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> When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled.

I don't want to be that guy, but the title is misleading. The number of users completing the form doubled.


No, it's actually people. FTA: 'My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem. To apply for their services, customers could either use an old ASP form on the website...'

Ie customers of the utility company were completing the form, not random users from the internet.


FTA? Free Trade Agreement?

From The Article

After I tried and failed to find any decent QR code generators online, I made one: https://www.cutearr.com/

Runs entirely in the browser, no tracking, no analytics, no ads.


Unsubscribe? And then miss out on all that excellent "There is another thing you should be worried about" content?

What, you don't appreciate opinion pieces like "Donald Trump is a convicted felon, serial liar, serial business bankrupter, Russian asset, dementia victim, alleged pedophile, and racist, sure, but what if Kamala was worse somehow? That would be awful, so I encourage everyone not to vote for her."

So three quarters are on the way up? Doesn't sound too bad.

You can easily Google "disregard definition", actually this is the first auto-prompted item. I do realize it doesn't make the same catchy headline.


It doesn't work in other languages. Searching the same in my native language (literal translation of "disregard definition") leads to (translated):

> I understand. Write what exactly your request is, or enter the text that I need to process. I will not give any definitions in response - we work exclusively on the essence of your question or task!

Which is especially funny, because it goes directly against your intention of finding definition by querying quickly in "grug-language", which worked for old search. Now you have to write in more literate style, slowing you down: swapping word order for it to sound more human-like doesn't work, surrounding "ignore" in quotes works.


Googling "disregard" (in quotes) also works.


It's not just AI. It's AI on top of society discontent that existed for a long time, but accelerated recently. The big underlying problem is, since at least 1970s every subsequent generation had to work harder to afford the same lifestyle as their parents. For a few decades it was balanced by the increasing women's participation in the workforce. But then, since 2008, we got banking crisis, both political parties focusing on outrage, pandemic, great resignation, generation of workers lost due to the lack of in-person contact, and now AI.


You know, AI could help you to produce better-looking charts.


What?


People can still behave honorably despite all this. It's easy (and wrong) to justify someone's dishonorable behavior by pointing to the leaders.


I was looking at Palette Inspiration (https://paletteinspiration.com/), featured on HN a few days ago. It has master palettes for 3,000+ painters — statistical color analyses across each artist's entire body of work.

So I had this idea: what if those palettes became code editor themes? I built 46 Zed themes (dark + light) from the color data of 23 master painters.

Each theme uses the artist's actual palette colors for syntax highlighting, UI chrome, and terminal colors. The dark themes use the palette's darkest tones as backgrounds; the light themes blend the lightest palette color toward white, so every artist has a distinctly tinted background.

The artists:

    Monet — Water Lilies
    Van Gogh — Starry Night
    Matisse — The Dance
    Renoir — Luncheon of the Boating Party
    Pissarro — Boulevard Montmartre
    Roerich — Himalayas
    Sargent — Madame X
    Aivazovsky — The Ninth Wave
    Cezanne — Mont Sainte-Victoire
    Degas — The Ballet Class
    Da Vinci — Mona Lisa
    Rembrandt — The Night Watch
    Picasso — Guernica
    Vermeer — Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Turner — The Fighting Temeraire
    Klimt — The Kiss
    Kandinsky — Composition VIII
    Gauguin — Where Do We Come From?
    Caravaggio — Judith Beheading Holofernes
    Raphael — The School of Athens
    Munch — The Scream
    Velazquez — Las Meninas
    Hokusai — The Great Wave
Install:

    git clone https://github.com/regnull/palette-masters-zed.git
    cd palette-masters-zed
    make install
MIT licensed. Contributions welcome.


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