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baldfat
9y ago
use inkscape for .ai or Gimp or Krita for .psd To export just use a cli program and batch that process. Imagemagick to convert psd to png `convert file.psd[0] file.png` Imagemagick to convert ai to png `convert test.ai -channel rgba -alpha
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baldfat
9y ago
> Until there're Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator for Linux There are plenty of great tools that really doesn't require these overly priced tools.
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baldfat
9y ago
> Fedora is not kinda beta branch of RHEL. I thought maybe Redhat changed their stance on Fedora and read from Redhat's page and well it is 100% a beta testing ground for RHEL. "The size and expertise of the Fedora community ma
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baldfat
9y ago
5 years ago it was horrible we all just forget the bad things and mostly remember good. From 2012: https://www.itworld.com/article/2718342/consumerization/here...
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baldfat
9y ago
Ugh I remember using btrfs for this. It was never worth the effort and I would have a bunch of little paper cuts or a full drive very quickly.
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baldfat
9y ago
It's more social then Facebook to me. I get to meet new people based on intrest (sub-reddits) Facebook and LinkedIn is how you connect with people you actually know or 1 degree of separation. Reddit exposed you to new ideas and people.
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baldfat
9y ago
OpenSUSE gives you the option to use the blobs or the opensource drivers. I use the evil blobs which will never be officially supported on Fedora.
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baldfat
9y ago
I no longer use Arch Linux due to breakage. In the six years you didn't have a problem when they switched to systemd and bugged all the config files to null? There have been several times when I pacman -Syu and didn't read the fro
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baldfat
9y ago
I have OpenSUSE on 6 machines and my milage has been SUSE works great out of the box. Every once in a while I'll have a issue with a Ethernet card, but that is usually a 5 minute fix. I have to say that Linux seems to be the least frus
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9y ago
Except Racket was from its foundation built to be a great teaching tool.
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baldfat
9y ago
Racket makes you a better programmer. Especially if someone goes through "How to Design Programs." John Carmack taught his 10 year old son Racket just for this same purpose. The whole system is great for teaching. You run DrRacket
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baldfat
9y ago
I use R since that is the language I use mostly httr and rvest. Edit I missed typing rvest thanks for the comments you use the two together. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/quick...
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baldfat
9y ago
I really like Haxe as a higher level typed language. My Nephew who is in his 20s has wanted to learn programming and he was able to go from "Hello World" to a decent 2D game he was thinking about for a few years in a few months wo
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baldfat
9y ago
Great so now instead of alcoholism being the number one reason for an emotionally numbed population now we have weed that makes people emotionally numb. I know I'll get downvoted but I don't think people realize how people are emo
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baldfat
9y ago
Also are you using read_csv in R from the library readr? The 5 seconds seems slow to me. https://github.com/tidyverse/readr
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baldfat
9y ago
I have used VIM since my Amiga. I use VS Code most of the time.
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9y ago
11% of the world plays Basketball. http://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/19814/is-basketb... In saying the most popular sport in the world I am talking about what people participate in th
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baldfat
9y ago
That it is MUCH easier to follow NBA than Baseball and Football due to sheer numbers of people is also a big plus. You actually can easily know every regular player (Usually 10 players or less) very quickly. It is also very easy to understa
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baldfat
9y ago
Yes but ours were Wolfvision. The reason why I wanted to get rid of them was A) The professors would try to fold them down and pull and break the arms and the damage the table. B) They ended up eating a ton of my equipment budget. For some
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baldfat
9y ago
Was on a review visit to Princeton with about 12 other people from various colleges and universities. We saw that Princeton was installing boards, I assumed it was whiteboards. I said just now installing whiteboards? No we are replacing all
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baldfat
9y ago
24 Months for this is crazy. He stole 10.4 million dollars of goods. He tipped off about another case coming against MtGox and knowingly continued these activities after being caught. I think this just shows the weakness of out sentencing g
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baldfat
9y ago
EMACS is not a good editor wverything else about EMACS is great but the editor and shortcuts are the worst :) That is why I use Spacemacs if I am trying out something in EMACS. I am actually thinking that NeoVim will be inside of EMACS soon
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baldfat
9y ago
Alzheimer's doesn't come onto you because your old. People in their 40s can come down with it sadly. BUT 85+ you have a 32% chance of getting it. https://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2016-facts-and-figures....
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baldfat
9y ago
I never touched the stuff, but I would end up having to take my friend to the ER. For some reason at different times it would cause an allergic reaction and he would act like he was in septic shock and have dementia. Doctors and I were conv
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baldfat
9y ago
I have never noticed this in my life. Center City is where neighbors know each other and actually help each other out. The suburbs have always been hostile and anonymous. I went to college in Minneapolis and I knew all my neighbors and most
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baldfat
9y ago
No you have to Opt In. You write a note to leave the package at my neighbor. That is the best option for people living in cities without an Amazon Locker. My grocery store has a UPS locker system for pickup but they don't allow you to
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baldfat
9y ago
I live in a 130,000 person city. UPS will not drop packages off to your neighbor period, even though that is an option on the "Sorry we missed you slip." UPS will not drop package without signature. UPS took 2 weeks to deliver my
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baldfat
9y ago
But this looks just like a customized Vim in a terminal with what some may consider bloat. > Oni brings several IDE-like integrations to neovim: Quick Info Code Completion Syntax / Compilation Errors Fuzzy Findi
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baldfat
9y ago
Yes I was able to make concise higher functions and iterate them. Before I went through learning Racket I was doing a lot of repeating things with slightly different changes. I figured out how to attack the problem in a repeatable concise w
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baldfat
9y ago
First thing I did was look at packages and see if tidyverse, purrr, lubridate, stringr and feather. They are all there. http://packages.renjin.org/packages/search?q=tidyverse
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