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abyssin commented on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings antirender.com/... · Posted by u/iambateman

materialpoint · 9 days ago

This should be compulsory for pitching architects and entrepreneurs. Prove that your design can withstand real weather and the washed out decay of time. Classical architecture withstands weathering and littering remarkably better. Architects are even using corrugated steel sheets intended for ugly shacks as the fascade of new buildings intended for people to live in. It couldn't be worse.

abyssin · 9 days ago

It baffles me that contemporary architects don’t seem to be aware of the existence of rain. Why put white render on the facade of your building if it turns to green within five years? Why the hate for large overhangs that would solve this problem for cheap?

abyssin commented on The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference owlposting.com/p/the-trut... · Posted by u/abhishaike

baxtr · a month ago

Many conferences work like that, yes.

There are even some companies that offer this style of conferences as meetings for money to vendors.

What I wonder though: How many deals are really made in these rooms? I always had the feeling that the conversion rates were rather low if not zero.

abyssin · a month ago

I've been told personally by the organizer of one of these conferences in the retail industry that illegal non-compete agreements and price-fixing agreements are made in the hallways. It was 10 years ago, and the whole conference existed for this reason.

abyssin commented on Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good kristofferbalintona.me/po... · Posted by u/harryday

lugu · 2 months ago

Yes. USB also works just fine too.

abyssin · 2 months ago

How much current does it draw?

abyssin commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

cubefox · 3 months ago

I can control the angle, but permanently aiming it down so far that it can't get in anyone's eyes is completely impractical. You would only see what's directly in front of you and you would miss a lot of stuff.

abyssin · 3 months ago

Not sure about your particular model but most front lights are designed to make the path visible in front of you, and not above.

abyssin commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

cubefox · 3 months ago

Yeah. When I ride my bike in the sticks and pass walkers in the dark, I try to disable my headlight a few seconds before I pass them. Otherwise all they see is a bright light approaching. Disabling the lights for a moment seems better than one party not seeing anything. (Or both parties, e.g. two bikes, or runners with forehead LED light.)

After all, even in the countryside the darkness usually is far from complete. You still see quite a few meters without any headlights. Though the tradeoff would be different for cars with their much higher speed.

abyssin · 3 months ago

If your front light is correctly aiming down, there’s no need to disable the light. Modern bicycle led front lights are most often incorrectly set up, though.

abyssin commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

vladvasiliu · 3 months ago

> Out in the country, you still don't really need brighter headlights. Other cars' headlights will always be visible and they have reflectors, so it's not as if you'll struggle to spot other cars. The road lines are actually reflective, so it's not as if you'll struggle to see the road lines. And generally speaking out in the country, there won't be pedestrian foot traffic, so it's not as if you need the bright lights for them.

I don't know about the UK, but out here in France, this is wrong on most counts. Many country roads have no lines, reflective or otherwise. There will be pedestrians walking around. Also, roads are not always in tip-top shape nor clean, so you need light to be able to see.

However, I do agree that maybe extremely bright lights mounted high are a nuisance.

abyssin · 3 months ago

All roads in France except very small ones have white reflective lines.

abyssin commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

nine_k · 6 months ago

Lotteries, too: https://www.acamstoday.org/lottery-and-money-laundering-a-ma...

I remember reading about a case where criminals bought an entire issue of a local lottery, thus collecting all the prizes, and apparently saw that a reasonable cost to launder their cash.

abyssin · 6 months ago

A prominent Belgian political figure laundered cash for years using the lottery https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/11/revealed-how-t...

abyssin commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber

LastTrain · 6 months ago

>> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

>Do they?

Yes they absolutely positively really do.

abyssin · 6 months ago

They’re not too bothered with a part of humanity starving. Why do you think they’d care about you more?

abyssin commented on Rising young worker despair in the United States nber.org/papers/w34071... · Posted by u/johntfella

saubeidl · 6 months ago

This individualization of systemic failure is not seeing the forest for the trees.

abyssin · 6 months ago

Could the cynicism of some also be a byproduct of the circumstances?

abyssin commented on Atlassian terminates 150 staff cyberdaily.au/digital-tra... · Posted by u/speckx

drozycki · 6 months ago

Why bother with a text? Just lock them out of their accounts. They'll figure it out.

The termination ritual is for the people that stay and who the company may wish to hire in the future.

abyssin · 6 months ago

Is this sarcasm?

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