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by eslaught 4y ago
Plan A is traditional. Part of that is that I'm targeting middle grade with my first book (that is, ages 9-12), and it's honestly not obvious to me how much of a market exists for self-published books in that demographic. I'm
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I spent my morning working on a science fiction novel. (I won't post more here, but you can find it through my profile if you're interested.) Are there any other writers in the house? On a completely unrelated topic, one of my ear
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Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think this document needs to be a comprehensive record of every piece of copyrighted material that Copilot or Codex produce. That's something that will be produced during/for the trial
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I was a little surprised about AVIF, so I looked it up and it doesn't seem to be quite there yet (though it's getting there). macOS Safari requires Ventura, and no support yet on Edge. https://caniuse.com/avif
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Did they correct for individuals who currently intake no alcohol but have a past history of alcohol consumption? My understanding is this is one of the ways past studies have skewed the results, because some people quit cold turkey but then
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Computer Science Research Dept., SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Research Scientist / Engineer | Menlo Park, CA or REMOTE, VISA | Full Time We're a research group within SLAC, headed by Alex Aiken ( https://theory
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I'm not convinced. What you're talking about sounds an awful lot like MS Word. It has a document model. It has a renderer for said document model. The document model even has first-class abstractions (Word templates). You can dire
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This is from 2015. What happened since then?
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So it sounds like you're asking for a package where you get (basically) the ability to draw lines, circles, textures, etc.: the basic graphics primitives. Here's my question to you: would you really want to build a hex map at that
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Yes, Amazon still runs theirs. It's part of the KDP program now. lulu.com is another relatively big one. (They have a nice service, Lulu Xpress, if you just want to print copies for personal use.) And then there is the other monolith,
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Has anyone had luck getting decent GUI performance (macOS host, Linux guest)? I don't need 3D, just sane 2D performance. The last time I tried this, it was so bad that I had to drastically decrease the window size to get reasonable per
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Hm, Substack seems to be monetized differently though. Medium was very much in the freemium camp: you go there to read articles, but if you read too many, you get stuck by the paywall. So on the user side there was this constant friction th
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I guess in principle I get this. But unless the store is physically huge, which seems unlikely, then it's a bit hard to imagine how an independent store would have enough selection to compete. It seems much more likely to be that the s
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I don't completely get this comment, to be honest. As a matter of empirical fact, many video rental stores sucked. Your sibling comment addresses the case of Block Buster, but I remember going to our one truly independent store and not
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How does your local video rental place have 120K+ titles? We used several video rental stores around the time the Netflix DVD service debuted. The reason we switched and never looked back was that frankly, none of our rental stores had ever
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Computer Science Research Dept., SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Research Scientist / Engineer | Menlo Park, CA or REMOTE, VISA | Full Time We're a research group within SLAC, headed by Alex Aiken ( https://theory
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this jargon applies to kpop as a whole, not to any specific kpop band. So when you're starting up a new kpop band, you don't need to educate your audience in all of this jargon. You just
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This is the sort of thing you can Google, because it is extremely common advice. A few of the top hits: https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/tex... https://pimpmytype.com&#
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The scope of pg's posts have narrowed dramatically. Back in the Hackers & Painters days, it seemed like he was writing about a wide variety of topics. Startups were among the things he wrote about, but it wasn't exclusively
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I don't think this analogy quite works. If all you wanted to do was evolve the existing C++, then sure, you wouldn't need any of this to be remotely production ready. But to me, part/most of what makes this interesting is the
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There are languages like Lua that do not require semicolons and are also whitespace (and newline) insensitive. That comes with other tradeoffs, the main one being that Lua is forced to maintain a pretty restrictive grammar to remain unambig
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I'm not saying this is a great letter, but he wasn't wrong. I owned both Symbian and Maemo devices, and the experience (both to use and develop) really was this bad. That's not to say everything about it was bad, or that th
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Computer Science Research Dept., SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Research Scientist / Engineer | Menlo Park, CA or REMOTE, VISA | Full Time We're a research group within SLAC, headed by Alex Aiken ( https://theory
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Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access)? As far as I know it still offers two subscription modes, ad and ad-free, and subscriber stats on Wikipedia seem to be trending in a positive direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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I think the current behavior is useful: if the repo owner decides to merge a PR manually (e.g., with the git command line), the PR ends up in a merged state as expected. Otherwise the owner has to do two actions: first on the command line,
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To me this feels like the argument that we should allow Uber and Airbnb because they're sufficiently "transformative" use cases. When clearly they are playing fast and loose by the rules and have taken advantage of being earl
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Search engines don't create market harm for a work because they don't compete with it. In fact, they do the opposite: they advertise the work, making it more accessible and increasing exposure. These AI tools on the other hand s
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> most differential equations can't be solved analytically. Exactly, so why don't they teach the numerical analysis for actually solving PDEs that matter? These are equations that are very highly relevant to a wide array of rea
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I've had open source projects be dormant for 10 years only to get a question pop up out of the blue from someone who found it useful. I hope that Gitlab and other hosts of the open source community think hard about this before implemen
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The thing is, policies like this make it really hard to manage open source projects, which (a) typically do not make a lot of money, and (b) in the very long tail, are sometimes "dormant" according to this metric. And the cost goe

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