is.havinganormal.one
unabashedly sentimental wife and kids guy
web developer by day, photographer by weekend
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I don’t mean to detract from the article, but if you weren’t aware, those stylized characters that mimic italics, bold, small caps, etc in plain text are usually rendered as nonsense by screen readers/text-to-speech software.
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2 minutes later, a teacher who knows him gets to the after-school room & sees him calmly sitting there.
He’d been there the whole time. The instructor saw “Theodore” on the attendance list and chose to call out “Theo?”
Our son, who only goes by Teddy & *rarely* Theodore, didn’t even glance up.
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I read The Stand at the same age, and I remember being scandalized by but also frequently re-reading the (very tame, “fade-to-black” style) mentions of sex.
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I would be suspicious of *anyone* who wasn’t at least a little curious about butt lasers.
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I’m always amazed at people who think that 1) there a simple test to measure your “intelligence”, 2) it can be represented by a single number, and 3) you can generalize it to all applications of intelligence
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If you’re uploading images to Ghost and then including that image in a post, my best guess is that they compress them on upload to save storage space. You could probably host them elsewhere and include them in the post that way?
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Oh for sure, and I say it with love since I know I’m definitely one of those types of people. The reason I love web development so much is because I get to create my little Systems for Things and Naming Schemes and whatnot
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Or those people just become passionate Wikipedia editors or open source software maintainers nowadays
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I don’t need this in my inbox. Maybe I’m just getting crotchety, but there’s just too much *stuff*, and so much of it is empty of substance while simultaneously demanding my time and attention.
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Instead, I have to parse through a “joke” about groundhog’s day (with a cartoon groundhog next to a sign that doesn’t make sense because the LLM misinterpreted the joke/prompt), TEN emojis in the message, a “joke” about not seeing me before brunch (🍳🤣), and a plug for their social media & website.
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I’d be happy to help with the infrastructure for this — I’m a web developer.
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Hit me with that dsm then because I will never switch back to phillips after experiencing the beauty that is the t25
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Honest question because I don’t know how these things are measured/calculated: that chart says it’s “real wage” growth, & real wages are supposed to be adjusted for inflation.
Is it possible that the inflation metrics used don’t accurately reflect the real price increases people are seeing?
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These are very cool! Oddly enough, even with the Scroll-driven Animations feature flag turned on in Safari on iOS, they aren’t working on my iPhone. Super slick on my desktop, though.
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In the Days Before Phones, I once entertained myself and several others in a minivan during a long roadtrip with episodes of The Skinsons, featuring characters forged from the skin/fat on my arms and legs. Weird kid!
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This 1) goes hard and 2) could be called “Lynchian” in two ways, each way being high praise
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me, running the washer/dryer all day: fuck yes! I’m getting so much done!
me, looking at 4 full hampers that need hung up or folded and put away: what the fuck, this sucks
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Yeah, pretty much any change to a live website or service can be made without anyone ever noticing any downtime. The longest we’ve ever had was a few seconds, and we wrung our hands about that one a fair bit because it was a high-use service.
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With all sincerity, can you understand why many would find it irksome when a person insists on adding their voice to a conversation even though they know they do not have the context for it, and then become upset when that’s pointed out to them?
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There was the National Public Data breach too, which had like 150 million+ people’s names, SSNs, current and past addresses, and other info. Easily downloadable in plain text.
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Chandra Manning makes a similar argument for why non-slave-owning white men went to war to uphold slavery: because white men’s dominance over all others — women, children, and non-white men — was central to their identity and way of life. Emancipation threatened their dominance over non-white men.
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The proportionality is all out of whack. Sharing a mildly unpopular opinion — especially couched in “hey, just sharing a thought” — shouldn’t explode your notifications for hours. It is possible to see something you disagree with, see that plenty of others have already replied, and move on.
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Because it makes me laugh, my note for this is titled “Own Horn Toots” 🎺
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Holy HELL
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Plus, having all these funds in different buckets meant that I can’t really fault people for wanting to support what they care most about, but I can say that the unrestricted “do what you think is best” funds were SO NICE.
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…which meant I had to work with all those people to find out what we used the money for and how that fit into both the library’s and donor’s priorities, then work with the Dean and development officer to get context/history and our stewardship/spending strategy for their fund(s).
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The accounting staff had to track it all; department heads had to factor it into budgeting; librarians and staff had to consider it when buying materials, planning maintenance, developing services, etc; I had to write individualized reports for every fund…
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I used to work for a university library, and this is spot on. There were funds that could only be used on materials about particular subjects, designated rooms in the building, or other specific purposes.