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by investinme 7y ago
> Cons: 64-bit only I mean, when was the last time 32 bit CPUs were sold? In 2009 I bought a basic very cheap computer. It still had 64 bit.
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by investinme 7y ago
> I wonder if there's a way to describe and interactively refine descriptions of areas of interest in a symbolic way—as Lisp trees if not Unix strings—maybe using existing neural networks. Certainly a speculative idea, of course. I
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by investinme 7y ago
Photoshop actually has that. They are called Actions (basically macros). You can select a group of operations you did in your editing history and turn them into an Action, with parametrization support. You can then batch apply an Action to
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by investinme 7y ago
I'm not sure what I'm attacking, certainly not Vim. I'm just saying that you can perfectly use Vim without a mouse, in fact most guides recommend you to disable mouse (and cursor) support. But you can't use Photoshop or
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by investinme 7y ago
I understand your point about Vim not following Unix philosophy, also the way Vim and Blender are similar. I disagree that the GUI/command line divide is a "surface appearance". I'm not talking about Vim/VS Code kin
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by investinme 7y ago
I was talking more about the GUI/command line divide. SolidWorks/Blender are fundamentally GUI apps, even if they do contain some programmatic features (like parametric filters/models/...). Also, all media software have
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by investinme 7y ago
You can only say this if you have a very limited imagination of what "image editor" is. Please explain to me how you imagine creating a mask around a human so that you can "extract" him from the background in the command
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by investinme 7y ago
> I'm not saying you're lying but maybe they misspoke or you misremembered. No, that dev never did any serious image editing. He was just full of himself and of the "superior UNIX philosophy", the thought that there
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by investinme 7y ago
That was exactly my point. ImageMagick and Photoshop serve completely different needs. You can't replace one with the other.
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by investinme 7y ago
Nobody hates Photoshop. In fact it's one of the most loved software out there. I'm a developer and a Photoshop user and love it. The Unix philosophy would be a disaster for a image editing software (ImageMagick much?) Once a devel
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by investinme 7y ago
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