chevill

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by chevill 6y ago
>This makes no sense to me. I never heard of chess beginners being recommended not to play the game for a year, if that's what the quote is saying. That's not what the quote is saying. I've frequently heard it said that be
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by chevill 6y ago
Its an amazing resource for people studying art or people teaching art. Its a different experience than seeing it in person. However, there are benefits to both. I've seen gigapixel scans of some of the greatest paintings in history th
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by chevill 6y ago
>Most visual artists don't like to share techniques. It's a closed source mindset in that regard. This hasn't been my experience at all. First of all the surest way to become a great artist is to surround yourself in an en
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by chevill 6y ago
>Some people would argue that "censorship" would not apply to a private company owned platform. You're mistaking the argument here. The argument is that a private company exercising censorship isn't violating a US per
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by chevill 6y ago
I was looking for a link to examples so here it is for anyone else curious about Spartan art. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/spar/hd_spar.htm
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by chevill 6y ago
Becoming a great artist usually means creating art every day. It depends on how you go about creating art though. You need focused studies. You need to push your boundaries. There's a shockingly low amount of technical improvement in t
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by chevill 6y ago
Great list. I agree with pretty much all of them but I'd also add the following to my list: - Multi-Core CPUs which enabled switching between applications pretty much instantly. - Solid State Storage
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by chevill 6y ago
That would just make me want to review products even more. Is it possible to edit your original review and mention that they tried to bribe you as a response instead of simply attempting to fix whatever issue you had with the product?
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by chevill 6y ago
>There still is potential for short and long term wins with GameStop. The potential is the current volatility. If you're buying GME for $200 there's no long term potential unless they turn into a completely different business t
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by chevill 6y ago
>They can’t go about and say things like “all Mexicans are rapists” (a Trump quote) because it would lend them in jail First of all. I intensely dislike Donald Trump and I'm glad he's gone. I hope its for good. That being said
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by chevill 6y ago
>This one project literally took my art mark from a failing grade to 85% Was this a university course? Unless you're a fine arts major I can't imagine any teacher being such an asshole that they grade an art class based on arti
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by chevill 6y ago
C has other use cases. Reverse engineering and Exploit Development, for example. K&R is great if you're coming to C from a different language. I was recommended that book as a beginner and many of the exercises were way too difficu
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by chevill 6y ago
>For example I routinely purchases Moleskin notebooks for around $30 in India Do you use fountain pens? Moleskin notebooks are amongst the worst paper I have ever used for a fountain pen. Even the finest points I have bleed an absurd amo
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by chevill 6y ago
Most of the custom pen makers I've tried to contact lately had multiple year wait lists. A few years ago it seemed like you could get one made in a a few months. US makers charge $200-500 for fairly standard custom pens and for more sp
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by chevill 6y ago
>In case of any real conflict US will get dragged in, you will all be drafted, want you or not. A conflict doesn't have to be a global war to qualify as "real conflict" by any sensible definition. The wars in Afghanistan a
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by chevill 6y ago
>Just off the top of my head, but I think we all know extremism when we see/hear it. I think there's a substantial amount of people that don't. Or rather, they can easily identify extremism in people they don't relate
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by chevill 6y ago
Not sure what you're getting at here. I wasn't supporting Parler's lawsuit. I'm simply responding to the parent comment that was claiming that Parler has good moderation.
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by chevill 6y ago
The document states that Parler agreed they had a massive backlog of reported content to review that "potentially promoted violence". Even Parler isn't making the claim here that they were doing a good job of moderating. They
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by chevill 6y ago
Isn't Thailand one of the places where you get either 50 years or life for bringing tiny amounts of marijuana across the border?
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by chevill 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVe-kF_w90
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by chevill 6y ago
>In my view the biggest issue with the whole "robots unite to violently overthrow humanity" trope ... but rather the fact that it presupposes an AI that is essentially human; with all the same emotions, goals, and vices that a
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by chevill 6y ago
It meets the literal definition but presumably OP doesn't want to spend several years before they are capable of producing professional quality work. If you can't already draw, its going to take years before you produce anything t
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by chevill 6y ago
It does not seem to work well IMO. If you start over and type in the books that it recommends for readers of the books that the dev obviously thinks are "bad", it still recommends more of the books that the devs think are "go
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by chevill 6y ago
This year I dove deeper into the mechanical keyboard hobby. I bought a 3d printer, learned how to tweak the settings to get decent prints, and then I printed some cases. These were used to build a hand-wired dactyl manuform keyboard. I&#x27
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by chevill 6y ago
Its not really feasible to have a standard policy of fining organizations and then forcing them to go to a court for an exception. One of the favorite targets of crypto ransomware groups is hospitals because if they infect the right systems