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by erikbye 8y ago
If you'd like to learn more about pbrt (the renderer), I can recommend his comprehensive book Physically Based Rendering. It's used as a textbook in a lot of courses and doesn't assume CG knowledge above an introductory level
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by erikbye 8y ago
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun. A four-part science fantasy novel included in the Fantasy Masterworks series. Quote from The Guardian: "science fiction's Ulysses?" I can also recommend J.G. Ballard. A well-known an
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by erikbye 8y ago
Your presumption is that you only ever view them as plaintext. I author using plaintext, but one reason I use Markdown is that it is easy to make uniform looking notes. When I later view, especially longer ones, I do so rendered. Even if y
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by erikbye 8y ago
Any editor supports syncing. Just save your files in your sync folder. Alternatives: Caret, Typora, Emacs, Vim, VS Code.
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by erikbye 8y ago
Org mode files are text files so you can edit them with any editor. Place them in a sync folder and if your sync client is any good it should be able to edit. "Long bit of documentation"? Isn't it the device that's not s
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by erikbye 8y ago
I try to minimize browser and extension use (I make my own "forks" and vet the code for every extension) so I take my notes using Emacs, placed in a sync folder. Ease of sharing? I use text files (markdown) precisely because it is
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by erikbye 8y ago
Also: https://caret.io/ https://typora.io/
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by erikbye 9y ago
Stop trying to rationalize it; this is not OK, period. If you can't reach your customer via his contact information, too bad, consider him a lost cause. And if it was something critical resulting in the customer's loss of Internet
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by erikbye 9y ago
The problems we see with Bitcoin now are severe and detrimental and not at all aligned with its original goal and purpose. However, these issues were foreseen, hence the fork (Bitcoin Cash). High transaction fees coupled with extreme volati
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by erikbye 9y ago
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/theaipodcast/ai-games-gtc
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by erikbye 9y ago
Some of us already get at least an hour daily exercise and it's debatable whether you need more when combined with a healthy diet. Modern conveniences and automation are not about being lazy but efficient and productive. Frankly, I&#x2
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Norwegian seed vault needs multi-million dollar upgrade(theguardian.com)
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by erikbye 9y ago
Wherever you purchase some coins transfer them to your private wallet/cold storage. One thing is the need to own your keys and thereby your wallet, but you also should not trust that your exchange will keep your coins safe, or even tha
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by erikbye 9y ago
> And I could point out 20 more modern open source projects with solid design and solid QA. We know how to do this now. Then you should point them out, if they are of a standard you think people should learn from.
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by erikbye 9y ago
> The iOS version is a WebKit wrapper by necessity (Apple mandates that all alternative browsers use the system-bundled WebKit for user experience reasons) Which is why viewport values like maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable
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by erikbye 9y ago
I guess it's not wrong to call it their original engine, just remember it's a two-decades-old development that started at Netscape.
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by erikbye 9y ago
I'm not sure their motives for this choice, as their means of disabling as much of ME as possible is ME cleaner, which is not tied to distros. I don't see why you can't attempt to do it manually yourself, without the aid of t
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by erikbye 9y ago
You cannot run whatever distro you want on a System76 if you want ME disabled. > You must run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Pop!_OS 17.10, or an Ubuntu derivative and have the System76 driver installed to receive the late
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by erikbye 9y ago
> Next time I consider a laptop, you made it tot the top of my list, even if it costs more. I won't, if it means having to run Ubuntu (and derivatives) or Pop. I'd like to run the distro of my choosing, thanks, but no thanks. I
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by erikbye 9y ago
G-man here (not the U.S.). Switching between four systems daily. Scroll Lock x2 + n.
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by erikbye 9y ago
You can disable mouse-wakeup, so that the only way to wake from sleep is a keyboard press.
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by erikbye 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5
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by erikbye 9y ago
I believe coffee has a lot of beneficial properties, but I have a slight concern regarding caffeine as it reduces CBF. That might impair cognitive functions. Supposedly you can mitigate some of the vasoconstriction with flavonoids. https:&
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by erikbye 9y ago
Haven't noticed any of the supposed side-effects doing so could cause. For a while, not eating for hours was also supposedly bad for you. Then fasting started to show benefits. It turns out traditional dietary advice might not be worth
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by erikbye 9y ago
Yep. I only drink black coffee, no sugar, and I don't eat sweets, cookies, or anything. In fact, I mostly don't consume anything but coffee from I wake up until dinner time, 6-7 PM.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Same.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Also: https://gafferongames.com/
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by erikbye 9y ago
I've found that in most of these stories, the people who have lived alone haven't been without human contact for any significant period of time. If that fact wasn't downplayed or outright omitted the story probably wouldn&#x2
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by erikbye 9y ago
From what I've seen addicts both hate and love their drug.
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by erikbye 9y ago
> The problem is that there's nowhere to run from the Internet. I can avoid tobacco stores, I can't avoid my iPhone. What's stopping you from not having social media apps on your phone, or even using a web browser? Nothing

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