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by GuiA 6y ago
Neat! For games, it’s really because they want to emulate a cinematic look. Some filmmakers use chromatic aberration and other optical phenomena to great effect.
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by GuiA 6y ago
This isn’t medical advice, but cliff notes for a self help/philosophy book. Why so aggro?
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by GuiA 6y ago
So, what’s the ancient wisdom?
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by GuiA 6y ago
A suggested rephrasing: "We must learn to welcome whatever comes to us and trust that we will be able to make the most of it."
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by GuiA 6y ago
The cost of the information not being accessible when it is most urgently needed could easily be billions of dollars or many human lives.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Seems like a hard business proposition. Huge infrastructure investment upfront, heavy maintenance needed, you get a very inflexible system, etc. Not to mention, what happens when Amazon uses 99% of the capacity and you can’t get your packag
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by GuiA 6y ago
Highly recommend the documentary “Honeyland”, about a poor Macedonian beekeeper.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Seek out your local public darkrooms! (private is okay too) Printing is a craft, and practicing with others is a great way to get better, have fun, make new friends, all that good stuff! In San Francisco, we are blessed to have Harvey Milk
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by GuiA 6y ago
> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve. Granted, everyone in the world is suddenly moral and of utmost integrity and everyone g
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by GuiA 6y ago
I don’t get this mindset. Even when writing a trivial app, basic CS knowledge is relevant all the time when it comes to modeling your data, manipulating it; oftentimes knowing a bit of mathematical formalisms lets you express things in much
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by GuiA 6y ago
Ah yes, that's not a subjective thing at all, all we have to do is query our database for all laws where the PREVENTS_STUFF_FROM_BEING_BUILT flag is set to TRUE, and we disable all of those. Easy.
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by GuiA 6y ago
> Imagine for a second, that you declare a region, say 1 square mile, somewhere as almost completely free of all regulations. Can you murder your competitors in this 1 square mile? Can you steal their inventory? Can you hijack their eq
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by GuiA 7y ago
They’re a bit like the UML diagrams of design. They have some utility in certain contexts but they are taught as a ready made solution without that context to students who aren’t able to relate it to real experience and end up overdoing it
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by GuiA 7y ago
There was a Japan-only Game Boy Light that was the form factor of the Game Boy Pocket but with an electroluminescent display. I have one, and to this day it's one of my favorite handhelds. It males grayscale games are absolutely gorgeo
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by GuiA 7y ago
Are more people going to more remote locations, I wonder? Or are people reporting their findings more now because of the internet?
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by GuiA 7y ago
I’ll let the next few hundred years judge how relevant or not his contribution to physics was. I don’t think anyone writing in 2020 has much sense of that.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Has there been any issues of Wolfram assaulting/harassing/abusing/etc other people? Or are people just upset about the pompous style of his writing? Those are different kinds of “behavior”. Because while we should totally con
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by GuiA 7y ago
The guy pretty much single handedly built a profitable company that enables him to pursue whatever research interests he want, and that’s been going for over 30 years. They hate him cause they ain’t him.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Well, his reasoning is sound enough - if his results are truly spectacular, it probably won’t matter that they weren’t published in peer reviewed venues. At the same time, turning boring results into something fit for publishing can be very
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by GuiA 7y ago
Seeing your product shilled so blatantly repeatedly as one goes down the comments in this thread is pretty off putting.
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by GuiA 7y ago
A worthy mission, but if the best examples of it are emacs, HyperCard, and a bunch of academic papers no one wants to read (I say this as a former HCI academic :), the road ahead is long and arduous indeed. It’d be nice to see the authors o
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by GuiA 7y ago
Yes, you picked the one that did well, which also happens to be the one that sold before ubiquitous smartphones were a thing. I wonder if there’s a relationship. Still have mine for LocoRoco and FF Tactics.
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by GuiA 7y ago
If you weren’t that serious about making a rogue-like in the first place and what you really wanted was the rush of starting a rogue like project, then sure you got what you came for. Much like a kid might say they want to be a footballer o
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by GuiA 7y ago
Yes but not really. The “encoding problem” for Asian languages is real, but it goes back earlier than that, as it emerged with typewriters. See Thomas Mullaney’s “A history of the Chinese typewriter”, and Nanette Gottlieb’s “Word Processing
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by GuiA 7y ago
Sony made several portable gaming devices (PSP, PS vita, PSN compatible phone). The market didn’t really care for them. Which makes sense. People already have a phone, they don’t want an additional thing to carry around. People want a flags
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by GuiA 7y ago
Videos are easier and more entertaining to consume than text for most people. The audience of a text post like this is mostly hacker types; if turned into a video that’s as much about the entertainment value as the nitty gritty, your audien
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by GuiA 7y ago
> California state income tax is deductible from the federal taxable income Not anymore ;_; > I don’t know who seeded this meme that Americans pay low taxes. Great question! It comes up all the time in conversations with my friend
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by GuiA 7y ago
Oh! Indeed I misread. Things do align better that way.
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by GuiA 7y ago
At 1200 sest. per year, a 3M sest. villa would be 2500 years of labor. A $7M villa, on the other hand, would be only ~230 years of labor for a US solider paid $30k a year. A pound of pork at Safeway today is ~3/lb. 100 pounds would be
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by GuiA 7y ago
3. Humans tend to feel better when other humans take care of them, pay attention to them, touch them It’s not that crazy, and it’s based in empirical observation and consistent with our biological/medical understanding.

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