware than almost anyone, because he’s had all those years of phenomenal experience.
It took me forever to swap to Logic Pro X. For years and years I primarily used (and released my 2019 mixtape, with half a million listens on Spotify, produced with) Logic Pro 9 and an ancient version of Pro Tools, both of which I had legit licenses for. I have a quad core G5 with 16GB of RAM and 2 1TB SSD’s whose performance easily matches my 2016 15” MBP for producing.
I finally moved to Logic X during the pandemic. I still am not sure it’s the better tool; but having portability is so key for me.
Point is - you nailed it. Your experience with the tools you use is way - way - more relevant to how well you will do than the features of the tools.
Hand Van Halen a sitar. See how well he does. Hand him even the shittiest guitar ever and watch him fly.
I recall seeing an Instagram(?) post from Kanye West where he’d had a tab open in the background for the Pirate Bay, I believe searching for a fairly common plugin. (EDIT: I confirmed this, link at [0])
The reality is - a lot of us pirated software to get by, and potentially to learn; especially as younger folks.
But as we grow in our industry and career, (especially if you work in software!) I believe supporting software by buying it is important.
For myself - I justified pirating software that I used virtually every day as ‘when I make enough money from it, I’ll buy a license’.
Old habits die hard; though, and I’ve only recently turned that around.
Great example: for years and years I’d used a MacOS independently developed FTP client called ‘Fetch’, but each time I’d either just used the trial and kill the plists to reset it or found ‘some alternatives’, when available.
I’d got a tax refund recently, I was dealing with the expired trial prompt, and this time I decided to just finally drop the…$25(?) it was to buy a license. It felt good, and I’ll never have to deal with that minor annoyance again.
As I get older, and my careers are going well; the inconvenience of keeping an up to date pirated version of software, blocking IP addresses, etc; becomes more annoying than it is just to throw some cash at a license.
I just want the tool. I want it to ‘just work’ - and if it doesn’t - it’s nice to have the potential option for support.
That being said, I do refuse to pay for some software out of principle, namely those that charge subscription fees.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/kanye...
You can’t disrespect your core, dedicated audience.
Apple slapped every serious, dedicated, industry director and editor in the face who used Final Cut with the release of FCPX.
The incompatibility of plugins was one thing. That we couldn’t - for the first time ever - open project files from a previous version into the new version, made it further useless for folks who would be looking to ‘upgrade’. Then there was the staggering lack of basic features.
One had to wonder what the hell Apple was thinking. There are easier ways to shoot oneself in the foot.
Final Cut Pro X’s initial release could not be interpreted as anything but completely disrespectful and ignorant of the needs of 7’s extremely loyal user base.
Directors and editors would potentially lose hundreds to thousands of dollars on invested plugins for 7 only to find none of them would work for this ‘upgrade’.
Previously existing project files from 7 no longer worked with X, meaning there was no way to take advantage of any of the ‘new features’ (everything was a downgrade, realistically) with old projects.
FCPX is one of the biggest black marks on Apple’s long history of dealing with the creative market they claimed to prioritize.
The introduction was shameful at best.
It’s alright now, but they’ll never recover in the industry. We’re over it.
I have industry friends who still did the same (using FCP7) for years before eventually just switching to DaVinci or Premiere.
There are also serious issues with FCPX and the broadcast standard - meaning using FCPX in broadcast television, etc - a lot of industry standards - is a lot tougher. This issue was only acknowledged this year.
FCPX is one of the most baffling, poorly-thought-out product launches Apple ever attempted.
Similarly, at the time; iMovie’s release after ‘iMovie HD 6’ was as feature-rich as driving through the Canadian prairies. I really couldn’t understand the direction.
Prior to the invention of iMessage - (iOS 6?) - all iPhone texts were this colour of green. It was the same no matter who you texted.
This means Apple never intentionally designed the green bubbles to be more difficult to read.