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by dirtyid 4y ago
TBH Kim Jung Gi drawing process sometimes feels closer to watching an AI creation than a person. I feel bad for anime artists (well all artists), they work particularly hard. But there are a lot of good manga drawn by mediocre artists, if t
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> not been bullied by the art critics Maybe I've just a man of discerning taste :-/. Jokes aside, I used to spend a lot of time in architecture and visual art studios. Sometimes flipping canvas or conceptual models around will
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I would like a website to randomly disply abstract paintings in different orientations and survey on which one feels the "rightest". For some reason the right side up Montrian in the article does look more correct in my eyes.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Additional 30kg increases your resting metabolic rate, and likely activity calorie surplus, sometimes solution is also as simple as fasting a day / skipping a meal once a week to maintain.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
How much effort HJT issue is being dissected by western MSM is a good reflection of how sad state of PRC watching is in the west. And of course it could _only_ be a power move, because the alternative that XJP is a selfless good boi who wan
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by dirtyid 4y ago
US per capita consumption/energy also higher. Just from energy perspective, US trending towards 150M more population by 2100 is equivalent to 1.8B Indians and 900M Chinese. PRC population is set to decline, and probably India's as
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I like those comparisons of how much meter cube of XYZ next to a skyscraper. The one where all humans can be compressed in a relatively small 100s meter^3 cube was eye openning.
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Does jellyfin have variable speed playback?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
No one has experience with modern peer war on high end platforms. IMO tech+doctorine sufficiently unknow that training + resources better proxy than fighting wars with 3rd world insurgents. Fact is US is using F35s for J20 agressor squadron
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by dirtyid 4y ago
RU's hope was their network of saboteurs would smooth low effort special operation invasion =/= spies keep tabs on military preparation pre invasion. Status of UKR war materials was well know. As was US training UKR troops who dem
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I primarily keep up to date with PLA, but tangentially that means plenty of RU info. There has been years of reporting and comparison between RU vs PRC modernization process, MIC development, acquisitions, training etc. RU one of the few co
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by dirtyid 4y ago
That's a big limb considering TW military is thoroughly infiltrated by PRC spies, or that island is small and heavily monitored, full of expats, especially relocated western media/think tankers previously based in mainland, who ca
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yes, we know his views, which has been clear and consistent. What we do not know is if that translates to action, even though he's no longer running the company, he has pull. And as we saw with Foxconn Wisconsin, TW business/strat
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by dirtyid 4y ago
1. Of course Morris Chang would say this. 2. It's also significant that Morris Chang openly is saying this. Publically, and repeatedly. And possibly specifically to Pelosi given the politics behind him merely being in the same room as
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Imagine the Chinese economy with 92% of the world’s supply of advanced computer chips gone. PRC economy will suffer much less than US economy with 92% of the world’s supply of advanced computer chips gone. Considering how US reaps signi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> ever see online Or ever seen. Screen record desktop at 1080p on codec optimized for text, maybe even grayscale with small samples of color data. Then have system index content (text, label graphics). When viewing, system will upscale,
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by dirtyid 4y ago
There seems to be a lot of "serious" joking about not wanting to have Charles on Canadian money. IMO overdue.
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I remember that page
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by dirtyid 4y ago
How would damage of solar radiation storms scale on modern hardware/infra? Linearly? Exponentially? Logarithmically? Is a storm 100x more powerful that carington even something that can be engineered for. Is it physiologically surviva
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If anything over indexing on solely on test scores will filter out a large % of psycho/socialpaths who gets by on personality scores.
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> "in the zone" It's curious to me why "the zone" or "flow" is always associated with particular expertise in skills like athletics or music or even programming when it could just as well be in walking,
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Overlooking admittedly crude / uninformed payoffs to illustrate a point, why is PRC and US fightng "WW3" when it could just be confined to a peer power war. Maybe US can rope in JP and AU, but SKR/PH, ASEAN, NATO/EU
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Apple has ~150 suppliers in PRC, other countries barely break 30. They have some of the higher value components, but PRC pockets ~25% of BOM since iPhoneX, so likely higher now with BOE, YMTC (if it survies), Winstron and Luxshare, as as fa
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by dirtyid 4y ago
In PRC's case, it's also just a generic nuclear build up because the hereto alleged ~300 nukes was minimal (really poverty) deterrance posture that became no longer tenable now that war with US is possible. Other parts of triad is
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by dirtyid 4y ago
AKA the Chinese/PRC model, you need a shit load of actual mk1 eyeballs to filter internet into hugbox for political/domestic serenity. Why western platforms had to pull out of PRC (again, not banned) after minority riots, because
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by dirtyid 4y ago
The question was about equivalent / proportional response, for which RU has more leverage and impose more costs by virtue of being more resource/economically autarkic. NATO of course free to escalate if they think they can win the
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> equivalent response against Russian gas infrastructure. It can’t be done without WW3. In terms of equivalent / proportional response, RU can fuck with maritime infra and disproportionately disrupt NATO countries more reliant on im
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Nice to tuck primarly argument against ABM in the footnote - it incentivizes others to increase stockpiles to reestablish mutual vunerability, and missile exchangfes / economics favours attacker. >1. Assuming, of course, that the nu
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>parroting of mindless rambling Propaganda is strong and useful idiots are numerous on both sides of the wall. Sitong being amplified hard by western PRC watchers and media, booted out of mainland with nothing better to do but fill colum
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yeah, this was 20+ years ago at international school where materials had to be imported. SAT prep has always been fairly easily accessibkem

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