grapeskin (u/grapeskin)

grapeskin commented on Are Hawaii’s beach showers in violation of the Clean Water Act? undark.org/2022/09/07/haw... · Posted by u/Tomte

throwaway1851 · 3 years ago

Completely disagree. Fatigue isn’t just an “idea,” it’s an unavoidable consequence of repeated exposure to a stimulus.

The political will to solve problems is a finite resource. Squandering it on trivial crusades is, IMO, one of the most wasteful and harmful decisions that could be made.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

Less finite than earth’s natural resources amidst the unprecedented rapid deterioration and destruction of basically everything on earth sans colossal asteroid strikes?

Trivial to some upper class person in an air conditioned home who doesn’t want to think about bad things and who’ll survive no matter what is certainly not trivial to billions increasingly struggling to survive with no way to escape to greener pastures.

grapeskin commented on Are Hawaii’s beach showers in violation of the Clean Water Act? undark.org/2022/09/07/haw... · Posted by u/Tomte

throwaway1851 · 3 years ago

Only a limited subset of the available chemical filters are suspected of having an effect on coral. Further, even for those filters that are suspected, I have read that the science is inconclusive.

I personally am skeptical of the idea that sunscreens are actually responsible for marine ecosystem changes, rather than climate change or other large forces. The majority of a chemical sunscreen formula is inert base. And we’re talking about thin films of sunscreen diluting into a vast body of water. Further, most people at the beach are using water resistant sunscreen, further reducing the potential for harm.

Sunscreens are really valuable technology. They prevent skin cancers and sun damage, and I think policy should err on the side of encouraging their use.

I further think that reactive, feel-good measures like banning straws and demonizing sunscreen do much more harm than good, because they cause fatigue and apathy about environmental issues and do little to solve them.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

I think instead of bending the knee to the idea of fatigue, it’s more important to accept that humans really are screwing up things on a massive scale faster than ever. Plastic straws, chemical sunscreens, gasoline, etc are all very recent inventions. It’s not unreasonable to look at massive unprecedented changes in the world and conclude that some of these things that came into widespread existence within recents decades is also causing massive destruction that only began in recent decades.

grapeskin commented on Blocking Kiwifarms blog.cloudflare.com/kiwif... · Posted by u/_vvaw

dools · 3 years ago

Making accusations against someone and trying to get them deplatformed is not the same as threatening someone with violence. I know very few details but the moral equivalence you’re drawing in this comment is false.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

Publicly calling someone a rapist can very well get someone injured or killed. Unless you’re a victim whose pleas are being completely ignored by the legal system, it’s not justifiable and not something that should be taken as anything but a threat to someone’s life.

I have no clue who these people are or what the situation is, but I’ve seen more than enough angry mobs appear out of nowhere after an accusation of a crime.

grapeskin commented on The toll of dating app burnout nytimes.com/2022/08/31/we... · Posted by u/irajdeep

gernb · 3 years ago

Honestly I don't know where else to look. I don't go to church. I have few friends and those I do have do not have any connections to introduce me to people. I choose a poor career for meeting people. No job I've ever had has had many people of the opposite sex in my division. Even now, in my team and a very large company, of the 45 people that I might interact with regularly, 43 are male and while there might be women at work I have no good excuse to talk to any of them.

I'm not saying I want to meet someone at work. But, work is the 2nd most common place to meet someone. Friends are #1 but as I mentioned my friends don't come through here.

Bars don't seem my thing. I am going to a dance event regularly but so far nothing there and even then, I can't talk while I dance as I need to concentrate on getting the moves right (it's a well known style of dance, not just club dancing)

Trying to go to meetups but COVID is still a thing so outdoors only. And it can be burn out on those two because rarely is there anyone I might be interested in. (single, age appropriate, and seem compatible). I know it's a numbers game, I just am running out of ideas on how to increase the numbers.

The apps don't work for me. I get at most 3~4 dates a year out of them. It's better than zero but not by much.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

> I am going to a dance event regularly but so far nothing there and even then, I can't talk while I dance as I need to concentrate on getting the moves right (it's a well known style of dance, not just club dancing)

Are you doing competitive dancing?

If you’re dancing for fun yet you’re more concerned about dancing “properly” than you are about just socializing, people are probably wondering why you’re taking it so seriously.

grapeskin commented on Snap lays off 20% of employees theverge.com/2022/8/31/23... · Posted by u/no_wizard

gregdoesit · 3 years ago

Buried in the announcement is how Snap is shutting down Zenly and firing everyone who worked on it in Paris, France. Zenly is a location-based social application (think: you can see & connect with your friends on a map). Snap bought them in 2017 for a reported $250-350M when they had ~4M installs. Now Zenly is at 40M MAUs, growing strong as I heard from employees working there.

Zenly is (was?) popular in Japan, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Nordics. In Japan, it is head-on-head as the most used social app with Line.

I find it odd that Snap just shuts down an app that was so popular in regions that is hard to gain foothold for any social media team. They could have likely sold it or spun it out, but chose not do so.

It's also not like the app is a major cost to the company. Less than 100 people work on it across Snap, most based in Paris, France.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

> In Japan, it is head-on-head as the most used social app with Line.

This is my first time ever hearing of Zenly. Line is unavoidable. Instagram and Twitter trail it and Zenly is likely up there with AIM and ICQ. There’s no way this is is true lol

grapeskin commented on Could long Covid be linked to herpes viruses? Early data offer a hint nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/nope96

bamboozled · 3 years ago

Does "long Covid" actually exist, can one get a blood test, scan or something like that done to have it diagnosed?

grapeskin · 3 years ago

My blood pressure increased by 50% since getting covid 6 months ago and hasn’t come down since.

It’s been stable all my life and shot up in the span of a month.

grapeskin commented on Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

prmoustache · 3 years ago

I am pretty sure they would welcome your pull request.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

Mentioned that in my first comment.

There’s perfectly good software out there. I’d rather get work done and use that, than spend forever trying to make sense of some mess of an ancient project’s code and trying to fix it. There are even free projects with usable UI that would be a better use of time if I were to want to contribute to something. Krita’s been mentioned here a few times and it seems to have a brighter future.

grapeskin commented on Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

tpoacher · 3 years ago

How much of this is just personal opinion rather than just canon?

I love the GIMP, use it all the time, find it super-intuitive, and last time I had to use Photoshop I felt like a fresh vim user who couldnt wait to figure out how to get the hell out of there.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

The fact it’s been struggling to get widespread support for decades and there’s always someone complaining about the UI is a sign.

Most people don’t even think about photoshop UI. Same with Microsoft paint: users can get in and start figuring out what they want to do just by clicking around.

grapeskin commented on Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

prokoudine · 3 years ago

> The UI is absolutely horrendous and despite decades of opportunity to fix it, there’s been zero attempt.

I'm afraid you are dismissing quite a lot of work to improve the UX/UI.

Could more be done? Absolutely! Was there zero attempt? Not really, no.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

Honestly, if there have been decades of efforts and it’s still this bad, that’s even less motivation to give them money.

It’s like: if you’re a large manufacturer, would you prefer investing in a city where government officials pocket the cash and roads don’t exist but with handwavy excuses that something might improve with a little more cash, or invest literally anywhere else where the roads improve every year and things are getting cleaner?

Gimp seems to be spinning its tires for infinity. I’ve tried it once a year or so for 15 years. It hasn’t changed much. It’s incredible. Almost no company is going to throw them cash and it’s obvious why.

grapeskin commented on Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

telman17 · 3 years ago

I wonder why more companies don’t get behind GIMP as a real alternative to Adobe. I remember Blender getting picked on all the time before it got its big sponsorships. It got a real roadmap and development was done and was greatly improved on a feature and artist experience level.

grapeskin · 3 years ago

The UI is absolutely horrendous and despite decades of opportunity to fix it, there’s been zero attempt.

Blender has made some big UI gains. I used it a long time ago, and the hidden menus and backwards control scheme made it unusable for anyone with basic computing knowledge (right click was select? Insanity) and doubly so for anyone with 3D knowledge. They revamped it a few years back and it’s usable now. I went from a blender hater to happily dropping paid 3D software and preaching about how good blender is.

Companies could throw money at gimp. But that doesn’t mean it’ll ever have a control scheme that’s usable to the 99.9% of people with prior digital art experience who go in expecting something similar to 99.999% of other software, only to find it’s completely backwards.

Literally just putting aside all other development plans and going all in for a year on making the UI usable would launch the project to success.

And comments like this always get a “well, it’s open source so you could fix it yourself if it’s that bad!” I could and so could others. But there’s usable software out there, and instead of dedicating loads of time to trying to fix a decades-old mess, we’d all rather just use a better product even if it costs money and get to work, or make something different from the ground up.