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by pzone 9y ago
I've been reading the NYT since my high school government teacher told me about it. It is far and away the best reporting I know of. I consider myself left-leaning and typically in agreement with the opinion section. Yet the last year
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Although WaPo is a great paper, NYT is still worth twice as much to me. There's nothing else like it.
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It's still more available and affordable than paper subscriptions of the past.
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The growth comes from transitioning from a costly model of hiring hundreds of slick guys in suits trying to convince customers to upgrade every year or so, to a simpler model of collecting credit card data and assuming customers are going t
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by pzone 9y ago
They've announced the majority of cuts involve terminating a few speculative R&D projects and cutting international sales staff. Maya development doesn't seem slow at all. The new UV toolkit in 2018 is pretty great. On the bac
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by pzone 9y ago
The 2016 layoffs of similar magnitude didn't seem to make a noticeable impact in their software's update cadence. They are a company formed though an old sediment of mergers and acquisitions and I'm not surprised they've
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by pzone 9y ago
Utterly superficial thought, but how about the name "fastr" for this crate?
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by pzone 9y ago
I'm thrilled to see how much progress this project is making. The ancient core of Emacs written in C is nearly impossible for a newcomer to understand. Porting it to Rust might make it possible to work on the codebase and feel confide
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by pzone 9y ago
Yikes, doing a color conversion by nearest-neighbor RGB is guaranteed to give odd results like this. The entire center of her dress has undershot the blackpoint and is washed out entirely in black, and the representation of the headdress is
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by pzone 9y ago
It can also be disabled in the taskbar settings.
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The upcoming .3 release will support a custom package archive. A lot of the bugginess in Spacemacs is caused by frequently pulling 100+ bleeding-edge MELPA packages.
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by pzone 9y ago
The idea that net neutrality might not be not a big deal seems to fall on deaf ears here. The notion that maybe Ajit Pai might even be making a decent point is an unspeakable blasphemy.
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by pzone 9y ago
I love the bandwagon hatred of anyone who suggests ending net neutrality isn't the end of the world! Check out my comment to Jankiel and respond to that instead of screaming that I'm stupid.
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by pzone 9y ago
1. Net neutrality places severe binding restrictions on how internet service is provided, and by extension who can provide it. (It's expensive to serve up Netflix if you're banned from offering Netflix privileged pipeline status.
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Even the New York Times is suffering from over-politicization. Sad times.
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Net Neutrality proponents have really gone off the deep end. I'd love to see how they react if the only user-visible changes end up being lower monthly bills.
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by pzone 9y ago
20 years is not soon enough. My mother is aging and I don't want her to lose her mobility.
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by pzone 9y ago
"Great in theory, lousy in practice" is a misguided saying. What that really means is that the theory itself is lousy. Social safety nets and the correction of market failures in capitalist economies really have nothing to do with
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by pzone 9y ago
Ah, more amateur data analysts running a few time series regressions and thinking they're doing economics. Check out the big warning at the bottom of the moreuseful.com post with a very forthcoming "We have not established causali
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by pzone 9y ago
Well I just stayed up all night playing this. RIP me. I enjoyed it a lot, though the gameplay during the final stage was less balanced and entertaining. Fantastic ending though!
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It's a very basic introductory level text. If you want more detailed answers to questions like that, ask a professor or do a bit more study. Anyway "why don't we have vector money" is a fairly interesting brain teaser. T
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by pzone 9y ago
3D-Coat is a fairly fully featured model creation package. It has very good texturing facilities, not as good as Substance or Modo, but very good. Actually the single best feature in 3D-Coat is its UV unwrapping and editing functionality.
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by pzone 9y ago
Blender is definitely odd and quirky compared to Maya or Max. All of them have a steep learning curve, but Blender is weird on top of being complicated.
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That's because of the nontrivial math. It will be found in general equilibrium section toward the end of introductory microeconomics, or at the beginning of a graduate course in macroeconomics. Page 182 of this excerpt from Acemoglu&#x
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by pzone 9y ago
Grad school was the most miserable time of my life for exactly the same reasons. Inaccessible professors, introverted, competitive cohorts of PhD students who rarely became good friends with one another, an exclusive focus on your output an
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Good. People shouldn't make decisions about things like whether to go to college on faith, they should make such decisions after earnest deliberation.
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Once they're safely out of Boost and implemented by the stdlib they're an order of magnitude more convenient to use. You can also be more confident in their future stability.
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What makes you so confident in that assertion?
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That analogy works if you modify it: - 480p vs 2160p is measuring the resolution of your cell phone propped up on a pillow at the other end of your living room - experimental evidence shows that your eyesight is not good enough to pick up o
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I like it. Very happy to see the US Government's digitization efforts continue. At least we can can see SOME aspects of our government improving.

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