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by fermienrico 6y ago
I use a Yellow Ochre Light, Pthalo Blue, Titanium White, Zinc White, Transparent Oxide Red (for blocking), Pthalo Green and Perylene Red :) Although, you can just use Richard Schmid's palette, replace all the toxic junk with modern pig
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I've bought several hundred tubes of paint in last 20 years. I've seen artists gravitating towards more expensive paints as a sign of better pigmentation which is completely misplaced. Pricing of pigments is largely a complex equa
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by fermienrico 6y ago
The fab in China is 20 year old tech. Primarily chipsets.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Agree, it is deliberately reductionist to provoke discussion about what we're not doing in SV. What do you think we should be doing in SV in addition these technologies?
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I wish Silicon Valley wasn’t just about software, particularly adtech. Some of the most brilliant minds are working on optimizing click ratios. There is some hardware tech (Apple, nVidia, Intel, Tesla), but vast majority of the engineers ar
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by fermienrico 6y ago
This level of government intervention, censorship and alleged intimidation should be a warning to world-class talent and entrepreneurs who might be attracted to China.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
There is nothing beautiful about this I see.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Slack/Notion. Stop with the features already. You're killing yourself in slow motion. Focus on performance, robustness of your infrastructure.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
The optics are still very, very bad for Zoom. I have zero trust in them.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Technically you're right. Can't argue!
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Forgive me for asking a stupid question: what does it mean when something is “idiomatic” in a programming language context? Is it just the best or recommended way to do something? Or is it something that’s supported by the language? Or some
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by fermienrico 6y ago
You can spend $10 :) It's like 2 coffees. Not that much and not a subscription :)
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Hah I see what you mean. That would be pretty annoying!
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada would like to disagree with your assessment of what luxury companies do to lure customers... I like your idealistic view of what luxury should be. But its not like that unfortunately.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
These publishers are just glorified PDF hosting companies? Do they do anything ?
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Unsurprising given the name of the website is ahem...growthalytics.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
SublimeHQ is an awesome company. They need to build an email client that blows the pants off of these VC backed luxury tools. I am sure there are some pro tools for email using emacs/vim setup.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Also, a country of the size of New Zealand is easier to control like a speed boat vs. US like a huge tanker. Ofcourse, if you put an authoritarian boosters on the tanker (China), its possible. Just to put things in perspective, New Zealand&
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I was thinking more on the lighter side - huge fan of Civilization, the game! Cultures are cool.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Good side effect of that is strong culture. It doesn't get diluted by diversity. I can only imagine what it would have been like to travel to another country many decades ago before globalization and travel. Here is Tokyo 100 years ago
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Live a little. Put the business bullshit away.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
One thing people are not discarding is cost. Given cost is not a problem, is it possible to get 40m flying time using exotic battery and ultra high strength/weight ratio materials? I feel like the cost is deeply embedded in our psyche
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by fermienrico 6y ago
That’s not even a remotely close analogy, no offense meant. Robots can be used for many good purposes. Intel makes processors, they can be riding on a missile or used on a CT Scan. Bombing schools is only horrific, how do you come up with t
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Agreed about fixing wages. I’m left-centrist and I find some of the extreme Marxism after the pandemic concerning. That’s what I’m rebutting against. I’m strongly against UBI, but I want high taxes for anyone making over $X. X is open for d
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by fermienrico 6y ago
What makes you think benefits won’t spread? We’re on track to producing vaccines by the billions, the biggest mobilization and logistical effort in the history of mankind. Good luck buying a vaccine and cutting the line, even if you have $1
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by fermienrico 6y ago
It's weird to pick one point in the abstraction chain of human technological progress and create a threshold of unethical behavior. Technological progress will gaurantee this scenario of military use. If not BD, it will be another comp
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by fermienrico 6y ago
There is a weird spot in the display market that is painful as a embedded developer: Displays under 400x240 pixels, usually the gfx buffer can be managed in the ram of the MCU. Nothing fancy needed, can get decent framerate on SPI bus runni
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Robinhood's UI is just great for beginners but not for seasoned traders. TD Ameritrade has far superior UI for people who know what they're doing. "They absolutely crush it" - No, they don't. Not even close.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Seems like you haven't been to South Korea for example. I see makeup shops literally on every corner, tremendous mall culture (which is sort of dying in America) and highend stores are jam-packed with newly minted millionaires. Here is
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Computational audio is another, it has the H1 chip, its gonna be Apple exclusive algorithms that make soundscape absolutely bonkers. Sort of like Dolby proprietary stuff.

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