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by foobarrio 8y ago
If you're going to reason about the effects of this the collective society you must also consider the cost/benefits of continued prohibition to the society as well. We are already paying for the decisions of the state to imprison
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by foobarrio 8y ago
It will make different if the encoding compression is different. Not all 1080p streams are equal. A 1080p FHD blueray is around 30mbps. I've read 20mbps h264 being almost indistinguishable from 30mbps blueray. In my own personal test u
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by foobarrio 8y ago
Surely this is a false dichotomy no? The alternative to some "CEO of some internet company" isn't "party away your youth." Perhaps you are creative and really want to be involved in creating movies, music. Some peop
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by foobarrio 8y ago
How often is failure of the car itself the cause of a fatal automobile accident? Just looking at lack of seatbelt use and alcohol make up 50% of traffic fatalities. It seems that the "Human Choice" is the biggest thing to fix when
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by foobarrio 8y ago
I wish they provided the RAW files. Looking at "traditional-pipeline" photos I am positive I can get a much better result just spending some time with Lightroom and coming up with some "super high ISO" preset. Perhaps it
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by foobarrio 8y ago
Doesn't that mean you were providing a service instead of creating a product?
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by foobarrio 8y ago
MMA showed the BJJ is a requirement to win but it's no longer sufficient. The sport has evolved. Plenty of non-BJJ guys win. Demian Maia is one of the best BJJ guys (and has been super successful) and he's gotten KO'd by stri
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by foobarrio 9y ago
We could skew fonts now if we wanted to. TTF fonts are mostly quadratic Bezier curves so we can redefine what the axes to use when rendering the font glpyhs. Instead of i = (1, 0), j = (0, -1) we can use i = (1, 0) j = (0.3, -1). There&#x27
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by foobarrio 9y ago
The aesthetic serves a purpose though. Hi-fi 3D game assets take orders of magnitude more work to create than low-fi 2D ones. I agree that nostalgia and familiarity are what allows gamers to accept NES-style graphics as a valid form of low-
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by foobarrio 9y ago
The interface stuff is hard to gauge on the surface but don't write it off just yet. Many interfaces require lots of hardware acceleration to work right even though they look simple (for example Photoshop or Lightroom). Video editing s
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by foobarrio 9y ago
What is it about programming the visual stuff that you like? For me I realized what I enjoyed about graphic algorithm is that you are constantly dealing with high level concepts like perceptional models as well as having to make a performan
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment but this guy quit his job to be an indie developer. This changes things a bit since he needs to now feed himself with this work.
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Why not both? Back in 2006 I helped someone complete a Flash puzzle game. The whole thing was a an interesting programming experience. His lead developer had family issues to tend to and I stepped in. He would come up with game-play ideas a
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Market forces are neither righteous or wicked. They also don't care at all about short-term vs long-term consequences. We don't always have to succumb to these forces and just say "oh well market said so." Gravity is als
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I should have searched. This is actually quite useful to be aware of. Thanks.
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Wait there's a UTF-8 with BOM? Why do you need a byte order mark for utf-8? The stream "unit" is a byte. I thought only utf-16 and above had an optional BOM?
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I like this list. What I have found about point #4 is that even teams that try to actually measure performance in a meaningful way will miss things. If the quality of the software is slowing down feature releases, causing fires but is not b
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Make your problem their problem. Make a list and organize all the things you'd want to change. Untangling balls of mud often take on the order of months to start seeing any kind of progress. You have to make sure you keep things organi
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by foobarrio 9y ago
When talking about endurance running, my mind immediately jumps to Courtney Dauwalter. In Oct of 2017 she run the Moab 240 mile race by 10+ hours. She's had other "super hero" stories such as pushing through temporary blindle
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by foobarrio 9y ago
How do you feel other manipulations other than compositing? What about Ansel Adam's photographs? His photographs have extensive manipulations in the dark room. He dedicated an entire book to such techniques equally important as the cam
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by foobarrio 9y ago
This is actually my preferred config. The reason being emacs shell buffers. I can interact with any shell tool using the full text editing features of emacs. I've had to interact with many Oracle databases via sqlplus. "sqlplus&qu
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by foobarrio 9y ago
IMHO The weird 16:9 aspect ratio really screwed us for usability. A 19" 4:3 monitor has the same height as a 23" 16:9 monitor. However I remember 1280x1024 being commonly available on games and on Windows by the time Windows 98 ca
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by foobarrio 9y ago
There seems to be at least some differing cultural values. I've had experiences with tea houses in TW/CN where the tea that is served is not really what I ordered and instead of being embarrassed or apologetic about it, they are i
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I've never noticed an uneven chapter ring! You're going to make me obsessed with staring at my watches. I'm honestly staring at mine and it looks fine. I think I can now see some lines look closer to the minute slashes than o
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by foobarrio 9y ago
That's why I put mine on a snazzy leather strap ;-) I wonder how low in the price range you have to get before you have visibly uneven chapter ring marks. I think I can print a perfect one on paper on the laser printer here at work. Al
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by foobarrio 9y ago
That sucks to hear. I guess this is also similar to high-end cars where they are more problematic than a trusty Toyota Corolla. I've love to own a Rolex Explorer or an Omega Seamaster one day but I am not sure I would ever buy one. I&#
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by foobarrio 9y ago
+1 for G-Shocks. Even though Casio rates the accuracy of it's $8 FW91 quartz watch at "only" around 1 second per day[1], many people observe 1 second per month with others observing 0 seconds after 2-3 months. This makes it m
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by foobarrio 9y ago
A lot of the advantages of the "better" construction aren't seen until the watch is older. An acrylic glass vs saphire glass crystal on a watch both look the same when new. Over 10 years, they will look much different. Heat-t
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by foobarrio 9y ago
The blue-green distinction is interesting because it's different in East Asia: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction... The color of a traffic light can be referred to as blue or green. Th
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by foobarrio 9y ago
At the very least you will need another little robot or human that goes by and verifies that the prices have actually been updated. I can't imagine the LCD price displayers will be super high reliable and built to last decades.

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