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> That's an absurd standard. "Writing an OS is easy, because once you've written enough code to get Doom to run, firing up a second copy of Doom is relatively straight-forward!"

If you can write that OS in anything close to 600 lines then yes, it is easy.

The point is that more realistic OpenGL and Vulkan projects will have a much smaller relative size difference.

> Great. What about the other 99% of people?

They can use higher-level abstractions built on top of Vulkan. Or spend some time learning to use Vulkan directly.

> I'm not against Vulkan for those applications that truly do need it, but - frankly - most graphics programming does not need it.

Disagree.

> In giving up OpenGL we're giving up a sane, standard way to do graphics programming

Sane is not a word I would use to describe OpenGL. It has managed to collect many warts over the years and as I have already mentioned, what performs well is not at all intuitive.

> (i) making everyone write mad Vulkan boilerplate for control they don't need, or (ii) choosing between a bewildering array of engines and frameworks and libraries, none of which work at all similarly, many of which are still very immature.

"Oh no, so many options". A nice problem to have.

> And it's obvious which one will win - whichever proprietary, SaaS monolith emerges to clean up the mess. Losing OpenGL is a huge set back for open standards, honestly. The principal beneficiaries of depreciating OpenGL will be the shareholders of Unity, in the end.

Wild and unfounded speculation. You can already use ANGLE, which is open source, as your middleware today if you like the OpenGL API so much.
They don't - not to the same degree. Most imports to the southern pacfic islands come from NZ and Australia. Both countries have their own obesity issues, but not to the same rate as in the islands.
In the revolutionary war, Washington commanded an army with a 1lb of bread ration a day.

The energy efficiency of the human body is what is actually mind boggling vs robotics.
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Its hard to relate to a lifetime employment 'tenure' when us in the private sector have to deal with leet code interviews and other countless indignities in the knife fight employment cycle every 1-3 years for the rest of our careers.. if we are lucky
Why measure just the CPU and not the whole machine ?
it’s okay to idealize people, but don’t take away their humanity. Turing might not have been exactly like you, but he was human and not a robot. He wanted the same sort of things that you do.
From my experience Krita didn't feel much better than GIMP. Stuff like the eraser being hidden under brushes is just weird compared to my previous experience.
I feel I'm one step closer to being buried with a shiny hat, but I agree.

Training on commodity things at scale, surveillance, there are just too many useful bits of data for the government to not use the same procurement channel as usual: private businesses

One can freely spy on us, the other "can't". They can exchange money and information, though. So it's a distinction without a difference.
do you have a 1000hz monitor?
Yea apparently it was so important to the government of Britain to dictate which consenting adults can fuck each other that they would force hormones and essentially permanent probation on a literal world-changing scientist and undeniable war hero over it

I will never recognize a government's right to tell adults what they can do with their own bodies and other consenting adults, and it's insane that there are zero governments in the entire world that can uphold the basic principle of full bodily autonomy. Death to tyrants
This isn’t a conspiracy it’s the reality we live in. That was one of the primary benefits sold to hardware vendors. “Easier to write a driver”. Whether that panned out though is another question. The drivers still suck on mobile.
This is also my experience as an occasional user. What I cannot explain is that even after more than two decades, no better open source alternative with a comparable range of functions has emerged. (Krita comes close, though.)
> Don’t use it because others force you (WhatsApp).

That's probably the worst example you could provide. The only utility of WhatsApp is because others use it. If you want to communicate with those others, that's your one and only option. You might have luck convincing some of your social contacts to move to a different chat tool, maybe, but there's around zero chance you'll be able to convince all of them.
I love the story... But don't forget this story is the proper selection of events with textual glue and interpretation to make it feel like a novel.

Some statements belong more to the glue than to History, and they should remind us this is a real-life-based * novel *. I especially noted this one: "nobody at IBM had any real experience with [microcomputers]".

IBM senior management was certainly reluctant, but "nobody"... They even had microcomputer products that hit the market:

- IBM 5100 1975, first IBM personal computer

- IBM 5110 1978, 5100 updated for a larger market target

- IBM System/23, under parallel development with the IBM PC and released 1 month before in July 1981: many of the IBM PC features are shared with or taken from it (8-bit Intel processor family 8080 vs. 8088, very same expansion connector, reuse of the electronic expansion cards such as serial, exact same keyboard - just in a different box and with different function keycaps...)
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I have yet to see how the defaults of windows are more ergonomic. I am also not aware that humans have significantly changed as a species since the 80s, so all the the ergonomic considerations are the same.

Besides, it completely misses the point - ergonomics are often about convenience and knowing what to expect. A zoo of frameworks and UI paradigms is a most terrible outcome with any kind of HIG. Microsoft is not able to keep a consistent UI paradigm for their own software - what a shining beacon of chaos they are.
Intel PMT could be used to do this also https://github.com/intel/Intel-PMT
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You don't know how incredibly, incredibly broken drivers are, especially on embedded.
> [Human or automated review] [a]ccess is needed for Adobe applications and services to perform the functions they are designed and used for (such as opening and editing files for the user or creating thumbnails or a preview for sharing).

You dummies, it's needed! They have to access our data, it's needed!

N.b. this is one of the worse examples of corporate writing I've seen in recent memory. I feel like this entire thing is gaslighting the reader and using corpo jargon to make the thing easier to swallow.
It's opt out now, but they have a history of making 'options' into 'not optional'. They absolutely deserve all the criticism because all of their past actions gives us a pretty good sense of what they will do in the future - which is to screw over users by making the OS do things the user doesn't want the OS to do!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40554394
I don't understand how it's legal for a company to materially change their terms of service, but not allow you to cancel out of the contract if you disagree.
I will never every trust real content to be on Cloud of any of these big corp, or any software going towards an online like photoshop is going.

USB is way better than online for privacy and security.
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That’s arguably a fairly modern idea. Many western European countries had laws against homosexuality (generally ~dormant) until the 80s. Until 2003, 14 US states effectively criminalised male homosexuality; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

Lest you think this is totally confined to the past:

> In his concurring opinion [on Dobbs], Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote, "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. […]”

Those would be the court cases which legalised contraception, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage across the US. It would be a mistake to think of this sort of intrusive law as purely a thing of the past; the far-right will bring them back, given half a chance.
"Microsoft? Never Heard of Em."
I'm happy with Photopea, I'm a casual user of photpshop and this is a fine enough alternative for what I need to do (no extra plugins etc).
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You don't receive AI suggestions in code review, you receive suggestions from your reviewers. If they are providing bad recommendations, regardless of the source, I suggest providing them feedback.

I agree this may not be how they are used, but honestly, code review is a skill and many people are bad at it. Blindly suggesting things because an AI (or a presubmit) suggests it is bad form regardless of the source. People slam that "please fix" button without looking at what it's asking for, or without reading my detailed explanations of why I'm ignoring a recommendation, etc. This was already a problem and AI isn't changing that.

We can make code review better, but that comes through training reviewers better, not by ruling out AI tools just because they're AI tools.
Some cryptocurrency isn't a safe store of value to begin with, so he was probably ready to lose that at any moment anyways. Worse way than most to lose it, but he doesn't sound too bummed out.
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You mean "literally fully ported to a completely new architecture" != supported?
> the Windows guys were somehow allowed to reject the whole .NET concept

What I heard was that the higher-ups pushed .NET as a core part of the OS pretty hard during Longhorn, and it failed, leading to the Longhorn development reset around 2004 or 2005.

Disclosure: I was on the Windows team at Microsoft, but long after all of this happened (2017-2020), and I never learned about Longhorn history from the inside. I don't remember sources for what I said above, though I think Herb Sutter has talked about it.
If you want to cause controversy and stir up some trouble in the ancient history community there's nothing like the topic of Roman roads. I didn't realize it until reading up on the subject. There seems to be two camps the "ancient aliens" type who argue Roman roads were built and lasted 2,000 years vs the roads were continually repaired over 2,000 years just like any other road.
I recently launched a push-up tracking app that helps keep people motivated :)

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i get that but more and more nations are rallying 'against' israel, spain for one joining south africa. these are nation states going to literal war for all the "drama" which apparently is death of like 3% of a population living in an open prison.

sure everyone wants to avoid "drama" but why doesn't that drama match with say ukraine war? we have whole tech companies supporting ukraine, rejecting russians, "we support ukraine" pins and banners all across the interwebs so its not like

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/02/metas-ongoing-efforts-rega...

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/metas-efforts-regarding-is...

read these two posts from meta.

in ukraine post, they are talking about mental health issues, "showing solidarity on Facebook: ", and "fundraising efforts" and "Increasing Our Support for Humanitarian Efforts:"

while in the second post, it is all about preventing hamas content or more appropriately, content that facebook deems "harmful" against israeli interests.

no solidarity with dead gazans or no humanitarian efforts, no fundraising
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Their response is basically "we won't abuse it".

Even if we trust them, this response is not good enough for any project under NDA. Unless I can, somehow, put Adobe under the NDA, it's not helping.

Never mention most of us don't actually trust them to be not abusing.
AFAIK (at least here in Spain), it's the venue that is responsible for paying this license fee, not the DJ themselves. Unless you organize your own events/play at your own venue, obviously.

Probably works differently everywhere though...
No, they’ll just sell the debt for peanuts to a collection agency, who will ruin your credit.
I'm not sure it is, but then I am highly averse to monopolies.
To avoid a cancellation fee with Adobe, follow these steps:

1. Change Your Current Plan: First, switch your existing Adobe plan to a different one. This is because Adobe offers a 14-day cancellation period for any new plan.

2. Cancel the New Plan: Wait until the next day, then cancel this new plan. Due to the 14-day cancellation policy, you should be able to do this without incurring any fees.

Explanation: Adobe's policy allows you to cancel a plan within 14 days of purchase without a penalty. By switching to a new plan and then cancelling it within this window, you effectively bypass any cancellation fees that would apply to your original plan.
Will be fixed in the next release. /s
Makes me wonder if section 4.2 (the part you quote) was part of the update or if it has been there for before? Adobe's official communication [1,2] does not seem to indicate 4.2 changed with this update?

[1] The popup in OP only mentions sections 2.2, 4.1, 5.2 and 14.1
[2] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...
If you want to activate even more dormant neurons: what about Konrad Zuse? Every CS course's history segment mentions Turing and (sometimes) Church while this man's only crime is having been on the wrong side of history and his reward being relegated to the margins of said history.
IALAL, but the content from the Adobe clarification posted earlier tells it applies to all files created with their software, regardless of whether you host them in the cloud or on your own computer.
Certainly isn't legal in many places, or at least entitles you to "special cancellation".
I started using GIMP again. I used color adjustment and creating images using 5-7 layers with layer masks and not normal blending. It worked well. I always find the program not quite intuitive initially but once I get it, it’s not bad.

For sorting and basic photography edits I use Dark table. Still getting used to it.

I showed a couple of those GIMP created pieces and people seemed to like them. My theory is people look at the final image and don’t care much how you got there.
If I had to guess, this is probably not even Adobe's fault. They probably have a legal requirement to do this, like every goddamn site asking you about cookies.
> Lawyer up!

Did their previous contract said they could unilaterally change the contract? :-)
Have you published these benchmarks?
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> In 2023, Guan posted his opinion on smart contract engineers. According to Guan, projects that pay smart contract engineers $200,000 are “ngmi,” which is short for “not gonna make it.” The Web3 founder said that any solid developer “should be able to write solidity with the help of ChatGPT.”

Ah, schadenfreude.
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Bear in mind he was given hormones. As I'm from that half of the population who experiences hormone fluctuations but it's part of what women expect so we know about this and plan for it and support each other, I'd not be surprised if he was unaware of how his emotional state might be affected.

Having said that, I'd like to see research on emotional states in male to female transitions, we should have plenty of data?
Gimp is horrible. It's existance propably has a negative value on society by discouraging kids from pursuing art when they try it.
> Pursuing professions and passions to do with things rather than people

Yes, when dealing with another person you have 2x the amount of gray matter at your disposal compared to dealing with things.
If that’s the case, then yeah this is a serious issue worth the outrage.
I assumed it was just hyperbole meant to indicate they thought they had a strong likelihood of getting tenure.
> It seems kind of weird to claim it is Russia

It is _always_ Russia.

Friends don't spy on friends. /s
> You don't think his gayness was a factor at all?

It was a factor, but not directly. I believe Turing's gayness is being pink washed. The way I see it, the UK was not castrating people for being gay, but gave this option after breaking indecency laws and being convicted for it.

> particularly after the facts started coming to light

Turing went to police to file a report and casually (perhaps ignorantly or haughtily) admitted to breaking a law.
This might be a pretty big idea.
Since GIMP is highly scriptable afaik it should be possible to have an AI do all the work.
But as always... you would need a lot of training data.
Can you describe how Adobe would generate a thumbnail preview without accessing your content?
Former Twitch employee here. The labels will take a pretty high cut of revenue - I've heard something in the range of 30-50% - leaving the DJ with 25% (on the high end) after splitting it 50/50 with Twitch. Deduct tax and payment processing fees, this effectively would leave the DJ with ~20% of their current earnings. So the DJ would get 99 cents out of a $4.99 (US) sub.

Additionally, Twitch isn't providing any features to help DJ creators make up for this loss in earnings, so this is effectively just a way for Twitch to avoid DMCA lawsuits while making it easier for DJs to stream.

Twitch is softening the earnings (and PR) blow by absorbing the costs for one year, after which DJ creators are going to be in for a rude awakening.
> So it’s a bit of an apples and oranges comparison because they serve very different purposes?

My point was that we could make extra-solid roads. But that would be more difficult and hence more costly. I did not mean that there is a conspiracy; it's just a system. I did not even say it's worse; it's different.

> So a bit like the Romans

You're turning it around. You said "the Romans were certainly more [...]" and I said "hmm I can't imagine being more [...] than us". So yeah, maybe they didn't give a shit, and we don't give a shit. Which is compatible with what I said (but not with what you said, which is that it was "certainly not similar").

> They pretty much did.

So you mean that from the start population of Rome to the empire around the Mediterranean Sea, they systematically enslaved everyone they encountered? So like 99.999% of the population were slaves, and the only non-slaves were the descendants of the people of the original Rome?

> What makes you say that?

The fact that you think that they enslaved "all the people they came into contact with". Romanization was more elaborate than just enslaving everybody.

> Both of our claims were quite hyperbolical..

I mean mine. Our society optimizes for the GNI, at the very real risk of causing global instability, famines, mass extinction, etc before the end of our lives. For a ton of people, it means their very survival.
If you're doing digital painting, it's probably just what you're used to.

I disliked Krita until I spent a few weeks learning it. Once I found the "Krita way" of doing things, it was actually a much better experience than Photoshop offered for digital painting.

I'd recommend finding a YouTube video where an artist takes you through how they use Krita to see some of the workflow and most common shortcuts.
No, but I could at least benefit from reduced latency by disabling vsync. The higher the frame rate the less obvious the tearing this causes. And monitor manufacturers are more likely to produce a 1000Hz monitor if there are already games that can render that fast.
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"Everyone else is doing it wrong!"

From 30+ years of working out this seems to be the absolute standard line when it comes to fitness.

I just think the idea of $10 a month is a delusional value proposition when I pay $20 a month for chatGPT4o.
...so, AI training.
They did enslave people, that's for sure. Just not "all the people they came into contact with".
Working in ford's plants was hell. This was an observation that he either had to improve treatment or risk loosing workers.
Which Applause company was Bartender sold to?

https://www.applause.com/

https://applausehq.com/

Some other one?

When will this company acknowledge the purchase?
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actually we work more because 5(8+8) > 6(12 + 0)
Already did and now learning Plasticity a good free alternative software.
Gimp really ought to rebrand myself. I mean come on, who wants to use a program with that name? Even IMP is a hundred times better and lends itself to some impish branding assets.
For non professional use, photopea is seriously great too. Literally just a website you open that imitates the older Photoshop UI (pre-creative cloud)
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Almost all the instances of people getting upset by language like that it's because they refuse to understand that it's required for you the customer being able to share the photo with others.

Why sublicense? Well, because the way they create the service may involve a third party CDN.

In this case though, the limiting part where this license will ONLY be used to do what you the customer intended (e.g. share or publish the photo on their platform) is missing. And that's suspicious.
Thank you for sharing, I love the dictionary format, only mentioning the main concepts and links to learn more about them. Sources all look great btw also! But as always, Umar Jamil[1] is missing...

If you think Andrej's videos are useful, people should definitely go learn with this guy took. Great in-depth explanation of concepts where he doesn't shy away on theory while still providing hands-on code exploration. Not affiliated, just wanted to give him and his work a shoutout.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@umarjamilai
If you have a Mac, Pixelmator Pro is a great alternative as well.

https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
I'm using Librewolf (based on Firefox), just beat the last level today without any errors.
You don't have the right to upload your client's product, yet you use software that uploads your client's product.

You're correct that the two conflict, but I think the courts would have a problem with you for using a product that breaches the employment contract you signed rather than rule that Adobe is at fault here.
Not just Photoshop. There is literally nothing but After Effects in the 2D Motion Design world.
That's a lie. If a site does not use cookies, it doesn't need to ask you about them. Similarly, if Adobe doesn't process your files, they don't need to have your permissions.
If krita work for you, that's great.

However, Photoshop do lots more than painting and photo editing.
If you use the vector, content filling or plug-in features on Photoshop, krita won't help you.
Imagine how much revenue Adobe must make from cancellation fees from people who don't discover this loophole. Quietly charging people to leave a subscription while a perfectly working (if ridiculous) workaround exists is a perfect example of an unethical business practice that exploits the incomplete information of customers.

I don't know where I'm going with this. Just had to reflect on how we all agree to denominate value into these fake but useful units of dollars, only for transactions like cancellation fees to be so far removed from the generation of actual, tangible _value_ that it all starts to feel like beta-testing a computer game.