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wingless
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Comment #13964963
So this is just good old HDR tone mapping? The article doesn't mention anything that sounds like a breakthrough.
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Comment #13797919
Why is it unacceptable? No, I will not email you to get my account unbanned. You haven't even explained why I was banned.
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Comment #13795855
The traditional gender roles that formed alongside our evolution are broken today: men still crave women's affection, but women no longer need men to provide them. Because of this …
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Comment #13795762
The solution is actually quite simple. Being able to choose your child's sex. If women have happier and easier lives, parents will prefer having daughters which will in turn increa…
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Comment #13781514
I wonder if you (core devs) could get full-time jobs to integrate Sandstorm with company infrastructures.
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Comment #13748282
Because SJWs are notorious for making up abuse stories.
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Comment #13719119
Why would it? Imagine being a Google/Alphabet shareholder.
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Comment #13623190
And on the other end of the spectrum we had Jobs era Apple, with One True God overseeing all demigods who oversee projects. IMO the things that made Apple products so successful wa…
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Comment #13529084
If LV2 plugins are anything like VSTs, you'll need to load the plugin in your audio application and route your MIDI input through that plugin. In most DAWs this is done by creating…
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Comment #13258186
Am I the only person who finds GNU parallel way too complicated? I tried to perform a very easy parallel task with it and spent hours reading the documentation and various tutorial…
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Comment #13062774
I have always found the "Flash is horrible, kill Flash" circlejerk very unproductive. Flash was the best solution we had to media in the web ecosystem, and if we still had it, it w…
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Comment #13042595
https://archive.fo/xgqlz
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Comment #13035347
Like how the PRISM program got whistleblown by Googlers? Oh wait, that never happened.
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Comment #12885785
Yes, I remember this as a demo for an HTML5 game engine.
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Comment #12854401
From what I've seen it's been getting much better. Linux has very powerful tools for media creation/editing now: Blender, Krita, Darktable, Natron are some quality apps that I'm aw…
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Comment #12850073
First there was NaCl which was a subset of x86 code leveraging x86 features to sandbox the execution. This x86 subset was produced by a special toolchain and could be verified befo…
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Comment #12781776
I use Lastpass and I just realized that it prevents phishing since it autocompletes my login info based on the domain.
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Comment #12754253
If VR technology doesn't advance fast enough to solve its current issues (nausea, lack of DoF and gravitation) in the near future, we will likely enter a period of stagnation like …
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Comment #12715236
If you find this too pricey, then build a cheaper or free competitor.
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Comment #12702035
You don't even have to give feedback in an interview. Just let them answer your question and if it's too detailed, write it down and look it up later. In fact, Google usually doesn…
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Comment #12671362
Eugh. You could at least choose an open standard like Matrix. http://matrix.org/
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Comment #12663570
Even they aren't paid that highly. Most of them make chump change compared to a world class lawyer or a doctor. I guess we can thank Steve Jobs for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…
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Comment #12642055
On the contrary, I would say that enterprises should take the risk and use such projects. They likely have enough capital to hire the correct people (e.g. one of the core devs) whe…
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Comment #12576423
What else can they do? With the new wave of AI and automation there will be no jobs left for people with below average intelligence. You will need more and more researchers and pro…
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Comment #12457723
I talk to plenty of actual women in tech. They rarely complain about anything that affects women more than men. And if they do, it usually comes from a die-hard feminist SV hedge f…