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by pzone 5y ago
Spacemacs
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by pzone 5y ago
They’re probably marketing to potential contributors as much as to users at this point.
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by pzone 5y ago
It’s a free Nuke clone. The similarity is intentional!
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by pzone 5y ago
CG artists have no real alternative. Digital matte painting and certain styles of concept art require a mix of painting tools, photobashing tools and plug-in integration that can’t be replicated with anything else efficiently. Games studios
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by pzone 5y ago
Telegram puts out a lot of packs, but they're made by different artists. You may be using their packs without realizing it. Everything on the Trending tab is theirs, and it changes frequently. Here are three packs with bats that I use,
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by pzone 5y ago
How about we hold off on predictions about the impending end of work as long as the unemployment rate is close to 4% (lowest since the 1960s)
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by pzone 6y ago
You're ignoring the vast vast majority of health care out there to focus on one extreme example - for which we have a separate answer already. (catastrophe insurance.) I just want a decent doctor to prescribe my meds and to purchase th
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by pzone 6y ago
Only one of the two systems stands up to modern standards of psychological science. If you are an HR rep and you want to predict an applicant’s job performance, you are using inferior data if you choose an MBTI test. It may have other uses,
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by pzone 6y ago
Pixar and Disney are at the very top of the elite American animation studios. Most animators internationally, or Americans working at less competitive studios, are also wrung dry for very little pay or job security.
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by pzone 6y ago
Houdini is a package for authoring procedural content generation tools. You can construct tools in Houdini like a building generator or level generator and no longer need to use up licenses to include them in your software at runtime.
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by pzone 6y ago
These days Maya and Max are the same price as Photoshop - $250/y vs $20/mo. Incidentally Houdini is also about the same, $279/y.
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by pzone 6y ago
It’s a typo, the original article is correct
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by pzone 6y ago
Pretty much all cinematic media is already produced in HDR and is ideally viewed that way. It’s only compressed to broadcast color at the very end. The experience of HDR is awesome. As soon as the price of the hardware comes down, it will b
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by pzone 6y ago
Why would they be against them? By now isn’t it widely recognized that body cams help police more than they restrict their behavior?
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by pzone 6y ago
Fractional scaling will require Wayland, which is only usable on Gnome or Sway right now.
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by pzone 6y ago
Innovation is also hampered when inventors are not sufficiently compensated for the broad social value they create with a new invention. When anyone is allowed to copy a new invention instantly, there is not enough incentive to innovate. A
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by pzone 6y ago
Why assume that these technologies would increase corruption rather than reduce it? Outsourcing work to an arms-length tech firm as opposed to potentially corrupt officers could be helpful in this case. Isn’t reducing crime in one of the mo
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by pzone 6y ago
Have you tried the new Popeyes chicken sandwich? In my opinion the spicy version is the single best item of fast food on the market today. The quality of the chicken is superior.
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by pzone 6y ago
Seasoning with salt, pepper and MSG is typical in Asian cooking.
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by pzone 6y ago
Here is a comprehensive reply to this paper from trained economists. https://twitter.com/ben_golub/status/1338175642932715520?s=2...
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by pzone 6y ago
Just being cute.
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by pzone 6y ago
That the poor exist is not surprising at all. For almost all of the 200k years of human history, everyone was poor. It is the default human condition. Only in the modern era have many people managed to escape poverty. The interesting empiri
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by pzone 6y ago
It's the typical story of CG researchers vs CG artists. Check out innumerable SIGGRAPH presentations using the same Stanford Armadillo model with constant-valued textures!
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by pzone 6y ago
The Epic store is the first significant competitor to Steam. They take a lower cut of game sales than Steam does. I wouldn’t lose sleep over market fragmentation.
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by pzone 6y ago
I don’t think this can be done without altering social media algorithms to revert back from the “engagement-maximizing” firehose of vituperative extremist polarizing political sludge they pump into everyone’s feed these days.
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by pzone 6y ago
The way you have framed conservative positions on these issues seems like you’re imputing bad faith to them and assuming no reasonable person could hold those views. With climate change, one doesn’t have to deny the science at all to hold a
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by pzone 6y ago
Not sure what you’re referring to. Failing to condemn white supremacists? That’s a talking point which is more about taking Trump’s erratic speech patterns out of context than it is a reflection of his actual statements or personal views.
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by pzone 6y ago
Wayland is X12.
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by pzone 6y ago
Is there reason to be "terrified" of climate change? The scientific consensus forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the risks we face are manageable, and we have decades to prepare mitigation measu
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by pzone 6y ago
Yes, the post mentions a project called Smithay which is essentially this.

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