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I've used inkscape regularly for large print scientific posters for many years. It definitely used to struggle in that regard.

It's gotten significantly better about handling high resolution figures and using many layers in recent years. At least on Linux, it's quite capable of handling complex files, though deeply nested layers are fundamentally a bit clunky in the UI. (Inkscape is more focused on using groups the way layers are sometimes used in Illustrator. Layers are really just a named group under the hood, if that makes sense. At any rate, it's often best to rethink your workflows a bit if you're used to having illustator files with several hundred nested layers. The UI in Inkscape semi-deliberately discourages that workflow, while Illustrator deliberately encourages it.)

Printing calibrated colors isn't it's strongest suit -- I'd recommending exporting and using something else for the actual final print. However, that may have changed too. I haven't tried recently -- I've mostly taken the "export to PDF and tweak the profile when printing the PDF" approach.
I had not realized where you live, I read a few other blog entries linked from this one.

The one time that I met him would probably have been at a Liverpool Mathematical Society event when I was at school.
I think, I haven't looked at their implementation; they'll be an artifact of piping the encrypted/mis-decrypted stream into a video decoder. A lot of video coding techniques use variable-size blocks to describe changes to areas of the image, so it's reasonable that piping pseudo-random data into the decoder would produce some noticeable block shapes.
I’d love to see a case study of how Blender managed its massive 2.8 UX overhaul. It’s the only major open-source application I know of that’s pulled something like that off.

[edit: changed 1.8 to 2.8]
I think this is a good attitude.

I wish that people who publish advice on writing documentation would put more emphasis on writing for people who have this attitude.

I see too much emphasis on providing usage examples, and on "write for a reader who is trying to get something specific done", rather than explaining the system for someone who wishes to understand it.
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I think it's more a side effect of how video codecs try to make sense of bad data.
Simple: Onedrive (6TB for $99.99) a year. Using 6 account 1 for each machine.

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I'm really struggling with the multiple comments saying that inkscape has buggy UI or bad UX.

I used inkscape extensively about 5-6 years ago and had a really good experience. A couple of months ago I used the up to date version for some ad hoc work (designing a logo) to the same effect.

I think this is a great milestone for a great app. Thumbs up to the people making this possible!
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Thank you. This is why I think the real debate is 'nuclear vs renewables' instead of 'nuclear vs coal'. Because renewables and nuclear are both chasing the same limited subsidies to compete with technology that doesn't price in negative externalities.
Thanks for the feedback. So the reason for these choices of primitives when we wrote libolm was to keep close to libsignalprotocol (or libaxolotl as it was then), to try to keep the door open to interop with Signal at some level.

The primitives can be changed though once there's enough evidence to do so, and Matrix supports pluggable E2EE algorithms as per https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#messaging-... - so I'm not convinced this is a "massive legacy support and backwards compatibility trap" that we've set for ourselves.

What don't you like about the variable names at https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/-/blob/930c4677547e... ?
How do you feel about NDAs or official secrets?
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The emphasis on getting things done vs. understanding is another manifestation of our age's extreme time poverty. People don't have time to understand anything.

Add to that the fact that computing is so trendy. Take the time to learn something -- web development, mobile development, the latest trendy language -- and it won't be hip anymore in 5-10 years.

As an experienced programmer I only take the time to deeply understand things that my intuition tells me will be around for a while and for which understanding is a major benefit to me. My intuition is guided by a mix of market share, speed of change in the target market, and robustness of the thing in question.
There are some awesome things in here (taken from https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0, thanks Vinnl), here are my highlights:

- HiDPI support

- Touch pad and touch screen pinch to zoom (YES!!!)

- The canvas can be rotated and flipped (probably great for hand drawing, would be way more useful if possible by touch)

- GTK 3

- Pressure sensitive pencil

- Interactivity for UI mockups

- Autosave is on by default

- Plotter extension automatically converts things to paths

- Unified raster tracing

- Better Mac OS integration

While the UI has apparently been polished a whole bunch, I think most of my other comment moaning about it still applies - and that's really sad, especially when you want to market this as a mile stone release everyone should try. You'll still end up turning off a lot of people, I'm afraid.
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>That's patently false...You can argue that U-6 is more meaningful in light of recent economic trends. But, no books have been cooked.

Even U-6 removes people after 12 months...so yes there are 10's of millions who have not been accounted for essentially since 2008. These people simply do not exist to the Bureau of Labor. The numbers are right their in your link, under U-6 the unemployment number is under 8% before March 2020...if you believe that is a legitimate number that isn't manufactured, that is fine, but it does not reflect the reality...hell 12.8% of the US is on disability, another hidden group that is accounted for brings the numbers up to nearly 20%.
Initial release was 16 years ago, long time coming.

What is Inkscape? “Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos, icons and complex paintings. Inkscape's primary vector graphics format is Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG); however, many other formats can be imported and exported.”

SOURCE:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape

Adobe Illustrator, is Inkscape’s main non-open-source pay-to-use competition and is 33 years old:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator

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Use both, they’re both great products depending on your needs.
The government requires auto insurance for every driver without paying a cent. They just make it mandatory and leave you to figure out how to pay for it.
You're downvoted but I agree. I'm a software dev and can't be assed about this. Even 2FA is a pain because I switch devices pretty regularly throughout the day. Managing my keys, no I have better things to do. Imagine a normie doing this? No chance.
When you build a package from source with ./configure, it generally defaults to /usr/local/etc. Oddly, the Linux way of putting all third party configs in /etc is actually what's weird.
There are various kinds of Linux distributions, some super minimalist, others not so much. The point of having various distributions is exactly that, you have a choice.

> systemd

It indeed tends to be an emotive word, but just saying 'systemd' as if that's automatically saying something isn't helping either.

There's things one could criticize about systemd, a lot systemd has going for it and many would argue that having a predictable, well-defined, declarative service definition syntax, that's consistent no matter the package or system, vs various sets of init shell scripts that probably wary quite widely in quality and are just slightly different across the *BSDs to possibly surprise you, is what makes systemd in fact better.

As for ZFS not being invented in the Linux ecosystem, I haven't claimed that, just that it wasn't FreeBSD either.
So far, I got away with "In the following figure…"
Does the OS shipped with Cisco networking equipment still have a tcl interpreter?
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I'd like to have redundancy (the 3-2-1 rule) and I do have a local NAS so my question referred to that scenario.
Good points.

Primary loop of a MSR is equivalent to a cladding of a solid fuel assembly. You get a REACTOR at the same cost/MWe of solid fuel assembly. Ni alloys are cheaper than Zr alloy. So, early MSR designers will not opt for maintenance of the primary loop.

Here's link to Weinberg's PIUS-LWR
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.eg.10....
Are you planning to support IETF MLS, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/?
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From my extremely limited involvement in the community it seems like it was started by one artist publishing a very dreamy vision of "this is what the future of Blender could look like" to his followers. It seems like people liked it enough that a lot of it was eventually incorporated. It might have also started a wave of enthusiasm for more people to become involved.
Implying this will catch hypervisor based cheats.
Solution to the Journalism Crisis
I believe that quality writing deserves to be rewarded. I am happy to pay the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, etc. an affordable amount for a specific article (50¢, $1.00 ?). However, flat monthly subscriptions are not practical.

For example, NYT is $50/yr, WSJ is $100/yr, Bloomberg $420/yr, LA Times $98/yr, The Guardian £119/yr, WaPo ~$80/yr. These are all fine publications, and I have no doubt each is well worth the price. However, I do not have time to take full advantage of all the channels if I were to subscribe (which I can't afford), and I don't want to limit myself to one paper. I want to pick and choose random articles from any publication.

What if I could pay on a per-article basis? I wouldn't have a problem paying 50¢ or $1.00 for an article I was interested in. It's not practical for each publisher to set up micro-payments. But, if there were an intermediate agent that accepted and managed payments for individual random articles, the money could be aggregated and remitted in a lump sum to the publishers. Sort of like an old-fashioned news stand.

The middleman could accept PayPal payments, or I could open an account with my credit card, and pay once a month for all the individual articles I have read.

Sounds like a business opportunity. Is anyone doing this?
Does anyone have tips for blocking content like this on Instagram? There seem to be limited content controls on Instagram.
It detected the virus called "Open Source".
Is that a high rate in SF? Can you bill a full month of it (160 hours) or are larger jobs at a different rate?
No, this concept does not fail to account for that. It explicitly accounts for it; things examined more closely are rendered with more fidelity.

The simulation would still be a complicated program beyond our ability to understand, but there are information-theoretic reasons to believe it's of a finite complexity, of a size that a more intelligent being might find perfectly manageable.

Human sensoriums are information-theoretically bounded to be quite a bit smaller than you may think. People often don't really "get" how information works. It doesn't matter than the particle accelerator has numbers on a screen that claim it's collecting petabytes of data per second... you aren't collecting petabytes of data per second. All you ever see is a tiny slice of that thing's output, bounded by the amount the screen can carry and you can perceive. A minimal simulation of the accelerator's output is a great deal smaller than the actual data it is collecting. The bare minimum information necessary to simulate your sensorium is not really all that much, on the order of something that could fit on a modern Wifi signal, and not ever necessarily the latest standards. While we have no idea how to write a program that could simulate it as if a universe was behind it for that cheap, that doesn't mean no entity in the multiverse does.

The game analogy is a bit deceptive in that it invites you to imagine it all works exactly like modern games, but you have to imagine something wildly more sophisticated, and while not necessarily "unbounded" in resources, certainly a great deal more blessed than any current computer cluster we have.
This looks really nice on mobile and the default typography is great. I've been looking for something like this for a while to publish a few short non-technical books I've been working on.

I'll definitely give it a try!
I recently had a major struggle with it's inability to export to CMYK. I eventually found a way to get my graphics into CMYK by exporting to PDF plus an assortment or ad-hoc scripts for conversion. That seems like a real deal-breaker for most professional print applications. I still love Inkscape though.
Neither of your example minerals are particularly healthy for humans, nor can they be made so without extreme efforts.
I agree with you that renewables are cheaper and getting cheaper still in the future. As an example, in California there's 27 GW installed solar power right now with an additional 16 GW to be installed in the next 5 years [1].

However, while nuclear power is super expensive, it doesn't have to be that way. The problem is that nuclear power costs are not linear with the output. If the only thing you build is 1GW reactors, they will essentially all be one-of-a-kind. They will all run into production issues, the construction will happen so rarely that you won't build an experienced workforce, you will never enter a virtuous cycle to allow for ever decreasing costs.

Contrast that with the naval nuclear reactors. They are being built in New York State [2], at a pace of about 2 per year, using a very static design. The whole thing is so uneventful that most people in New York State are not even aware of that. Each of these reactors produces 210 MW [3]. The cost is classified, but it appears to be of the order of $100MM [4].

So, how can you enter the virtuous cycle? By reducing scale. And this is exactly what this project is about. I for one am rooting for it.

[1] https://www.seia.org/state-solar-policy/california-solar

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolls_Atomic_Power_Laboratory

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S9G_reactor

[4] https://mragheb.com/NPRE%20402%20ME%20405%20Nuclear%20Power%...
We really should go back to having people copy things on stone tablets, or at least encode them on sapphire discs..
I appreciate the context. It's probably wise to abandon Signal interop.

My reasoning here is: Moxie isn't ever going to acquiesce on the points he's stubborn about, and Olm/Megolm could otherwise be a great cryptographic design with or without his approval.

> What don't you like about the variable names at https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/-/blob/930c4677547e... ?

Confusion between ciphertext on line 85 and output on line 89 made me have to reread the function twice to figure out what was going on.
> I think it was something like a 1 in 600 year event.

Nice how those numbers worked out eh? It looks so good on paper almost like "we're safe for 600 years" but we weren't. IT HAPPENED. So how about the chances for that reactor near Luxembourg and some satellite falling on it or something like that? What is the big number for that and how much will it be worth if it happens to the people there losing their country when it happens again?

Yeah global warming can be mitigated by technologies which have astronomically higher numbers you can wave around because nobody gives a damn if a satellite falls on a field of solar collectors. No technician has to sleep in a wind turbine because of some pandemic virus.

Face it: nuclear is dead. It's a energy source from the last century.
Oh my goodness: #### that WYSIWYG editor in Confluence hard. It's like an extremely buggy version of Word 95. I've outright banned its use in our company.
My recollection of conway is that he was quite good at backgammon -- good enough to make a bet to swap salaries with a lecturer over a public series of 30 (or more) games held in the common room. I believe that he won by one.
Why do consumers allow games to install these kind of kernel drivers? Are they aware they are giving away keys to the kindom wrt the OS/computing environment integrity just so game studios can take part in an unwinnable cat and mouse chase with cheaters? Also why does Microsoft or AV products allow this without giant "you are giving away root on your box" warning signs?
Well, they likely need to pay income tax and social insurance in their own country. The burden has just been shifted to them.

To be fair, I’m not 100% sure how this works in the US, in PL where I’m from and probably in all of the EU countries if you are on a job contract then the employer pays the taxes and social insurance for you. If you are self-employed / freelance you have a business registered in your name and it’s your responsibility.

Either way, I don’t see how the taxman’s cut disappears. Also lot of countries have higher taxes + social insurance than the US.

If you really want to make a case, you can say that the contractors from a low-cost-of-living countries may undercut American workers (but then, if they work remotely I think they mostly undercut the office jobs, not “workers”) because they ask less money for the same.
I have a possibly rude but serious question. Do you think French culture, which stereotypically at least is more at home with a centralized, top-down control, might be more suited for nuclear development than Angloamerican which tends to be more ad hoc?
For what they were trying to do in 2015 (last release) it probably was.
You will never get economies of scale with nuclear. There is just not enough of them being build and wouldn't be even if we'd go full nuclear. You need to build to local conditions etc..

Also for those of you who say it's a problem of too much regulation. That's a hilarious proposition: yes sure let's remove regulatory control over technology which could yield large areas of densely inhabited aras no go zones for 100s of years (even if it's 10s it would be unacceptable). It's not like it has been shown over and over again that if you remove regulatory control companies will start taking shortcuts to maximize profits
If you immediately sell 90% of it you may be better off getting USDC (or Euro equivalent) and buying bitcoin with the 10% so you dont have to sell such a large amount since fees in crypto are usually percentage based.
Are there any open source apps with clear HIGs, backed up by a test suite which enforces them?
This is spot on.
As the old saying goes, "you can't have an argument about euthanasia with someone who thinks euthanasia is a musical group."
Riot is owned by Tencent, a Chinese company.
There are some good reasons to use DSLs in this case, mainly tied to sandboxing and fussing with traditional API contracts. A DSL isn't attempting to be a general programming language, it's task suited.
I recently received an email from my father with a link to a shady article about COVID-19. It was fairly long and contained lots of extremely technical medical facts. The article was difficult to immediately disprove, because it contained so much factual, yet irrelevant information.

I was able to explain to my dad why it was logically flawed, but it was impossible to convince the author that their article should be retracted. When I identified the source of the author's factual medical information, it was clear they had simply omitted the opening statements from a research paper that established the hypothesis was likely not applicable to the problem at hand. When I found the researcher, they were in the awkward position of defending their research from people attacking the factual parts of the derived article.
Even as an occasional Ubuntu user, it's already an effort for even some desktop developers to use GNU/Linux given that Windows and macOS are actually being sane desktops just to get work done. I just can't see any user wanting to use or switch to either Linux or BSD to sanely 'use' their computer for being productive in their daily work other than programming in vim or emacs; because they are still desktops for programmers.

The BSDs now have the same Linux desktop argument of having 'choice' which has made it a blessing for its tinkerers and a curse for commercial desktop app developers as highlighted in [2]. You have 3 ways to package an app, many desktop environment choices like GNOME, KDE, Xfce and the windowing managers like X11, Wayland to test for and you then ask why your favourite software application isn't on X Linux distro or X BSD distro. I won't be looking forward to testing or bug hunting for my GUI app on either system since their desktop stacks aren't integrated well or have a stable 'SDK' unlike with Windows and macOS. GNU/Linux and the BSDs are pretty much still fragmented ecosystems.

The BSDs in particular will always be behind, since the same developers who have always used Linux and were part of the FOSS community are the same ones that still contribute and pushed for it in their companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon, etc. Thus, some will only accept upstream patches for Windows, Mac and Linux. The BSDs will then be left in the sand with atrocious software support and their patches will be rejected as the maintainers will be unwilling to upstream these patches due to this.
afaik blendle.com is trying this, with mixed success.
I wonder if the hardware inside the case is equally similar.
> With Linux, no matter the distribution you pick, you have to be more interested in computers than merely viewing them as an applicane for word processing, video chatting and online shopping.

I agree concerning word processing and especially video chatting, I much prefer using these applications on MacOS.

I disagree though about online shopping, in my experience running Firefox under Linux or Windows is pretty much exactly the same.
Elaborate on differences? When do you use which?
Russel Brand's book and video course were great for me - wasn't particularly what I needed but really opened my eyes to some of the cognitive distortions I have.

John Kim's books I also found useful.
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potentially; we're experimenting with a decentralised MLS impl currently.
People don't know what a kernel driver is nor what root access is nor what it entails. I don't think the installer even mentions it, either. They just want to play the dang game. Remember when Vista launched with that UAC prompt and people just googled how to perma-disable it?

Also, cheating really is so bad that most people will accept it anyways.

Unfortunately we don't have a software nor user culture of, for example, having an isolated partition for our important files and an isolated partition for "I just want to play some games" -- You can imagine how streamlined and effortless and by-default this could be in an alternate universe where it was a top priority.

So people can really get hosed under catastrophic conditions like the anti-cheat becoming a remote backdoor for an attacker. I think this is really where people are let down by modern computing.
It's oddly satisfying (and entirely characteristic) that Oracle apparently screws over both sides of the sales deal.