seabea | 2 years ago | on: Figma to Start Charging Developers for View Access to Designs
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seabea | 2 years ago | on: American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
Storefronts at the sidewalk instead of on the other end of sprawling parking lot. Pedestrian crossings in the middle of longer stretches of road (as opposed to only at intersections). Dedicated bike paths throughout the entire town. Schools centrally located on a single campus in the middle of town.
It goes to show what a town can do when the local government decides they want to be more than just a outpost for a larger city.
seabea | 2 years ago | on: American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
Not to mention the cost of parts.
seabea | 2 years ago | on: American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
For those who live away from any civilization, they've made their choice about transportation.
seabea | 2 years ago | on: American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
However it shouldn't be necessary for me to walk in a ditch along a high speed road with no sidewalk just to get to the grocery that is less than half a mile away.
seabea | 2 years ago | on: Analysing the Twitter User Exodus to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Tweak New Twitter
One of my favorite features is the built-in code highlighting.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Jony Ive on Life After Apple
Unfortunately I think he drank a bit too much of his own kool-aid and "innovated" on the original designs in ways that were user hostile and didn't serve to complement the function of the products.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Marijuana use is outpacing cigarette use for the first time on record
https://news.gallup.com/poll/395867/say-alcohol-adversely-af...
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about time
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering...
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Buttery Smooth “10fps” (2020)
Those techniques have actually been around for a long time in traditional, handrawn animation.
https://www.traditionalanimation.com/2017/smear-speed-motion...
seabea | 3 years ago | on: You Might Not Need jQuery
It provides a nice reactive, declarative API to manipulate the DOM, without going all-in on a heavy JS framework.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon
I would like to think it could never happen. But I also wouldn't have ever expected to see the halls of Congress violently trespassed by a bunch of rednecks with confederate flags.
Just imagine if the Jan 6 insurrectionists we're organized and not completely inept at accomplishing their goal.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: DALL-E 2 appears to be adding words to prompts to promote diversity
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
People like to think that ML/AI can only produce truth, while in actuality it only reflects back what it is shown.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: DALL-E 2 appears to be adding words to prompts to promote diversity
Regardless, OpenAI has acknowledged the bias found in past results and that techniques have been applied to help address it:
https://openai.com/blog/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety-i...
This a good time for a reminder that biases in training data will produce biased results. Just because the data might contain hundreds of thousand of white male business people doesn't mean we want/need that bias to be reflected in the output.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
seabea | 3 years ago | on: How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
Sure there are more "thought games" and the merry-go-rounds won't pin and drag a child across the ground.
I mostly take my child to metroparks in my area. I wouldn't be surprised if school playgrounds have been made safer due to less individual supervision and liability for the school.
seabea | 3 years ago | on: Police Are Harassing Mom Who Pulled Kids from Uvalde School Shooting
No one is an expert in all topics. We are literally not qualified to evaluate all claims.
E.g. Joe Schmoe is not qualified to personally evaluate the the safety/effectiveness of seatbelts/vaccines/pesticides. At some point they will need to trust someone else's evaluation.
People pushing an agenda can also choose to include all the indisputable facts that support their agenda and omit the ones that don't. Evaluating claims without the full picture doesn't give you the truth.
So I ask you, how did you "evaluate" the claims in 2000 Mules?
For those who don't pay for Dev Mode, they'll revert to something like the Inspect mode they had previously.