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by gfxgirl 4y ago
Your painting the right as "no taxes" I think they'd paint as "quit wasting money". As an example, SF has the highest tax revenue per capita in the USA https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/sl
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
> This might be excluding anybody that cannot work after hours, for a reason or another. Maybe I'm reading into this but I see this type of response a lot on HN. > A: You need experience. Get some after hours > B: I don't
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
as others have pointed out, the defualt photos app is designed to do the best for the average user. If you want control of every feature and no post processing then download a different photo app like https://apps.apple.com/
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
It is close to deprecation. In fact it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use (an iPhone). It's also deprecated on MacOS. Many hardware manufactures are getting rid of it from their drivers and just using 3rd
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
Given that OpenGL is basically deprecated at this point this arguably is no longer "modern 3D graphics programming" If you still want to learn OpenGL there's https://learnopengl.com
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
was there ever a setting for this? I always used gSwitch or gfxCardStatus to varying degrees of success
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
No, the problem is bad developers pulling in dependencies for trivial functionally. If there was a `for-loop` npm package bad devs would be pulling it in instead of writing their own for loops. Padding on the left is something if it doesn&#
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
it's becoming the same in rust. Here's the rust official docs https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs Follow the build instructions, then you get to `cargo build` you'll see this message Downloaded 44
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
curl | bash doesn't bother me because I do it like twice a year from sites I trust. On the otherhand, the node crowd uses "npx command" all the time where npx will download and execute code from the net. Unlike "curl | b
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
As is often commen, wikipedia is plain wrong. I've never heard this opening narration and I saw it on opening day
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
?? I saw it in the theater when it opened. nothing was ruined. maybe there is a second cut I'm unaware of. Certainly the cut Roger Ebert gave 4/4 stars, which is the original theatrical cut, isn't the one with spoilers
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
I skipped that by choosing lisp as my scripting language. took a day to implement. no complex parser required for config I used ini files, super simple to parser (and now json so always can use an existing solution)
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
At the time a single seat of PowerAnimator, the predecessor to Maya, cost $50k-$60k. $30k was for the SGI machine to run it and the other half was the software license. Microsoft bought Softimage, one of the top competitors to Maya at the t
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
It's not doing what I expect. Oh? Change the spec It's not doing what I expect. Oh? Change the code How is that different from now?
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
Not to defend the OP because I agree that null is bad. But, in my limited experiecne with Swift I just add a few characters at the right place and the null's are now incorrectly ignored and the warnings go away. So, the language gave m
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
This is the equivalent to "why does modern music suck" (said by every generation of the next generation's music) Scott Alexander posted something similar https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tart
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
> The critics and audience don't always agree. The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. Directors vote for best Director. Actors vote for best Actor. Composers vote for best Music. Etc...
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
now if it was just an executable file and didn't require a package manager or compiling to install it would be flawless.
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
My guess the limits are because, WebP is based on WebM (video) I agree those limits are too small.
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
> you’re drawing too often killing battery. You say this with zero proof. Checking 100s of widgets to see if they overlap, updating their damage boxes, drawing the parts of the ones that got overlapped, computing clip bounds for each one
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
Do you have any proof of this or just a gut feeling? Immediate mode guis do cache stuff, at least Dear ImGUI, one of the most popular Immediate mode guis caches. Further, at least in my mobile usage almost everything I do with my phone re-d
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
Irrelevant, the apps it's being used for would run fine on a 25yr old machine at 60fps. You shouldn't need multi-threading to render a few thousand objects and most UI apps of the type Lottie is being used for animate 100 or less
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
you can always have your car painted or wrapped. No reason the car has to come from the factory in a more interesting style https://www.google.com/search?q=amazing+car+wraps&source=lnm... Also, I suspect it won't b
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
This not remotely true. There are plenty of karaoke songs that are the original recording from the original artist. At least in Japan, where the word "karaoke" originates
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
for me, I can't sing along if it's not close to the original because my brain remembers every tick of the original and wants to match the key of the original as well. Also, I had a friend who got addicted to Smule which is an onli
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
> These issues are inherent limitations of using a main-thread-bound rendering architecture. sorry but bullshit! Sure, multi-threaded rendering can give faster results but the apps AirBnB is making could have easily rendered at 60hz with
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
I'm wondering if/how my coding experience could be enhanced with this in my code editor.
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
AFAIK it was Apple that first added color to fonts in a modern OS. The fonts render in Safari and Firefox. Google is just publishing some fonts.
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
I thought you were going to say 30 years later. Amiga had color fonts
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by gfxgirl 4y ago
I agree 100% with much of the sentiment here that creators deserve respect and a cut of the spoils At the same time, it really depends.... I'm pretty confident that there are very few engineers at FAANG that can't be replaced. I&#

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