davegri

I've been doing something similar with scientific papers, you give it the paper and ask it to reproduce it as a nice html blog post and it often recreates all the diagrams and formats everything really nicely

Check out how opencode does it

Lol the irony is that this was obviously written using AI

"Last month I connected my Obsidian vault to AI. The questions changed completely:

Instead of "Write me something new" I ask "What have I already discovered?""

yep

"Some groupings have icons and get inset, while other groupings don’t have icons and don’t get inset. Interesting…again I wonder what the rationale is here? How do you choose? It’s not clear to me."

The rationale is clear, they are choosing to use icons only when a widely-recognized icon is available. This makes sense, and it answers the author's concerns perfectly about icons being used arbitrarily when they don't convey anything.

To be honest I find the whole motion of this blog post quite confusing. The user starts with a bad example, people using icons randomly that nobody could recognize without the text, which is evidence of the fact that the icon itself doesn't convey much information.

Then he shows an example where someone doesn't do the thing he complained about, they actually did use icons with a rationale. At which point he asks the question, "What is the rationale" but does not actually attempt to answer it..

To me though, there is a much more interesting paradox beneath all this. If we grant that it only makes sense to show an icon when it's meaning is widely known. How are new icons ever going to be introduced? Presumably every well known went through a period where it was used with text because it was still not well known. So while it might be bad UX to use an icon that is unfamiliar to users, over the long term using such icons has the benefit of creating a shared visual language that we all understand. I guess the litmus test for when to put an icon should then become: Is this functionality widespread enough in other applications that I can imagine this icon becoming standard in the future?

The demands only seem inconsistent if you don't look at the actual principle underlying them. Political discourse tends to present opposing ideologies as being about principles like "free speech" or "free markets" - it's really all about power, who has it, and who wants it.

In this case its strengthening particular social and economic hierarchies - america vs the rest of the world, and white christians over non-whites or non-christian.

What's interesting is that this is not necessarily a struggle between the top of a hierarchy vs the bottom of one, but between two different hierarchies. The democrats support cultural non racial and economic hierarchies, while the republicans support racial international and the same economic hierarchies. So while they both support the rich over the working class, there is a struggle over whether to support racial and international hierarchies. Democrats tend to support globalization, i.e unifying of the power of the top of the economic hierarchy across international boundaries, while eliminating racial and sexual hierarchies as they are seen as "inefficient" from a neoliberal perspective. Republicans are more focused on the "national elite", the rich people that depend on america being a global hegemon specifically, energy industry, military industira-complex, etc..

I find it genuinely hilarious that we need to consult with a psychologist to create a place with a comforting atmosphere. As if what makes a place feel nice and comfortable is some kind of theoretical knowledge we just don't have access too. It's a miracle we regular old people avoid creating horrible and uncomfortable living spaces for ourselves.

This whole article conflates "noise" with "alternative signal"

The logical conclusion of this maxim is "tweet more often".

I'm not saying this is definitely intended, but it kind of bothers me that this title seems to imply "Saying no to almost everything might make you successful".

Did Paul Graham just repackage DnD Alignment?

This is awesome, can you make it work on the old reddit design as well? old.reddit.com

This reminds me of a simple rule that we all should follow. Before speaking, ask yourself, is what I'm saying both honest and kind? If not, reconsider :)

I actually created a meta search engine for high quality cc0 photos, its called librestock. check it out :) http://librestock.com

Looks cool mate!

Oh man thats a relief!

The reason I can find stuff from pexels that they cant find is actually because I have duplicate image detection that sources the tags from multiple sources. So a different source must have tagged it as ashtray!

I've been building websites for a year. I still consider myself very much a beginner. (I worked in design before that). thanks for the compliment!

Hey! I'm the creator of librestock, could you please clarify as to what sucks and how I can improve it? I'm very much a beginner.

I got sick of seeing 100 different websites with stock photos so I built a web crawler to crawl all of them and put the links into a database

Thats how http://librestock.com was born. enjoy :)

Say no more, http://librestock.com

Valid concerns, in a way your right but you can't fight supply and demand there will always be people looking for cheap things and people looking for the best quality things and willing to pay for it. I find that the people who complain that design contests ruined design or that cms's ruined building websites simply need to step their game up and attract higher quality customers who understand their value. it's up to you to prove your value and complaining about the market isn't very useful.

Sorry, my bad. fixed now.

is everything on morguefile public domain?

Yeah, I'm working on the search algorithm, sorry for that

I literally couldn't find a better name that wasn't taken or meaningless, open to suggestions

whats gratisstock?