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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Also here it is -- a moment of can-kicking in action, from that thread: > Hey! I also think Adjustment Layers are really important for GIMP. However, Layer Effects will be simpler to start with since they only affect one layer.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Krita is really very impressive. I am that kind of decades-long hosted-linux-from-a-Mac-desktop user who checks out desktop linux every six months or so to see if the daily driver situation is ready. I edit quite a lot of photos and even th
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Part of the problem GIMP has is that they chase perfect ideas at the expense of good ones. Adobe don't. The Adobe codebase is cruft that has taken a similarly long time to shake out. Lightroom was seemingly built like a skunkworks proj
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
OCCT is definitely difficult . I am almost as far as you can get from an expert (and I am sure there is one here who can explain it better and hopefully correct me) but: For example the TNP issue derives from OCCT (or something in the stac
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Exactly this -- as I just simultaneously pointed to in my sibling comment about the wonderful rebirth of FreeCAD.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Another really long-lived package, FreeCAD (it's about six years younger), has tremendous parallels: - bad (in places better called solipsistic) UX - underlying architectural issues from its dependencies (e.g. OpenCascade's OCCT a
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> One area we’re “ahead of schedule” on is the much-requested non-destructive editing! This is the purest of comedy. I applaud it. And I think a twenty-seven-year-younger version of me who first used adjustment layers in Photoshop in e
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> You're thinking like an engineer. Engineers are poor at estimations, poor communicators and can't give me a damn budget. And yet it is engineers who will be building this magical platform that you think is 'neat',
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> it's a really neat product idea. The one thing this idea is not is neat , though. It's the opposite of it. It entrenches the opposite of neat.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Fret not, Charles, you are not alone. I too am upset that Big EDIC has been thwarting this intuition for the better part of fifty years.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Weirdly it’s basically one long ad for an implementation. But I agree with you. Many years ago I worked with an ex-IBM “strategist” who wrote and talked in this way. Supposedly something of a visionary; hired as an evangelist. Everyone was
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
This is the bit that always made me laugh: At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did n
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Oh man. I remember this from '94. What a trip down memory lane.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Various hypotheses. Money laundering, VAT scamming, tax abuse, or just outrageous profiteering based on never being around when the bill for VAT or business rates come due. There is one famous, very real, very popular American candy store i
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> London has plenty of those. If you want American candy, sure. (To American HNers: this isn't a joke about you. Or even really that much of a joke, alas)
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
And now it’s a sci-fi horror movie.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
This is one I did look at and then forgot about -- thanks!
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
It is about two things, one superficial and one deep: 1) these things are pretty and the physical design is fun—- and their appeal is universal across age and gender 2) the EVF/OVF technology is at its best in this specific device. Bot
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
I am assuming that the parent poster worked in Google’s ad tech or analytics unit. Perhaps another FAANG. Perhaps Facebook. Still: that doesn’t make the assertion about the size of Facebook’s FTC settlement and all GDPR settlements as signi
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Except if you happen to have used multiple camera apps. Closing those deliberately can avoid some unintentional behaviours, particularly if one of the apps is specifically selecting a single camera and the other is the built in camera app.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
And yet either way it still would not, IMO, be as significant a point as you think.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date. This isn't anywhere near as significant a point as you think.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
I don't see where I declared success. And I'm not even in the EU.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
The Stupid burns slowly, but it burns like white phosphorus, through everything.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> It's always struck me as very risky to have a business that is utterly dependent on the actions/policies of a separate business with whom you have no formal business relationship. Right, but the "separate business"
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Presented like this it really is an absolutely damning indictment.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Also: I have removed the little bit of snark in my reply above -- it shouldn't have been there and I apologise. Rough brain-day making me jumpy but there's no excuse!
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Right. People keep telling me that code-first is better but there is no way all those complex APIs are easier to use than just spitting out some JSON from an endpoint. Schema-first feels more manageable. I'm not going to say I haven&#x
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Lighthouse is sophisticated and productive. I only use it in fully-authenticated contexts but because it is schema-first with good ORM bindings and excellent annotation support, I barely write any logic that isn't a mutation, an access
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> Now why no one bats an eye at node/react doing this very thing and calling it JSX is beyond me but... In deed .

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