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by prewett 4y ago
That's a post-modern/materialist/rationalist philosophical take, but I don't think that is the major historical view. Does Beauty have intrinsic value? I suspect that many people go to art museums to see Beauty, but they
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by prewett 4y ago
Having come from a time where loading a small JPEG required a progress bar, it seems like one beefy server machine ought to be able to handle thousands of concurrent requests per second. This seems like it should fit most companies&#x27
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by prewett 4y ago
I've been writing a cross-platform UI toolkit, currently macOS, Windows, and Linux. Eventually I'd like to compile for wasm/Canvas, android, and iOS. C++ was sort of designed for this kind of thing, it is performant, and it i
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by prewett 4y ago
"X in N lines of code" is usually used for compressing an algorithm down to its bare essentials. "Ray tracing in 100 lines of code". In that case, it's disingenuous to have 100 lines of glue code that calls into pov
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by prewett 4y ago
All the well-known cross-platform toolkits are C/C++, so you'll have to find bindings for whatever "sane" language you want to use. Your options are basically: - Qt: the most widely used, but is a little janky on macOS a
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by prewett 4y ago
The obvious thing to do would be to store the image in memory as just an array of 8-bit of native unsigned integers (RGBARGBARGBARGBA...) and see where that got you. I assume C# has the equivalent of a Java byte[], except that fortunately i
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by prewett 4y ago
The definition I heard (apparently by the Brazilian woman that did the first research) was "any ingredient that wouldn't be found in a regular kitchen". Not meaning things like rutabagas or mangosteen, but rather things like
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by prewett 4y ago
And those going to synagogues or mosques aren't Christian, either... In 2021, only 41% of people claimed to attend a church or synagogue at least once a month [1] [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/245491&#x2F
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by prewett 4y ago
Apple have been plenty innovative. In the past 10 years, Apple have: - released Apple Watch - all displays are Retina. (As far as I can tell by looking at all the monitors from other companies in an electronics store, they all still think t
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by prewett 4y ago
Heh, I'd be fine with that. Usually it's "XY plummets because of ... (XY: -1%)". From my non-statistically informed observations, 1% is basically the noise floor, so saying "because" is misleading at best. At l
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by prewett 4y ago
Interesting point... I don't know if this is part of the answer, but apparently around 1800 there was a shift in Christianity (which would have been society as a whole, at least nominally) that piety came naturally to women, and it was
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by prewett 4y ago
Recently it seems like Musk has been acting like someone who is either burned out and/or not realizing he has a really unmet emotional need(s). He's done some poorly thought out things (buying Twitter, passing on the due diligence
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by prewett 4y ago
Ha, this article sounds like some coffee-loving physics grad students procrastinating on their thesis, and their professor said, hmm, maybe we can publish this! When the Mentos + Diet Coke thing was first a big thing, a friend of mine who r
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by prewett 4y ago
The American Dream is about living a comfortable, prosperous (as in more than enough, not necessarily rich) life. The 1950s family with 2.2 children, a car, and a house of your own with a white picket fence. It's evolved since then, bu
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by prewett 4y ago
If so, they missed the key part of Catholicsm/Christianity: the death of Jesus atones for our sin, guilt, and shame. I've slowly come to the opinion that it is about a power play / emotional manipulation, because there is no
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by prewett 4y ago
The princess and the pea is pretty obviously an observation on how upper-class ladies tended towards high maintenance... It's pretty funny as an adult, I thought it was pretty lame as a kid. I highly doubt that fairly tales from the We
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by prewett 4y ago
This is brainstorming for what I might try if I were in your situation: - try contracting! There are a lot of people who need a basic MVP written and do not have the skills themselves. Not everyone has a tight deadline, either, and if you&#
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by prewett 4y ago
Wow, that reminds me of Agillion, a dot-bomb which got $40 million of VC investment and $20 million in loans and had "hundreds of dollars" in sales. Plus $200k the founder(s) paid for the code in the bankruptcy. [1] https:/&
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by prewett 4y ago
Walmart is the worst, it takes multiple seconds to even register that the scan worked.
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by prewett 4y ago
I'm still on Mojave, but I've found that `sudo killall -9 coreaudiod` when something weird is happening with sound fixes things. For me it is normally that sound doesn't play, though.
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by prewett 4y ago
That seems like a compelling reason for China to become a deep-water power (if it is not already): protect its oil-shipping interests.
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by prewett 4y ago
> if Amazon is getting more out of the worker than it costs to keep them around That's a pretty simplistic argument. For one thing, it assumes a zero-sum game. But in economic theory both sides need to gain something in order for a
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by prewett 4y ago
I find that reading fiction and walking in nature recharge me. Try hiking a 6 - 10 mi (round trip) trail at a nearby state / national park. If that seems helpful, find a couple national parks that you think are really beautiful, and sp
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by prewett 4y ago
Them be right pansy pirates! In my day, when the crew's "values no longer aligned" we called it "mutiny" and hove 'em adrift in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea with nought but a couple of loaves of bread, a
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by prewett 4y ago
We can get statistics for some of the parent's claims: > On the other hand, saying that the majority of the population is grinding in tough physical labour is just not true. 10.3% of US jobs are classified as "physically demand
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by prewett 4y ago
You aren't going to lose confidence in a company that has "whole swaths of items I won't buy" because of personal experience with being shipped expired food and obvious fakes? What would it take for you to lose confide
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by prewett 4y ago
Companies are usually okay with people taking unpaid leave. Tell your manager "I'd like to take a 3 month unpaid sabbatical to do $fun, would July - Sep work okay?"
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by prewett 4y ago
Some charismatics say that spiritual gifts have a learned element. “Teaching” is listed as a spiritual gift and no one expects teachers to not need to develop skills, why would prophesying, discerning spirits, speaking in tongues, interpret
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by prewett 4y ago
The problem is you can't "defeat" COVID by isolating. It's going to be around pretty much forever (even if you vaccinated all humans, there are animals where it circulates, too. So China is going to have to keep the rest
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by prewett 4y ago
I've never understood why tech people think computers are going to improve education. Education is a human activity, you cannot replace a human with a computer. At best a computer is going to be like a book v2, plus multiple choice pro

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