Joeboy

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by Joeboy 4y ago
The specific is always funnier than the general, as somebody once said.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
"Can you spare a few minutes for Cancer Research?" is a thing people say when they're trying to get you to donate to cancer research charities. Jimmy interprets it instead as meaning she wants him to spend a few minutes doing
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Last time I looked at what EAs actually donate to, a lot more of it looks like "conventional human welfare issues" than you might think. I guess sci-fi thought experiments are more accessible and fun than deworming or whatever, so
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Wikipedia says "The adoption of CinemaDNG among camera manufacturers appears to be hindered by Red Digital Camera’s patent US9245314"[0]. Also there'd be no reason to remove CinemaDNG from their cameras otherwise? Plus I&#x
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by Joeboy 4y ago
From the outside it seemed like they removed CinemaDNG due to patent threats from RED, and added BRAW to replace it. But that might be joining the dots and making five.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
As I understand it BRAW was developed to avoid RED's patents, which I heartily approve of but I don't think they should advertise it as "open and license free" when it isn't. Like I said, I do like BM's stuff.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I like them too but my gripe is they claim BRAW is an "open and license-free standard" when (as far as I can tell) it's undocumented, supported only via closed binary blobs and distributed under a very non-free license.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say adrianN is probably not a Nazi.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
It looked really promising for a while, but in my experience was too buggy to use in real life. Also I think it was almost entirely the work of one dev or small team, who dropped out a few years ago. Edit: It does have recent commits though
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I don't think it's in this release, but the Blender thing I'm most excited about is the new realtime compositor[0]. The lack of a decent Free compositor is one of the things that pushed me towards using proprietary software f
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by Joeboy 4y ago
As far as I know it's unrelated, but William Burroughs did a similarly themed but much more cynical thing called "Words of Advice for Young People". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS_X1Y_X8sg
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by Joeboy 4y ago
But afaict all the internet options for pursuing a creative career involve putting in a lot of hours for little or no money, which is hard (or seems like a bad idea) if you're not on a financially solid footing. I don't think th
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Couldn't handle all the cocaine and groupies?
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Outside of race / gender, the article doesn't touch on whether this has got worse or better. I would put money on it having got much worse since the 20th century, with massively increased living costs (mostly housing) and decrease
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Right, I feel quite defensive of British comedy in general but there's no denying we produce a lot of godawful shite. I've never watched much Mr Bean but I've always mentally filed it in the same category as Mrs Brown's
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> Why _do_ rockstars trash their hotel rooms? I guess Girard's answer might be something about the power of ritual sacrifice, although it would not be mine. > Were Greek philosopher poets truly musical performers?. Don't kno
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Sorry to break it to you, but I'm pretty sure the wording on the site (which I don't have open anymore) suggested 5 was below the "normal" range, which presumably means it's well below the median. I'd be extrem
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I was spending the day dead for tax reasons.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Almost all, yes. The people who don't are obviously not normal, so they don't need the website.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
There are already photos of me on the internet, which can be downloaded and analysed by anybody.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I was not really prepared for being told how unattractive I am this morning.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I think they were just being playful.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
> But my guess is that they only need 3 or 4 clients a year to run it as a sideline. I mean, keeping a website and limited company running for a year costs a lot less than the minimum £15k quoted in TFA. They could have had one client si
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Maybe the author sees crackdowns on LGBT stuff in SA as related to crackdowns on LGBT stuff in UAE, and therefore thought it reasonable to mention them in the same article.
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by Joeboy 4y ago
Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. The expression "free speech" has a meaning outside the US constitution. It's like if I were to start quoting the Magna Carta at you. I'd further argue that it clearly has a meaning out
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I don't at all think there are only black and white consequences, what I think is that the comic's "it's just that people think [Cornell University is] an asshole and are showing it the door" is a rather black and w
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by Joeboy 4y ago
It sounds like you don't really agree with the sentiment in the comic, if you're asking that question?
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by Joeboy 4y ago
It's hard to tell if you're agreeing with the sentiment in the comic or using this event to illustrate its limits? I think probably the latter but...
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by Joeboy 4y ago
I'm a little unclear on how you're supposed to self-host video these days. From what I understand the "obvious" way to do it (uploading a video file and embedding it on a page) doesn't result in a good user experien
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by Joeboy 4y ago
From a user point of view, kind of like effects pedals[0], but inside your computer, and not necessarily guitar-oriented. From the computer's point of view, a host program (probably a DAW) feeds an audio stream to a plugin, eg. 512 sam

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