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by gilrain 9y ago
Chef's are superstitious and misinformed about food science at only slightly lower rates than average, in my experience. Most of fine cooking is based on tradition and received wisdom rather than evidence.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Yes, and we've repeatedly researched MSG on the basis of experiences like yours. It turns out there is no evidence that people who self-report as sensitive actually are. Yes, even if they're really, really sure. Maybe you are some
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by gilrain 9y ago
Love that can-do attitude.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Engineer's disease... "why hire an expert when we're already Engineers!"
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by gilrain 9y ago
If you discard feedback based on tone, you will very obviously bias yourself toward only accepting positive or positive-leaning feedback. I'm sure you can see how that would seriously hinder software quality in the long run. And, indee
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by gilrain 9y ago
They have a really great series of free, official videos on Vimeo which go over individual features and workflows. They got me up, running, and comfortable faster than any other graphical tool so far. It's similar to learning Blender t
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by gilrain 9y ago
And when we complain about usability issues and lack of features in those programs (such as GIMP!), we're told that there are lots of open source alternatives; for instance, look how slick Krita is! And thus the cyclical debate continu
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by gilrain 9y ago
The "entitlement" is from people who are frustrated that the open source software movement lacks such a fundamental piece of the desktop software puzzle. The confrontation comes from the fact that one side insists the software is
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by gilrain 9y ago
Affinity is a fantastic alternative to Photoshop, GIMP, or any other raster manipulation program focused on photos. I'd like to back up this recommendation: for the (one-time) price, it's amazing. I don't miss anything from P
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by gilrain 9y ago
And if you complain that Krita lacks photo manipulation features, you're told "Of course, because Krita is only targeted at illustrators!" The open source evangelists always have a dodge.
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by gilrain 9y ago
"scared that they'll simply be replaced by those who won't complain, and blacklisted"
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by gilrain 9y ago
And that it was a marketing campaign produced in partnership with a television show that somehow wound up in Firefox. What it did or didn't actually do is almost beside the point to those of us who care. Even Google, an advertising com
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by gilrain 9y ago
The rich never deserve the benefit of the doubt; if they need their side of the story told, they can, and do, pay for it to be told as sympathetically and skillfully as possible. We are only to look on with as much discernment as possible.
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by gilrain 9y ago
Thanks for letting me know not to bother!
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by gilrain 9y ago
I've been using the Sciter bindings for Rust, lately. It might be worth a look if you want a more performant option for a HTML/CSS GUI. The documentation is pretty rough, though. https://sciter.com/ https:/&
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by gilrain 9y ago
Try it out and write the critique, then. The posts are positive because Rust is genuinely achieving rapid progress and stability... but certainly not without flaws. I've experienced plenty of frustration, albeit outweighed by the massi
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Ferrous Oxide for Jaguars and Incremented Crocodiles(eno.space)
1 points by gilrain 9y ago|0 comments
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by gilrain 9y ago
As someone who frequently posts about my personally-excellent experiences with Rust, what makes you suspect it's astroturf rather than just turf? You think Mozilla is paying people to post about Rust using puppet accounts? C'mon.
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by gilrain 9y ago
I'm currently using orbtk, the GUI toolkit for Redox OS. It has the least boilerplate and most pleasing API of the ones I've researched so far. (It targets SDL2 in addition to Orbital, so it's not just for Redox.) I'm lo
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by gilrain 9y ago
And my project is a GUI app, which is among the weakest stories remaining for Rust!
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by gilrain 9y ago
It's really exciting to be a member of the Rust community, right now. I'd encourage every programmer who still enjoys the magic to try it out for at least a hobby project. It's completely rekindled my love for programming.
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by gilrain 9y ago
And, in fact, discontinued.
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by gilrain 9y ago
That is sociopathic reasoning.
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by gilrain 9y ago
"just because someone uses swear words doesn't mean they're racist or homophobic" Where does it ever imply that? It says racist and homophobic slurs, not just swears like "fuck" or whatever. And yes, if one use
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by gilrain 9y ago
It's much more intuitive for non-programmers, which make up the majority of HTML/CSS users.
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Rust and QML: a timely example(vandenoever.info)
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by gilrain 9y ago
Rust is among the most welcoming of communities to start out in. If you're interested in the language, definitely check here for easy ways to get involved. https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork/starters
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by gilrain 9y ago
This recounts an event that happened in 2004, FYI.
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by gilrain 9y ago
We welcome you to switch to Mozilla Firefox!
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by gilrain 9y ago
It works great in Firefox 58.0b6 at a solid 60 FPS.

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