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There is a picture showing color theming: https://46c4ts1tskv22sdav81j9c69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
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The existing console already has subpixel antialiasing, for a long time now. Check your font?
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Because the population is growing, and people want to live in SF/NY/London/... not in the middle of nowhere. Real estate prices in landmark places will continue going up, probably at an accelerating pace as more people get ri
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I wasn't talking about them "bleeping" quotes, but about the journalists themselves swearing in opinion pieces. > Is there, I wonder, a more appropriate phrase than “fuck off”? I don’t want to swear unnecessarily but, hi
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Positive coverage in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/democrats-co... Positive coverage in Vox: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/
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A lot of journalists are swearing lately, including in high profile places like NYT and The Guardian, and especially on Twitter. I suspect it's because they realized (consciously or not) that it increases credibility.
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If these incidents were aliens, I would expect a lot more reactions from the military, politic, and financial markets. All reactions seem muted. Secondly, why would aliens reveal themselves in such a way? Either land on the White House lawn
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Russia killed whatever plan the EU had for Ukraine. There is no way EU let's in a state where russian troops operate.
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France broke the EU deficit rules for over a decade. Everybody talked about it, but nobody acted. If a EU state refuses to do a thing, that's basically it. https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch&#x2F
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That was exactly my point. The Guardian casually drops anti-white bigotry in articles as random as a superhero movie review. If that statement had the word black instead of white, the next day the author would have been fired and an extensi
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by 781 7y ago
If they said "Most Important DOCUMENT File Format", maybe, through even then you have stuff like JPEG. But arguably executable file formats (.exe, .so, ...) are more important overall.
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Some example of quality Guardian writing: > Like walking into a space and suddenly realising everyone there is white. You know that feeling? When you go to a rooftop bar in Peckham and you worry that you’ve inadvertently stumbled into a
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by 781 7y ago
This article is written by some tech journalists. Do you actually expect them to have heard about vscode/typescript?
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You could buy an obligation of him to transfer you the bitcoin on request, like other regular contracts. Kind of like a swap agreement. Of course, some level of trust is required.
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Netflix are famous for paying the top salaries in the industry, you will take a paycut leaving them. Programmer cost is absolutely not a reason for anything done there. https://www.salaryproject.com/salaries/company&#x
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by 781 7y ago
Still won't work, you need to declare that variable as global, otherwise you just create a local variable and set it to false.
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by 781 7y ago
TV's should also have this feature. When you switch to a new channel, it should be displayed in a paused state and you should press a button on the remote to start playing. Auto-play doesn't make sense anywhere, streaming apps, yo
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> in addition to millions of dollars in United States currency, Pickard also handled millions in Dutch guilders and Canadian bank notes. He preferred to deal in ƒ1000 notes or Canadian $1000 notes (discontinued since 2000 in Canada) bec
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by 781 7y ago
Has anybody tried dynamically changing the tuning of an electronic instrument, so that when you play a fifth or another chord, the individual notes are exactly tuned so that the chord is itself perfectly tuned? Basically a per-chord adaptiv
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It's an open question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe#Curvatur...
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I didn't say that it's not possible to solve these problems in a retained GUI, just that existing ones, QT, Win32, WPF have these problems. And since writing a full retained GUI is not exactly trivial, people just wrote mini-GUIs
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It's important to point out why games use immediate mode GUIs: 1. The GUI needs to be overlaid on the game image (OpenGL/DirectX). This is difficult with traditional GUIs like QT. 2. The GUI needs to be updated in sync with the ga
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> Things shouldn't be the slave of reason, they should be a slave of the senses People say that. But then they are horrified when someone kills another one because it made them angry. Or when a man rapes a woman because he couldn&#x
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by 781 7y ago
You have to read this in the key of the "tortured artist" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortured_artist
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Standardizing, gridifying and quantiazing it's what allows our modern huge world to exist. > Social scalability is the ability of an institution –- a relationship or shared endeavor, in which multiple people repeatedly participate,
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In 2008 the German government guaranteed ALL bank accounts, WITHOUT a limit. > As German leaders and bankers worked feverishly to rescue a lender considered too big to fail, the government announced Sunday that it would guarantee all pri
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by 781 7y ago
True, but many people weigh the convenience by the number of uses. In that case, 0.0001 * 1 million >> 1.0 * 100
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Why are advances like this always presented as useful in a medical context? It seems to me like some sort of fear of talking about commercial use cases - for example in this case the ability to talk in your mind with your phone, person-phon
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Let's see why author might say that: - 90% of people involved in crypto are male - 80% of programmers are male - 60%-80% of criminals are male (depending on what you count)
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> “Maintaining a clean whiteboard is much more of a pain,” he said. There’s the cleaning fluid, which costs money, and the chemicals can cause health problems. A clean blackboard is not that fun either. To clean it nicely you need to s

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