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by dkarras 5y ago
>US taxes global individual income... Always wondered why US citizens do not make a bigger deal out of this. If I understand correctly, if you are a US citizen, but live somewhere else in the world, IRS still expects to be paid tax from
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by dkarras 5y ago
...fearing losing access to your Apple ID has nothing to do with whether Apple is a monopoly or not (and of course, they are not).
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by dkarras 5y ago
>I'm perplexed because I don't expect canvas rendering to be faster ...yet it is. Really. Even though DOM paths are heavily optimized, they are extremely flexible, and that flexibility creates a wall in possible performance o
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Be of irreplaceable (or hard to replace) value, have leverage.
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Realistic renders with raytracing assumes accurate models. In the scene, the grass can be a rectangular block with a grass texture applied to it for instance, NN will transform it into an actual grass patch (see example images) similar to h
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by dkarras 5y ago
>The SAAS mentality really, really, really needs to die. It won't. This is evolution. People are voting with their wallets, and subscription providers are making the money while "pay once and forget" people are going out o
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by dkarras 5y ago
Ah, of course.
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CVE?
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by dkarras 5y ago
Dealing with tabs (and when it isn't enough, multiple windows of browsers) is the worst part of computing I experience. Really, the bane of my existence. When I'm developing / doing research, I have to juggle multiple questio
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by dkarras 5y ago
Ah was waiting for my daily prion disease dose in hacker news!
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It still won't work unless the whole world agrees to do it simultaneously. A classic game theory problem, the more some countries agree on it, the more benefit to those countries that don't do it. Because worst case, the rich enti
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by dkarras 5y ago
I mean, we are not saying Apple should have shipped iPhones with porn preinstalled. What is the harm in allowing developers offer porn content FOR PEOPLE THAT SEARCH FOR IT IN THE APP STORE, possibly after turning on a flag for nsfw content
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by dkarras 5y ago
Steve Jobs didn't want it on the platform back in the day. I think that's about it.
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What the hell China and... Mongolia?
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Wonder if / how this will change people's sharing behavior. A common scenario like: People like to do X for free (status, virtual points) but if a way to get paid while doing so is introduced, the dynamics change. People that don&
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by dkarras 5y ago
Why would you need an algorithm if you are not going to use something like the service name as a seed (so each service gets their own DOB - which might not be necessary)? Just pick a year, and pick a day. Use it.
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by dkarras 5y ago
feels like paper.js and processing had a child. cool stuff!
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Yeah I come here to read opinions of intelligent / informed people who disagree with me. I even subtly and respectfully try to rile them up sometimes to see what they have to offer.
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by dkarras 5y ago
To me: If I'm behind schedule in important work, obsessed with a problem etc. NOT engaging with work feels a lot worse than working on it in reduced capacity. If I take a break, call it a day etc. my mind keeps working on it, I feel an
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by dkarras 5y ago
It is not a rational argument, result of some cultural indoctrination. Media, friends, peers... Everyone is susceptible to such influence to some degree but not aware. Still, must be sad to witness.
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And not because they are evil... IIKC you have to demonstrate your credible effort in defending your trademark or you risk legally losing it. So even if you are ok with such use, you still have to defend your trademark legally or it can b
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by dkarras 5y ago
>looking for a program that's like Photoshop for sound. Look at Izotope RX. Especially the Spectral Repair module might be what you are imagining, but it has a lot of interesting tools. This is from an older version: https:/&#
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by dkarras 5y ago
I'm not sure if you read the article, but it has some convincing arguments about that. The gist of it is that just like the "fossil records", we'd find the "intermediary steps" or something resembling those in
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I was never interested in "smart watches" but an affordable and non-invasive blood glucose monitoring would be a game changer for me, even if it is not accurate as the ones diabetics have to use (I am not diabetic) and if it &quot
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>Anyway, the maximum amount of deposits is now around 4 months of wage. Sorry, I don't get it. What if you have ...shudder... more money?
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by dkarras 5y ago
For the current incarnation of this site: I uploaded something and am able to download it. Cool. My question is: Who is paying for it?
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by dkarras 5y ago
Exactly, good for him. Some people just know how to write. I rarely read more than a couple paragraphs in pieces like this, but he grabbed me until the end.
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Even if you compress it, you need it in client memory which can also be a dealbreaker. Some people might need it for some projects, I know I did.
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Do they want you to pay directly by other means with the "discount" maybe?
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Proof of X unfortunately has to be capable of being verifiable by a computer without human intervention.

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