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Artist here. I do a lot of ink and watercolor work, among other media. Most of my work goes between surrealism and abstract, and I've been doing this since I was a kid. I'm 40 now. I've been practicing for years. I do sell occasionally, but I'm lazy about self-promotion. I also help with a rather large facebook painting group (over 50k members).

What are the optimal ways to practice?
Daily. Sketch something daily. I'd suggest a variety of subjects from photos. It's OK if you don't finish a sketch every day, so long as you put in at least 15-30 minutes most days. Most adults that practice daily see huge improvements in the first year or two - they surprise themselves with their progress. Some of the sketches will just be practice drawing shapes and shading.

What are the best books and reference materials to go off of?
This is truly an individual thing. There are many youtubes out there. Alfonso Dunn makes some decent drawing videos. There are many books out there: whichever seems to speak to you is the one to get. If you can, get one in which you are interested in the subject. Different subjects will have different bits: Portraits and human figures are different than landscapes, which are different than still life. I'd honestly suggest a combination of references and subjects at first.

How do I learn to self-critique?
This is a really difficult thing to do, some of which will simply come to you as you learn more about art. There are some tricks, such as taking a picture and viewing it in black and white to see contrast. Studying color theory helps as well. Study other people's art: Read art advice from artists you personally think do good work. Some folks look at their pictures upside down: I personally will make sure to look at the picture from afar. Many set their work aside for a few days to look at it with "fresh eyes". I'd fully suggest things like a facebook group or Wetcanvas forums for an outside view.

What other questions should I be asking?
How to protect yourself from repetitive motion injuries. Tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, shoulder issues, and other such injuries plague artists. You'll want to make a habit of taking breaks during longer sessions, stretching your hands and less frequently, your body. You'll want to have good posture for the most part.

The last bit of advice is to learn to be kind to yourself. Most folks tend to see all of their "mistakes" when others won't. It'll take time to both train your fine motor skills and things. Good luck and have fun on this journey :)
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Doubt it. Even if the app wasn’t published previously, it likely descended from existing code that already carried the name.

I work on a codebase that still carries product names that stopped being meaningful almost a decade ago. No value in renaming across the codebase and it’d be expensive because of how much code has to be touched.
I think the reason Musk and Tesla are very sensitive about production numbers right now is that they want to hit their 200k electric car production number at just the right time. The way the $7500 federal tax credit works (and I am pretty certain this is right. Happy to follow a link to the actual law) is that after a company makes 200k qualifying vehicles, for the rest of that quarter and the quarter after that people still get the tax credit. So depending on when they hit the 200,000th car, the full tax credit will last between 3 and 6 months. Tesla would like to get the Model 3 production ramped up to a high level but not hit the 200k total production until right after the start of a quarter.

It looks like they are going to do just that. Tesla is very close to 200k this month and that is probably partly why they shut down to "improve production rate". Slow down production in June to not hit 200k until after July 1. They have also been playing with exporting more cars to hit the 200k number at just the right time.

Having the maximum 6 months instead of the minimum 3 months will be a lot of extra cars/people getting the tax credit. If they average 6000 cars a week over that time (12 weeks x 6000 x $7500) that is an extra $540 million.

Then the tax credit goes in half for the next two quarters and in half again ($7500/4) for the next 2 quarters.

Seems a bit strange for the law not just to say the credit extends for 6 months after the 200,000th car is built, but who knows how such laws get crafted.
Roth didn’t emerge in the last 50 years (otherwise I’d agree with you).* I’ve enjoyed books by all six but I agree with King on this one. The Goldfinch was, page for page, probably the best reading experience I’ve ever had. I adore that book. Franzen is less lovable but undeniably talented and, for me at least, more fun to read than the people who influenced him (Pynchon, DeLillo, etc)

*edit: I didn’t read the quote carefully. Looks like he really is saying those two are the best American novelists, full stop. Bold and kind of interesting statement on King’s part.
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> Policies, especially tax policies, have long lag effects.

Which would imply that any gains (or losses) now would have to do with policy changes during the prior administration, supporting the author's point.

So, alright, what's misleading the implication that they could have any significant effect by now.
> Back then nobody carried pocket computers/communicators (encrypted or otherwise) and criminals also largely failed to make paper records of their crimes.

But they did use fixed-line telephones and talk in person. These communications can be monitored with a warrant for the use of a telephone intercept or listening device.
>and that you should always comply with orders.

IANAL, but that seems to set a dangerous precedent to our rights as Americans, especially if they're just asking for ID and you absolutely haven't committed any crimes.
> in general I feel like there is a lack of ambition or desire to improve one’s standing in life.

Amen. Speaking as a disabled UK citizen, I've received welfare benefits since I was a small child, (young enough that the bank gave me toys when I went to open an account). Throughout school, I was probably the only student there receiving a guaranteed mid-three-figure sum of cash every single month without fail, other than the other disabled kids. At university I got additional allowances on top of student lones and grants, and when I inevitably didn't get a job after uni my benefits doubled as a result of being an unemployed adult. The government also paid my parents for caring for a disabled child.

I'm in my mid 20s now. Over the last few years since I left university I've had some consulting experience, presented at conferences and released some software projects of my own. But in the last month or so I've been waking up to the fact that I'm genuinely lazy and unprepared to take opportunities when they come my way. I do one consulting gig, and then because the fees are so high compared to my usual benefit-based income, I take a break. Meanwhile I don't tell the government I've been paid because heck, if I do, despite having only done a few jobs here and there and being nowhere near running a stable business, they'll cut my benefits off because for one week I was earning more than minimum wage.

I don't really write this as a complaint and I hope that's not how it comes across. My benefits have allowed me to see parts of the world and have experiences other people have to save up for, both in money and holiday time at work. But I'm now going through a period whereby I legitimately think that the only way to fully take advantage of my skills is to cut the safety net, be it entirely or in-part.
The short term impacts aren't that difficult to calculate because a lot of tax receipts come in throughout the year, as do reports on real wage growth, unemployment, and corporate investment activity. The federal deficit for May was $146.80B, 66% greater than May '17.

There are times for the federal government to run a deficit and inject money into the economy, but when it's done largely as a corporate tax cut in a time of full employment and record corporate profits (both indicating that businesses don't see many opportunities to reinvest in themselves), you'd expect to see that money go out as stock buybacks and dividends. And that's exactly what we've been seeing. There's no need to wait for long term lag effects if the short term investments that are the only plausible story for those effects materializing simply haven't happened.

Yes, the stock market has been propped up, but it's with
fool's gold; there are no gains in either productivity or national capital stocks (public or private). Meanwhile, increase in debt service as a percentage of the federal budget has been guaranteed. The burden of proof is on the tax cut authors to prove the short term growth that justifies it.
It's a bit before my time, but I imagine that would have broken comparability with some CP/M programs that wouldn't be aware of the concept of directories and would look in cwd. Given the era we're talking about, that seems like it'd actually be a pretty big deal. Until relatively recently, Microsoft was big on backward compatibility and it was probably a pretty significant factor in their rise to dominance.
Thanks for this. The need for canonical JSON is perhaps the best reason for dropping the signature field from future versions of the spec. However, because only the `to` `from` and `body` fields are required there's no need avoid the format - just don't use the signature field unless the body field contains a single field with serialized data. Certainly, that use would need to be clearly documented.

Again your point is valid and will likely result in the depreciation of the signature field.

Thanks for taking the time to offer feedback.
Curiously, while Lovecraft's works of fiction may fit in a single volume, his correspondence does not. It's estimated that he wrote over 100,000 letters -- one of the most prolific letter writers in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Letters
It's fine for the write permissions to only be enforced by convention or automated CI checks (eg, status checks on github PRs). No need to split up the monorepo or anything.
Completely agree. dplyr is nice enough but the verbose style gets old fast when you're trying to use it in an interactive fashion. imo data.table is the fastest way to explore data across any language, period.
Midwestern sensibility? DC Metro defines “on time” during the am rush as headway + 2 minutes, so a train can be 10 minutes late and still “on time.” Even then it hits only 87%. In Chicago, 83% of L trains arrive within a minute of schedule. And Chicago is dealing with a hundred year old system and tons of snow, while DC’s system dates to the 1970s and the climate is mild.
> Tor is slow and frustrating.

> I use a heavily-modified Firefox instance over a VPN with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Disconnect, No Coin, Script Safe, Token Tracker Stripper, Neat URL and too many about:config edits to mention.

That's faster for you? I guess I'm a bit of a speed freak, but I recall even Disconnect by itself slowed down pages enough to make me uninstall it, let alone that combination...
Loading those cache lines might invalidate an exclusively held cache line on another core. When that core tries to write to that cache line, it can observe a slower write.
The Trump DOJ actually tried to stop the AT&T- Time Warner merger but lost in court. This administration is probably a lot more opposed to tech mergers than the last one.
Never had any trouble with `pip install --upgrade library`.

Not sure if there's support for upgrading all packages at once, though.
Boy you're such a prick... oh I get it.
That sounds very interesting and cool. But the lower-tech approach in the original article sounds radically more practical in real terms than either drones or liquid-hydrogen-powered ramjets ;-)
Fox Sports regional networks are part of the Disney deal, and aren't in the exclusion list here, either. Comcast has dabbled in regional sports before, this would be a big move against Disney to consolidate all the FSN regional stuff too.
Most of the time in the Netherlands. Sometimes in Texas with IT friends. We do VPN sharing and passthroughs to mix it all up. Hence my wanting to set up more permanent solution like hosted, heavily VPN'd remote desktops with revolving IP addresses changed with a cron job. but one standard set maintenance port that never changes and likewise never used for joyriding. That IP would be accessed via OpenSSH authenticating to Radius/Kerberos.
Seems like it's done via a filesystem filter driver - calls to open files from OneDrive-unaware applications block until the file is downloaded.
I love Franzen. But not in a class by himself, at least not in a half-century.
Tor isn't the answer, it's broken. What's needed is a replacement for the modern web. At the protocol level it's busted in so many ways it isn't salvageable. The sooner we recognize that the sooner we'll be able to create its replacement.
I seem to be in the extreme minority opinion that ggplot2 has facilitated the creation of millions of ugly charts. The default theming hurts my eyes. Much improvement can come from just adding + theme_bw() or + theme_minimal() as the last layer.

But it is flexible, and it's fun. I have enjoyed following other's examples of recreating chart themes mimicked from the Economist and FiveThirtyEight. I think the latter often does employ ggplot2 with heavy customization to create some nice looking visualizations.
I just wish more web sites would provide official TOR and/or i2P addresses (so we wouldn't need exit-nodes) yet nobody among them seems interested in visitors they can't track. Both the fact there are hardly any non-illegal websites maintaining native TOR/i2P presence and the fact every major WWW site demands you to agree to be tracked now as GDPR doesn't allow this to be done silently suggests this.
The spec describes a message format and isn't intended to be a formal Internet RFC. As such, the thought was to leave definitions up to users rather than dictate things like priority ranges.
The ‘Deep Fake’ Threat: High-tech forged videos could wreak havoc on politics
So is this basically selenium in javascript with some neat features?
It looks like for older processors they may be vulnerable?

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-3665 shows there will be updated kernels coming.
Close, but not quite

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/04/03/a-study-of-security-vuln...
And what is your point?

Yes, taxes to pay for roads do indeed discourage economic activity.

This is a cost.

And the benefit that we get is the roads.

And in this case the benefits outweigh the costs.

But just because the benefits outweigh the cost doesn't mean that the cost doesn't exist.
Why would they ever want to?

Imagine the conversation if Veedrac was running the show at Apple.

Saudi Police: "We need the key to this user's phone because they are suspected of having a video of their own gay sex and we want to prove it and if they are guilty of gay sex, we will give the user 60 lashes and then execute them and their partner by chopping off their heads with a sword."

Veedrac: "Oh, OK, yes here you go, here is a single secure key on a one time basis so you can get the user's video and kill them."

Do you really think this is a great scenario, that Apple wants to actively enable by spending money and effort on their designs to make it happen?
Just because you don't find the casual/small stuff to be a problem, doesn't mean it's not a problem. Your line will be different than others, you said it yourself with your comment on the variation ... why discount those who find that it has been problematic?
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"But there's also no evidence to support that it hurt either."

If the tax cuts didn't vastly improve performance then they hurt a lot. They increased an already large deficit even more for which future generations will have to the pay the price.
Honest question why wouldnt i let them track me? Arent there a bunch of benefits to being tracked too?
And even people who don't drive consume goods that are distributed by trucks.
That's how mainstream internet got started - dotcom-era Yahoo was getting paid the ad dollars from startups spending money to buy growth, that very money they have raised on the promise of being the next Yahoo which is making a killing! (on the ad dollars...)
> And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that.

Any civilization sufficiently advanced to threaten us already has the capability to see we exist. For those with a large enough telescope, we have been emitting signs of life to the rest of the galaxy for billions of years.

It's only more recently that we have been showing signs of intelligent life (through radio waves and changes to our environment). These signs have not yet propagated throughout much of the galaxy yet, and there is a good argument we ought to get as advanced as possible as quickly as possible, so we can defend ourselves before others become aware of our intelligent existence.
With few exceptions, genre fiction doesn't count as Serious Literature.
Sounds more like the VCR gem from Ruby land.
Reading through the comments here I'm realizing that my single biggest error may have been the use of the word "Universal" :-D When you consider the spec as a "basis for agreement" between distributed application authors and not a unified theory of messaging - then the spec becomes a lot clearer.
This is logically impossible for the population as a whole, because IQ is defined as a relative metric. I.e. an IQ of 100 is (ideally) equal to whatever the current median intelligence is.

It sounds like Norway's national service is just getting dumber by comparison.
That's what I built it for, Please share it with your friends and colleagues that would mean a lot to me, Thanks.
Wrong crowd to ask. This crowd only rewards sycophants.
Most economists would also say that rising interest rates discourage investment, incentivize saving, and reducing debt. So who can say really? That's kind of my point. So many interrelated factors. Impossible to isolate it to any 1 policy or event.
A laptop with 128 GB of ECC memory.

I really want one.

But unfortunately it's a Lenovo... I still remember the malware they shipped in the system BIOS. Any good reason to trust them now?
Even if Apple could unlock iPhone storage given the phone and a valid warrant, law enforcement would still need to get the warrant and take the phone from the owner. Unlocking individual devices is not broadly useful as a preventive measure; it's something that could be done only after you have probable cause and don't mind alerting the target that law enforcement is interested in him.
Sorry that I can't clearly explain this problem to you, and you obviously don't understand about what I am talking. Maybe you can try to think about ordered lists and complex data transformations, not just basic values.

Or maybe I can just ask you one more time to reimplement this[1] 70 lines of React code with Surplus, but you are probably will just ignore it :)

1. https://github.com/localvoid/uibench-react/blob/master/js/fc...
No, you are wrong. R is terrible, and especially so for non-professional programmers, and it is an absolute disaster for the applications where it routinely gets used, namely statistics for scientific applications. The reason is its strong tendency to fail silently (and, with RStudio, to frequently keep going even when it does fail.) As a result, people get garbage results without realizing, and if they're unlucky, these results are similar enough to real results that they get put somewhere important. Source: I'm a CS grad working with biologists; I've corrected errors in the R code of PhD'd statisticians, in "serious" contexts.

Scientific applications require things to fail hard and often, to aggressively fail whenever anything is potentially behaving incorrectly. R does the exact opposite of that in several different, pernicious ways. IMHO, Python is more dangerous than a scientific computing language should be, but at least it will stop when it hits an error. R has undoubtedly cost humanity millions of dollars in wasted research costs and caused untold confusion, from otherwise perfectly-performed studies reporting corrupted statistical results. The world would be a noticeably better place without it.

I simply cannot articulate my opinion about R without sounding grossly hyperbolic. I'm sad that HN, a place which is typically enlightened in the ways of the programming arts, is so confused what this article is on about. If we tolerate such blatantly hostile design in something as important as the language of scientific statistics, where do we expect to get?
My absolute favorite web-console feature (in Chrome and Firefox at least) is the ability to go back in the REPL history to edit a previous function definition. A standard REPL just gives you back one line at a time, so if you want to make a change to line 3 of a 4 line function, then you have to type:

UP UP UP UP ENTER UP UP UP ENTER UP UP

before you can edit that line. But the web consoles allow you to type UP just once, and then move your cursor around the entire function definition. I wish all REPLs had this feature.
Not giving them props on their bond sale at all - I mean more that they had a huge level of interest in the sale so the market is showing a high level of interest DESPITE the junk rating. Bonds are junk when the reliability of repayment is low. I guess those investors (and anyone interested in the raise at $35b valuation) are ok with the risk.
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It's subjective.
> It suppresses opinions that are not widely accepted

There definitely is a type of person that revels in negative karma/points/whatever for their "controversial" "opinions".
How would you design a replacement for the modern web then?
Or the prior prior administration, or the prior prior prior administration. Or the result of economic policies from other nations, or any other countless factors.
Two years is a short amount of time considering the data that was stolen will likely stay the same for a long time. What happens when someone has their identity stolen five years from now?