michael_michael

No. Believe it or not, "Artificial America".

I’m not a hardcore Lightroom/Photoshop user, but I have hundreds of RAW product photos that I need to cycle through a few times a year, and a few new ones to add whenever I make a new product. I long-since canceled my CS subscription because it wasn’t worth hundreds of dollars a year to me.

The artcraft versions are rough, but good enough for what I do. Mostly background removal, blemish removal, exposure and white balance adjustments. A professional’s mileage will almost certainly vary.

I’ve tried Gimp, photomator, a few others. The artcraft versions at least retain the muscle memory of the creative suite apps, whereas the alternatives all feel like I need to start from scratch to relearn their features, limitations, shortcuts, and quirks.

If Adobe had frozen features and offered a paid perpetual license pinned at a certain version I probably would’ve bought it.

We’ll actually have AI Anthony Bourdain doing it.

They vibe-coded an asset class using the same chips they’re leasing back to themselves. This is the new dogfooding.

Did you notice anything about their quant?

Near my house I saw two large blocky buildings being constructed on a main thoroughfare. Different construction companies, but within about 100 yards of each other.

"Fantastic!", I thought. New apartment buildings. That means new restaurants, stores, and other conveniences. Not to mention desperately-needed housing.

I'll never forget my despair upon learning that they were BOTH going to be large multi-level self-storage facilities.

I don't recall signing up to live in a Neal Stephenson novel.

To quote David Graeber by way of "Can't Get You Out of My Head": The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

If the elite class decides they are going to checkmate all others, winner take all, the smartest play is probably to flip the table.

Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Those stupid effing TurboTax ads are the only time I’ve ever been motivated to actually write feedback to apple about a feature. So aggravating and user-hostile.

The first few times the App Store opened to TurboTax while scrolling past, I assumed it was my fault and I was somehow misclicking. Then I slowed down and confirmed, no, this is the intended behavior. It’s meant to pop up and disturb your reading.

What slimy behavior. And the fact that it’s TurboTax of all companies they’re doing it for is just salt on the wound.

I use µ for microns or micrometers µm. Option + m.

Also if you need ad-hoc bullets, just reach for option + 8.

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The difficulty in accessing symbols like these is one of my (I'm sure correctable) hang-ups when using Linux — Arch, btw.

Assuming we take the statement "more free market equals more efficient outcome" as always and absolutely true, it raises the question: Are the healthcare-related needs of a society aligned with the most efficient outcome that a free market can deliver? I don't think they necessarily are.