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by kpil 9y ago
It's awesome, that's what it is. It's a nice illustration. You could have a student do it, but it would not be as fun.
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by kpil 9y ago
Exactly! Fake parallax that just turn epic scenes and scenery into tabletop models. It's obvious, but why do they ruin their efforts like that. Don't they watch their own movies after post 3d editing? I think even Avatar made it
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by kpil 9y ago
cough Gill Sans.
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by kpil 9y ago
Reorg like crazy. At the end of the turmoil announce that my work as an goodlike management doctor has been done and everything is now on track for the less gifted but down to earth management that is now necessary, exit, laugh all the way
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by kpil 9y ago
There are so many similar stories, all the way back to the 15th century witch hunts, so you'd expect that we've learned how to interview children now. But no. There is also a problem of under-reported sexual crimes against childre
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by kpil 9y ago
I have found that a Sony RX100 is a rather nice compromise between picture quality and portability. I have been close to upgrade my old DSLR since I want a better sensor and some really good glass for indoor photos, but I'd use it twic
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by kpil 9y ago
And it's most likely a carry over from when typewriters where in use, where you go back and add underscores under the characters by typing over them. Underscores where of course the italics of a typewriter font, unless you had a rea
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by kpil 9y ago
Interesting question. "Nation" is really the people, not the country or the state, and the reason it's mixed up to the point of having reached the dictionaries, is the strong nation-states that have been founded in Europe the
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by kpil 9y ago
We can't increase the population forever,in unless we go full Culture-tech, and even then it's not "forever." Meanwhile, while it looks as if most continents are going in the right direction, we need to stop the extremes
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by kpil 9y ago
I guess you could also try to use the Church-Turing teorem in a claim that no instruction level patent are enforceable, since they are all equivalent... But this is logic bordering to philosophy, which isn't exactly what the courts lov
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by kpil 9y ago
I think that ALL algorithms are better than the default halftone algorithms. I think it's possible to send saturated pixels using PCL, and tell the printer to disable half-toning. It requires that a full page fits in memory, which isn&
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by kpil 9y ago
Nah, it's not feasible to know the printer model if you want to identify a laserprinted dollar. A few variants at most.
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by kpil 9y ago
I think you are chasing something that does not exist. While i submit to the idea that programs are "data", and could be represented not just like text, the expressiveness when using a visual representation is small, but the exact
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by kpil 9y ago
What do you have to use in this case? A large needle bearing along the motor ring? How much noise does that make? Is it possible to have a water-bearing with injected high-pressure water in a small area, or will that use as much power as th
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by kpil 9y ago
No. It's primarily a population problem, although that does not mean that we should not manage the resources we have as efficient as possible.
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by kpil 9y ago
It won't be a problem* unless we make more of us. Political and religious leaders that oppose education and planned parenthood are the long term problem. Ok, slaughtering is a problem, but I think it will sort itself out eventually.
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by kpil 9y ago
The causation is clear. If you have free time, you spend it. There might be an indirect causation which is homework vs games, but I suspect that students with less encouragement from their parents to do their homework spend the time on gam
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by kpil 9y ago
I think that in reality most companies (up to a certain size) or projects have people that are pivotal, enablers or highly influential. Not only charismatic leaders but also technical wizards, etc. They might not be irreplaceable but they m
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by kpil 9y ago
If someone sends a "Please add X, KTXHBYE" , then I can see why a simple "Add it yourself" might be the response. I offer here a response that you can use to add as a mental sed stage when reading mail from people that w
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by kpil 9y ago
The problem with The Mythical Man Month is that it contains brilliant observations about software development in general, as well as brilliant observations about developing huge mainframe operative systems at IBM in the 70s. It's hard
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by kpil 9y ago
I really like coding in my garden. I enjoy videoconferencing in my garden even more.
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by kpil 9y ago
>While that way of working was very productive I doubt that. You may have delivered flawless code to a specification, but who knows if most of it even mattered, the tings that did actually just did a half-arsed job, and everything just
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by kpil 9y ago
Exactly. I think you can hand wave most things, and invent your own rules for how the universe works, including magic, aliens, FTL travel, teleportation, resurrection, etc. But there needs to be at least a cursory hand waving, and the hand
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by kpil 9y ago
Getting good at error handling, queue sizing and writing relevant logs requires some repeated exposure to real world pear-shaped events. Failing early and visible is always good, especially before a program have been taken into production.
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by kpil 9y ago
Ok. After reading all the comments, I am now instead leaning more towards the conclusion that private blockchains are tools to separate fools from their money.
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by kpil 9y ago
The idea is to spend less money than the other guys.
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by kpil 9y ago
I can't decide if the investors in R3 have no clue or if they are actually smart and are using this as an opportunity to modernise, unsettle the large networks, and also take the opportunity to pose as relevant. I'm leaning toward
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by kpil 9y ago
It's been known to be shaky for at least 20 years, but that have not stopped various government health organisations campaigning for a reduced salt intake. I can give them that it's a complex issue, there are probably no adverse e
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by kpil 9y ago
Eh, what is the expected lifetime of PEX tubes? The building code in USA is a bit relaxed compared to northern Europe, but can you have PEX tubes inside walls? I think the recommendation here is a dual tube system, with a PEX pipe inside a
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by kpil 9y ago
My water is delivered in copper tubes... It can't be that bad, can it?

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