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- jagara4
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Just started watching White Lotus. Second to last episode of the second season.
Outstanding. Gotta say. Cast, story, soundtrack.
- Everybody's been going on about it, which usually makes me resist.jagara
- (oh, and didn't START at the second to last episode of the second season) :Djagara
- e1s1 was enough for me. utter wank.hans_glib
- Mike White thonb
- Pretty late to the most amazing showgrafician
- Never watched Game of Thrones, too.jagara
- Started it and stopped after one Episode. Didn't catch me at all, I simply dislike everyone and the "humor" is not mine, it feels forced.Longcopylover
- @Longcopylover Felt the same way, but kept going. It grew on me. Also, most of the characters are meant to be unlikable, vapid and annoying.jagara
- Uncle Rico is a tripstoplying
- Yes, will have to try again when I am in a better mood and the world is a bit less crazy maybe.Longcopylover
- +1 stick with them, a bit like Succession – remember ep1 being just a parade of unlikeable twats?MrT
- @jagara I just finished the 2 first episodes of S01; thank you man, it’s great!maquito
- @maquito Yeah, it's good stuff! Season 2 is equally great. Enjoy!jagara
- DaveO5
Suggest a good movie…
Every year I'll throw this on with a bottle of wine and some cheese and think about days when it was a little bit more straightforward.
- Is sideways a wine film with a little golf, or really a golf film with a little wine?DaveO
- Lot of wine from what I remember, really loved that film at the time.PhanLo
- Its a very cosy watch on a friday night woth a bottle of pinot!DaveO
- Good laughs, watched recently. It gets pretty off the wall near the end, for a movie about two guys going on a golf/winery tripnb
- LOVEcanoe
- ****** depending on the guyscanoe
- palimpsest9
- Didn't he impose that he has more command of the English language than you do?canoe
- Which was absurd. In my opinion, you're one of the wittiest and most eloquently spoken members on QBN.canoe
- When it comes to English, you're like a specialized dental tool, as opposed to him: a jackhammer.canoe
- Thank you!
It's by no merit of my own. I grew up in Baltimore, that fact made me savor his judgment of my English skills even more.palimpsest - She's beautifulNBQ00
- We, in the Balkans, have great English education. ;)renderedred
- They don't think it be like it is, but it do.palimpsest
- SHEIT she itAQUTE
- dammit this made me log-in again :) u nailed it ahahahasted
- You people are fucking weirdgrafician
- @renderedred one of the first skill you have to master to escape.sted
- @grafician guilt after playin' some pocket pinball? no worries she can grow a neckbeard for you ezsted
- HAL90016
Signs your getting old?
just received an email from Threadless... the tshirt website.
They're celebrating their 25th Anniversary
- Krassy3
Iran war/WW3
Unprecedented number of B-2 bombers amassed for strike on Iran
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/…
- PhanLo3
- Unless you are asthmatic, and you die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯OBBTKN
- :-(PhanLo
- my hangovers lately just need water and rest. I'm becoming a ficusmaquito
- dead?utopian
- Ayrangrafician
- ah! that's the mint yogurt thing innit? does it work?maquito
- wouldn't take advice from this bloke when it comes to your health.milfhunter
- I'd rather take his advice than that of the fire-damaged helmet currently running the US health department.MrT
- neithermilfhunter
- Krassy4
Iran war/WW3
US could be bombing Iran by weekend if Tehran doesn't fall in line
https://www.express.co.uk/news/w…
- microkorg5
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Job hunt update.
In 3 weeks, about 100 jobs applied for.
Had about 20 knock-backs with most of them being instant or within a day or so which I think many were robots doing keyword/cv checks.
But only now after the 3 weeks starting to see personalised replies coming through from real people.
Got an interview for a remote position tonight with NY company.
And got a call from a fintech company recruiter asking if he can put me forward.
And i've one take-home exercise that I started today for another fintech company close to home.I think take home exercises are a good thing for someone new to the game or junior designers, maybe even middleweight if they need them to prove something. But for someone who's had a 25 year career in senior, CD and Team Lead positions all whilst still being a hands-on designer is a bit of a pisstake. I mean, if I've made it THIS far, then surely I've got the skills.
- Tell the fintech people to get fucked. You don't do free work, and it's insulting to the length and breadth of your career.Continuity
- Congrats! Thats a lot of action so you must be doing something right. :)monospaced
- It's ChatGPT I have to thank mono.
My writing skills wouldn't have got me this far I don't think. haha.microkorg - I would send them a Let Me Google That For You link or a prompt link.palimpsest
- I refuse to do Design tests and have had no trouble getting hired.nb
- I'm doing this one as I'd like the job, its a great opportunity for a lead role in an adtech company that I think I have a good chance at.microkorg
- as a recruiter for the company contacted me.
But if it was for a company I knew were just sending out tests to hundreds of folk i'd refuse.microkorg
- canoe4
Grafician Hate Why?
Grafician's response: "Lol America does not had a golden age. You are basically a MAGA person now. You might as well directly voted Trump."
I'm not MAGA. You just need me to be so you don’t have to deal with being wrong.
Not everyone who calls you out worships the sociopathic 8 year old president. Sometimes your arguments are simply straight up mxyzptlk.
- You hide your insecurity behind arrogance and fake intellectualism. You don’t actually want a conversation — you want to perform, to dominate, to feel smarter..canoe
- than everyone else. Every time someone disagrees with you, you slap the MAGA label on them because it’s easier than admitting your arguments might be weak.canoe
- What’s funny is you act like you’re the polar opposite of Trump, but you share a lot more in common than you think — the need to be right at all costs...canoe
- the mockery, the inflated sense of self, the obsession with enemies. You just swapped the red hat for a superiority complex and some bitter coffee.canoe
- It's so transparent, and so boring to me.canoe
- Your deflection, rage at systems you doesn’t participate in, hyperfocus on America despite being European...canoe
- is likely covering deep-seated frustration with your own country, career, or social status.canoe
- Now, canoe, I just want to say that agree with you, and have absolutely no beef to speak of. However: "rage at systems you doesn’t participate in, hyperfocusContinuity
- ... on America despite being European"
The fact is, what happens in the US more often than not have knock-on effects in the rest of the world. So, yeah, theContinuity - ... rest of us out here are pretty concerned about what goes on in your country. That said: most of us also have a life, and don't hyperfocus,Continuity
- ... as you rightly pointed out.
That's all I've got to say about that, really. Carry on!Continuity - Also, alwayssca—oops, neverscared: get a hold of yourself, ffs. you're getting really tedious, too.Continuity
- Topical discussion is fine. He's over the top, obsessed, it's part of his being, unapologetically addicted.canoe
- Hear, hear. Like I said, absolutely no beef with you or what you're saying.Continuity
- Sorry I was out again living my life not bothering with your lousy dumb posts
Get a fucking life, go to vacation in Canada, stfup ;)))grafician - Coming here people talking about me again, BRO LOSE YOUR OBSESSION ABOUT ME
post facts or stfu
fucking grown ups acting like kidsgrafician - look at the simpleton pretending to have something he has no clue about, how proud he is on the rubbish heap he made out of self postulations.sted
- "you cringe ass font ignorant dork"monospaced
- "posts facts or stfu" ...later on... "I checked Grok and America did have a golden age"canoe
- PhanLo15
- You mean to tell me that you didn't create this sketch with charcoal, ochre or blowing pigment through tubes. What's next AI?You're a sell out :)utopian
- Hehehe.PhanLo
- nr.1neverscared
- Awesomestoplying
- comparing sketching on screen vs AI literally 'doing it for you' via 40+ typed words... really 'topes? :)
This is dope, phan <3PonyBoy - cool!Gabriel
- haha! i see what you did here :)sted
- nb5
News of the day...
Amid a market selloff, FoxNews.com this morning makes no mention of the stock market on its homepage. Undoubtedly, the movement in markets is the biggest news story in America this morning, so far. Foxnews is actively hiding the biggest story. The only mention of tariffs is the sixth story down. A status update about the “countries that have already folded.”
This is one of the clearest examples of media bias I’ve seen in recent times.
The thing about the market is, you can’t fool it. You can’t lie. It is merely an indicator of the sentiment of business.
I know that most of us here know very well that foxnews is fake news but it’s worth noting at this moment that there is, today, very obvious and unimpeachable proof that foxnews is bullshit.
The markets don’t lie. Fox does.
If you know someone who watches fox, this is a great week to show them how they’re being duped.
- 5 articles about how Biden is still ruining America and 3 about a high school trans swimmer somewhere._niko
- Still attacking biden, even though he's dead.PhanLo
- market is up today (as of now, and since the open).monNom
- The market is like a monkey stung by a bee. You can check in to see where it is going, but don't expect it to be rational at any given moment.monNom
- LULZ at “market is up today” as if that has any bearing on what I wrote abovenb
- You wrote that markets don’t lie. Markets lie all the time. Right up until they get caught. They are up today. Does that mean everything is okay again?monNom
- Your premise is faulty. A) there was no bad news to report as market was up. B) markets are the wrong metric to look at for ‘truth’.monNom
- Gardener3
recent vinyl finds
Well, what a weekend down in Milton Keynes, digging in shops and selling/buying at a small record fair in a pub. I had all sorts of finds from 60's Afro-Beat to obscure early 80's synth 7"s. But blowing them all out of the water was this album I came across. I emailed a guy who runs a site specialising in David Bowie autographs after I picked up a copy of Ziggy Stardust. I was hanging around outside the venue where the record fair was and as I had got there 2 hours early got chatting to a bloke who was off loading loads of his own car boot finds and he let me dig into his boot before he unloaded his wares, which included half a dozen Bowie albums. Naturally I bought them all and the copy of Ziggy he had was very clean and also a first press - with the correct credits, no Mainman on the rear of the sleeve etc. I paid him £25 as that was what he wanted but upon closer inspection I noticed a signature on the rear which (to me) looks like it could actually be by the mainman himself. As a longtime fan ( since 1970) I was pretty much blown away by the possibility of having the good fortune to have found a first pressing of this that may have been signed - not something I would ever be able to buy on the open market. When I asked the seller if he knew about the signature he shrugged and said "I dunno mate, could be, I don't care to be honest". However... I thought it would be a good idea to contact Andy Peters who runs a site specializing in db autographs. He wrote to me today to say,
"Good to hear from you. I get hundreds of these requests a month and sadly, they are all either poor attempts or silly scribbles. I’m delighted to say, this is 100% authentic - an incredibly rare find indeed. Bowie signed the rear phone box often as it was the only decent area for a biro. I’d put this signature and LPs value at circa £1000. Always nice to have an Antique Roadshow moment - congratulations!!
Best wishes - Andy"Which is pretty amazing and a once in a lifetime find, right place right time but I know when I go back to the record fair seller and tell him about that Bowie album he sold me he'll just just shrug and say good for you, he really didn't care less either way! I will still buy him a pint or two though.
- nice! not to mention early UK pressings of ziggy are so much better than the US and reissue versions they should be £1000 anyway :Dkingsteven
- fuck yes!scruffics
- mg338
Generative Art
I keep lucking into little accidents in one of my tools and managed to take it somewhere I wasn't expecting. I'm at 3,000 lines of JS now and it cracks me up when VS Code tells me "Complexity is 14 (or higher) you must be out of your mind."
I keep looking at the output and thinking "how would I even do this in PS or Illustrator?" Particularly where simply clicking the generate button executes the randomization, along with other aspects like the ability to randomize cell rotation. As I describe in my longer post, a lot of this has real-time updates, like colors, blend modes, and padding. Ability to use negative padding is what creates the overlaps when blend modes are used.
After incorporating the image inclusion feature, I realized I could use dozens or hundreds of images (single or multii-selected that are randomized), and find a nice balance between cells showing colors, and cells showing images.
All the shapes are either standard CSS shapes, or more complex SVGs from a multi-select list. I'm kind of limited by the shapes that work well, so I'm now realizing that the opportunities are endless when it comes to using images, textures, patterns, etc.
Thanks again for everyone's comments and enthusiasm in my previous posts, it's definitely motivated me to keep exploring new ideas. Claude is nearly flawless for writing this code. I don't know what I'm going to think of next.
- Love the first two.
Wish there was a way to get drawings into code like that, like we were able to do 20 years ago in Flash.PhanLo - Have a trawl of sites like fxhash, over the years Ive seen some great pencil and paint-like pieces. It is possible with code.microkorg
- +1 on the first 2, especially #1. These are a step up from your previous pieces IMO. Some of the others are a bit busy/contrasty for my taste.monNom
- Great job, are you going make the code/app available for purchase?utopian
- Thanks everyone. monNom - thank you, and agreed. The busy ones were just seeing what's possible. Reminds me a bit too much of early 2000's Vir2l type of art.mg33
- utopian - I'm not sure, but might think about that. Right now it's so specifically set up to server, and i need to see how the code would be modified to allowmg33
- it to be installed easily.mg33
- This guy created and set-up his visual experiments like you did, and then built an online brand/app. www.moshpro.apputopian
- Love the first one!renderedred
- utopian - interesting... that gets my gears going! I'd have to put a ton of thought into how that would work, especially since I've got so much local stuff thatmg33
- is used from my server folders. I could see a lite version that uses a small number of color palettes and images, and a pro version that lets you upload yourmg33
- own images.mg33
- I've got another project ahead of that that I'm hoping to work on soon that will be a native or web app. Still doing some learning to get there.mg33
- It's a songwriting idea tool that offers a variety of randomized starting points for new compositions. Nothing generative or AI-based, more of a randomized flowmg33
- that offers suggestions on different songwriting aspects, lets you store notes, song progress, etc.mg33
- Love the first two.
- PonyBoy1
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55% chance of snow tomorrow
- my 'middle finger' emoji didn't post :/PonyBoy
- Weather's wild. Here in the UK we've had cloudless skies for days now. Global Whamming.Nairn
- (April SHOULD be wet and chilly)Nairn
- Sunny days here in Baskeland too, but, ey! There is a prediction of heavy rain for next week...OBBTKN
- FFS I've just changed my winter tires and in my area will be 20-30 centimeters of snow
...Salarrue - April showers bring AI flowersutopian
- Woke up with snow on the ground. 26 and fucking windy today. That's -3Ccanoe
- *laughs in 14°C and sunny*Continuity
- Snow this morning. It was 20° last weeki_monk
