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by pzone 8y ago
> Forcing new programmers to be specific about intentions they may not even know they are supposed to have doesn't necessarily work. Rust is not a good language for new programmers. Neither is C for that matter. You shouldn't s
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by pzone 8y ago
And it is worth mentioning if you've never used git on Linux, the difference versus Windows really is night and day.
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As someone seriously depressed with plenty of money, the answer is no.
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The CIE XYZ color space is fundamental to all modern color space processing. Very cool that it was defined in 1931 and has held up more-or-less unchanged to today. Be sure to click and drag on the 3d cubes!
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by pzone 8y ago
The Subway is a mess primarily because of cronyism, corrupt labor unions and mismanagement on a typical, everyday "these people suck at their job" type. Fixing the MTA is important, but its problems are essentially independent of
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by pzone 8y ago
The subsidies themselves would have been given to Amazon over the course of several years. NY would be in the black after no more than a year.
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by pzone 8y ago
1. New York State has a high tax burden. They don't just collect income taxes - they also collect property, sales and capital gains. $12k per year all-in for a high income worker is pretty typical when you account for these additional
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by pzone 8y ago
I believe the number of users affected is one of the factors considered at the time the fines are levied. The EU seems to be happy to substitute fines for taxes, so companies treating them the same way isn't too surprising. Structure y
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by pzone 8y ago
Telegram works well as my primary social tool.
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by pzone 8y ago
You are absolutely insane. Never settle!
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Thanks, I hate it.
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by pzone 8y ago
Thanks for bringing this point up and calmly repeating it to people. It's hard to overcome the "garbage is gross, therefore it must be a moral evil" kneejerk reaction which you see in so many people.
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The biggest benefit of the RTX cards isn't that they'll make existing video games faster or that the new effects are strikingly more beautiful than current technology. The biggest benefit is how easy it is to add these new effects
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by pzone 8y ago
That "explainabrag" pissed me off too. I feel like that kind of thing is super typical among Haskell bloggers.
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Product safety is certainly an area where strong regulation is valuable, however this article is focused on occupational licensing.
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The world is also very different than it was 100 years ago. Today we can review a barbershop on Yelp and complain they aren't cleaning their tools. Today we can share digital medical records and delegate decisions to nurse practitioner
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There is no other software that even approaches Photoshop's featureset and ecosystem.
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It's the general overhead and speed of syscalls for reading and writing files. It's very noticeable in software like git which works by reading and writing hundreds of small chunk files to disk. This is a well known fact and there
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by pzone 8y ago
We've yet to see whether world-leading levels of per capita prosperity are achievable without freedom. At a minimum, freedom offers a strong competitive edge.
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by pzone 8y ago
VS Code has taken me off Emacs for Python development on Windows. I was never able to get a clean and speedy code completion, navigation, or refactoring to work with Emacs. I hope the situation changes someday.
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The reduced incentive for innovation from US firms hurts global wealth just as much whether the IP copycats are in the US or if they're in China.
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by pzone 8y ago
The costs of protectionism are typically diffuse and difficult to pinpoint. They take the form of higher prices and reduced choice. Here's one example. Chinese consumers use Alibaba, not Amazon. They use QQ, not Twitter. They use Baidu
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by pzone 8y ago
This is correct. Most CG and 3d software (Max, Maya, Blender, CAD) uses a right handed coordinate system, which matches the convention in physics, however they vary in their choice of Y up or Z up. Video games almost always use a left-hande
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by pzone 8y ago
My current style convention mixes several naming styles to help in distinguishing code visually. I prefer camelCase for variables, which need to be typed repeatedly, and camel is fastest to type. I use snake_case for functions, UpperCamelCa
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by pzone 8y ago
In Tokyo, the rail transit system (including subways) is operated by a network of private companies. These train operators make a net profit from fares and other revenues, and the system is generally well liked by its customers. Even if the
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by pzone 8y ago
The US really does have a problem, and it seems to be related to particularly inefficient and uncompetitive contracting and caused by poor governance structures. The fact this battle has to happen in the media at all instead of having a cle
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Without Wayland support, Firefox running on a Wayland system would have to communicate through the XWayland shim server. Now its default configuration is to communicate directly with the Wayland server.
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It also offers more in the way of concrete benefits.
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This is a tried and true method for processing bitmaps. It is always useful to see intermediate composites as you work. Some other software implementing node-based compositing and generation: - Nuke - Fusion - Substance Designer - Houdini -
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MacOS has had perfect crisp multi-monitor support including fractional scaling and mixed DPI with per-windiow/per-monitor application DPI awareness for years. Windows is finally introducing a diagnostic in the task manager to show whic

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