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by whyenot 9y ago
According to the SSG website, Autodesk Maya will fully support the SSG, including the 2TB memory. "ProRender plug-in for Maya has full support for the out-of-core rendering feature found on the Radeon™ Pro SSG which allows the applicat
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by whyenot 9y ago
I remember the first hard drive my dad bought. It was 5MB and designed to work with the Atari 800 home computer. It connected to the Atari through ?two? of the computer's joystick ports. As a kid that was pretty annoying, but in hindsi
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by whyenot 9y ago
> I entirely fail to see why Nestle should get a huge discount for water that is then sold to American citizens at $1.79 a gallon, for a 122,976% markup. Well, when you phrase it that way it sounds terrible, but it's a completely bo
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by whyenot 9y ago
Your linked article does not support your assertions that they are "stealing" water. By the way, the 36 million gallons mentioned in the article is about 110 acre feet, or the same amount of water used to irrigate a 25-50 acre alm
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by whyenot 9y ago
> we all saw what happened to Bernie in the democratic primaries I don't know what you saw, but I saw Clinton winning 55% of the vote.
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by whyenot 9y ago
It's pretty silly, Apple used to pay attention to details like this. But, how often do people plug their phones into their computers these days? Speaking for myself, it's probably been a couple of years since I last did that.
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by whyenot 9y ago
This is an Enron-level event. Company executives need to lose their fortunes and some people probably should end up in jail.
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by whyenot 9y ago
Suppose each person affected has to spend an hour protecting themselves from this breach. The cost in wasted time would be 16,313 years . It's high time to set an example. Equifax should no longer exist as a company. People responsibl
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by whyenot 9y ago
great, I'm looking forward to the next Love Canal.
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by whyenot 9y ago
Fossil fuels in the US also receive government subsidies, at least indirectly, don't they? If you take out wind's tax credits, shouldn't you also account for those as well?
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by whyenot 9y ago
> Proper nouns have only their first letter capitalized. Are you familiar with McIntosh apples? ;)
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To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors Then and Now(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 9y ago
There is something a little intellectually lazy about taking an editorial from a republican representative in the OC Register and then treating it and commenting on it as if it is a news article that is not implicitly biased. Many news arti
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by whyenot 9y ago
Do you have any suggestions for another good book to read?
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by whyenot 9y ago
While Bernie Sanders may have rallied some people, in the end he didn't actually end up accomplishing much of anything.
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by whyenot 9y ago
Cows have a rumen. You can feed them a diet that is almost entirely sawdust and they will do just fine.
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by whyenot 9y ago
> I suspect OP's issues are with his custom Lua stuff It was due to a conflict between packages (memoir and morefloats) the only seems to happen in recent version of LuaLaTeX. My Lua code was not directly involved, as far as I can t
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by whyenot 9y ago
It was due to a conflict between the memoir package and the morefloats package that best as I could tell was only present in LuaLaTeX. My Lua code wasn't a direct cause beyond the need to use LuaLaTeX.
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BuzzFeed made a smart hot plate that syncs with its viral cooking videos(theverge.com)
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Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 9y ago
I used to be a big proponent of using LaTeX for scientific documents. I even wrote a botanical flora using LuaLaTeX. Being able to drop down into Lua was wonderful for formatting scientific names correctly (something that may seem simple, b
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by whyenot 9y ago
Lisp's hostile reputation dates back to when most language discussions happened on comp.lang.lisp on Usenet and the toxic environment created by Erik Naggum and his acolytes. It's a hard reputation to shake, apparently, seeing tha
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by whyenot 9y ago
If, as you wrote, you "return to reddit" when you are done, doesn't that kind of imply that you left reddit to watch the video?
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by whyenot 9y ago
but NPR and PBS are not the same thing.
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by whyenot 9y ago
This is a fantastic article. Perhaps a case of "don't judge a book by it's cover."
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by whyenot 9y ago
How many years of life did he take with his offense? My suspicion is that it was quite a bit more than 100 years.
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by whyenot 9y ago
This is a real problem, and one that is difficult to address. San Jose's MLK Library (also shared with San Jose State University) is the day time destination for much of the city's homeless population. Who can blame them -- it&#x2
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by whyenot 9y ago
> Ecuador tried it, requesting funds for not drilling for oil. Another perspective would be that they attempted to blackmail the rest of the world by threatening to open Yasuni National Park to drilling, a World Heritage Site, home to un
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by whyenot 9y ago
Their monthly price for 1TB of storage is still less than Google Drive, but I've become increasingly frustrated with Dropbox. If I want 2TB instead of 1TB, I have to pay 4.5 times more. I can understand that they may want to go after b
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by whyenot 9y ago
Likewise, I wish you would have found something more deserving instead of criticizing a solid piece of journalism. Look at the design of the article, the integration of video and text, the restrained use of ads... Even if you don't app

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