mtrower

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by mtrower 4y ago
No, the appeal of the artist is the artist. The art does offer a means to connect with the artist. It does not follow that the art may not offer its own appeal besides.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Wouldn’t that say more about the client than the competitor?
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by mtrower 4y ago
If the pursuit is enjoyable, it should continue to be enjoyable as a hobby, no? Meanwhile, where is my levy of custom artists willing to do free commission work for me? It’s enjoyable, right? I see a lot of discussion about money and copyr
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by mtrower 4y ago
There’s a big difference though between “a stunning image” and “the stunning image you wanted”.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Consider the compiler. There’s an awful lot of analogy there, if you think about it.
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by mtrower 4y ago
See… that would be interesting and useful. But it’s not what’s on the table here.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Except that it doesn’t fix the technology, it gives the appearance of augmentation via a bunch of JavaScript. Seems more like the jQuery and Bootstrap of your examples. Sure, you don’t have to look at it, you just program against the interf
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by mtrower 4y ago
That doesn’t seem to be the case, with the people I’m referring to. It’s one thing to want availability. It’s another to try to shove your preferences down someone else’s throat, because, you know, they’re clearly superior. And because “sci
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by mtrower 4y ago
Solarized has the same contrast relationships in both modes, though. That’s kind of the point.
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by mtrower 4y ago
I’d say it’s a religious issue for both groups. There are people on both sides of the fence who just want to use what’s comfortable (or use both situationally), and be left alone about it. Then there are those in both camps who want to con
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by mtrower 4y ago
Yeah, I took issue with that as well. To be fair, I’d say they’re both easy to see. However, given a daytime silhouette vs. a bright light at night, the silhouette has many other blobs competing for attention.
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by mtrower 4y ago
I’d say that’s normal (studies being one-dimensional). The idea being to isolate as many complications as possible to get at the heart of one single matter. I didn’t read the study itself, but usually the scientists (if they aren’t pushing
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by mtrower 4y ago
This just sounds like an evolution of the compiler to me.
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by mtrower 4y ago
From an economic standpoint, perhaps. Consider the hobbyist. If these tools had been available when I was a kid, my tile based RPG could have had the graphics I always wanted it to have. Instead, it never got anything more than map tiles (p
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by mtrower 4y ago
An 8 year old, using the ring bound manual that came with their computer, can figure out the basics - enough to write a program like this, and examine it. I’m not being dismissive here, but speaking literally from experience. Personally,
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by mtrower 4y ago
They were shareware, but that's not the same as freeware. He did expect payment for the software if you actually used it beyond evaluation, commercially or not. As I recall he wanted $50 for a license. As incentive, he'd send yo
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by mtrower 4y ago
> I spent 3 weeks telling a security "expert" that the alert asking me to add flags to gcc was a false positive, considering that our project is in .net. Ah, I know this one --- you sacrificed the wrong breed of goat. Try impo
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by mtrower 4y ago
Even my 80s and 90s cars have a clutch switch (though the 87 is Japanese, can't speak for American cars in that decade). No pedal, no start.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> I didn't realize the percentage of manual transmissions was so low, no wonder the car culture there seems to idolize it. Yeah, it's getting more and more difficult to even buy them at all over here. Rather slim pickings.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Using Containers is pre mature optimization too? maybe I should get my typewriter More like grab a damn pen and scrawl out what you actually need. It's flexible and fast, which in many cases suits the situation best.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Honestly these are not optimizations at all, but rather architectural decisions. Large architectural decisions are generally best made at the outset, based on problem domain analysis. They are costly to change later. Like so many others,
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by mtrower 4y ago
Erm...no? Look at the screenshot in the article. There is no charge for Ubuntu in that shot, only for Windows.
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by mtrower 4y ago
How does this "FreeDOS" option work better for that than selecting the straight Ubuntu option they offer, and wiping that clean?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Shipping your PC with "some linux distro" means you have to support that linux distro. But they do offer to ship with a Linux distro, even apart from this strange frankensystem option. Did you miss where straight Ubuntu is
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by mtrower 4y ago
I'd expect he needs to commune with the Force at times, no? Sure, he's fallen to the Dark Side and all, but it's still the Force that he draws his power from. I'd imagine there's a good amount of overlap with trad
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by mtrower 4y ago
I don't really understand or agree with their focus on guilt as a motivator. They claim that a reduction in feelings of guilt led to a reduction in sincerity of apology. > The practice had muted their feelings of guilt and, as a re
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by mtrower 4y ago
> sewing thread cutter You mean a seamripper? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_ripper
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Whatever, I thought, I still have a little over $10k left in my bank, and my next paycheck will come soon. I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about that...
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by mtrower 4y ago
Was it, though? What if there was an outage when you wanted to watch?
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by mtrower 4y ago
> I chuckle at any conservatives/libertarians who claim to actually oppose corporate campaign finance Why?

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