I spent 45 minutes to an hour last night in conversation with Copilot, banging my head against a CSS issue. No resolution. It only took one query to Claude to completely fix.
I spent 45 minutes to an hour last night in conversation with Copilot, banging my head against a CSS issue. No resolution. It only took one query to Claude to completely fix.
I’ve always loved peering into the inner workings of imaginary houses via cutout illustrations.
This post has a wonderful collection.
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On the latest episode of the Symbolic World podcast, Jonathan Pageau explains why Disney trying to map contemporary cultural values onto an older story results in a jumbled mess.
My wife and I are generally aware of the same cultural touchstones. I would say I was a bit more deeply engaged in certain subcultures, though, which can lead to some interesting reactions when I bust out singing a song like Stryper’s “To Hell With The Devil.”
Back when our local newspaper, The News & Observer, was more of a going concern, I used to dig following the columns from Craig D. Lindsey. Lindsey, AKA Uncle Crizzle, had a keen eye for culture and finding overlooked treasures. When the paper let him go as part of broader cutbacks, I considered it a real setback to their coverage of the arts.1
I remember reading on Lindsey’s Tumblr around the time of this dismissal from the newspaper that he was going through a time of real struggle. This was right around the time that the nation was facing a particularly strong sense of outrage about the treatment of minorites by the authorities. He felt a lack of self-worth. The demand for those in his profession was abating (at least in the sense that they could find paying work). Frankly, I was worried about the guy.
After buying this razor from Henson, I have officially made two purchases after seeing the products on Instagram. I guess ads aren’t all bad?
For this Friday Night Video, we’re going back a way, to the mid-nineties. Smashing Pumpkins had released Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness a fittingly grandiose title for an ambitious and widely varied double-album. At the time, I heard the first single, the “rat in a cage” song, and I thought this latest effort wasn’t for me. I actually went out and sold my Smashing Pumpkins CDs, which I had been collecting since shortly after the release of their debut, Gish.
Anna Kodé has a piece in the New York Times (gift article) about the early Space Age Googie style of architecture. The article is filled with eye candy and visual delights from the style, some prominent artifacts of which were still around when I was young. It brings a tremendous sense of nostalgia.
Nick Heer from Pixel Envy points out that Dell hasn’t lost its branding charm. When configuring a laptop on the website, he got an error message, “Composite Rule Error: Invalid selection in Processor Branding.” He was further informed about the error:
The Chassis Option requires the matching Memory size. The 16gb Memory is only available with the Ultra 5 236V/226V and Ultra 7 266V. The 32gb Memory is only available with the Ultra 5 238V and Ultra 7 268V.
I have often marveled at the challenging model names that PC manufacturers give their products, which starkly contrast to those from Apple. Everyday people can remember the names of their Apple devices. Not so for most of what PC manufacturers come up with.