Unfortunately when I try to shop for them nowadays they're all AI slop. Is it too much to ask to get a nice Encyclopedia of Pastries poster? Apparently it is.
Thank you! One reason hand-drawn posters are rare is how long they take. The
citrus plate at the bottom of this page is 25 fruits and took
me roughly 100 hours; my chili poster took about 500 because it was 176 fruits. Nobody does that work to make money on a poster. There has to be an
underlying editorial reason to draw the thing in the first place. For me, I am like you...I always wanted to see these things as posters and they never existed. Speaking of pastries, that Great British Bakeoff must have thousands of those pastry and cake illustrations that they use to illustrate the show.
> Nobody does that work to make money on a poster.
You reminded me of something. I was looking at a book of artwork with my brother and he commented that some of the art was bad because there was too much drawn in the background.
I think this is a case of "misplaced advice" - the belief that background artwork lowers the overall quality of a piece is false, but it persists because it is helpful to artists.
If you're trying to sell your artwork, people will pay a lot more for foregrounds than they will for backgrounds, but backgrounds aren't any easier than foregrounds - generally they're harder - so any time you spend drawing stuff in the background effectively lowers your hourly earnings. (Unless the level of background detail in your art is so low that it's making it all unsaleable.)
But if you ask people about what artwork they like, background detail is always helpful.
You can get some decently high resolution images on Wikipedia commons which are scans of old hand drawn illustrations in books. Then (I know, I know) use an AI tool to enlarge the images to a high enough resolution that they print nicely. There are task specific tools just for enlarging that do a pretty decent job if you aren’t trying to go more than 2x. But the scans are usually enough that you only need to slightly enlarge them to get to a resolution that prints 300dpi at a reasonable size.
Best thing you can do is avoid "FOB" because it's a bit confusing. Incoterms 2020 are recognized by everyone and if you ask for particular Incoterms, you'll get them. Or if you don't, your lawyers will salivate, because they know your counterparty didn't perform.
I think that when people are really put in to these kinds of situations, you'll find that you don't do what you thought you would. (Assuming the situtation is actually new to you -- no fair if you already know.)
Which is really interesting!
You might do "better" than past you expected. You might do "worse". You might just do "different". But it will very rarely be what you expected you would do.
I know it surprised me when something similar happened to me. (But, alas, not a particularly good story.) And so I think that's worthy of discussion.
Yes, my experience and observations are that reactions to emergency situations are largely reflex or instinct. If you've had an opportunity to experience that particular kind of emergency before you have a better chance of keeping your wits, but in a surprising novel situation you don't really have time to think it out. You either act or you don't, and given time to examine the situation you will always wish you had done something at least a little differently.
It's important to keep this in mind when watching a video after an event. Chances are that as a viewer you know SOMETHING is going to happen before you even start the video, which puts you well ahead of the participants already, and of course by the time you've seen the slow-mo you can plot a better course of action than was taken at the time.
I agree that it's way too long and difficult to find the value in. One of the key features of a lot of good longer-form informational writing is that it goes around a subject before it goes into a subject. This takes many forms (and is, indeed, kind of fractal), but on its most basic level it's the "this is what I'm going to tell you, here let me tell you, now this is what I told you" pattern. And I say "fractal" because it applies not just to the whole thing, but to every chapter, and so forth. Even paragraphs often bear this structure.
When I don't know what you're going to tell me, I lose interest. When I hit descriptions of memory freeing right away, I don't know: are we going to blather in the weeds about pointers or malloc or ... ? When am I going to get to the part that's new to me? Etc. It's just hard to read, if I don't have to read it.
LLMs make this a whole lot worse because they don't need context like human readers and authors do. They can just jump right in. So they don't care, and they won't flag this, and if you end up writing for them, your writing won't be valuable to humans who need to learn.
yes i understand that the problem is that I was writing this as I was investigating. I had a huge file of notes that I kept adding to as I went, than got back to add again each time and eventually turned that into the writeup. So what you're reading is quite literally my path towards understanding, rather than something I wrote afterwards with a predefined structure and roadmap, and once i finished i went back through the article, I realized I wanted to make some of the more complicated topics easier to understand and more accessible to everyone. So I added a few more sections including explanations of fundamentals that are just meant for people that doesn't have experience with low level programming
If you're not set on analog and want a countertop timer, just get one of these: https://www.thermoworks.com/products/extra-big-loud-timer (though probably on sale soon given the season). It's one of those products that just does exactly what it says on the tin: it's extra big (very easy to operate!) and extra loud (they do mean that one).
Though if you prefer a portable one you can stuff in your pocket they have that too, and it also does just what it says on the tin.
> It's not an initialism or abbreviation for something else.
And even apart from that and the common law right of name, it's not unusual in America to contract two-initial names like that into a single "word". Not extremely common, but not novel or particularly remarkable either.
I'm surprised by the people here who think this is some way unique to Apple. I'm 99% sure Gboard on Android does the same thing. It seems to be implemented differently and to be a bit more responsive to learning my behavior over time, but I've highly suspected it's been there for years. And I'm surprised no one has noticed this until now?
I'd have tried to work out more detailed behavior but I'm poor enough at swiping (at least with Gboard) that there's little point in trying to pin it down that well, at least for me.
It's obviously not an identical implementation, just the same sort of thing. It seems to be more of a we-won't-suggest-these-but-we'll-learn-them-from-you style.
I just swapped to it from hearing about it in this thread. That is disappointing to hear. I don't get why they don't let this be a toggleable setting. Very frustrating.
You can, but there are extremely few options, afaik the only real one being Microsoft’s SwiftKey, or GBoard. Both are way worse than their android counterparts however
I haven't owned an Apple device in over a decade, but I believe Apple finally decided loosen the shackles a little bit and started allowing it maybe two years ago?
Unfortunately when I try to shop for them nowadays they're all AI slop. Is it too much to ask to get a nice Encyclopedia of Pastries poster? Apparently it is.
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