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This article doesn't teach the most fundamental aspect of drawing, i.e. to internalize a 3-dimensional object and being able to express it on a 2d plane. In order to efficiently and quickly learn this, you need to be able to accurately draw basic 3D objects (such as a cube, cone, cylinder, etc.) from any viewpoint. You don't need to focus on perspective and foreshortening just yet, an isometric view is fine.

Now, glue these basic objects together and make something slightly more complex. If you can draw it from any viewpoint (not just orthographic views), you have successfully learned the most fundamental and crucial part of the art of drawing.

Ideas of chiaroscuro are simply the tools to express depth on a 2D plane. They are not to be learned until you can master the whole internalization part.

This bothers me so much. No one knows how to teach this well except for a few YouTubers and college professors. Check out Sycra's drawing tutorials on YT.
You don't need to reliably get a good take to produce a video; you need one good take.

If it's bad enough that it won't look right even after taking the best of a large number of attempts, that's as good as the feature not existing for the purpose of my question.
Backblaze won me over because they publish this stuff. I'm actually working with the backblaze b2 api now because of some stats they published earlier.
All true. One independent musician that I like, Kevin Reeves, made the tracks from his first album available for free download for a while. But he published them as WAV files. So, of course, one could only create one's own mixes, not easily reproduce his. But if he had just posted the files saved by his DAW (or his mix engineer's DAW), that would have been useless to just about everyone. Aside: Though the album was completed in mid-2006, it was recorded with DAW software that was obsolete even then, specifically an old version of Pro Tools for Mac OS 9, because both Kevin and his mix engineer (for that album) are blind, and Pro Tools for OS X was inaccessible to blind users at the time.

BTW, I'm merely a dilettante when it comes to recording and especially mixing.
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This new dicamba formulation was quietly approved by the Obama administration right after the election.

https://www.rt.com/usa/366812-epa-monsanto-dicamba-herbicide...
Inter-row hoeing is enough to get good yield for crops that have good row spacing.
Not entirely silly. Yes, the purported benefits of this high-fidelity audio are imaginary or even include undesirable traits. However, when most "remasters" of pop music today involve the dynamics being boosted to "loudness wars" standards for a target audience of people listening to the music through earbuds in the street, the 24/192 downloads or SACD releases are often the only way to hear the album with real dynamic range.

I’m not sure how big that market is these days, though. I recently decided to move from a block in the city to a house in the surrounding countryside purely to get a quieter listening environment and let me really enjoy the high-dynamic-range recordings I have – I listen to a lot of classical music, especially the avant-garde with its even greater range, e.g. the Ligeti cello concerto starting from pppppp. Yet even among my friends who are really obsessed with such music, seeking a better listening environment seemed an extreme measure to take.

So, people who a generation ago would have invested in higher-end equipment (not audiophile snake oil, just better speakers) and who would have sought silence are now giving in to listening to music on their phones or cheap computer speakers. It’s a big shift.
> Not 192 kHz; no friggin' way.

It can be useful to run your signal processing chain at a higher rate because many digital effects are not properly bandlimited internally (and it would be pretty CPU hungry to do so).

But that doesn't mean you need to store data even that you'll process later at 192KHz though it might be easier to do so.
Contrary to what he says, I can most certainly see some IR remotes. Not super bright but enough to notice. Same goes for the IR lights in my Kinect.
Creepy? The flailing sticky legs that glom on to you? The teeth that punch a hole in your side? The high-pressure vessel driving high-speed injection? Which only gets the DNA string half way in, so it squirms the rest of the way in, ratcheting as molecules attach and begin transcribing your corruption? The minute from bite, to being doomed?

As you frolick in the summer waves, every cup of seawater is war zone, filled with massive and deadly warfare between bacteria and viruses. Ten billion combatants. Bacteria shedding extracellular vesicles like anti-missile flares. Mass dumping of chemical weapons. Suicidal sacrifices. Exploding victims. 2 day bacterial survival - 50%. And most, they haven't been cultured, haven't been sequenced - we haven't even given them names.
You’re talking about something orthogonal to the question at hand. It’s like complaining that the 4K TV sucks at VR.

Of course it does. It’s not meant to provide VR.

Same thing with sampling and bit-depth. Those address digital encoding of analog signals. They have nothing to say about speaker design, number of audio channels, room acoustics, or the myriad other factors that go into replicating a live stage performance.
I mean, you can't go wrong being in somewhere like the Virgin Islands...just saying...even if you have to deal with the occasional hurricane!
All schools have electives though.
So this is Uber for senior developers.
Throw it against the wall and see what sticks is perhaps an equally valid model
The techniques your grandfather was using would have (and likely did) leave him at a terrible competitive disadvantage when trying to compete with those megafarms growing the same crops.

It's good to remember the past, but don't sugarcoat things either. Modern techniques grow more food, more cheaply, with lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie, etc...

And sometimes they mess up and poison soybeans, which sucks. But feeding chickens eggshells isn't the fix you want.
> The lack of risk is self evident to anyone who considers the question.

Even the author disagrees with you (and, oddly, himself):

From the article:

> Also, psychiatric patients are sometimes…how can I put this nicely?…a little paranoid. Sometimes you can offer them breakfast and they’ll accuse you of trying to poison them. I had no illusions that I would get every single patient to consent to this study, but I felt like I could at least avoid handing them a paper saying “BY THE WAY, THIS STUDY IS FULL OF RISKS”.

If merely offering breakfast has a reasonable chance of getting re-interpreted as offering poison, offering a consent form for a test the purpose of which cannot be revealed before it is given certainly has a nonzero chance of triggering some kind of similar episode. So the risk of having such patients sign a consent form isn't zero, as the author somehow implies everywhere except this paragraph. Thus it should have been written into the risks section.
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The primary focus of the post is the negative effects of the pesticide that was allowed through _because_ it was able to be pushed through the typical protocols. It's a breakdown of the very regulation meant to protect people.

> A better title would be: "This miracle weed killer is saving farms as well as sometime devastating their neighbors"

Maybe the intent of cramming this pesticide to market was to save farms, but perhaps doing so was a bit hasty. Should we prioritize profits over healthcare and safety?
I habitually edit audio using 32-bit float, not 16-bit integer.

> Why would you want to use a floating point in between?

Because 32-bit float has enough mantissa bits to represent all 24-bit integer fixed-point values exactly, so it is at least as good.

Because 32-bit float is friendly to vectorization/SIMD, whereas 24-bit integer is not.

Because with 32-bit integers, you still have to worry about overflow if you start stacking like 65536 voices on top of each other, whereas 32-bit float will behave more gracefully.

Because 32-bit floating-point audio editing is only double the storage/memory requirements compared to 16-bit integer, but it buys you the ultimate peace of mind against silly numerical precision problems.
But what does that achieve overall? They still have to raise the extra "admin" funds from donors just the same.

Same net donation is made to the charity and same net fees are paid.

The only difference is that they can make the donors for individual charity projects feel like more of their money is going to the cause.

So it's a marketing gimmick.
That's my point. The golden ears wouldn't deign to buy a "cheesy" 1-bit DAC. It has to be recast as something else to fool them.
Investment in developing countries is considered to be more risky. In a recession people move their money into less risky assets. I believe a major recession is coming, but I think the US will be the least hurt.
I'm not a conservative. No need for personal attacks, even if I was. Nobody considers some random Joe six pack to be the standard bearer for conservatism...except people that are trying to draw that comparison for obvious subversive reasons.
Interesting. I've ordered a BenQ monitor on the theory that it may be the backlight flicker (PWM) that is the cause of that. I'll let you know if it helps.

I have also considered trying to rig some kind of eInk device up as an external monitor, but the bad refresh rate and lack of color are off-putting. The Dasung PaperLike Pro looks intriguing, but so expensive.[1]

1. http://dasungtech.com/english/detail/id/220
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If I pay a consultant $1M for his expertise in navigating local bureaucracy, and it turns out that he used half of that money to bribe local officials without my knowledge, have I committed a crime under FCPA?
> and yet, we are nowhere near being able to electronically reproduce a live acoustic music performance.

That has a lot more to do with the spatial component of the audio than anything else.

Unfortunately, surround sound sufficient to really reproduce acoustic fields (and not just sound effects ping ponging around) require more cost and concessions in the listening room than many are willing to tolerate.

So long as people continue to get the engineering wrong and think the sampling rate and bit-depth have anything to do with it we'll probably continue to see the market invest in the wrong solutions.
Have you had cataract surgery? I know that can have an impact on visible spectrum depending on the replacement lens they put in.
The reality is a little more nuanced, as the discussion was about the effects of stock market crashes on the real world: It's possible identify periods of high risk for stock market crashes. It's hard to make money on the stock market using this information, but you can apply it to decisions in areas of life you think would be affected by a stock market crash.
Compare your salary. Sounds like fun, now I'm depressed
The fact that the author thought of his company as a "Django startup" is probably one of the major reasons for its failure. Two-sided marketplaces almost never live or die by their technology. eBay's technology and user experience is complete dogshit but it is still the only place you ever go to buy or sell a vintage Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox.
An off-topic gotcha can be illegally importing things into overseas offices --those momentary expediencies can result in long term bans or oversight from those governments when trying to get other things in legally.

Always follow your legal dept guidance. No matter how trivial it may seem (it's just for the expo, client demo, etc).
Nope, I'm afraid not. I never noticed until maybe 3 years ago, so I think it's a newer development. I'm 31.

I also got glasses this year for the first time in my life, which the need for came on rather suddenly... So maybe it's linked with some kind of degeneration? I really can't say. I honestly didn't think to mention it to the doctor, but now I'm thinking maybe I should have.
This, plus the multiple-cursors package, can save entire minutes off tedious file-renaming operations. (That may not sound like a lot but trust me every second counts when you're just renaming files.)
The neighbourhood is still a lot of fun, but there are fewer merchants now then when I moved to Toronto in the early 2000s. There used to be 3 fishmongers, now there is only one; there's about 3 produce stores left, there used to be many more. A bunch of knick knack stores have closed. Back when I moved here, there were two (!) separate anarchist spaces; there hasn't been any in years now. On the upside, it's becoming the veg*n restaurant quarter of the city...
What kind of software generated this comment?
1. sell
2. wait 2 years (or less)
3. profit (buy back)
> if people started dying from air travel at high rates, they'd do less of it

That doesn't seem to stop people from driving cars.

> societies with much higher death rates have no problem growing anyway, as they compensate with higher birth rates.

That's just survivorship bias. Why would one cause the other? There were also societies with high death rates and low birth rates which for the obvious reason no longer exist.
As a Django developer working for a startup, I clicked on this expecting to read some lessons on how Django caused them to fail but didn't see anything _specific_ to Django, but more of the same general advice that I'd seen before.

It's worth nothing though that this is only the title of the presentation aimed at Django developers at DjangoCon. The title of the blog article removed the reference to Django.
Gorbachev was evidently very impressed by Canadian supermarkets in 1983: "Gorbachev first visited Canada in 1983 when he was the member of the Soviet Politburo responsible for state agriculture. Gorbachev toured successful commercial farms and saw well-stocked supermarkets across the country, a vastly different picture from the Soviet Union, which was struggling with shortages. It was his first trip to a non-communist country. The trip helped to convince Gorbachev that more economic and personal freedom was needed in the Soviet Union."

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1990-soviet-leader-mikhail-...
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I walk a lot, always have. But stuff like this, I prefer not to get bogged down in the "what does it all mean" of it. You can just walk because it's nice. No need to have a big philosophy or elaborate reasoning about it.
That doesn't change the fact that C++/NDK development has been busted for years, for no apparent reason other than Google not paying attention.
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> one of the (non-human) characters even lampshades it

Had to google. Was delighted that I got to go to TV Tropes. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
Yet there are questions about the sustainability of some modern techniques:

> Such weeds have grown stronger and more numerous over the past 20 years — a result of herbicide overuse. By spraying so much glyphosate, farmers inadvertently caused weeds to evolve resistant traits more quickly.

Alongside rampant antibiotic use for livestock which leads to antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and monocrops leading to poor nutrients in the soil, some things which can increase output in the short run and lead to disaster in the long run.
As someone who comes from parents who own a small construction company, I think you've actually gotten it the wrong way round. What you say could be construed as correct, but in the wrong way. From what I understand, many small businesses (especially those who are Mum and Dad run) are only looking for small business, they have no interest in going bigger, why would they? In the majority of cases, the work they do more than covers the bills, people may think that bigger is always better, but when the business supports a family, this is rarely the case, bigger can actually be far worse. Not to mention that much like was mentioned/alluded to in this article, founder rates of pay/benefits are pretty much never the same as would have to be paid to a "normal" employee. This is unscalable, I know Paul Graham has referred to this idea before, so I won't explain it worse.

TL;DR

Most small businesses owners are far better rational decision makers than you think, because most of the time, the aim of the game is not a unicorn, it's support of the family.
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Nixon's visit to china was motivated by a need to finance the war machine. Reagan didnt do anything to prevent waves of economic refugees from coming to the US after the economic hitmen took out Mexico's economy. Clinton picked up the free trade baton from Bush 41, passed it off to Bush 43, who passed it off to Obama.

Hopefully el presidente can find a way to stop the bleeding of thousands of economic paper cuts.
But they might be pushing the actual cost of growing that food into the future.
That's not a good analogy. When they say S&P 500 stocks are "expensive" than before, that doesn't mean (just) expensive in absolute terms. It's expensive in terms of price/earnings ratio and such metrics.

The story is still suspicious for other reasons: what jedberg said.
If there were any red flags that you could have known about, yes. Not knowing does not grant you immunity under FCPA.
Have some childhood issues too and a hit of acid changed me for about fifteen years. Hadn't done it before or since. It was like my brain was suddenly rewired to see good in the world and desire to be a part of it. Literally I sprung out of my support job and launched a superstar career, changed the world a little through good honest work.

I'd done some 'e' before that but the positive effects lasted more on the order of several weeks, while I have some fond memories of feeling loved for the first time and meeting people and being social, I'm not sure if or how it contributed to my good years.

So apparently it is common for childhood issues to resurface during middle age. Common as in the therapists retort "Well what else do you expect?" I hope this doesn't happen to you... I am too old and responsible to be taking risks with street drugs. Mainstream pharma seems to affect patients very differently, and I have heard regrets about doing mdma and bad trip stories about LSD.

Thanks for relating your experience, it is very interesting to me because we have some similar background and got such great assistance from taboo chems. I have related the results of my acid trip to various kinds of people across the social spectrum, from beatniks to white shirt C levels and a USN Admiral, and not many people get it.
I interpreted that as them including their salaries, and not actual on-going server, marketing, advertising costs, etc.
How did you end up using this vs. some of the obvious ones like React Bootstrap or Semantic UI React?
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

Yale economist Irving Fisher, 1929
The problem with WebVR, is that just like WebGL, it is capped, versus what is possible in actual OpenGL ES.
I don't think you're going to see autonomous class warfare, whatever that would be.
Genuinely curious: do you think you could do a better job?
While this is interesting for many reasons and quite frankly because of a similar situation in my life. The choice of framework had little to do with anything.

Django was on the page 11 times, 5 of those were regarding DjangoCon

My personal lesson and the take away from the article is: On the list of hats you wear founding a startup, salesperson is 1st, 2nd and 3rd, engineer is 10th.
Maybe. Maybe not.

Admin costs + charity projects are actually separate bank accounts. You can see their financials on their site[1], but part of their angle is that you can actually see where the money is going. It's not just ethereal, it's where their money is actually going.

Half of what this post is about is The Red Cross not being trust-worthy because of their lack of transparency in where funds go + are allocated to projects.

It might be marketing - just as knowing your funds are secure in a bank - or your overall brand reputation is marketing - but it's not a gimmick.

[1]https://www.charitywater.org/about/financials.php
Honestly, I'd prefer to have a government repeatedly fail to implement its own agenda than one which whips violently to and fro like a tree in a storm. When we let the mob into the halls of power we get a lot of bloodshed and little good. The intransigence of the bureaucracy is a feature, not a bug.
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> The big news in the Galloway report, based on a global review of scientific and engineering data, was this: All of the money the United States had paid for massive public works to control flooding over the previous half-century not only had failed to improve flood safety at all, but the spending and the big public works projects actually were making flooding much worse.

> The Galloway report was no global warming screed. Like the Dutch national policy based on many of the same findings, it dealt almost entirely with land use and population growth. Or to put it in more accessible terms, the 'burbs.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/harvey-not-only-can-happe...
If you are downloading to simply consume, then sure. But as others have noted this article assumes that mastering is always the last step in the editing process. Anyone who ever remixed, sampled or DJ'ed will disagree.

If we keep that in mind, then the setup of the problem changes significantly and most arguments made here do not apply to the download itself.
Coming from a similar family background I think thats why I said: 'economically rationale decision makers'.

Overall financial gain may not be the only thing they optimize for. For example their life style (being able to answer call whenever they want).
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Oye, I've been putting off getting this book since it was co-written by Stephenson and I wasn't sure how that would pan out.

Guess I'll have to add to the collection!
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Didn't toyota recently say, we are way off from completely autonomous vehicles.
But if anyone has unlimited resources to do it...its the army.
Maybe not, but it's yet another too-big-to-fail system with the costs externalized to everyone but Big Ag. We have no mechanisms to deal with the long-term fallout of these decisions. Our current economic and political system is one where we incentivize cancerous growth with no moderation or care for our own future. I can imagine a world where sustainability plays a role in what is commonly considered progress, but politically we've been moving in the opposite direction for a few decades now and it really scares me.
This seems relevant:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rorymackean/tertill-the...

Just saw this the other day. Not exactly for commercial farms I don't think, but not far off either.
No more "dangerous" than any other file manager, because that's what it was designed to do.