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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The alternate name for Helvetica is "Neue Haas Grotesk".
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
As far as drawing bodies from memory, it should be noted that Davinci was an art apprentice that would spend weeks just on the thumb, drawing it from different angles. At the end of that kind of intensive training, I imagine (hardy-har-har)
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
There are methods that claim to guarantee the student will learn to draw. I believe they start with simple objects (boxes, spheres, cones, etc.) and then begin drawing them shaded with different light sources and then progress from there. B
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Or, perhaps, am I visualizing a sphere or simply remembering what a sphere looks like? It seems natural that we can only visualize what we have already seen, so would there not be a relationship with memory?
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Thanks for asking the obvious, but I sure don't know and the only people who do have a clue (i.e. those who did the downvoting) probably don't have the guts to explain themselves because it would likely prove their pettiness. That
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
(Side note: that is one gorgeous document.) After watching the excellent documentary "Eating You Alive", I have mostly switched to a whole-food plant-based diet and feel fantastic, although I do eat the occasional pair of eggs. Th
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I dunno for sure as it was the work of my wife and daughter, but it was a fairly big box of `em. We rarely go out to eat so lots of food goes into them, from olives to butter to thawing blueberries to hummus to leftovers. It looks like they
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
We just got a set of the single-compartment version and they are absolutely fantastic . The flat top allows a small post-it note for the date the food was made and lets them be stacked in the fridge. We got ours at Sam's Club.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Thanks! That is truly fascinating. I have never encountered that idea of it being a consequence of the red-shift before but it does make sense. I wonder where that energy goes. Perhaps there is an ether after all? Seeing as Planck implies t
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Not startup-related, but: Long-life incandescent light bulbs. They were done in by "planned obsolescence"; I haven't watched this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdh7_PA8GZU ) yet but it has a good rati
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
You're not the only one.
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Well, we have a universe of, perhaps, two trillion galaxies that live together in a regularly nonuniform background radiation that can be predicted by a mathematical model predicated upon our advanced understanding of physics and a single p
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Software is still very much a craft, as opposed to an engineering discipline. As such, we each have to learn, over time, how to produce defect-free code. For the capable, concerned and intelligent developer, this means that each new bug lea
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
The problem is that every new software project requires defining and solving a brand-new problem, and that "communication and setting expectations" part is really the problem of, first, specifying the problem and then, second, gue
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
>> If you hire a maid who always manages to miss a spot or two cleaning your bathroom, does it really matter? It depends on the spot missed: is it contaminated with fecal matter? There you get into the realm of risk management. The pr
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
I'd say it's two-part problem: (1) Specification (2) Implementation Specification has always been the primary problem, the simple reason being that we are trying to quantify human desires regarding information flow. As we are find
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
>> Capitalism, baby! I know what you are saying and fully agree but would like to put a finer point on it: the problem is with unfettered capitalism, especially after 100 years or more of the lawyers writing the laws for the wealthy
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by OneWordSoln 7y ago
What a fantastic talk! Witty, well-paced and truly insightful. "Operator error is a symptom, not a cause." Ms. Leveson's book "Engineering a Safer World" has a free PDF download at http://sunnyday.mit.edu
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
The perfection of humanity is very rare but not only possible, but definitely attainable. It takes a lifetime of effort, of questioning one's own motives and past actions and one's societal traditions through the lens of love and
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
That's the thing with deep goodness: it is always the same. It is always simple, humble, powerful, long-suffering and generally unappreciated. The vast masses of humanity just rarely give a crap, as evidenced by the populace's fas
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
Well, you can count myself and my 10yo son in on the Tom Bombadil fan club members, for sure (my son knows from listening to the audiobook version). As far as shortcomings go, I feel that the movie's bastardization of Faramir was the w
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
I, too, hate scrolling in code (and almost never used Visual Studio's "jump to X" navigation helpers) but the reality is that each and every non-trivial program we write (which is practically ALL of them) will never come cl
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to write the same thing. We programmers often seem to forget that we spend far, far more time reading code than writing it, therefore readability should be a (if not the) primary consideration w
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
The problem with psychology and psychiatry is that they have ZERO understanding of the definition of a baseline healthy human being who has an integrated set of physical instincts, emotional responses and mental processes such that they l
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
As I mentioned above, my understanding is that hotels have internally-connected hallways that link the rooms, whereas motel rooms connect directly to the outside. Note: I am American, too.
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
As I understand it, motel rooms have doors that open to the outside and hotel rooms connect to the inside of the building, i.e. motels have no atrium.
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
We are created to understand and explore this magnificent creation and as much of its Unfathomable Creator as is possible for a created creature dependent upon time and materiality for our existence. The Creator of dimension, time, space, m
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
Well, I'm not 'math folk' (grey beard programmer), but I love the Horizon documentary on Andrew Wiles and his solution, and I'd love to hear why my intuitive understanding is inapplicable from people who know better than
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by OneWordSoln 8y ago
The Turks may have simply put their own receiver nearby, especially if they were concerned for his safety beforehand. I'm sure their sigint is more than capable of that.
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by OneWordSoln 9y ago
And yet most people still deny it (as evidenced by your being downvoted). Our unique talents also include abstract reasoning and communication as well as advanced tool making, yet most human beings are still acting within the mammalian le

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