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by trop 9y ago
> “It’s an asset class like any other” says a lot about how market economics affect people’s conception of value. Indeed. There is a strong argument (does this go back to Kant?) that art only "works" when it is not pragmatic.
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by trop 9y ago
> the gallery usually does a LOT for their 50%. Basically they take over the "business development" work -- all the schmoozing, the selling, the legitimizing. This, of course, varies. An interesting/tricky part is that the
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The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)(archive.rhizome.org)
15 points by trop 9y ago|1 comments
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by trop 9y ago
In addition, darktable has a newer perspective correction module which does a nice job of automatic fitting. See the write-up at https://www.darktable.org/2016/03/a-new-module-for-automatic... . I can't speak
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Darktable 2.4.0 released(darktable.org)
234 points by trop 9y ago|74 comments
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by trop 9y ago
Hence the first lazy evaluation example becomes something like import itertools list(itertools.islice(itertools.count(),10)) Though perhaps there is a more elegant (if not more efficient) way to do this?
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0.999(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by trop 9y ago|0 comments
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by trop 10y ago
Then there is Ze Frank's classic trilogy: http://www.zefrank.com/christian/ http://www.zefrank.com/buddhist/ http://www.zefrank.com/atheist/
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by trop 10y ago
Much less good experience here on Z3C return. First failure (randomly lost network, etc.) they repaired it, but it came back with more things broken. Returned that one and got a new one with a badly glued screen. Used until screen cracked,
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by trop 10y ago
Back in the day (we're talking 80s) I wrote similar postscript (I remember also some sort of Douglas Hofstadter-esque strange attractor?). The argument for doing this was entirely practical: The Apple LaserWriter in the computer lab ha
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Form Art (1997)(archive.rhizome.org)
1 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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New York City Subway Chaining(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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by trop 10y ago
It uses lensfun. See http://www.darktable.org/2015/02/on-lens-detection-and-corre... and http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s04s04.html.php#lens... .
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Why we don't offer PGP(blog.fastmail.com)
37 points by trop 10y ago|2 comments
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by trop 10y ago
Here is which seems to be idiomatic in digital photo processing (e.g. darktable): for (int r = 0; r < GRID_SIZE; r++) { for (int c = 0; c < GRID_SIZE; c++) { if (i == 1 && j >= 1 && j < GRID_SIZE -
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Infrastructure for Souls (2009)(canopycanopycanopy.com)
2 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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by trop 10y ago
It used to be one could drive over to it, and on a weekend people (not of the executive class) would be out picnicking or flying kites by the surrounding pools. There was a corporate-sponsored bonsai garden (appropriate for a company in the
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Flint’s Water Crisis and the ‘Troublemaker’ Scientist(nytimes.com)
3 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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What I Think Every Time I See an Airbnb Renter in My Neighborhood(nextcity.org)
2 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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by trop 10y ago
Interesting! Would https://news.ycombinator.com/classic get the "hide" treatment as well? (It doesn't currently.) Or perhaps one assumes one doesn't need to hide anything on the classic page?
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by trop 10y ago
It was a conversation at a party, and I fear I've even forgotten the author/teacher's name. She used the three "i"'s as a mnemonic. Thinking about it, I wonder if the sequence was actually "incident",
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by trop 10y ago
This has some relation to the "Disney Method" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_method ) where one delays self-criticism until after one has engineered out the problem, and delays engineering things out un
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Against the Crowdfunding Economy(jacobinmag.com)
40 points by trop 10y ago|18 comments
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Bank Robber: The computer technician who exposed a Swiss bank’s darkest secrets(newyorker.com)
1 points by trop 10y ago|0 comments
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by trop 10y ago
My StarTac did actually detach at the flip sometime in 2001. Still usable for months after, though. If I recall, there was just some sort of bus cable between the two pieces. I would have to hold them next to each other to make calls.
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Magit: End of an Era?(emacsair.me)
3 points by trop 11y ago|0 comments
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by trop 11y ago
This is certainly a Matryoshka doll of wrappings: - At root there is dcraw [1], which is Dave Coffin's sometimes inscrutable but massive and high-functioning CLI utility to read virtually any raw file from virtually any camera. - On to
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by trop 11y ago
All this progression rings true, but also the initial attraction of Perl. Back in the late '90s I used Perl at a job where everyone else worked in C. This was in the days that programmers of compiled languages were skeptical of interpr
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by trop 11y ago
There's a lot to untangle here, and in your article. The supply/demand question reminds me of a seeming paradox about gentrification -- that a young professional (or artist) who moves to that up-and-coming neighborhood appears to
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FastMail: Sanitising HTML – The DOM Clobbering Issue(blog.fastmail.com)
3 points by trop 11y ago|0 comments

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